The previously introduced @SaharaLabsAI teamed up with @buidlpad to launch $SAHARA tokens with a total community distribution of $8,500,000 and a 100% lock-up TGE at a fully diluted valuation of $600 million. Sahara is using blockchain to reconstruct the underlying rules of the AI economy, let's briefly introduce it below:
1/ Project Overview
Sahara AI builds a decentralized AI network that empowers users to create personalized AI products. Founded by USC professor Sean Ren and investor Tyler Zhou, it has been cooperated by 30+ companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, with annual revenue of more than 10 million US dollars. Raised $43 million in Series A funding from top investors such as Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, Sequoia Capital, YZi Labs, and Samsung Next, and was selected as one of the most promising AI startups in CB Insights 2025.
2/ Participate in key milestones:
1️⃣ KYC (June 8 - June 11)
All participants must complete real-name authentication
2️⃣ Intention to subscribe (June 10-June 11)
Registration is free and requires no investment, but you will need to complete this step to move on to the next stage
3️⃣ Qualification review (as of June 14)
The platform will review the participants' qualifications, remove the bot/swiping accounts, and those who pass will receive a funding notification
4️⃣ Capital investment (June 14-June 15)
Qualified users can invest between $50 and $3,000 ($USD 1 or $BNB), and the excess amount will be automatically refunded
5️⃣ Final Settlement (June 18)
The final distribution results will be announced, and the funds for those who fail to meet the standards will be refunded in full.
3/ Summary of future prospects
Sahara AI's testnet has more than 3.3 million users and 1.4 million+ daily active users. $SAHARA tokens can be used to pay for AI data, models, and computing services, participate in on-chain governance voting, and serve as a gas token on the Sahara blockchain. Sahara has built an AI-native Web3 infrastructure to reshape the ownership and circulation system of AI data, models, and agents through blockchain technology. This is not only technology integration, but also a new collaborative paradigm for the AI economy, allowing global developers to achieve value co-creation and fair distribution in a decentralized environment.
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