Over a million captures on Base in 60 days. That's the pace
@vangrid_io is actually moving at, and the number is worth sitting with for a second.
As of September 21, the network shows 1,024,912 total captures, 423,143 active nodes, 3,823 Merkle trees attested through EAS, and more than $311K already paid out to contributors in USDC. That's real money moving to real people for real physical-world data, not points sitting in a dashboard waiting for a future token.
Here's the mechanism behind those numbers. Every capture gets fingerprinted the instant it's recorded, a hash, a location, a timestamp, a device attestation. Those get batched into Merkle trees and anchored on Base, so a buyer checking the data doesn't have to take Vangrid's word for it, they can verify the record themselves.
Robots are already being deployed into environments nobody's properly mapped yet. A network scaling this fast, with actual settlements happening in real time, is closing that gap a lot quicker than a handful of labs building indoor capture rigs ever could alone.
gVangrid