Grass Network: Creating Value by Sharing Internet Resources

Grass is a decentralized network scraping platform deployed on the Solana chain, combining AI, Depin, and Solana technology. It aims to help companies and non-profit organizations train AI models by utilizing users' idle internet bandwidth. Users share unused bandwidth resources through a browser extension application, thereby earning Grass Points as rewards.

The goal of Grass is to redefine the incentive structure of the internet, allowing users to benefit directly from the network and ensuring that the value of the internet is in the hands of the users. Currently, the network has over 2 million nodes, capturing a large amount of data for AI models.

Technical Architecture

Grass has built a dedicated sovereign data Rollup network on Solana to handle all transactions from data sources to processing, verification, and building datasets. The network consists of the following main components:

• Validator: Receives, verifies, and processes the router's Web transactions, generating ZK proofs to validate on-chain session data.
• Router: Connects Grass nodes and validators, relays bandwidth and reports network metrics.
• Grass Node: Utilizes unused bandwidth from users to scrape public web data.
• ZK Processor: Validity proof of batch processing Web request session data, submitted to the blockchain.
• Grass Data Ledger: Stores the fetched data and associates it with on-chain proofs.
• Edge embedding model: Converts unstructured web data into structured data usable by AI models.

Technical Features

The Grass network is located between the client and the web server, processing web requests and fetching data. Key features include:

1. Grass data ledger serves as permanent storage, recording the complete lineage of datasets.

2. The ZK processor records the data set source, generates on-chain proofs, and achieves high throughput.

3. Metadata records the source websites and relay nodes of the dataset, enabling contribution-based rewards for nodes.

4. The incentive mechanism encourages users from popular regions to join, expanding the network scale and data storage.

Node Operation and Security Mechanisms

Grass nodes operate for free, serving as a gateway for the network to the internet. Node operators receive traffic relay rewards, which are based on reputation scores and geographical demand. Nodes are mainly used to relay web requests and return encrypted responses.

Node reputation scores include: integrity, consistency, timeliness, and availability.

The security mechanisms include:

• Does not access user personal data, only crawls public network data.
• Use bandwidth encryption to protect users
• Collaborating with AppEsteem for 24-hour security monitoring

Grass Token Features

Grass token holders can:

• Participate in network transactions, dataset purchases, and LCR usage
• Stake to the router to earn rewards
• Participate in network governance

Currently, the annualized yield of Grass staking is about 45%, with approximately 33% of tokens participating in staking.

Router Staking and Earnings

Users can stake Grass to Router to earn rewards, with different commissions for each Router. Currently, the staking amount for DBunker is about 1.43 million, with a minimum staking period of 7 days and a commission of 10%.

Summary

Grass is committed to building a fair and open decentralized data layer to address ethical and quality issues in data extraction. Its unique technical architecture and incentive mechanisms provide a transparent and trustworthy source for AI data, showing promising development prospects in the intersection of cryptocurrency and AI.