Sapien Brings Millions of Minds On-Chain To Train AI

August 13, 2025 – George Town, Cayman Islands

TGE (token generation event) scheduled for August 20, 2025.

Following the release of its tokenomics paper, the Sapien Foundation – governing body of Sapien, a decentralized protocol connecting human intelligence to AI systems – has officially announced the date of the SAPIEN TGE – August 20, 2025.

Built on Base, Coinbase’s secure and cost-efficient layer-two, the SAPIEN token powers a decentralized data foundry supported by an open PoQ (proof of quality) protocol.

This system enforces data quality and coordinates participation through four integrated mechanisms – staking, validation, reputation and incentives.

Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien, said,

“Sapien exists to help AI teams answer two questions that matter for every decision their models make – where did this data come from and can it be trusted?

“On-chain systems have proven that incentives can organize capital at scale.

“We’re applying the same principles to knowledge through our [PoQ] protocol, aligning incentives to verify provenance and scale high-value data.

“The aim is simple – make human data traceable, trustworthy and scalable so the AI built on it can actually improve lives.”

Sapien is already trusted by leading organizations, including Midjourney, Workday, Alibaba, GAC, Lenovo, Transsion, CarVertical and the United Nations.

The upcoming TGE introduces a fair launch model that balances early utility, contributor rewards, investor alignment and long-term community governance.

At launch, 25% of the total token supply will be unlocked, with the remaining 75% released through transparent vesting schedules.

The total token supply is capped at 1,000,000,000 SAPIEN.

Token distribution overview

• Ticker – SAPIEN
• Total supply – 1,000,000,000
• Network – Base (ERC-20)
• TGE date – August 20, 2025

Eligible contributors will be able to claim a portion of their airdrop immediately following the TGE.

This marks the first season of the Sapien airdrop, an ongoing campaign designed to retroactively reward high-quality contributions.

To prepare for the drop, point accumulation for task-based work has been paused.

A final leaderboard will be published ahead of the August 20th event. After the TGE, contributors will begin earning USDC and SAPIEN directly through the platform.

Cookie and Kaito campaigns will continue awarding points for eligible social content.

Cookie’s claim window will also open at TGE, with vesting terms to be announced separately.

Season one airdrop pool

• Five percent to contributors based on confirmed points
• Zero point five percent CookieDAO allocation to top 10,000 Snappers
• Twenty-five percent to the top 100
• Thirty percent unlocked at TGE, then three months linear vesting

Sapien Squad and Discord role holders will also receive a bonus allocation based on their participation.

Token allocation breakdown

Sapien is led by Rowan Stone, co-creator of Base at Coinbase, and Trevor Koverko, founder of Polymath, and backed by leading investors including Variant, Primitive Ventures, Yield Guild Games (YGG) and Orange DAO through its $10.5 million seed round.

Sapien is actively collaborating with strategic partners such as AirTM, GIG, Intract, KGeN, Mises Browser, OpenLedger, Sentient Open AGI, Veera, Worldcoin and YGG.

About Sapien

Sapien is building a decentralized data foundry, a permissionless protocol enabling enterprises, AI models and agents to source expert knowledge at scale.

It combines on-chain technology, reputation systems and gamification to align participation with quality, producing high-integrity training data while empowering contributors around the world.

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Ben Noble, Sapien