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The current price of Vana is $0.9126 with a 1.30% change in the last 24 hours.
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Vana is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain and protocol built around one idea: the personal data people generate should be owned and controlled by them rather than by the platforms that collect it. Its documentation describes Vana as "an open protocol for user-controlled data portability," where users keep their data in a Personal Server, grant applications access through signed, scope-specific permissions, pay protocol fees from an on-chain escrow, and revoke that access whenever they choose.
VANA is the network's native coin. It pays gas, secures the chain through validator staking, funds data-validator staking, and serves as the default currency and trading pair for data applications built on the protocol. A live RPC query against the Vana mainnet endpoint returns chain ID 0x5c8, which is 1480; the Moksha testnet uses 14800.
Anyone reading older summaries of Vana should know the framing has shifted materially. Vana launched as a chain for DataDAOs and Data Liquidity Pools, and those still exist, but the current documentation presents pooled data as "an application on top of the protocol, not a requirement of it." The protocol core is now individual data portability.
Official sources:
Vana was created by Anna Kazlauskas and Art Abal and is developed by Open Data Labs, a research and technology company that grew out of work at the MIT Media Lab, where the initial prototype was built in a course taught by Ramesh Raskar. Kazlauskas, an MIT graduate and former Celo engineer, is chief executive of Open Data Labs; Abal came from a data collection background at Appen.
The project raised roughly 25 million dollars, including a seed led by Polychain, an 18 million dollar Series A with Paradigm, and a 5 million dollar strategic round led by Coinbase Ventures in 2024. After a testnet phase in which more than a million users contributed data to DataDAOs, mainnet went live with the native VANA token on 16 December 2024.
The next phase changed the shape of the product. In April 2025 Vana introduced VRC-20, a token standard for data-backed assets, replacing direct VANA emissions to DataDAOs with liquidity-focused incentives for compliant data tokens. More recently the protocol has been rebuilt around Personal Servers and a data portability protocol, with an MCP interface so AI assistants can read a user's data with permission. Vana also acquired the Memory Protocol team as part of that shift.
The protocol separates where data lives from who is allowed to touch it:
Collection and storage A user collects data from sources they already use and stores it encrypted in a backend they choose, such as Vana Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox or IPFS. Encryption keys derive from a wallet signature using HKDF-SHA256, with OpenPGP password-based encryption on the file itself. Private data is never written to the chain.
The Personal Server The Personal Server is the user's access engine. It stores data and serves authorized requests, and it can run bundled in a desktop app, in a browser tab, or self-hosted. Only its identity and URL are registered on-chain.
Grants and scopes
Access is granted through scope-native EIP-712 signed permissions naming the grantor, the grantee, the scopes and an expiry. Scopes follow a {source}.{category} taxonomy resolved against an on-chain schema registry. Grants can be created, verified, expired and revoked, and each change is recorded on-chain.
Fees and settlement Builders fund a per-account escrow and protocol fees settle from it. The chain is the source of truth; a Data Portability RPC gateway sits in front of it providing low-latency cached reads and asynchronous write confirmation.
Pooled compute, when a builder wants it The DataDAO pattern runs privacy-preserving jobs over pooled data inside trusted execution environments. Data is decrypted only inside the enclave and only results leave it. Vana is explicit that parts of this, including Protocol-Governed Encryption, are still in development.
VANA has a fixed total supply of 120,000,000 tokens. Its documented uses are:
Allocation at launch was 44.0 percent community, 22.9 percent ecosystem, 18.8 percent team and 14.3 percent investors, with the team on a five-year vest (one-year cliff plus four-year unlock) and investors on a four-year vest. On the Vana chain VANA is the native gas coin with no contract address. It also exists as a LayerZero OFT ERC-20 at the same address, 0x7ff7fa94b8b66ef313f7970d4eebd2cb3103a2c0, on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, BNB Smart Chain, Optimism and Polygon, plus a wrapped WVANA on Vana itself for trading.
Most projects that talk about data ownership stop at a marketplace. Vana pushes the control point into infrastructure: the chain holds the permission state, so nobody, including Vana's own contributors, can modify who has access to a user's data. Only the owner can create or revoke a grant, and that is enforced by the chain rather than by a company policy.
The Personal Server design is the second distinctive piece. Instead of uploading data into a protocol-owned pool, the user runs the access engine themselves and the protocol only registers its identity. Combined with the MCP interface, that makes a person's data readable by any compliant AI tool from one source the user controls.
Vana is not competing with general-purpose Layer 1 networks on throughput or DeFi depth. Its chain exists to be an authoritative permission ledger, and its documentation says as much.
Compared with decentralized storage networks such as Filecoin or Arweave, Vana is not primarily about storing bytes. Data lives in ordinary storage backends; Vana governs access to it. Compared with decentralized AI networks such as Bittensor, which coordinate model training and inference, Vana sits one layer earlier, at the point where training data is sourced with consent. Compared with data marketplaces, the difference is revocability: a grant on Vana can be withdrawn, and the withdrawal is recorded on-chain.
The chain runs proof-of-stake consensus operated by professional node operators. Validators stake VANA as collateral, propose and validate blocks, finalize transactions, and face slashing for malicious behavior or failure to perform. Mainnet validator hardware requirements are documented at 8-core CPU, 32 GB RAM and 1.2 TB SSD.
Data confidentiality relies on a different mechanism. Satya validators run inside Intel TDX trusted execution environments, previously Intel SGX. Contributed data is decrypted only inside the enclave, the Proof of Contribution container runs there, and the operator and chain see only proofs and metadata. That confidentiality therefore depends on the integrity of the hardware enclave and its attestation, which places trust in the hardware vendor. Vana states this openly.
Above that sits defense in depth at the chain, server and encryption levels, with smart contract audits published by Nethermind and Hashlock and a responsible disclosure policy.
Data portability is a legal right in several major jurisdictions and, in practice, still barely functional. Vana is one of the more serious attempts to make it technically real, and it is unusual in having rebuilt its own architecture toward that goal rather than staying with the DataDAO narrative it launched on. If AI systems increasingly need consented, provenance-carrying data, an infrastructure layer that records permission on-chain and lets a person revoke it is a plausible place for that value to settle.
VANA trades on centralized exchanges and on decentralized exchanges, both on the Vana network and on the chains where the OFT version is deployed. Availability and pairs vary by jurisdiction and change over time.
VANA is commonly available on large international exchanges such as:
VANA can be held:
Because the same contract address is used across every supported chain, always confirm the network as well as the address before sending, and bridge with the documented routes rather than sending tokens directly between chains.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Vana is $0.9126 with a 1.30% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $211,293 representing a 10.81% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Vana is $28,107,348, ranking #451 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Vana is $109,509,148, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 120,000,000 VANA is in circulation.
Circulating: 30,800,000. Total: 120,000,000. Max: 120,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Vana traded between a low of $0.8902 and a high of $0.9298.
VANA/USDTTether USDT0.9126 USDT
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, 29th September 2026, Chainwire
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