Codatta

What Codatta does

Codatta is a decentralized knowledge infrastructure protocol that operates as a "Knowledge Layer for AI," supplying verified, provenance-tracked data assets to AI developers and Web3 protocols. The platform combines onchain commitment records with privacy-preserving computation techniques (Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and federated learning) and integrates Decentralized Identifiers with EigenLayer-based restaking to produce a royalty-bearing knowledge graph. The protocol is organized around three onchain roles — Knowledge Provider, Verifier, and Knowledge Backer — and a core utility token ($XNY) used for staking, slashing, and royalty-based payouts. The company traces its lineage to the Microscope Protocol, launched in 2023, which labeled 300M+ crypto addresses and powers risk-data sharing through the Crypto Defenders Alliance.

Codatta monetizes through three documented revenue streams: (1) data licensing and sale of user-contributed knowledge to third parties for AI training, market analysis, and data aggregation, (2) a platform-level cut of royalty streams paid to contributors when AI agents consume network knowledge, and (3) transaction fees generated through the native $XNY token. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is determined per licensing scope. The go-to-market motion is community-led and product-led: the company scales through a 300,000+ global contributor base spanning 200+ countries and a self-serve developer portal (docs.codatta.io and codatta.io/frontier-guide), with no evidence of a sales-led onboarding process. The platform currently supports 95 knowledge categories across 35 blockchain networks and has produced 560M+ annotations and 46M+ high-risk address flags.

The company is headquartered operationally in Singapore (designated arbitration seat in the Terms of Use) with US-based data hosting and is incorporated as Codatta Inc. in the United States. As of June 2024, Codatta had raised a single $2.5M seed round led by OKX Ventures, with participation from Coinbase and Pinterest ex-executives and several other crypto-native funds. Headcount is in the 11–50 range. Documented compliance posture includes GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and DMCA-aligned terms, with platform use restricted to users aged 13 and older.

Name

Codatta

Legal name

Codatta Inc.

Website

https://codatta.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Codatta is a decentralized knowledge protocol that supplies verified, provenance-tracked data assets for AI training, RAG, and fine-tuning. It serves AI developers and Web3 protocols via a 300,000+ global contributor network, onchain commitments, and a native $XNY token.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized AI Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Decentralized Data Availability & Storage Verification (DA layers, proofs of storage/replication, audit networks) (FSAPALAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Confidential AI & Privacy-Preserving ML (federated learning, MPC, HE, TEEs) (HDAAAKAI), DePIN Orchestration, Scheduling & Middleware (resource discovery, job scheduling, workload orchestration) (FSAPALAK), On-Chain Reputation, Identity & Attestation for Governance (DID, badges, sybil resistance) (FSAPAHAF), Content Authenticity, Watermarking & Deepfake Detection (HDAAAKAK)

Keywords

• Decentralized data infrastructure
• AI training data
• Knowledge layer protocol
• Blockchain metadata labeling
• Royalty data marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Data Monetization (License & Sell Knowledge): Codatta's Terms of Use grant the platform the right to package, sell, license, or otherwise monetize user-contributed data to third parties for commercial purposes including AI training, market analysis, and data aggregation services. This forms the core revenue stream, monetizing curated, validated knowledge assets to AI teams and Web3 protocols.
2. Royalty-Based Revenue Share: When AI agents consume knowledge from the network, royalty streams are paid back to knowledge providers and backers on an ongoing, usage-linked basis, allowing Codatta to take a platform-level cut of each royalty payment.
3. Transaction Fees via $XNY Token: Native $XNY utility token powers on-chain transactions, staking, and access to the knowledge layer, generating transaction-based fees across contributor payouts, staking, and data access operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Codatta operates a decentralized "Knowledge Layer for AI" protocol that crowdsources, verifies, and monetizes structured domain knowledge from a global contributor base. The platform packages contributions with on-chain provenance, privacy-preserving cryptography (ZKP, FHE, federated learning), and DID-linked attribution, then licenses the resulting knowledge assets to AI developers and Web3 protocols with ongoing royalty payments back to original contributors via the native $XNY token.

