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What Is Grass?

Grass (ticker GRASS) is a decentralized physical infrastructure network, or DePIN, built around a simple idea: most people pay for far more internet bandwidth than they actually use. By installing the Grass app or browser extension, users share a slice of that unused bandwidth with the network, which uses it to access publicly available web data. That data is cleaned and structured into datasets for AI companies, and participants earn rewards for keeping their nodes online. The GRASS token lives on the Solana blockchain.

Grass is developed by Wynd Labs (also known as Wynd Network), co-founded by Andrej Radonjic, who serves as CEO. The idea took shape in 2022, development began in early 2023, and the network opened to users later that year. The company raised a $3.5 million seed round in December 2023 led by Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital, followed by additional rounds backed by investors including HackVC, and a $10 million round in late 2025 again led by Polychain and Tribe. The project's stated mission is to keep the data layer of AI open: instead of a handful of data centers controlling access to the web, millions of ordinary connections supply it and share in the rewards.

Technically, the network has three main layers. Nodes are the apps, browser extensions, and desktop clients run by everyday users; they relay requests for public web pages through their internet connections. Routers aggregate node traffic and report on bandwidth, and validators verify the work and confirm that web transactions actually happened. The retrieved pages are then processed into structured, AI-ready datasets that Grass sells to AI labs and enterprises. Because requests come from millions of residential connections around the world rather than from data center IP addresses, the network can see the web the way real users do, which the project argues reduces bias and blocking in data collection.

Rewards work on a points system. Users earn Grass Points for the time their nodes are connected and the bandwidth they contribute, and those points have been the basis for token distributions. The GRASS token launched on Solana on October 28, 2024, when Airdrop One distributed 100 million tokens, 10 percent of supply, to roughly 2.8 million eligible users. Total supply is fixed at 1 billion GRASS, allocated 30 percent to the community (the first airdrop, future incentives, and router rewards), 22.8 percent to the foundation and ecosystem growth, 25.2 percent to early investors, and 22 percent to contributors, with investor and contributor tokens subject to multi-year vesting. The token is used for staking and for governance of the Grass Foundation through a DAO.

Any system that routes third-party traffic through your home connection deserves scrutiny, and Grass addresses this directly. The company states that the software only requests publicly available web data, cannot read your personal files or browsing activity, and collects only an email, username, wallet address, and IP address. Bandwidth use is capped and the app goes dormant when you need your connection. Grass has worked with antivirus vendors and holds an AppEsteem certification, and it positions itself as a transparent, opt-in alternative to the residential proxy industry, which has historically siphoned bandwidth through free apps without consent or compensation. Still, participants are trusting the network's controls over what traffic exits through their IP address, so it is worth reading the documentation and your own internet provider's terms before joining.

According to the project, the network has grown to more than 8.5 million users worldwide, making it one of the largest DePIN deployments by participant count. Its longer-term roadmap centers on becoming a real-time data layer for AI, including Live Context Retrieval, an engine that lets AI models query fresh data from across the web on demand.

Getting Started With Grass

Getting started with Grass usually means earning rewards by sharing bandwidth, holding the GRASS token, or both:

  1. Step 1: Create an account on the Grass dashboard at app.grass.io and download the desktop node or browser extension from the official website.
  2. Step 2: Keep your node connected. You earn Grass Points based on uptime and the bandwidth you contribute, and you can track earnings in the dashboard.
  3. Step 3: Set up a Solana wallet and link your wallet address to your Grass account so you can receive token distributions.
  4. Step 4: If you want exposure to the token directly, buy GRASS on an exchange and consider staking it to participate in network governance.

How to Get a Grass Wallet?

GRASS is an SPL token on the Solana blockchain, so any reputable Solana wallet can hold it.

Phantom

Phantom is the most popular Solana wallet, available as a browser extension and mobile app. It supports GRASS alongside other Solana tokens and has built-in token swaps and NFT support.

Solflare

Solflare is a dedicated Solana wallet with browser, mobile, and web versions. It offers fine-grained control over Solana features like staking and token accounts.

Hardware Wallets

A Ledger device can be paired with Phantom or Solflare to keep your private keys offline, which is recommended for larger GRASS holdings.

Grass Resources

How to Buy Grass?

GRASS is available on both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

Centralized Exchanges

GRASS is listed on exchanges including Bybit, Kraken, OKX, KuCoin, Gate, Bitget, and HTX, typically traded against USDT or USD.

Decentralized Exchanges

On Solana, GRASS trades on decentralized exchanges such as Orca and Meteora, and aggregators like Jupiter route swaps across Solana liquidity to find the best price.

Latest Grass News

Grass's recent development has focused on scaling its data pipeline. The Sion upgrade, activated in April 2025, made multimodal web data retrieval far more efficient and pushed the network's daily throughput past a petabyte at its peak. The project also replaced its original browser extension with a more capable desktop node and has been rolling out Live Context Retrieval, which supplies real-time web data to AI models rather than only static training datasets. In October 2025, the company raised an additional $10 million from Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital to expand this infrastructure. A second airdrop season has also been announced, with rewards expected to be distributed through a native wallet built into the Grass dashboard, though the timing had not been finalized as of mid-2026.

Because user counts, reward rates, and data volumes change quickly, the official website, dashboard, and documentation are the best sources for the current state of the network.