Grass
Residential bandwidth sharing for AI data collection via a light browser client. Near-zero capex and a strong referral engine. Modest per-user returns, large network effect.
Decentralized Bandwidth Infrastructure: An Analytical Evaluation of Grass ($GRASS)
Grass, operated by Wynd Labs, is a decentralized, crowdsourced web-scraping network that gathers public data to train AI models. It turns consumer internet connections into node gateways, using the unused outbound bandwidth of millions of residential connections to form an enterprise-grade proxy and data-collection layer that sidesteps the IP-blocking that hits data centers.
- Active residential nodes
- 2,500,000+ (mid-2026)
- Annualized recurring revenue
- ~$14.2M (est. mid-2026)
- Institutional backing
- Polychain, Tribe, Delphi, Bitscale
- Maximum supply
- 1,000,000,000 $GRASS
The verdict
Near-zero capex residential bandwidth sharing with a strong referral engine and a large network effect. Per-user returns are modest, so this is a volume and referral play, not a yield play.
Demand-side revenue versus pure token emission.
Emission schedule, burn, and payout sustainability.
Geographic and operator distribution.
Payback, cost-to-yield, resale, and capital efficiency.
How simple the network is to install and run.
Public stats, verifiable data, and disclosure quality.
The headline builder score of 88 is our weighted editorial composite of the six dimensions above, scored on the same public methodology for every project. It is editorial, not a guarantee, and not financial advice.
Strengths
- No hardware and a one-click browser client make onboarding effortless.
- Strong referral mechanics compound a large network effect.
- Verified, with bandwidth feeding real AI data-collection demand.
Risks
- Per-user returns are small, so single-node income is minimal.
- Residential IP sharing carries ISP terms-of-service questions.
- Reward value is sensitive to token price and data demand.
Similar networks
Figures are indicative and change with token price and saturation. Not financial advice.