Grass
grassWhat is Grass?
Grass combines a consumer bandwidth-sharing app with a tokenized network for sourcing public web data. Users run Grass and earn points when their connection is used; GRASS is the Solana token documented for network transactions, staking to Routers and governance. The homepage product is live, but the documentation describes the Sovereign Data Rollup and decentralization of validators as work in progress rather than an already fully decentralized system.
What problem does Grass solve?
Grass targets the gap between the unused bandwidth people pay for and the demand from organizations that need large amounts of web data. Its stated model routes web requests through distributed nodes, records transaction or provenance information, and pays participants. These are the project's stated design goals; the documentation does not by itself establish that every planned rollup, proof or data-market feature is fully live.
How does Grass work?
A Grass Node can relay web traffic using a user's available connection. Routers connect nodes to the validator, meter traffic and report request size, latency and node status. The documented architecture says validators verify and batch those transactions and that a ZK processor is intended to checkpoint session data on an L1. GRASS can be delegated to Routers for staking rewards and is intended for network purchases and governance. The docs also say the initial validator framework is centralized and that automatic slashing is not currently implemented, so these should not be presented as mature decentralized guarantees.
Key facts
- GRASS is an SPL token on Solana; the official mint is Grass7B4RdKfBCjTKgSqnXkqjwiGvQyFbuSCUJr3XXjs.
- The project's tokenomics set total supply at 1,000,000,000 GRASS.
- Official allocation is 300,000,000 to Community, 228,000,000 to Foundation & Ecosystem Growth, 252,000,000 to Early Investors and 220,000,000 to Contributors.
- Early-investor tokens have a one-year cliff and one-year vesting; contributor tokens have a one-year cliff and three-year vesting. Official docs say locked tokens cannot be staked until vested.
- The live consumer product asks users to install the Grass app, share unused internet and earn Network, Uptime and Referral points.
- Official token utility covers web-scraping transactions, dataset purchases and LCR use, Router staking/rewards and network governance; this is not a documented equity, redemption or guaranteed revenue-share right.
- Official staking documentation states a 7-day unstaking period, rewards distributed every second and no current in-protocol slashing implementation.
- Architecture documentation describes an initial single-validator framework and a planned transition to a decentralized validator committee; treat full decentralization and ZK provenance as planned/under-development claims.
- Independent reporting records Airdrop One distributing 100,000,000 GRASS (10% of total supply) in October 2024 and a Phantom outage coinciding with the claim activity.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Grass (GRASS)?
Grass is a bandwidth-sharing and web-data network with a consumer app. GRASS is its Solana token for documented network utility, router staking and governance.
What can GRASS holders do?
The project's documentation says holders can use GRASS for network transactions and data purchases, delegate it to Routers for staking rewards, and participate in network governance. These statements do not establish equity, a guaranteed return, or legal ownership of data or network revenue.
Is Grass fully decentralized today?
Not on the evidence reviewed. The architecture documentation describes an initial centralized framework with a single validator and says the validator set will transition to a decentralized committee.
How does GRASS staking work?
Users delegate GRASS to Routers. The staking page says rewards are distributed every second and unstaking takes seven days. It also explicitly says there is currently no in-protocol slashing.
What is the maximum supply of GRASS?
The official tokenomics page states a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000 GRASS. Allocation and vesting still matter because large investor, contributor and foundation allocations can enter circulation over time.
Does running the Grass app automatically give GRASS tokens?
The homepage currently describes earning Grass Points for network use, uptime and referrals. Point programs and token distributions should not be treated as a permanent guaranteed token income; check current official terms and eligibility.
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