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About Perle Labs
Perle is an expert annotation network for AI training data, spun out of an on-chain effort in 2025 by a team with backgrounds at Scale AI and Meta, running on Solana. It addresses opaque labelling pipelines and unverifiable contributor credentials: annotators complete domain training and assessment, tasks are matched by expertise, and each submission is scored algorithmically and peer-reviewed before being written on-chain with a timestamped provenance record; pay reflects accuracy, task complexity and consistency, while reputation accrues per domain and governs access to harder work.
The on-chain part handles provenance and settlement rather than the data itself: corpora stay off-chain while only contribution hashes, review outcomes and payments are recorded, which enterprise clients use for compliance audits. Compared with general crowd-labelling marketplaces, admission shifts from first-come to domain qualification, which suits medicine, robotics and law where errors carry high cost. How fast qualified experts can be recruited sets the pace at which annotation supply expands.
Perle Labs, founded by veterans from Scale AI, is building a sovereign intelligence layer on Solana. It announced a $17.5 million funding round led by Framework Ventures and CoinFund. On January 16, 2026, the platform publicly launched Season 1 after a two-month closed beta, during which 1.7 million tasks were completed and 330 million points were issued. On March 25, 2026, the PRL token TGE went live, marking the protocol's transition into a decentralized expert economy on Solana.
Progress and catalysts: Perle joined Nvidia's Inception program on July 24, lifting the token 31.1% in a day on $73.5 million of volume; it then gained 14.2% on July 30 and 15.2% on August 3 to $0.2725, outperforming a falling market.
Unlocks and supply: The mint and freeze authorities were revoked in April, making the 1 billion cap immutable; contributor allocations locked for six months became claimable on September 21 at 11:00 UTC, with the claim portal open until March 21, 2027.
On March 25, 2026 Perle Labs held the PRL token generation event, debuting through Binance Alpha while KuCoin ran a call auction from 10:00 to 11:00 UTC before opening PRL/USDT, with withdrawals from the next day. The project has raised $17.5 million from Framework Ventures, CoinFund, HashKey and Peer VC, with much of the team drawn from Scale AI.
Perle's product turns expert annotation into an auditable on-chain record. Contributors clear training modules and domain assessments, then build an on-chain reputation from accuracy and consistency that unlocks higher-value work; every annotation, review and quality check is written to Solana, and enterprise clients reach the data through dashboards and SDKs plugged into RLHF pipelines. The beta produced 1.7 million tasks and 333 million points in under two months, and Season 1 added text, audio, image and specialised medical and legal work plus portable badges. Supply is capped at one billion tokens with 37.5% for the community, and the price touched $0.4404 on April 16.
Perle will turn sovereign and enterprise data contracts into recurring revenue, broaden multimodal tasks and professional certification, and use staking tiers to route high-value work to long-term contributors.
Ahmed Rashad — Founder & CEO; MIT graduate in operations research; former Amazon business leader and early Head of Operations at Scale AI.
Arthur Ding — Chief Commercial Officer; former Venture Partner at NGC Ventures, investing in AI, DeFi and infrastructure.
Perle Labs' Marketing Manager Dahlia Fu departed in October 2026. She joined the team in October 2025 and served for about a year, primarily responsible for brand promotion and community growth. Prior to her departure, her RootData profile still listed her as Marketing Manager; the position is currently vacant.
Perle Labs has seen no new hires recently. The team remains led by core members including Founder & CEO Ahmed Rashad, Chief Commercial Officer Arthur Ding, and Head of Product Operations Moe Abdelfattah, focusing on building verifiable AI data infrastructure for governments and enterprises.