Product overview

Codatta is a single decentralized protocol — the "Knowledge Layer for AI" — built around three on-chain roles (Knowledge Provider, Verifier, and Knowledge Backer) and a core asset token ($XNY). On top of the base protocol sits Codatta Frontier, a module that lets organizations create data collection tasks and publish rewards while preserving contributor ownership and privacy. Supporting infrastructure includes the Knowledge Data Exchange (for trading and revenue sharing on data assets), a quality assurance workflow (verification, staking-as-confidence co-developed with EigenLayer, and majority voting), and a hybrid storage layer (on-chain commitment + encrypted off-chain payload with ZKP, FHE, and federated learning). The protocol's lineage traces to Microscope Protocol, the community-driven crypto address labeling pipeline that started in 2023 and now powers risk data sharing via the Crypto Defenders Alliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Codatta Protocol (Knowledge Layer for AI) Decentralized data protocol that serves as the Knowledge Layer for AI, providing on-chain commitment, lineage tracking, and quality mechanisms (verification, staking, majority voting) for domain knowledge contributions; powers fine-tuning, RAG, prompting, and evaluation use cases for AI developers.
• Codatta Frontier Data labeling and collection tool that lets Frontier creators publish rewards for data tasks, maximize contributor ownership, define data collection freedom, and reduce transaction friction while safeguarding privacy. Acts as a bridge between data collection demands and contributors.
• $XNY (Codatta Token) Core token of the Codatta ecosystem used for staking, slashing, royalty-based rewards (stablecoins, liquidity tokens, or royalty-based payments), and Knowledge Data Exchange transactions.
• Knowledge Data Exchange Module that lets Knowledge Backers discover, stake on, and trade promising knowledge assets, bringing liquidity to human intelligence and enabling revenue sharing from AI-trained assets.
• Microscope Protocol Foundational community-driven data pipeline (predecessor product) that labeled 300M+ crypto addresses, 46M+ high-risk addresses across 95 categories and 35 supported networks; powers real-time risk data sharing via the Crypto Defenders Alliance.

Quantifiable outcome

• 300,000+ verified knowledge contributors powering the network
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability10 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, minor and core.

• EigenLayerflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCodatta co-developed its staking feature with EigenLayer, enabling Knowledge Backers to restake assets to back submissions and tying data quality to Ethereum-grade economic security.
• BinanceminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBinance is referenced in Codatta's Terms of Use as a partner platform where Codatta may display, distribute, or make available user-submitted images/data, providing a distribution surface via the exchange's ecosystem.
• Microscope ProtocolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCodatta's origin protocol and ecosystem partner; the project started with Microscope Protocol and partners like Coinbase in 2023 before evolving into the broader Codatta knowledge layer.
• Crypto Defenders AlliancecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCodatta powers real-time risk data sharing for the Crypto Defenders Alliance, supplying labeled high-risk address data (46M high-risk addresses) to support industry-wide risk defense and co-marketing the safety mission.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Ocean Protocol: Decentralized data exchange protocol that lets data providers monetize datasets for AI training while preserving privacy — the closest functional analog to Codatta's knowledge-layer-with-royalties model.
• Sahara AI: Decentralized AI network focused on knowledge contribution, data assetization, and attribution/royalty to contributors — directly comparable in mission, contributor model, and AI knowledge graph focus.
• Streamr: Decentralized real-time data network with token-incentivized publishers and consumers, sharing Codatta's thesis that data should be a tradable, contributor-rewarded on-chain asset.

Emerging players

• Kaito AI: AI-powered crypto data and analytics platform with indexed, AI-ready datasets — overlaps with Codatta on AI-ready crypto knowledge and labeled address intelligence, though Kaito is more analytics-led than protocol-led.
• Ritual: Decentralized AI inference network that consumes and produces AI-ready data on-chain, sharing Codatta's on-chain AI infrastructure thesis and serving a comparable crypto-native AI builder audience.

Broad incumbents

• The Graph: Established decentralized indexing and query protocol for blockchain data across 35+ networks — Codatta's closest established comparator in cross-chain data coverage and developer-facing query infrastructure.
• Chainalysis: Dominant centralized provider of labeled blockchain addresses, risk scores, and on-chain analytics — Codatta's Crypto Defenders Alliance use case (46M high-risk addresses) directly competes with Chainalysis data products.
• Scale AI: Largest centralized AI data labeling and evaluation platform — competes with Codatta for AI training data budgets but without decentralized provenance, privacy preservation, or contributor royalties.
• Snorkel AI: Data-centric AI platform that programmatically labels and structures training data — comparable in producing AI-ready knowledge datasets from human expertise, though fully centralized.
• Messari: Leading crypto data and research provider covering assets, networks, and on-chain activity — comparable in serving AI and analyst demand for structured crypto knowledge, though primarily research-led rather than protocol-led.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/codatta_io
• GitHubgithub.com/codatta/brand-kit
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/codatta

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors12 records

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M&A

Investments

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