Pundi AI has joined forces with blockchain security leader Vital Block in a strategic alliance aimed at promoting trust in decentralized AI. The partnership was announced on January 20, 2026 and is an important step towards building trust and introducing compliance within the ecosystem. It provides professional smart contract audits and KYC verification for projects deploying Dataset Tokens on Pundi AI’s Data Pump platform, with comprehensive security and verification services available from day one.
Professional security when tokenizing data
This partnership is based on a forward-looking vision in line with the evolution of blockchain technology. As the trend of AI datasets evolving into valuable financial assets gains momentum, it will become essential for smart contracts and teams to maintain the strict security standards established by traditional DeFi projects. Vital Block has extensive experience in this area, having audited more than 1,850 blockchain projects and helped secure more than $2 billion in user funds.
Vital Block uses an effective audit methodology that integrates innovative automated audit tools such as ConsenSys MythX, Mythril and Slither, supplemented with thorough manual code reviews and penetration testing. Such a holistic approach would attempt to identify weaknesses before they are exploited. It’s especially important for projects that use Pundi AI’s Data Pump, where creators turn verified AI training data into Dataset Tokens that can be traded on decentralized exchanges like PancakeSwap.
Pundi AI’s Data Pump Ecosystem
The platform allows owners of datasets with an Access NFT to convert verified datasets into Dataset Tokens, which act as liquid tradable on-chain assets in the form of BEP-20 tokens on BNB Chain. The whole thing is completely codeless, with smart contract implementation, bonding curve logic and liquidity configuration all managed automatically.
As indicated in the information in the Pundi AI documentation, DTOKs indicate interest in a dataset within the community without direct access or revenue claim. Instead, they are released through community seed counts and traded through decentralized markets. The platform has seen great adoption and we can see that over 140,000 unique wallets have minted dataset tokens and over one petabyte of datasets are hosted in the ecosystem.
The importance of security on dataset tokens
The introduction of professional security audits and KYC verification through Vital Block covers several crucial issues in one fell swoop. First, because DTOKs become tradable assets that have actual market values, investors want to know that the smart contracts behind them are secure and free from vulnerabilities that could cause exploits and potential monetary loss.
Second, KYC verification of project teams provides an important element of accountability. Vital Block’s KYC process involves a verification of all core team members in terms of official identification documents, with founders required to verify their addresses using additional documentation and live calls. This partnership ensures that projects launched on Data Pump will receive comprehensive smart contract audits and team verification. Vital Block will provide them with audit certifications, which they can then openly publish to investors and community members.
Conclusion
This joint venture is not just a technical partnership; it is an indicator of the development of a completely new type of assets. For projects looking to launch DTOKs on Data Pump, access to comprehensive security assessments is immediately available for the project, previously only accessible to well-funded DeFi protocols. The introduction of professional security checks and KYC checks brings this new market closer to mainstream credibility without diluting the decentralization and community ownership that Web3 is all about.