Biggest DePIN project building on SOLANA - $GRASS

The decline in data quality and reliability is another pressing issue in the AI industry. Data poisoning-in which adversaries deliberately introduce corrupted data-combined with the proliferation of AI-generated content degrade model performance and undermine trust in datasets. These challenges increase the risk of AI models producing inaccurate or biased results.

Grass addresses these challenges by establishing a decentralized web scraping network. Individual devices worldwide contribute their unused internet bandwidth as network nodes to retrieve and process web data, converting it into structured datasets optimized for AI training. Participants are rewarded with $GRASS tokens for their contributions.

Keep reading and learn how to position for the next batch of $GRASS rewards

Grass Overview:

The fundamental objective of blockchain technology is to establish a transparent, verifiable network where incentive mechanisms encourage diverse participants to contribute to platform operations. Grass leverages these strengths to create a decentralized network specializing in web scraping, real-time context retrieval, and web data collection for AI companies. Within the Grass Network, individual devices worldwide function as nodes that gather and process raw web data, transforming it into structured datasets optimized for AI training. In return, users who contribute resources to this process receive appropriate incentives.

This high level of accessibility has served as a powerful driver of mainstream adoption, attracting not only crypto-native users but also a broad base of general users. In 2024 alone, the platform’s user base grew 15-fold from 200,000 to 3 million, while the number of indexed videos surged nearly 1,000-fold. Additionally, over 2.2 million users received an airdrop distribution totaling $196 million at the time.

The network now boasts more than 3 million nodes, with users from 190 countries participating in data provision.According to the Grass Foundation, the network has demonstrated substantial data processing capabilities, recording a seven-day cumulative scraping volume of 6,694 terabytes (TB) as of March 5, 2025. This figure has shown significant recent growth, likely attributed to the increasing impact of the ongoing Sion upgrade, which will be discussed in detail in Section 3.6. Since its launch, the network has successfully indexed approximately 4.4 billion URL, highlighting its extensive reach in web data collection.

Past $GRASS Airdrop and Future rewards:

During the Season 1 $Grass airdrop campaign, I personally made well got around 113 $GRASS tokens (~worth around $250 today) for just using their extension and connecting to the grass node.

Asides that I also participated in their Bybit campaign, which also earn me an extra 20 $GRASS tokens (sold off around $70).

and this was just an average, as some top users earned as much as $10k - $50k from the Season 1 airdrop.

In Season 2, about 12% of the total supply has been allocated for the community, which is almost 50% higher than that of the first season.

Currently we're in Epoch 8, which could be the final Epoch of the Season 2.

Follow this guide and stay positioned 👇

Positioning for $GRASS season 2:

Here is a full guide on how to position for Grass season 2 rewards

First step:

Go to https://app.grass.io/register/?referralCode=4Fxdi6x3bV63CTj to sign up for Grass.

All you need is your email.

Once you sign up, go to profile and link your Solana wallet address.

Next step:

Download the Grass Desktop App. This enables you earn GRASS points at 2x rate.

Your GRASS points will be converted to $GRASS tokens on rewards claim date.

To download the Grass Desktop App, Go to Store to see the option to download the Grass Desktop App

Next Step:

If you have a good following and strong community, you can also refer persons to join GRASS and you'll be getting some GRASS points as they also make use of the GRASS node.

Just go to the referral program and copy your referral link.

You can also track your total GRASS points that you earn on each epoch and each season by going to the Rewards tab.

You can see that we are in Stage 2 (Season 2) and as stated, rewards (Airdrop of $GRASS) will be distributed at the end of each stage.

Final Step:

If you have some spare funds, you can buy some $GRASS tokens and stake it.

$GRASS stakers might make the most, as staking shows full commitment to the project.

Here's how to stake $GRASS:

You can buy $GRASS on either CEX (Binance, BYBIT, Kucoin, MEXC ) and send to your Solana wallet linked to your GRASS dashboard.

Or you can buy on DEX at https://jup.ag/
CA: Grass7B4RdKfBCjTKgSqnXkqjwiGvQyFbuSCUJr3XXjs

Note: You will need some SOL for gas fees.

Go to: https://www.grassfoundation.io/stake

Connect your SOL wallet (Phantom or SolFlare) that's both linked to your GRASS dashboard and holds the $GRASS tokens you want to stake.

Put the amount of tokens you want to stake and click on stake. Gas fees are paid in SOL.

If you want to Unstake your tokens later on, due note that unstaking takes about 7 days to complete. You will also need some SOL for gas fees when claiming the unstaked $GRASS tokens.

As a bonus step, you can also buy their genesis NFT on Magic Eden (GigaBuds)

Currently they are valued at 1.3 SOL (~$225) right now. During season 1, holders of the Gigabuds NFT earned around 500 $GRASS per NFT ( ~$1.2K per NFT)

This shows the crazy potential with being an holder.

Link to the GigaBuds NFT collection: https://magiceden.io/marketplace/giga_buds

Summary:

If you're yet to get started on GRASS, don't fade it or wait until you see participants claiming their Season 2 rewards before you start, Follow this guide and stay positioned!!

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