Subnet 42
Masa
Masa
Masa’s subnet empowers AI development and is the first dual-token reward model where you can earn both $MASA & $TAO emissions
SN42 : Masa
| Subnet | Description | Category | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| SN42 : Masa | Data-Scraping | Data Pipeline | Masa |
Big Tech companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI currently dominate AI development by exploiting users and their data. If unchecked, these companies will control this crucial technological advancement and monopolize the profits.
Masa’s subnet is a key part of the AI stack, offering open access to essential training data. Both Masa and Bittensor promote an environment where fair AI can thrive.
The Masa Bittensor Subnet provides real-time, static, structured, annotated, and vectorized data from various sources crucial for AI development, such as Twitter, Discord, podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, and web data from the New York Times and Google Search. This real-time data helps create robust datasets and ensures up-to-date context for LLMs.
By giving AI developers open access to unique, valuable, and cost-effective data sets, the Masa Bittensor Subnet enables the creation of highly specialized and competitive AI applications, fostering fair AI innovation.
The subnet operates through a global network of miners who contribute diverse data, verified for accuracy by validators. This self-improving design ensures the network continually rewards the highest-value contributors, enhancing data aggregation, computational power, and output accuracy.
Masa is the leading decentralized AI data and LLM network, allowing users to own, share, and earn from their data and compute to power AI applications. With over 1.4 million unique users, 48,000 node operators, and 38 million proprietary data points, Masa has raised $18 million from investors like Animoca, Digital Currency Group, Anagram, and GoldenTree. On March 7, 2024, Masa’s CoinList Sale raised $8.75 million in MASA tokens in just 17 minutes. Masa is also a graduate of Binance MVB Accelerator Season 6 and was selected for Hashkey x AWS’s AI Accelerator.
They have built the first dual-token reward model on Bittensor where you can earn both $MASA & $TAO emissions as a subnet validator or miner.
The core principles of the subnet are:
- Incentive alignment
- Adaptive staking requirements
- Collaborative environment
- Mathematical foundation
Masa is quickly becoming the preferred data network for projects that need cost-effective, accessible data for AI training.
The Masa Bittensor Subnet rewards miners for providing Twitter data via the Validator API. Validators forward requests to miners, who use the Masa protocol to complete tasks. Validators then score the work, returning valid responses through the API.
Masa is a decentralised AI network where people can earn by contributing their data. The network empowers individuals to participate in shaping the future of AI by allowing anyone to contribute valuable data and computational resources in exchange for rewards. At the same time, AI developers have the freedom to build applications using the world’s data, making it an open and inclusive ecosystem. Masa is driven by the mission to create Fair AI, which is powered by the people.
The company is supported by notable investors such as Digital Currency Group, Anagram, and Animoca, and has been incubated by Binance and Hashkey. Masa also made history in 2024 as the first AI project to launch on CoinList, achieving a record-breaking 17-minute token sale.
About Fair AI
Fair AI is a revolutionary approach to artificial intelligence, focused on decentralising access to data and empowering fairness through individual contributions. The current AI landscape often suffers from data being taken without compensation, but Fair AI aims to address this issue by ensuring contributors are rewarded for their participation. The Masa Network is built on open-source and permissionless principles, allowing anyone to contribute data and computing power for rewards, while developers can freely access this data for building AI and data-driven applications.
Masa also introduces a staking model that stabilises the network, ensuring its self-learning and self-evolving nature while maintaining a fair balance for all contributors. Fair AI represents a new economic system, driving the next generation of AI innovation by distributing the benefits equitably across the network.
The Masa Team
The Masa team combines deep technical expertise with experience in the Web3 space. Their team members have backgrounds from leading companies like Coinbase, Polygon, PayPal, and Ocean, as well as renowned institutions like Berkeley University. The team’s diverse skill set and commitment to decentralisation enable them to bring forward a truly transformative platform for AI development.
Backed by Prestigious Investors & Incubators
Masa has garnered strong backing from high-profile investors and incubators, including Digital Currency Group, Anagram, Animoca, Binance, and Hashkey, ensuring that the project is well-positioned to lead the way in the decentralisation of AI and the future of data-driven innovation.