Announcing DataConnect: an open source desktop app that pulls your cross-platform data in one click.
Platforms lock your context in: there's no API to get your Shopify purchases, ChatGPT memories + conversations, or Spotify listen history.
Try it out: account.vana.org/download-da…
The new Vana App is now live.
It sits behind the apps you use. When one of them asks for your data, you see exactly what it wants and decide. Say yes and the data moves with your permission, and the move is recorded.
See it work in OpenPet: connect an Oura Ring, get a pet that reads your sleep back to you.
Trying it this week earns XP.
Full write up: vana.org/blog/vana-is-stripe…
AI agents can only help you if they know about you. And what they know is your data.
So who moves it, and who decides? That was the question at Builder Nights Seoul with @MetaMask, @lfdecentralized and @0xTicker.
@juliangordonhk8 opened on who is already building this. LF Decentralized Trust counts ten central banks among its members, including the Bank of Korea. It also hosts the standard Vana wrote for how personal data moves.
On the first panel, @francescoswiss and the MetaMask team talked about agents moving from trading to doing everyday things for you. For that, an agent needs your data, and you need to stay in charge of it.
On the second, @sheila_warren and the panel made a harder point. Regulators everywhere are talking about digital public infrastructure and decentralization. It’s a natural fit for Web3, but very few Web3 projects are in the room.
Web3 doesn’t need to invent new use cases. It needs to meet the ones that already exist.
Which projects do you see showing up for this work?
The full write-up: vana.org/blog/builder-nights…
Vana sat down with Singapore's business and government leaders at the Tanglin Club, hosted by the MIT Club of Singapore.
Singapore wants AI built on people's real data, and its law already gives people the right to move that data from one organisation to another. What it needs is a way to do it.
That is what Vana is. A person decides who can use their data, for what, and for how long. Every move is recorded. Vana wrote the standard for this, the Linux Foundation hosts it, and governments are scoping national rollouts.
The network already carries 1.5 million users and more than 20 million transactions.
Singapore is putting S$1 billion into AI research through 2030. The countries that get the most out of AI will be the ones where people's data can move with their permission. Vana is how it moves.
The full write-up: vana.org/blog/vana-singapore…
Singapore's refreshed National AI Strategy: mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/update-…
Want to bring your data with you everywhere?
@volodisai is walking through the Vana CLI live in our Discord.
Install it, connect your data, run your own Personal Server, and plug it into your AI over MCP. Questions answered live.
Tue 6 Oct, 20:00 PT / Wed 7 Oct, 11:00 SGT
Sick of copying and pasting context between AIs?
V got you. That's what the Vana CLI is for.
Collect your data, run your own Personal Server, and let AI tools read from it. Only five commands to spin it up.
npm install -g vana-cli
vana login
vana connect github
vana connect chatgpt
claude mcp add vana -- vana mcp
Then your data goes wherever you go. Any AI you use can read your context, from any source you've connected - all from your Personal Server, on hardware you control and under keys only you hold.
Stop the server any time [vana server stop], and no app can reach your data until you start it again.
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Last week, the Vana team, led by @artieart88, ran a workshop in the Dominican Republic on using Vana as Digital Public Infrastructure for its 11M citizens to move their data around freely across government services and the private sector.
Institutional adoption of crypto is also about ensuring it is used by everyday people to solve real problems.
When a country builds a bridge, any car can cross it, and it keeps working long after the builder leaves.
So why do we accept critical digital infrastructure that locks us into one company's system?
When WhatsApp went down for six hours in 2021, millions lost the way they reach their doctor, their bank and their government.
By contrast, any phone can call any other phone because of open standards. Data should work the same way. It should move freely between platforms on decentralized rails that the community can own. Enter @vana.
Back from the Regional Digital Public Infrastructure Forum in Santo Domingo and more convinced than ever: data portability has to be public infrastructure, not a platform feature.
Thank you, Vice-Minister Armando J. Manzueta Peña, Ministerio de Administración Pública RD and Oficina Gubernamental de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación de la República Dominicana, for the opportunity.
The Dominican Republic should be proud of what it is leading, and I'm excited to be involved in your amazing work!
Join us this evening for a soiree with our friends from @lfdecentralized, @MetaMask and @0xTicker to cap off a great week at KBW.
Great conversations. Real builders. No shill.
Big day in Seoul 🇰🇷 last day of @kbwofficial and we’re closing it out with Builder Nights: Agentic Edition 🦊
Together with @vana ,@lfdecentralized and @0xTicker, we’re bringing builders, traders, researchers, policy + infrastructure people into the same room to talk about what a trusted agentic future actually needs.
huge S/O to @Q_Ticker for making it happens!
Come say hi!
Are you long-term on crypto? You should probably attend Builder Nights Seoul tomorrow night.
