Grass fluctuates and rises after airdrop! What is the charm of combining AI and DePIN?

The Grass token first round airdrop was opened for claiming, but due to the large number of claimants, the Phantom wallet experienced a temporary outage. This article is based on a report by research institute ASXN. (Background: Grass airdrop launched, community laments being "over-farmed", token OTC price plummets) (Supplementary background: Viewpoint: The crypto world needs to wake up, stop pretending airdrops are effective) Recently, the AI and DePIN-powered computing power sharing project Grass has launched another airdrop "feast". On October 28, the Grass Foundation announced the opening of the first round of GRASS token airdrop, but due to the large number of claimants, the Phantom wallet experienced a temporary outage. As of November 4, Dune data shows that 82.75% of the GRASS airdrop tokens (about 64,781,717) have been claimed by users, involving 1,830,287 airdrop claim addresses. The airdrop craze has also temporarily "boosted" the GRASS token. Since the announcement of the airdrop opening, GRASS has shown an overall upward trend, rising from around $0.65 to a high of $1.86, and is currently trading at $1.63. This article aims to analyze the technical features of the Grass project from a technical perspective. Grass is a decentralized data layer and network focused on web scraping, real-time context retrieval, and AI data collection. Its main goal is to achieve the decentralization and democratization of web data collection through an incentive mechanism, while compensating users who contribute resources. Grass network currently scrapes over 100TB of data per day. To date, Grass nodes are distributed in 190 countries, with over 2.5 million nodes. It manages all processes from initial data collection to processing and verification, while compensating and incentivizing participants. The Grass protocol consists of the following components: - Grass nodes - Sovereign Data Rollup Grass nodes allow users to contribute idle network resources to earn rewards. Each node is uniquely identified by its device fingerprint and IP address. The Grass Sovereign Data Rollup is a network specifically built on Solana, which enables the protocol to handle all affairs from data sources to processing, verification, and dataset construction. The network is built around verifiers who issue data collection commands, routers that manage web request distribution, and nodes where users contribute their idle network resources. Grass uses a data ledger for hash storage, a Merkle tree bundling system, and on-chain root data release. Grass nodes can be deployed through browser extensions, desktop applications, or Android-based mobile applications. For data processing, the protocol uses an HTML to JSON conversion system, custom Python cleaning scripts, data structure tools, and vectorization processes, while also developing embedded models for edge processing. Security and verification are maintained through zero-knowledge transport layer security (ZK TLS), proof generation for web requests, web session logging, a decentralized database for hash storage, and anti-data poisoning measures. Grass also ensures data integrity and quality through various means, including a contributor ranking system, quality-controlled consensus mechanism, distributed work system, and reputation scoring system. Data management is handled through multiple storage solutions, including Hugging Face (supporting up to 10TB/day of free storage), self-hosted MongoDB for proprietary datasets, and partnerships with decentralized data providers. Recently, the team has released their UpVoteWeb dataset, which includes 600 million Reddit posts and reviews from HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenCo7/UpVoteWeb