Sahara AI’s SIWA testnet is an on-chain framework that seeks to change how AI training data is tracked, licensed, and monetised.
AI-native blockchain platform Sahara AI launched its public SIWA testnet, which will serve as the public gateway to the Sahara blockchain.
The SIWA testnet is aimed at developing decentralised AI, and will allow developers and contributors to explore core protocols ahead of the mainnet. Its private testnet saw strong early traction with over 3.2 million total accounts and 200,000 users engaging with the Data Services Platform.
Phase 1 of the SIWA testnet focuses on decentralised data ownership, giving contributors the ability to register and tokenise their datasets with verifiable on-chain records.
Sean Ren, Co-founder and CEO of Sahara AI, said: “Sahara AI isn’t just another blockchain – it’s a call to action. We’re already generating revenue through our Data Services Platform, and this value will directly accrue to our testnet users. With SIWA, we’re supporting every developer and every chain that shares our vision of letting all AI contributors own their part of it.”
Sahara AI’s roadmap includes three additional phases before the release of its mainnet: licensing and revenue distribution; permissionless testnet with open-source protocols; and pipeline registration plus provenance tracking.
The SIWA testnet has over 40 new ecosystem partners and clients across AI, Web3, and cloud infrastructure which includes Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
“Scalable compute is essential to realising that vision, and Together AI is proud to help power their developer platform to ensure anyone, anywhere can access the resources they need to train and run meaningful AI workloads,” said Vipul Ved Prakash, Co-founder and CEO of Together AI.
Together with the launch of the SIWA testnet, Sahara AI also begins a phased public rollout of its flagship applications, providing chain‑agnostic tools, infrastructure, and economic systems for builders and contributors across Web2 and Web3: the AI Developer Platform, AI Marketplace, and the Data Services Platform (DSP).
On May 27, Sahara AI will begin public access to DSP, a first-of-its-kind service that leverages distributed contributors to perform data collection and annotation at scale.
Running on Sahara’s testnet, the AI Developer Platform delivers end‑to‑end tooling for data, model, agent, and compute workflows, while the AI Marketplace adds on‑chain ownership and revenue‑sharing channels to monetise assets across Web2 and Web3.
