Overview

Vana, the first EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain enabling user-owned data and AI, partnered with Visum Labs to establish enterprise-grade blockchain analytics infrastructure. As Vana prepared for mainnet launch with active DataDAOs and over 1.3 million users, the protocol needed real-time visibility into network health, DataDAO performance, and user engagement.

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Through strategic vendor selection, partnership facilitation with Allium, and custom metrics architecture, Visum Labs delivered a comprehensive analytics foundation that transformed raw blockchain data into actionable insights for protocol governance and business development.

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Impact Highlights

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• Established real-time visibility into DataDAO network activity, token economics, and user engagement
• Facilitated strategic partnership with Allium.so, securing enterprise-grade blockchain data infrastructure
• Created foundation for monitoring $VANA tokenomics, staking behavior, and DataDAO reward distribution
• Accelerated time-to-insight from months to weeks by eliminating custom indexing development

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Vana's Goal

Vana aimed to:

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• Gain comprehensive visibility into DataDAO performance, user contributions, and network growth ahead of mainnet launch
• Track critical protocol metrics including staking activity, token distribution, and cross-chain data flows
• Build scalable analytics infrastructure capable of supporting rapid ecosystem expansion
• Enable real-time monitoring of user engagement, data quality validation, and reward distribution mechanisms

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What Visum Labs Did

Visum Labs conducted a comprehensive blockchain analytics vendor evaluation, facilitated a strategic partnership with Allium, and implemented a custom metrics framework tailored to Vana's unique DataDAO architecture.

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Key Deliverables

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• Strategic Vendor Selection & Partnership: Evaluated leading blockchain analytics providers (Chainalysis, Dune Analytics, Nansen, Allium) and recommended Allium.so as the optimal solution. Facilitated partnership negotiations and integration planning between Vana and Allium.
• Core Metrics Architecture: Designed tracking for essential protocol metrics including Daily Active Wallets (DAW), DataDAO contribution rates, staking participation, token velocity, and cross-chain liquidity flows across Vana's VRC-20 data token standard.
• DataDAO Performance Dashboard: Built monitoring framework for tracking top-performing DataDAOs eligible for rewards each epoch, measuring data quality scores, community staking volumes, and proof-of-contribution validation metrics.
• Token Economics Monitoring: Established analytics for $VANA distribution mechanisms, validator rewards, Data Liquidity Pool (DLP) performance, and DataDAO reward distribution over 21-day cycles.

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Impact

The Visum Labs engagement provided Vana with the analytics foundation critical for protocol launch, ecosystem governance, and strategic growth.

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Operational Visibility

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• Enabled real-time monitoring of network health as Vana's ecosystem expands beyond initial EVM compatibility

• Established metrics for monitoring user data contributions across diverse sources and validating proof-of-contribution scores

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Strategic Decision-Making

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• Equipped protocol team with data to optimize DataDAO rewards cycles and ranking mechanisms based on community staking behavior
• Created visibility into token distribution effectiveness across the 112.64M $VANA supply, informing decisions on validator incentives and ecosystem grants

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Partnership & Infrastructure

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• Successfully connected Vana with Allium.so, establishing a strategic data partnership with automated blockchain indexing and enterprise-grade infrastructure
• Reduced projected analytics infrastructure costs through automated data verification and self-healing capabilities
• Eliminated need for custom blockchain indexing development, accelerating time-to-insight from months to weeks

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Future-Ready Foundation

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• Created scalable analytics framework capable of growing with Vana's ecosystem through its DataDAO accelerator program
• Enabled transparent governance by providing community visibility into how user data creates value and how rewards flow back to contributors

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Through this engagement, Vana established the analytics infrastructure essential for operating a transparent, user-owned data network at scale. The combination of strategic vendor selection, partnership facilitation with Allium.so, and custom metrics design enabled Vana to launch with confidence, govern with data, and scale toward its vision of liberating data and empowering user-owned AI.

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