CARV nodes are about to be released. Learn how to combine AI + games to create a modular data layer in one article

"If the product you use is free, then you are the product" has become a motto in the modern business society where Big Tech does everything it can to violate user privacy and obtain data for profit. The real value and cost behind these free products lies in user data. Data is known as the "oil" of the new century. With the rapid development of industries such as games and artificial intelligence, data can not only improve user experience, but also become the foundation of the entire ecosystem.

For ordinary users, it seems that they have never really examined the importance of data to themselves, nor would they think that one day they can get benefits from the data they create. What the protagonist of this article, CARV, has to do is to build a modular data layer for games, artificial intelligence, and Infinity, as a bottom-level protocol to bring unprecedented data management experience to project parties and users.

CARV Protocol has established a set of protocols that allow users to have complete data sovereignty. Users can use the protocol to authorize, store, verify, and confirm their identity, player portraits, and game data, while obtaining revenue data benefits. At this stage, it is selling CARV's verification nodes, enriching and atomizing the verification layer through the form of users owning nodes and proxy nodes.

Today is the white-sale link of CARV nodes, and the public sale of nodes will be held on June 5, so I hope this article will help readers decide whether to invest in CARV.

AI+games, users can get passive income by using CARV

CARV builds an ecosystem consisting of CARV Protocol, and two products CARV Play and CARV AI Agent, and then enables users to bind their games, social media and various other accounts to the blockchain. Users can unify their digital identities and display achievements, assets and history in one place.

In addition, users can choose how their data is used. If they choose to join and share this data with brands, users can passively make money when brands use their on-chain and off-chain data.

For example, CARV CBO Delio Paul once said in a speech that if a very popular Web3 FPS (first-person shooter) game wants to acquire users through CARV, they will pay CARV a fee to obtain user data, provided that the user agrees to share this data.

If the game wants to find a user from Thailand who holds game tokens in his wallet and is a big whale in other ecosystems, and is also a user who has played hundreds of hours of FPS games, CARV can provide such user information. The key is that users who meet these criteria will profit from it because part of the user acquisition fee paid by the game project to CARV will go directly to the user who provided the data.

Driven by such a vision, CARV's core product development progress and data performance are also very impressive.

Its CARV AI Agent, CARA Bot, built on the TON ecosystem, is driven by the GPT large model. It is an encyclopedia and intelligent assistant for CARV, which can help users answer questions about CARV. The next step will be to explore intelligent recommendations, D2E tasks and advertisements based on users' personalized data.

Another product, CARV Play, is a cross-platform authentication system and the largest Web3 game distribution and social platform. Currently, about 380 games have been launched, accounting for 30% of the current Web3 games, including MARBLEX, Shrapnel, Off the Grid, Pixelmon and Pixels.

With over 500,000 daily active wallets in the last quarter, it is one of the top three ecosystems in terms of on-chain activity, including Linea, opBNB, zkSync, and Ronin, providing 2.5 million players with an enhanced gaming experience to share data, build credentials, play games, and earn rewards.

Understanding CARV’s Node Sales Model

The key part of all this is CARV’s validator nodes, which play a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the protocol.

Currently, these nodes are mainly responsible for verifying the results of data processing and AI model training, which are performed in a trusted execution environment (TEE) to protect user data privacy. The results are recorded on the blockchain with TEE proofs to ensure the security and privacy of the process, thereby fairly distributing the value of the data.

To prevent system manipulation and ensure fair distribution of data value, third-party verification of TEE proofs is required. This requires community participation in CARV to strengthen the protocol by operating verification nodes and increase the level of decentralization of the protocol.

For users, the benefits of running a CARV node mainly include 3 aspects:

1. Reward opportunities: Get a large part of the network rewards, with 25% of CARV tokens allocated to node validators

2. Decentralization: Contribute to a truly decentralized data economy that respects user autonomy and privacy.

3. Influence: Have a voice in the CARV community and help shape the development and governance of the network.

In order to enable global users to gain more benefits through the CARV network and enhance the decentralization of CARV, CARV decided to open lightweight node operations to users on June 5. Participants can obtain the right to operate a verification node through node sales, participate in the operation of a distributed data network, and obtain CARV native tokens. Whitelist node sales will start at 10:00 (UTC) on June 3, and public node sales will officially start at 10:00 (UTC) on June 5.

