The AI project Sahara AI, which secured $43 million in funding, recently announced its roadmap for 2025, highlighting the participation methods for the testnet and the upcoming mainnet launch in Q3 2025. Sahara AI is a high-performance Layer 1 compatible with EVM, aiming to address the problem of overly centralized AI resources. During KBW in September, they also invited the renowned singer Kwon Eunbi, who recently visited Taiwan, gaining significant exposure.
Tokenizing AI assets, Sahara creates a decentralized AI
Sahara AI is an EVM Layer 1 blockchain platform focused on decentralized artificial intelligence (AI), committed to creating an open, transparent, and secure AI ecosystem. Its primary goal is to democratize the development and application of AI technology, breaking the monopoly of existing centralized AI platforms. The narrative of decentralized AI platforms also aligns with Tether's investment outlook, as both aim to address the issue of AI resource monopolization by Web2 giants. Tether's CEO Paolo Ardoino recently stated that the Tether AI platform is set to launch soon.
Sahara AI's core philosophy consists of three principles:
Fairness and Accessibility: Promoting the spread and equitable distribution of AI technology so that it is no longer monopolized by a few, driving global innovation.
AI Asset: Sahara AI introduces an innovative framework that allows users to own and manage private AI resources (such as personal data and proprietary models).
Transparency and Traceability: Through blockchain technology, the platform ensures that all records are fully documented and can clearly trace each participant's contributions.
In terms of sovereignty and traceability, the ownership and governance of AI assets will be fully decentralized, with each transaction and development history recorded on the blockchain to ensure transparency and trust, as well as full traceability. Sahara AI has also simplified the process from data collection, model development to AI deployment, using Sahara Blockchain as a Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for AI development to achieve AI Utility.
Sahara AI launches a four-layer architecture
The Sahara AI platform operates on a four-layer architecture, supporting the complete lifecycle from data management to AI asset trading:
Application Layer: The main user interface, providing users with native built-in applications to create AI assets and profit from them.
Transaction Layer: Supported by the Sahara Blockchain, managing traceability, access control, and transactions related to AI assets.
Data Layer: Integrates on-chain and off-chain data management to enable seamless data access and storage.
Execution Layer: Provides AI computational infrastructure, dynamically allocating computational resources to ensure high performance and scalability.
Using Sahara ID as identity verification for humans or AI
Whether for artificial intelligence entities or human users, they can utilize the built-in Sahara ID identity management system of Sahara AI. This identification can be used to track contributions or reputation within the ecosystem and to access AI assets.
What is Sahara Agent? A more powerful AI agent
Additionally, Sahara Agents differ from typical AI agents, which usually focus on a single task or function (such as dialogue generation, data analysis, etc.). In contrast, Sahara Agents have a complete three-part structure (brain, perceptron, actor) that supports operations from perception to decision-making, and then execution. The design of Sahara Agents emphasizes versatility and flexibility, suitable for complex and variable application scenarios, while most typical AI agents focus on specific purposes.
Launching EVM-compatible Layer 1, providing a traceable high-efficiency public blockchain for AI.
Sahara chain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 with Proof of Stake, using the Tendermint algorithm to achieve Byzantine fault tolerance consensus. Like new-generation public chains, it features fast block confirmation times, rapid average block times, and near-instant finality. It also maintains extremely low gas fees through multi-transaction confirmations and a dynamic charging mechanism. The design of Layer 1 also leaves room for possible future expansion solutions (such as Layer 2).
For reference, the current circulating market cap of NEAR, a blockchain related to AI, has reached up to $12.7 billion.
Mainnet goes live in Q3 2025; remember to register for the whitelist.
Next, let's take a look at the route map:
The testnet for Q1 is now live. You can register for the Q2 whitelist to participate in the next season's testnet. Participants in Q1 will earn rewards by collecting, refining, and tagging datasets. Sahara AI is also committed to being retail-friendly, ensuring that the rewards for participants and developers are not too disparate.
In Q1 2025, the Sahara AI Marketplace will go live as a peer-to-peer trading center where developers can access and deploy AI data, models, and more. Everything will be fully transparent and traceable on-chain.
In Q2 2025, Sahara Studio will be launched, a comprehensive toolset for simplifying AI development:
Model Training Toolkit: Fine-tune model accuracy and performance.
Model Deployment Toolkit: Efficiently deploy AI models at scale.
Model Orchestration Toolkit: Improve and manage workflows across multiple models in real time.
In Q3 2025, the Sahara mainnet will launch, and officials state that everyone, from individual developers to startups and large enterprises, will benefit from secure and transparent model and data sources, trusted transactions, and new opportunities for monetizing AI assets from datasets to models.
This article reveals that Sahara AI will launch its mainnet in Q3 2025, exposing the protocol architecture and how to obtain a whitelist for the testnet, first reported by Chain News ABMedia.