For a long time, data was dead weight.
You had it. Companies had it. But it just sat there. You couldn't trade it. You couldn't stake it. You couldn't do anything with it except use it once and forget it existed.
Models were the same. You trained something. It worked. But it didn't live anywhere useful. It couldn't participate in a market.
ERC 4626 changed something about that.
It's a vault standard. A way to wrap assets so they can be deposited, withdrawn, composed with other protocols.
OpenLedger integrated it.
That means AI assets — data, models — can now behave like financial instruments. Not metaphorically. Actually. They can be pooled, shared, yield-bearing.
The asset class that never had a market now has the plumbing for one.
I'm not saying this turns every dataset into gold. Most data is worthless. Most models are average.
But the ones that aren't — they now have somewhere to go.
That's what infrastructure does. It doesn't create value. It just stops value from being trapped.