According to official documents, 25% of the total supply of CARV's native token $CARV will be provided to validator node operators, and the emission adopts a release mode of reducing 25% every 6 months, that is, 50% of the node reward tokens can be unlocked in the first year.

The total supply of $CARV is 1 billion, and the unlocking will be completed within four years from the start of TGE. $CARV's application scenarios include gas payment and purchase of game assets, as well as guiding data owners, providers and consumers to participate in ecological activities as an ecological incentive. In addition, $CARV can be converted to veCARV through 1:1 staking, and veCARV can be used to participate in community decision-making and ecological activities.

50% of the total supply of CARV is evenly distributed to the community and nodes, which is a rare thing at a time when VC and retail investors are in conflict, and this is the greatest sincerity given by CARV through the node sales model and user sharing of benefits.

Previously, CARV partners such as Aethir, Sopon, and Xai have not only enhanced the level of decentralization, obtained a large number of node support, but also raised project development funds through this method. For ordinary investors, participating in node sales can invest before the project is launched, thereby obtaining earlier entry opportunities and potential benefits.

The release of node tokens is most critical in the first year, because the next year may be a bull market with good coin prices. If a bear market is subsequently entered, the cumulative release of tokens will increase, and institutions and teams will begin to unlock, and the risk of coin prices falling will become higher. Therefore, the focus of node release is on how many coins can be mined within a year.

The total amount of CARV tokens is 1 billion, and the reward for nodes is 25%, which is the most generous among similar projects, and 12.5% of the total amount of tokens is released in the first year of the bull market, which shows the pattern.

After the node mines the token, the operator does not get $CARV immediately, but first gets the governance token veCARV, and then it can be converted into $CARV to be bought and sold on CEX. In addition, veCARV has a certain redemption period, but CARV's 150-day redemption period still has a time advantage compared to the 180-day redemption period of the same period project.

Related reading: " Data comparison of Aethir, Sopon, and CARV, which node sales have the highest revenue? "

For node investors, it is also necessary to focus on the token unlocking time of the project party and investors. CARV's investors will start unlocking 6 months after TGE, and the team will start unlocking 9 months after TGE.

In addition, the redemption period of CARV's node mining tokens is 150 days, so the node tokens are unlocked earlier than investors, which is an extremely sincere move for retail investors.

In addition, CARV officials also announced a token repurchase plan, and node operators can choose two repurchase methods.

The first is to buy back 100% in $CARV, which is equivalent to the node price denominated in USDT when the node is purchased, and vests linearly within 30 days from the date of buyback. The second is to buy back 80% of ETH immediately, which is equivalent to the ETH price of the node snapshot at the time of purchase, and the ETH will be released immediately. Eligible node license holders need to maintain a participation rate of 70% or higher and have not exchanged any veCARV rewards for $CARV. Users and investors will enjoy greater flexibility and income protection.

The Future of CARV

The most challenging thing for projects that obtain project development funds through node sales is long-term and sustainable operation capabilities. At present, CARV is already the project with the closest combination of AI and games, the two hot sectors, and has the first-mover advantage.

In terms of AI, CARV has announced cooperation with Aethir and Google Cloud. Aethir is a decentralized GPU network. For AI, computing power is crucial; Google Cloud is a top infrastructure provider, providing a variety of resources including CPU, network, resources, CDN, etc.

CARV, as an intermediate layer, not only connects super infrastructure and GPU computing power, but also has its own AI agent and integrates top AI applications led by fetch.ai. For AI, data plus infrastructure and GPU will create greater imagination space.

Another pillar business of CARV is the gaming field. As mentioned above, CARV users can actively choose to provide their own data to obtain passive income, and for B-side customers, CARV is also doing its best to accumulate more complete data to serve games. The existence of CARV has achieved a win-win situation for games and gamers.

Through an interview with CARV founder Victor, we learned that CARV's current focus is to better support node development, including making it easier for users to run nodes and improving the entire operation and purchasing experience. Next, CARV plans to expand the application of the node network as soon as possible, including data layer verification and oracle implementation.

In addition, CARV's greater vision is to build its own verification network and processing system, and ultimately realize its own data layer, including data availability (DA) and storage.

On May 31, Animoca Brands announced that it had become a strategic investor and node operator of CARV, which injected more confidence into CARV's future development. According to the roadmap, CARV will strongly support and incentivize node deployment and development in the next quarter. Therefore, for users, choosing to participate in CARV node sales at present will participate in ecological construction with the lowest threshold and obtain active and passive dual benefits.

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