Sahara AI (SAHARA) Token Sale on BuidlPad

Sahara AI (SAHARA) ICO (Token Sale) on BuidlPad

Research

29 May 2025

Buidlpad today announced the launch of its second sale on the platform – Sahara AI. Let's break down the sale details and compare the project with competitors.

TLDR

Sale is conducted at a $600M FDV valuation

Raising $8.5M (1.4167% of total token supply)

Sale in over-subscription format

Maximum allocation per wallet: $3000

100% unlock at TGE

KYC required

KYC start: June 8

Big investors and top funds

AI narrative

Potential launch on Binance Launchpool (YZi Labs is an investor, can be staked in BNB)

About the project

Project material: https://back2crypto.com/articles/research/sahara-review/

Sahara AI is a decentralized platform designed for creating, developing, and monetizing artificial intelligence solutions. The project is positioned as the first fully functional AI-native blockchain ecosystem.

The platform is built on Sahara Blockchain – an L1 EVM-compatible blockchain.

The project team raised $43M in two funding rounds with participation from YZi Labs, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, and others.

Tokenomics not yet available.

No information about an airdrop for testnet participants yet.

Ecosystem consists of three applications:

Data Platform – tools for collecting, processing, and labeling data by users

Development Platform – environment for creating and deploying AI agents, models, and pipelines

Marketplace – trading platform for AI assets (datasets, models, agents)

Activities we participated in:

Public testnet SIWA

Oasis Points campaign in Discord

Closed testnet Prometheus (invite-only)

Sahara Legends campaign

Sale conditions

Sale page: https://www.buidlpad.com/projects/sahara-ai

Sale in over-subscription format

In case of oversubscription, final allocation will be calculated proportionally among all participants

Unlock and vesting: 100% at TGE with no vesting or cliff

Sale conducted at $600M FDV

Allocated for sale: $8.5M (1.4167% of total token supply)

Wallet limits: $50 to $3000 (cannot contribute more than $3000 from one wallet)

Payment: USD1 (stablecoin by WLFI) or BNB

KYC required

Banned countries: Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Crimea region, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, New Zealand, Netherlands, North Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, People's Republic of China, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, USA and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands), Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, non-government controlled territories of Ukraine.

Dates:

KYC verification on Buidlpad: June 8 – June 11

Subscription period – registration of interest without funds deposit: June 10 – June 11

Participant verification – bot and multi-account removal: until June 14

Payment period: June 14 – June 15

Final allocation calculation and excess refund: until June 18

TGE date unknown, but roadmap mentions Q3 and mid-year, so expected in July/August:

Up to 30% of total volume reserved for active Sahara AI community members. Priority allocation size: $150-$2000. To qualify for priority allocation, you must submit content (videos, articles, etc.) about Sahara via this page by June 7, 2025: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPAmYdyTEekj94nJovFGfkQxOJCK895u4HZGzHd2xSOEpaIA/viewform

To participate in the sale, you need to complete KYC. Steps:

Go to: https://www.buidlpad.com/

Open profile page

Wait until June 8 and complete KYC:

We also expect an airdrop if you participated in activities from our previous materials.

Comparison with Buidlpad's first sale – Solayer

Solayer conducted its sale in January when BTC was around $99K, but altcoins were performing better than now.

Users from Russia were allowed to participate.

3% of total supply was allocated for sale – Sahara has half that amount.

No subscription limit – oversubscription was about 6x.

With maximum allocation of $2000, participants got about $350.

At listing, it traded at 4x the sale price, but 3x was easily achievable later.

Extrapolating this data to Sahara sale, with $3000 we might get allocation of ~$500, with potential profit of ~$500 at $1.2B FDV.

Competitors

AI narrative is trending, so all projects have high valuations.

Story Protocol (IP | FDV $4B) – L1 blockchain for intellectual property tokenization. Unlike Sahara, Story Protocol doesn't provide tools for working with models, data, or computations, focusing only on digital rights management.

Bittensor (TAO | FDV $8.6B) – decentralized AI network where users train models and get rewarded based on their quality. The project doesn't offer data storage components, models, or infrastructure like Sahara.

Render (RENDER | FDV $2.16B) – peer-to-peer network that converts GPU power into a decentralized economy. Render is limited to computational layer and doesn't include data processing, model training, or AI applications like Sahara.

Grass (GRASS | FDV $1.93B) – L2 rollup for data collection and transformation through a distributed network of browser nodes. Grass provides API access to aggregated data for model training but doesn't implement computation or AI processing infrastructure.

Aethir (ATH | FDV $2.2B) – distributed GPU infrastructure focused on AI and gaming. Aethir doesn't work with user data, provide models, or build an application stack like Sahara.

Vana (VANA | FDV $780M) – decentralized platform for user data storage and management.

Space and Time (SXT | FDV $534M) – decentralized platform combining off-chain and on-chain data with trusted computation capabilities. The system uses cryptography (Proof of SQL) to ensure query and analytics correctness. Used in DeFi, GameFi, and AI.

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