What Is Sahara AI Token?
In the wave of accelerated integration of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, Sahara AI (SAHARA) officially landed on mainstream exchanges such as Gate on June 26, 2025, becoming Web3 The innovative force at the intersection of AI. This project aims to address core issues in the traditional AI field, such as data monopolization, privacy breaches, and unfair profit distribution, through a decentralized architecture, and to build a transparent and open AI economic ecosystem.
Core Value and Function of SAHARA Token
SAHARA is the native functional Token of the Sahara AI ecosystem, with a fixed total supply of 10 billion tokens, and a current circulation of approximately 2.04 billion tokens (accounting for 20.4% of the total supply). Its design revolves around three core scenarios:
- Payment and Resource Access: Used to pay for services such as AI model calls, dataset authorization, or GPU computing power leasing;
- Governance and Staking: Holders can participate in DAO voting to decide on protocol upgrades, and staking tokens can earn rewards and maintain network security;
- Contribution Incentives: Users earn SAHARA rewards by annotating data, training models, or providing computing power, creating a closed loop of “contribution equals profit.”
Token distribution is highly community-oriented: 64.25% of the total supply is reserved for ecosystem development (33.93%), community incentives (20.75%), and airdrops (8.15%).
Technical Architecture: Four-Layer Model Supporting the Full Lifecycle of AI
The underlying architecture of Sahara AI integrates blockchain and AI workflows:
- Application Layer: Provides no-code tools such as Agent Builder, supporting users to create AI agents;
- Trading Layer: Based on the self-developed Layer 1 public chain Sahara Blockchain, specifically designed for AI asset confirmation and profit distribution optimization;
- Data Layer: Achieve secure off-chain data storage and on-chain metadata verification through an encrypted vault;
- Execution Layer: Integrate zero-knowledge proof technology to verify the authenticity of computing power without disclosing privacy.
This design covers the entire process from data labeling, model training to deploying transactions, forming an end-to-end decentralized AI development ecosystem.
Team Strength and Market Progress
The project was co-founded by Sean Ren (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California) and Tyler Zhou (former Investment Director of Binance Labs), and has secured $51.5 million in funding, with investors including top institutions such as Pantera Capital and Sequoia Capital. The testnet phase attracted over 1.4 million daily active users, with the mainnet planned to launch in the third quarter of 2025.
The token experienced significant price volatility during its initial launch: it surged to $0.145 at the opening before falling back to around $0.08, with a current circulating market value of approximately $188 million. Analysts believe its long-term value depends on the progress of core functionalities such as the AI trading market.
Sahara AI Token is not only a medium of exchange but also the key fuel driving the decentralized AI economy. With its mainnet launch and the improvement of ecological tools (such as AI exchanges and Sahara Studio), SAHARA is likely to become the core force in reshaping the AI value distribution system.
