How OpenLedger is Building a New Economy Around Data Contribution

How OpenLedger is Building a New Economy Around Data Contribution

As AI models grow in power, the question of where their training data comes from — and who gets rewarded for it — is becoming harder to ignore. For Ramkumar, a core contributor at OpenLedger, the answer is clear: if data powers the model, the people providing that data should get paid — not just once, but continuously. “We want AI to be payable,” Ramkumar told us at Hack Seasons. “If your data is useful, if it helps the model produce an output, …