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Notes on data ownership, provenance, decentralised storage and the fair data economy.
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10 min readWhere 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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11 min readHow 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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9 min readIf 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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4 min readThe trust gap in AI agents: Why provenance isn’t optional anymore
The agent economy is here. AI agents are carrying out intricate workflows for increasingly longer periods of time and interacting with other agents on…
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5 min readDecentralised storage for tamper-proof data provenance
Decentralised storage on Swarm offers an alternative way to track the origin of data in a permissionless and tamper-proof way.
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5 min readThe road to 2027 — how regulation and pilots are paving the way for the new data economy
Different jurisdictions around the world, from the EU to Singapore, are already building the legal framework that will support data as the next asset…
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3 min readFrom hospitals to AI — how data tokenisation will reshape industries
Every day, billions in potential wealth are created in the form of data — medical scans, trading patterns, machine logs, research results. Yet most of it…
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4 min readThe missing asset — why data is RWA’s next frontier
Almost every major asset class — from real estate to commodities and securities — has found its place in the digital economy. But there’s one form of…
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10 min readAI safety landscape in 2025: a brief overview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping our societies, economies, and daily lives. In this blog, we explore the current state of AI safety as…
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6 min readData as a financial asset: A multi-billion dollar opportunity
Data has undoubtedly become one of the cornerstones of the global economy. With the exponential growth of personal and industrial data creation and the…
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6 min readWill real world data still matter if we can simulate worlds?
During this year’s CES announcement, Nvidia caused a stir with its latest Cosmos announcement. Nvidia’s CEO described Cosmos as a “world foundational…
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8 min readReclaim Your Data, Reclaim Freedom (Part 2): The Fair Data Economy
> What if your data worked for you, not against you? Discover how the fair data economy is turning digital ownership from vision to reality.
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4 min readOSAID — a hit to the open source initiative
FOSS is an incredibly valuable approach to software development. Code is THE intellectual property that rules the world today. Making it available to the…
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7 min readFrom data to decision: The promise and peril of AI in policing
In our previous blogs (here and here), we have reported on how AI has become an integral part of the military. But the military is not the only government…
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3 min readDatafund is a Swarm fellowship recipient: Verifying data with Web3
We are excited to announce that Datafund has received the Swarm Foundation fellowship. It will provide us with the means to develop a Web3-powered toolkit…
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6 min readAre we marching towards a state-controlled AI?
Just a few days ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former member of OpenAI’s superalignment team, wrote a series of essays in which he observes various facets…
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9 min readNo man is an island, but it’s great to be one if you’re an AI company
There’s a concerning shift in the AI industry that we’ve already described in more detail in our previous blog “OpenAI’s latest drama: What are the larger…
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3 min readA year in review: Datafund as a Swarm 2.0 node operator
It’s been a year since we at Datafund first wrote about our experience as a Swarm node operator. In this blog, we’ll review the Swarm network’s evolution…
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7 min readKnowing your data is knowing your AI: Why data provenance matters
The number of reported AI incidents (autonomous vehicles crashing, facial profiling gone wrong…) is steadily rising. As a consequence, the question of…
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3 min readFusing AI & Web3: Improving the world one dataset at the time
Since 2022, Datafund has actively expanded its footprint in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain. This strategic move was driven by the clear…
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2 min readShaping the future of AI and data ownership inside Nvidia Inception
For over five years, Datafund has pioneered the use of Web3 technologies to create solutions that protect digital privacy and promote data ownership. Over…
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4 min readYou get a receipt for groceries, why not data?
Right now, as an individual, you don’t and can’t really know, who has your data and what they are doing with it. This is leading to all kinds of problems:…
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7 min readSwarm architecture — a view from above
This blog post was originally written and published by Mohammed Zahoor in Fair Data Society Blog.
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5 min readFairdrop: Secure, private, unstoppable file transfer for the free world
> “Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.” Shoshana Zuboff
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4 min readData slavery or Fair Data Society? You decide.
> Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste, or see, or touch. A prison for…