I was getting tired of reading about crypto projects that all sounded the same after a while. They had names and logos but underneath they were all pretty much the same. They had a token, some way of talking about it and big claims about how they were going to change the world with systems and decentralized intelligence.

That is what I thought before I started looking into OpenLedger.

What caught my attention was that OpenLedger is focused on who owns the data not who can use it to make money. Most artificial intelligence systems need a lot of data to work. Nobody really talks about where that data comes from or who gets to keep it.

OpenLedger seems to be trying to solve this problem

I still think there are some problems with this idea. The way they reward people for contributing sounds at first but it could attract people who are just trying to cheat the system. Once people start doing things for the rewards the system needs to be able to check that everything is okay. Then the people in charge have to make sure everything is working right even if the project says it is not controlled by anyone.

This seems like a problem that cannot be avoided.

I also wonder if developers will really want to use a system like this for a time. A lot of crypto projects get people excited for a while but that does not mean they are actually being used. It is harder to get people to really use something than it's to just get them to talk about it.

I do think OpenLedger is trying to do something different. They seem to care about showing where the artificial intelligence data is coming from than just trying to sell a story about how great automation is. That made me want to learn more about it. Most projects lose my interest because they use language to hide the problems. OpenLedger, at least seems to know that people stop trusting something when it gets too hard to understand.

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