Data is
the New Asset Class

Ownership infrastructure for the machine economy.

Own
Your data becomes a real asset—tokenized, tradable, yours.
Earn
Get paid when your data is used. Transparent, automatic, fair.
Invest
Fund the growth and quality of the data assets you believe in.
Automate
Built for machines. AI agents transact while humans stay in control.

What is Datafund?

Datafund is the infrastructure layer for the fair data economy. We connect those who create data, those who need it, and those who want to invest in its growth—with the transparency and automation that AI-driven markets require.

Your data. Your asset. Your market.

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For Providers
Enterprises, publishers, researchers—transform proprietary data into recognized assets with verifiable provenance.
For Buyers
Access compliant, quality-verified data on demand. Programmatic APIs for both human teams and autonomous systems.
For Investors
A new asset class. Fund data growth and quality as demand for data scales.

How it works

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Tokenize your data
Upload datasets or AI models. We verify quality, establish provenance, and create tradable tokens.
2
Attract investment
Investors can back your data assets, funding growth, curation, and quality improvements.
3
Earn from AI & enterprise demand
When AI agents or enterprises license your data, the licence terms set who is paid. Automated, transparent, fair.

Provenance

AI agents act on data. Provenance shows what a result came from, and that its record was not changed after it was stored. The Datafund Provenance Toolkit stores records on Swarm with a fingerprint and an optional notary signature, so the people entitled to check can verify them without trusting whoever stored them.

Open source and in pre-release, on a test network.

dataprovenance.app Toolkit on GitHub Learn Developer guide

Try it
Record a file, get a receipt, then check it as an auditor would. No install: dataprovenance.app.
Build with it
The open-source Provenance Toolkit and its MCP server let agents store their own records.
Understand it
Reference pages on agent provenance, write-once storage and how an auditor verifies a record.

Tech Stack

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Swarm offers encrypted, serverless data storage and content distribution with a built-in incentivisation system.
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Datafund runs on Ethereum, a decentralised platform that runs smart contracts.

Who We Are

What started as a vision for personal data control has evolved into decentralised infrastructure for the machine economy—where data flows programmatically between humans, enterprises, and AI systems.
Currently in strategic R&D within regulatory sandboxes. We're building compliant-by-design infrastructure because the future of data requires trust at its foundation.
Privacy-first · Fair Value · Machine-Ready
Data ownership for humans. Data access for machines.
Get in Touch

Blog

Discover the latest insights and trends in artificial intelligence, data ownership, and privacy by diving into the Datafund blog.

Where should an AI lab keep the record of what its agents did?

Agent provenance for AI labs: why an AI agent's record of its own work should be kept where neither the agent nor the lab running it can quietly rewrite it, what the pre-release Datafund Provenance Toolkit does today, what a check does not prove, and an invitation to labs.
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How to give an AI agent a record it can't rewrite

Agent provenance for developers: how a record on Swarm, the decentralised storage network, gets an address, a fingerprint and an expiry, how provenance links outputs to their inputs, what the pre-release toolkit does today, and what is still a proposal.
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If your agent can rewrite its own record, you don't have a record

AI agents have already tried to edit their own transcripts. Agent provenance keeps a record of what an agent did where nobody, the agent included, can change it.
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