Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire — Sui Foundation and The DATA Foundation announced that the DATA Network and its Trace registry are joining the Sui stack, bringing a live supply of rights-cleared AI training data onto infrastructure built for AI workloads. Walrus, the data platform with integrity proofs anchored on Sui, will become the default storage layer for applications operated by DATA Foundation.
The DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired. $DATA continues as the token of the DATA protocol on Sui, carried over one-to-one, with holder economics and governance rights at least equivalent to today. Locked and vesting positions carry over unchanged.
Trace has registered more than 250 million contributions since launch and processes over 3 million receipts per day on average. Applications writing to Trace include Kled, the largest opt-in human data marketplace with over 1.5 billion records being onboarded, along with Numo and Oto, which already license data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies.
The upgrade is backed by a long-term strategic investment. Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in the DATA Network, establishing the largest institutional stake in the network, alongside the continuing holdings of PIP Labs and the DATA Foundation. SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, joins Sui Foundation as Strategic Advisor.
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, said the migration brings massive volumes of high-quality, rights-cleared data that is already serving frontier AI labs. Andrea Muttoni, CEO of DATA Foundation, said joining forces with Sui allows the project to build out more of the stack, potentially including fully verifiable TEEs for evaluations and fine tunings in the future.
