# Datafund — Own the Data Economy > Data is the new asset class. Ownership infrastructure for the machine economy. URL: https://datafund.io/ - Own: Your data becomes a real asset—tokenized, tradable, yours. - Earn: Get paid when your data creates value. Transparent, automatic, fair. - Invest: Back data assets like any other investment. Fuel growth, share returns. - 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. - 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, improve quality, earn as demand scales. ## How it works 1. 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, token holders share the returns. Automated, transparent, fair. ## Datafund.one The liquidity backbone for autonomous data markets. Datafund.one provides the initial capital and market infrastructure that makes programmatic data trading viable at scale. - Bootstrap Liquidity: Seed capital for new data assets, ensuring markets have depth from day one. - Stability Layer: Professional market-making that gives buyers and sellers confidence to transact. - Machine-Ready: APIs and smart contracts designed for autonomous agents operating 24/7. ## Tech Stack - Swarm (https://www.ethswarm.org/) offers encrypted, serverless data storage and content distribution with a built-in incentivisation system. - Datafund runs on Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/), 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. Contact: info@datafund.io