Grass

Grass began in 2023 with a Chrome extension and a simple bargain: keep a client online and let approved traffic use spare bandwidth. The useful commodity was geographic distribution. A website sees a request from the participant’s residential IP rather than a single data-center range.

The node is an exit, not a miniature AI lab. Current documentation assigns it the job of relaying validator-instructed public-page requests and returning encrypted responses to a router; it does not describe a local model-training role.

This makes the product tangible and the liability boundary important. The participant does not donate browsing history, yet third-party requests still leave through their IP. Local ISP rules, data caps and target-site controls remain outside the slogan about unused bandwidth.

The first dataset is the public web content a customer wants. The second is the service data Grass needs to run the account and judge a connection. The July 2026 policy lists email, username, password, wallet address, referral codes and IP, plus device and usage information. It says this personal information is not sold or monetized.

The node page says Grass does not view what the operator is doing and that relay traffic is separate from the operator’s activity; it does not explicitly name browsing history. The IP is used to assess quality and facilitate access to public websites, while service providers may receive data for hosting, communications, support or wallet functions.

Encryption does not remove the operator from the system. Current public documentation says a validator instructs node requests, but it does not publish the validator count, operator set or a committee transition.

At genesis, the Foundation allocated one billion GRASS: 30% community, 22.8% Foundation and ecosystem, 25.2% early investors, and 22% contributors. Airdrop One opened on 28 October 2024 with 100 million tokens. It rewarded early activity, but Points themselves were never property or a guaranteed conversion right under the terms.

GRASS staking delegates tokens to routers. Rewards stream, routers take commission, and exit takes seven days. Documentation says there is currently no in-protocol slashing and conditions stake-weighted traffic assignment on decentralization. Staking is a live token program, while the current pages leave validator count and operators undisclosed.

By Stage 2, bandwidth participants were promised USDC funded from service revenue instead of GRASS inflation. This is evidence that the service and token can use different payout rails. It also prevents the easy conclusion that every dollar of data revenue must buy, burn or distribute GRASS.

Grass reported $17 million of revenue in 2025. For the first half of 2026, the same recap says $17 million in its financial section and $18 million in its closing summary; AI-lab customer names are withheld. These are issuer figures, and the page provides no independent audit report. A public collaboration around ClipTagger-12b does not verify every commercial claim.

The organization says Wynd Labs is a service provider and that intellectual property, customer contracts and commercial relationships remain under network ownership. Terms reserve service-generated property to Grass, affiliates and licensors. Tokenomics mentions DAO direction for Foundation and ecosystem funds, but the reviewed pages do not publish holder-voting procedures or a legal bridge that lets a vote control contracts, customers, IP or admin keys.

The on-chain token has its own unfinished boundary. Published allocations total one billion GRASS, while Solscan displayed a mint authority and no freeze authority on 2026-09-05; the allocation arithmetic is not proof of an immutable cap. The reviewed record does not grant ordinary holders equity, dividends, dataset ownership, redemption or an automatic share of business revenue.