Featuring people who have seen adoption go truly global:
- @juliangordonhk8, Asia Pacific lead, @lfdecentralized
- @sheila_warren, former CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation, and founder of the @wef's blockchain practice
- @francescoswiss, Head of Developer Relations, @MetaMask
- @artieart88, Managing Director, @vana
Most of KBW is about the next cycle. This room is about the next decade. If you are serious about adoption, be in it.
Airdrop Seongsu. Doors 4:30pm: luma.com/bnseoul26
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기관은 하이프가 아니라 표준을 채택합니다.
이번 주 금요일, Builder Nights Seoul이 열립니다. Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, MetaMask, Vana가 주최하고 Ticker Capital, Vekt Labs가 함께합니다.
글로벌 대중화를 직접 이끈 연사들이, 정말 '모두'에게 닿으려면 무엇이 필요한지 이야기합니다.
- 줄리안 고든(@juliangordonhk8), Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust 아시아태평양 총괄
- 쉴라 워런(@sheila_warren), 前 Crypto Council for Innovation CEO, 세계경제포럼(WEF) 블록체인 부문 창립자
- 프란체스코 안드레올리(@francescoswiss), MetaMask 데브렐 총괄
- 아트 아발(@artieart88 ), Vana Foundation 매니징 디렉터
KBW 행사 대부분이 다음 사이클에 대해 다루는 반면, 이 자리에서는 크립토의 다음 10년을 이야기합니다. 대중화를 진지하게 고민하시는 분이 계시면 꼭 오세요.
에어드랍 성수 | 오후 4시 30분 입장 | 50석 한정
luma.com/bnseoul26
Don't miss Vana's Head of Finance, @GCudrig, for an X-Space on what Vega means for the numbers.
Today/tonight: 18:00 Pacific / 09:00 Singapore.
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Since 2022, Korea has had one of the most comprehensive data portability laws in the world. It started with banking under MyData, and now millions of Koreans move their financial data between apps.
By 2027, every sector in Korea, public and private, has to let your data move when you ask.
The law is in effect. Implementation is the open question. Moving data safely, with your permission every time, at the speed people and their AIs need, takes technology that did not exist.
Vana solves this. With Linux Foundation ConsenSys to discuss Trust, we created the world standard for personal data portability, and it's live.
On 2 October, we're bringing the right people into one room in Seoul: the @lfdecentralized and @MetaMask on how Web3 can be applied beyond financial use cases.
To our Korean community and everyone at KBW: RSVP below. Spots are stritctly limited.
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한국은 놀랍게도 세계에서 가장 포괄적인 데이터 이동권 제도를 갖춘 나라 중 하나입니다. 2022년 금융 마이데이터를 시작으로, 이제는 수많은 사람이 앱을 오가며 금융 데이터를 옮기고 있습니다.
2027년까지 공공과 민간을 가리지 않고 모든 분야에서, 내가 요청하면 데이터를 옮겨줄 수 있어야합니다
법은 이미 시행 중입니다. 중요한 관건은 구현입니다. 매번 본인 동의를 거치면서도, 사람과 AI가 요구하는 속도로 데이터를 안전하게 옮기려면 기존에 없던 기술이 필요합니다.
바나가 그 기술을 만들었습니다. 리눅스 재단 산하 LF Decentralized Trust와 함께 개인 데이터 이동의 글로벌 표준을 정립했고, 이미 실제로 쓰이는 중입니다.
10월 2일, 서울에서 리눅스 재단, 한국은행, 컨센시스 관계자들이 한자리에 모입니다. 금융 너머의 Web3 활용 방안을 함께 이야기합니다.
한국 커뮤니티와 KBW 참가자 여러분, 아래 링크에서 참가 신청해 주세요. 자리가 한정되어있어 조기마감될 수 있습니다.
2 October, Airdrop Seongsu. Doors 4:30pm, limited spots: luma.com/bnseoul26
And we've opened an official Naver blog for our Korean community. First post: the Vega upgrade, in Korean. blog.naver.com/vana_official…
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10월 2일, Airdrop 성수. 오후 4시 30분 입장 시작, 선착순: luma.com/bnseoul26
한국 커뮤니티를 위한 공식 네이버 블로그도 개설했습니다. 첫 글은 베가(Vega) 업그레이드 소개입니다. blog.naver.com/vana_official…
Vega is live. Let's talk numbers.
LIVE on X - Thursday 1 October, 09:00 Singapore / 10:00 Seoul (18:00 Wednesday Pacific) - @GCudrig answers your questions on reads, fees, staking and burn.
Set a reminder: teapawt.org/i/spaces/1oKMvNjjMODGQ…





















