Physical AI needs data but collecting it is only half the challenge turning thousands of individual captures into reliabl usable 3D data is where things get interesting. That’s an important part of what @vangrid_io is building, with a system that combines smartphone captures, on-device privacy filters, onchain fingerprints and USDC bounties for requested locations. The engineering behind this matters too. VanGrid’s CTO brings over 14 years of experience with distributed, high throughput systems including work at ING and Mollie. Scaling a network like this takes more than attracting contributors. Captures must be procesed, verified and delivered consistently so organisations can depend on the resulting data. The real test will be how well the infrastructure performs as participation and demand grow. Vangrid is tackling a crucial part of Physical AI: making spatial data dependable enough to use at scale.