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#42Data

Decentralized real-time data aggregation from Twitter, Discord, TikTok, YouTube for AI training.

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Price

$0.003624-0.51%

24h

7d Change

-3.28%

Market Cap

$5.41M

Emission

-

Miners

1

Validators

8

Competitor Mapping

Unknown

Decentralized

Market Cap

$5.41M

TAM

$5.00B

Model

Token-incentivized

Team

Decentralized miners

Scale AI

Private

Market Cap

Private

TAM

$5.00B

Model

Revenue-driven

Team

Enterprise

Dual-token model for real-time data collection. Scale AI ($30B) focuses on labeled data; Masa focuses on real-time raw streams.

Implied Valuation

If Unknown captures a share of Scale AI's $5.00B TAM

Bear - 0.1% TAM

$5.00M

implied valuation

-7.50%

vs $5.41M current

Base case

Base - 1% TAM

$50.00M

implied valuation

+825.04%

vs $5.41M current

Bull - 5% TAM

$250.00M

implied valuation

+4525.19%

vs $5.41M current

Scenarios illustrate potential scale relative to the traditional market. Actual outcomes depend on adoption, tokenomics, and competitive dynamics.

Thesis

AI needs constant fresh data. Multi-source real-time pipeline fills gap between static datasets and expensive enterprise data providers.

Team

Founded by Calanthia Mei (former investment banker, founding member of PayPal's venture arm) and Brendan Playford (co-founder of Pngme, crypto since 2013). Series A company based in San Francisco, founded 2021. Partnered with DCG for 2+ years. Team is doxxed.

  • Calanthia Mei - Co-founder - Former investment banker, founding member of PayPal venture arm
  • Brendan Playford - Co-founder - Co-founder of Pngme, in crypto since 2013

Funding

$18M+ total raised. Investors: Animoca, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Anagram, GoldenTree, GSR, Unshackled Ventures. DCG led seed round and most recent round. Both Masa Bittensor subnets incubated by DCG.

Traction

1.4M+ unique users. 48K+ node operators. 38M+ proprietary data points. Dual-token (MASA + TAO) emission model. Launched free data tools: Web Search, X Search, X LLM Insights. Both subnets incubated by DCG.

Recent News

  • 2026 - Full-stack real-time Data Platform launched with 3 free tools
  • 2026 - AI Agent Arena launched on Bittensor
  • Dec 2024 - New funding round led by DCG
  • 2025 - TEE Docker containerization completed for SN42

Risk

Dual-token complexity; direct competition with Data Universe (SN13) within same network.