Recently, the blockchain artificial intelligence project Sahara AI announced its public sale on Buidlpad. This article will help you understand what Sahara AI is, its investment background, and how to participate.
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ToggleSahara AI Will Bring AI Assets on Chain
Sahara AI is an EVM Layer 1 platform focused on decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) blockchain. On this chain, both base models and specifically fine-tuned versions will become on-chain assets, maintaining clear associations with their training data and development history. This enables all contributors to have fair attribution and revenue sharing.
By decentralizing AI asset ownership and governance, and recording every transaction and development process on the blockchain, Sahara AI ensures transparency, trust, and traceability. It also simplifies the process from data collection and model development to AI deployment, using Sahara Blockchain as a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for AI development to realize AI Utility. Sahara AI also launched the SIWA public testnet on May 19.
Can Sahara AI's Returns Benchmark Solayer?
Sahara AI's seed round was led by Polychain, with participation from Samsung Next, dao5, Nomad Capital, and Sequoia China, raising $6 million. Last August's Series A funding round was led by YZi Labs, Pantera Capital, and Polychain, with participation from dao5, Nomad Capital, Mirana Ventures, Samsung Next, and Foresight Ventures. The round raised $43 million at a $400 million valuation. Notably, Sahara AI's co-founder and COO Tyler Zhou was previously an investment director at Binance Labs.
This public sale is also taking place on Buidlpad, with KYC now open until June 11, 2025, at 10:59 PM (UTC+8). Those who previously participated in the Solayer public sale or have a Solayer Emerald Card address can directly pass KYC.
Next, subscription will be from June 10, 2025, at 11:00 AM to June 11, 2025, at 10:59 PM. Finally, purchase will be from June 14, 2025, at 11:00 AM to June 15, 2025, at 10:59 PM. Minimum investment is $50, maximum $3,000. USD1 or equivalent BNB can be used.
The public sale will raise $8.5 million at a $600 million valuation, similar to Solayer's public offering with proportional refunds if oversubscribed. Although fundraising is on the BNB Chain, token claiming will be on Ethereum. However, note that Sahara AI's public sale valuation is higher than its Series A, and there are no pre-market trading records on WhalesMarket, so unlike Solayer, over 200% returns cannot be estimated.
Risk Warning
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