Introduction
In the AI era, data has become the world’s most valuable commodity. The biggest and most valuable source of this data comes from the billions of users surfing the internet, engaging on social platforms, and living out their digital lives.
For too long, Big Tech companies have been exploiting our data, and the rise of AI is exacerbating this issue. This generation of Generative AI requires massive amounts of data to train hyper-personalized AI models and agents. In order to get this data, AI companies are scraping the open web and social platforms. Essentially, stealing data from users all over the world.
Users lack the ability to control, consent, and receive fair compensation for their personal data. Meanwhile, Big Tech is creating billions, soon trillions, in value through AI innovation — without sharing any economic benefits with users.
Masa is revolutionizing the way users can benefit from this AI boom, by giving them a direct way to monetize their digital footprint, while safeguarding their privacy. In this blog, we delve into Masa’s revolutionary AI Data Staking model that empowers billions of users to participate in the AI data economy.
AI Data Staking: Get Paid to Train AI
Every day, we leave digital traces when reading emails, browsing social media, visiting websites, and living our digital lives. Masa operates quietly in the background, gathering your comprehensive digital footprint while ensuring it remains private and secure in private data lockers Zero-Knowledge Soulbound Tokens (zkSBTs).
You can simply open the Masa App, view what data you have in the Masa Network, assess its value, and stake your data to different AI staking pools to earn rewards. Here is how…
Contributing Your Data to Masa Network
Quest to Earn: Engage in specific activities or tasks to contribute data and earn rewards in the Masa App. Examples of quests include joining a Discord channel, participating in a trading competition, and staking your data for AI model training.
Surf to Earn: Earn rewards by simply browsing the web with the Masa Chrome Extension. The Chrome Extension captures valuable data points and stores it in your private data locker.
Nodes-to-Earn: Users and node operators automatically act as decentralized node operators scraping public and private data with the Masa Chrome Extension and the Masa Data Oracle. It is never easier to become a node operator with minimal technical barriers.
Passive Rewards: Masa’s ecosystem of partners utilize Masa SDK to aggregate data and insights on their community. You can earn passive rewards on data aggregated from our extensive partner ecosystem across web3.
Monetizing Your Data on Masa Network
Masa uses a point system to quantify the value of your data in the Masa Network. Upon Masa Mainnet Launch on April 11, you can easily check your accrued data “points” in the Masa App.
You can then stake your data “points” into various data staking pools to earn rewards. Developers in Masa’s ecosystem create these pools to incentivize different data contributions — for example, an AI trading bot developer would reward contributions of wallet interaction data.This system ensures ultimate privacy, as all data is encrypted and shared only with your permission.
Powering Hyper-Personalized AI Use Cases with Your Data
Masa’s innovative approach to rewarding users to supply their data to fuel AI applications, opens up a wide range of innovative and exciting use cases. We believe that future AI models will know users better than they know themselves, and this requires AI models to be trained on your personal data.
AI for Crypto Market Predictions: By supplying developers with real-time datasets encompassing user browsing behavior, social sentiment, and on-chain data, Masa can power AI models to identify crypto market trends, spot investment opportunities, and facilitate more accurate price predictions.
AI for NFT Management: Masa’s web data oracle can funnel structured data on the latest NFT trends and social sentiments, enhancing AI-powered NFT management tools for better discovery, valuation, and trading strategies.
AI for Political Predictions: Masa’s diverse data spanning social sentiment, engagement, and link clicks could even predict voter sentiment in presidential elections — showcasing the vast potential of user-contributed data.applications.
In Conclusion
We believe that users have the right to financially benefit from the AI boom. Masa champions a new way for users to earn from training AI models with their personal data, while ensuring they maintain privacy and control.
By participating in Masa’s ecosystem, users not only secure their digital footprint, but also contribute to a more equitable and transparent data economy. As AI continues to evolve exponentially, the collaboration between human data contributors and AI developers through platforms like Masa will open the floodgates to the AI data economy, making every click, search, and interaction count towards something greater. Welcome to the AI data economy.
Get ready. The Masa Network and Token launches on or about April 11th.
