Sahara
SAHARA
Decentralized AI asset registration and trading platform
Performances
RD Popularity Index
RD Growth Index
| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.22% | 1.00% | 13.53% | 26.55% | 25.97% | -- |
Comparison
Tokenomics
Unlock Progress
Based on CoinGecko data, Current Unlock Rate for SAHARA: 43.63%
Unlock Event
| Date | Unlocked Token Amount | Unlocked M.Cap | M.Cap (%) | Allocation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 2026 | 72.39M SAHARA | $495.11K | 1.66% | 2 Allocation |
| Dec 26, 2026 | 72.39M SAHARA | $495.11K | 1.66% | 2 Allocation |
| Jan 26, 2027 | 72.39M SAHARA | $495.11K | 1.66% | 2 Allocation |
Top Holders
| Address | Token | Quantity | Percentage | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0xb9d9...9c66 |   SAHARA | 3,480,000,000 | 34.8% | $23.79M |
| 0xc92f...dfd3 | SAHARA | 1,975,000,000 | 19.75% | $13.5M |
| 0xca51...e222 | SAHARA | 579,916,169 | 5.8% | $3.96M |
Open Markets
| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UUpbitCEX | SAHARA/KRW | $0.02692 | $140,398 | $155,867 | $19,120,334 | 430.04% |
| 2 | BBithumbCEX | SAHARA/KRW | $0.02704 | $12,910 | $13,987 | $1,744,481 | 39.24% |
| 3 | HHTXCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02683 | $487 | $4,762 | $1,461,828 | 32.88% |
| 4 | OOKXCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02676 | $41,145 | $51,075 | $1,090,820 | 24.53% |
| 5 | BBybitCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02679 | $24,442 | $25,694 | $701,617 | 15.78% |
| 6 | PPhemexCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02684 | $6,814 | $6,710 | $606,815 | 13.65% |
| 7 | BBingXCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02678 | $83,014 | $49,414 | $392,921 | 8.84% |
| 8 | BBitgetCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02679 | $15,138 | $48,780 | $234,426 | 5.27% |
| 9 | KKuCoinCEX | SAHARA/USDT | $0.02671 | $5,002 | $3,307 | $217,272 | 4.89% |
| 10 | OOKXCEX | SAHARA/USD | $0.02633 | $2,571 | $2,527 | $1,885 | 0.04% |
Follow Updates
Follow Lists
People
About Sahara
Sahara is a Layer 1 for AI data and agent collaboration that breaks data labeling, model training and inference into verifiable work units settled onchain among contributors, compute providers and buyers. The provenance and quality of training data are hard to verify, enterprises lack traceable ownership records when purchasing, and individual contributors rarely get paid in proportion to actual use. Sahara binds each dataset to contribution records through onchain identity and asset registration, has validators sample and review task outputs, and distributes settlement by workload and quality scores, while offering an agent runtime and APIs that keep model calls, data licensing and payment within one account system.
The difficulty is verification cost: sampling cannot cover long-tail tasks, quality scores depend on reviewer expertise, and enterprise buyers still prefer centralized data vendors. Onchain settlement throughput and inference costs limit high-frequency calls and real-time training.
Sahara AI was founded in May 2023 by Sean Ren, tenured AI professor at USC, and Tyler Zhou, former investment director at Binance Labs, positioning itself as an AI-native blockchain platform.
In 2024, it completed a $43 million funding round led by Binance Labs, Pantera Capital, and Polychain Capital, with participation from Samsung, Sequoia Capital, and others.
In Q4 2024, it launched the Data Service Platform (DSP) private testnet, attracting over 200,000 users and laying the foundation for AI data contribution and annotation.
In Q2 2025, it launched the SIWA public testnet, reaching over 1.4 million daily active accounts and 3.2 million total accounts, enabling on-chain data ownership registration and tokenization.
In Q3 2025, it released the $SAHARA token on Ethereum and BNB Chain, entering the token utility phase.
On June 26, 2026, a cliff unlock of 1.03 billion SAHARA tokens is planned, increasing circulating supply by approximately 30%, testing the sustainability of its utility narrative.
Unlock delay: On June 9 the price fell from about $0.035 to below $0.015, a drop near 60%, which the team attributed to a futures liquidation cascade; on June 24 it postponed investor unlocks by three months and founder, core team and advisor unlocks by six months to ease immediate sell pressure.
Stance on buybacks and burns: The team explicitly ruled out a burn, keeping supply fixed at 10 billion, and said buybacks remain a long-term treasury tool funded by product revenue rather than a short-term rescue; next steps include Sorin perpetual futures, cross-chain expansion, enterprise partnerships and phase-two staking.
On May 14, 2026 Sahara opened staking in exchange for access to AI compute, and after June's market drop the team extended its own token lockup by six months. On July 26 it unlocked 156.66 million SAHARA, worth about $1.57 million, and outlined multi-chain expansion plus a second staking phase tying tokens to agent access and model rewards.
The roadmap runs by quarter: a data intelligence platform and persistent agent memory in the second quarter, multi-agent systems and an agent marketplace in the third, and the Agentic AppChain mainnet in the fourth, where SAHARA becomes native gas and the coordination token. The team cites more than 40 enterprise clients including Microsoft, Amazon, MIT and Snap. The token is down more than 90% from its $0.163 high.
Future strategy and roadmap: Sahara advances its roadmap by quarter: a data-intelligence platform and persistent agent memory in Q2, multi-agent systems and an agent marketplace in Q3, and the Agentic AppChain mainnet in Q4 with SAHARA as the native gas and coordination token. Staking is already open in exchange for AI-compute access; next it will validate demand through consumer apps like Sorin and bind usage, agent access and token demand via staking and an XP system, growing enterprise clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, MIT and Snap.
Sahara AI was founded in Los Angeles in 2023 by Sean Ren and Tyler Zhou. Sean Ren, whose Chinese name is Ren Xiang, holds a bachelor's from Zhejiang University and a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he focused on natural language processing and knowledge graphs. An associate professor at USC, he advised Snap on data science and made the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list, then converted his lab's work on collaborative data into a company in 2023 and became CEO.
Tyler Zhou is co-founder and COO. He was an investment director at Binance Labs, reviewing infrastructure and AI deals, and joined in 2023 to build business development, legal and ecosystem teams.