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DATA Network tops 100 million on-chain registrations as Upbit runs July 24-27 $DATA contest

DATA Network tops 100 million on-chain registrations as Upbit runs July 24-27 $DATA contest

The four-day Upbit event offers mission rewards and a 150,000 DATA top-trader prize pool as the rebranded network says registrations and fee generation are accelerating.

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Fact Check
The claim is directly confirmed by the official DATA Foundation X account (@datafdn), which reports 105M registrations exceeding the 100M threshold. Multiple independent news outlets (blockchainreporter, bloomingbit) corroborate both the 100M+ registration milestone and the specifics of the Upbit trading contest: July 24-27 duration, mission-based rewards, and a 150,000 DATA prize pool shared among top 20 traders. The details on the rebrand, >200x fee growth, and DefiLlama top-20 ranking are consistent across all sources. The only element not directly verified is the Upbit notice page itself (blocked by Cloudflare), but the contest is consistently described across sources.
Summary

DATA Network has passed 100 million cumulative on-chain data registrations, the DATA Foundation said, as the rebranded project expands infrastructure for tracing, verifying and settling real-world data used in AI training. Upbit is running a four-day DATA/KRW trading event from July 24 to July 27 that includes mission-based random-box rewards and a separate top-trader competition with a total prize pool of 150,000 DATA. The foundation said daily registrations on the network are running at about 3 million to 5 million, while a recent surge in activity has pushed chain fees up more than 200 times versus recent weeks and lifted the network into DeFiLlama’s top 20 chains by fee generation. The project, formerly known as Story, recently integrated the Kled marketplace and launched Trace, a public audit layer designed to create permanent blockchain records for AI training data provenance, rights verification and contributor compensation.

Terms & Concepts
  • data provenance: A record showing where data came from and how it was collected or handled
  • public audit layer: A blockchain-based system that lets users verify records and activity transparently
  • chain fees: Fees paid to use a blockchain network for transactions or data registration