NGC Ventures & KuCoin Ventures Back Codatta to Power the Future of Decentralized AI Data Infrastructure
August 11, 2025 — Singapore
In a major step for decentralized AI infrastructure, NGC Ventures and KuCoin Ventures have announced a strategic investment in Codatta, a decentralized metadata protocol that is redefining how data quality, attribution, and incentives are managed across AI and frontier technology ecosystems.
Why This Matters: The Data Quality Problem in AI
As AI and machine learning systems scale, they depend on large volumes of high-quality, structured, and verifiable data. The reality is stark — most of today’s data is unusable, unverifiable, or locked away in closed systems.
Codatta addresses this by transforming complex, unstructured data into structured, interoperable, and reusable formats — optimized for both humans and AI agents.
By focusing on metadata curation, verification, and contributor incentives, Codatta is creating a trusted data backbone for the next generation of AI applications.
The Core Value Proposition
NGC Ventures highlighted that the majority of existing data is either inaccessible or lacks verifiable provenance. Codatta’s protocol changes this by:
- Decentralizing metadata curation — enabling global contributors to validate and enrich data.
- Rewarding contributions — paying on-chain royalties to annotators, researchers, and citizen scientists.
- Ensuring provenance — maintaining transparent records of data origin, validation, and usage.
This approach directly tackles the siloed, opaque, and extractive nature of today’s data infrastructure.
Aligning Incentives for the AI Era
KuCoin Ventures sees Codatta as a core layer of decentralized AI infrastructure — a system where data can be enriched, traced, and governed openly and verifiably.
For developers and users, this means knowing where their data comes from, how it’s used, and who contributed to its value. For contributors, it ensures long-term royalties and recognition for their work.
Importantly, Codatta’s growth model includes token buybacks funded by real business revenues — ensuring sustainability, ecosystem strength, and direct community rewards.
Inside Codatta’s Multi-Layered Architecture
Codatta’s architecture is designed for traceability, collaboration, and long-term value. It operates through four integrated layers:
- On-Chain Metadata Registries
Store metadata in structured, tamper-proof formats, enabling open access and transparent provenance. - Hybrid Validation Engine (Human + AI)
Leverages automated processing with human oversight for unmatched data accuracy. - Royalty Logic for Contributors
Pays perpetual on-chain royalties to anyone enriching, labeling, or verifying data. - Open Provenance & Attribution Tracking
Links each data point to its origin, validation process, and usage history.
A Global Network for AI-Ready Data
Codatta is building a worldwide contributor network that supplies high-quality datasets to leading companies and organizations. By combining blockchain-based infrastructure with collaborative human and AI verification, it’s shifting the industry away from closed data monopolies toward open, contributor-aligned networks.
About the Partners
NGC Ventures
A leading blockchain investment firm since 2017, supporting category-defining infrastructure, DeFi, and AI protocols.
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KuCoin Ventures
The investment arm of KuCoin exchange, focused on early-stage blockchain, AI, and Web3 projects with real-world impact.
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Codatta
An open, decentralized, multi-chain protocol connecting blockchain-based data infrastructure with a collaborative contributor network.
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Final Take
With backing from two of blockchain’s most influential venture firms, Codatta is positioned to become the foundational metadata layer for decentralized AI. By combining transparent provenance, contributor incentives, and open governance, it’s building a future where data quality and ownership are shared — and rewarded — globally.
