『Sahara Pre-sale Participation Analysis』 Disclaimer: This article is not extensive, and aims to rationally discuss and analyse the cost performance of the pre-sale in a multi-dimensional and rational manner 1️⃣ Project positioning @SaharaLabsAI AI-native Layer1 platform, it is mainly divided into three products: data platform, AI developer platform, and AI marketplace Simply put, it's an aggregate version of AI infrastructure 2️⃣ Project background At present, there have been two rounds of financing, and the core investors are mainly Polychain, Yzi Labs, and Pantera Capital, which are leading the investment Basically, they are all top VCs, among which Polychain has led two consecutive rounds of investment, so I personally think that the relationship should be Polychain > Yzi Labs > Pantera Capital However, the official website is listed in the order of Yzi Labs > Pantera Capital > Polychain 3️⃣ Team background CEO Sean Ren is currently a full-time professor at the University of Southern California and co-founder of Sahara COO Tyler Zhou was the Investment Director at Yzi Labs prior to Sahara What's interesting here is that the CEO is starting an AI project while teaching full-time, and the COO is mostly from a traditional background. So to be able to make such an AI project, there must be a certain strength and resource background 4️⃣ Financing The two rounds of financing include institutional/individual investments from Web3 and traditional AI backgrounds, which can be understood as a Web2.5 project $600w in seed round and $4,300w in Series A The community round raised $850w at a valuation of 600 million, or 1.4167% of tokens —— The following content is purely personal speculation, and there is a large deviation —— So here are two rounds of valuation, and I personally feel that there are two possibilities: 1. Series A valuation is higher than community round valuation 2. The Series A valuation is comparable to the Community round valuation According to the fundamentals of the project and the timing of financing, if I remember correctly, it should have been mainly about the AI data platform narrative, and the seed round of financing was at the peak of the BTC ecosystem (good liquidity), and the A round of financing was at the end of the BTC ecosystem (poor liquidity) Coupled with the 600 million valuation, only 1.4167% is released, then the total amount of financing tokens should be between 8%-12%; The seed round is valued at $2-300 million; Series A valuations range from $6 billion to $1 billion —— The above content is purely personal speculation, and there is a large deviation —— 5️⃣ How to participate 1. KYC registration on 6.8 - 6.11 2. Confirm participation in the pre-sale on June 10 - June 11 3. 6.14 - 6.15 Pre-sale qualification review and payment 4. 6.18 Token Settlement (No Lock-up, Full Circulation) It should be noted that 30% of the quota is officially set aside for community contributors to participate in the pre-sale (150U - 2000U guaranteed white quota will be given according to the contribution degree) You can participate by writing relevant tweets or audio and video, which means that it is another round of InfoFi benefits, and while everyone is still discussing $Loud, I will pay tribute first For more specifics, see Quote Tweets 6️⃣ Other information The Sahara Community Round is the second pre-sale project to go live on Buidlpad @buidlpad. The first project to be launched before that was Solayer @solayer_labs, and I won't say much about $Layer performance At that time, the pre-sale was basically multi-fold income 7️⃣ Overall evaluation The fundamentals of the project can not be looked at much, the hype value is high, such a luxurious team and institutional background This is an obvious conspiracy, and I personally recommend participating The valuation of the community round of financing is within a reasonable range for this kind of track The projects that can be on Buidlpad are worth seeing, and there are not many people pushing them at present, so I see that the owner @thecryptoskanda, and Brother Zishi @silverfang88 @SaharaLabsAI #AIforALL