
Ngl, I like how @vangrid_io makes collecting real-world data something people can actually get paid for. It's not about going outside and filming random places. Someone requests data from a specific location, puts USDC into escrow, and contributors can complete the task using their phones. The interesting part is how the payment works. Contributors can see that a task is funded before spending their time on it, while the requester only pays when a submission is accepted. That makes sense to me. Both sides know what they're getting into. And I think this model fits Physical AI really well. Robots need data from actual environments, but not every location is covered by existing datasets, and places change all the time. Instead of collecting more data just for the sake of it, Vangrid gives people a way to collect what's actually needed. Pretty cool to see smartphones becoming part of the infrastructure behind Physical AI.
