Grass wallet

What is Grass (GRASS)?

Most people meet Grass before they ever hold the token. It starts as a browser extension or a desktop node that shares a slice of your idle internet connection; the network uses that bandwidth to fetch public web pages, which are then cleaned and structured into datasets for AI training. GRASS is the token that sits on top of this network: it is what participants receive for the bandwidth they have contributed, and it is the asset used in governance of the protocol.

The token lives on Solana as an SPL token, and that means two things for a holder. Every transfer is paid in SOL, not in GRASS, so a wallet that holds GRASS but no SOL cannot send anything. And the first time GRASS arrives at an address, Solana creates a token account for it and takes a small one-time rent deposit in SOL; this is not a wallet fee, it is how the network keeps token balances.

One thing worth keeping straight is the difference between Grass points and GRASS the token. Points are collected inside the Grass app and dashboard and are recorded in your Grass account, not on the blockchain. They turn into GRASS only when a distribution round is held and you claim to a Solana address. Until that claim, your wallet has nothing to show; after it, what you hold is a plain SPL balance with no further tie to the extension, and you can stop running the node without the tokens going anywhere.

Because GRASS moves like any other Solana token, you want SOL next to it, and Tangem keeps both under the same address in one wallet. Signing a transfer is a tap of the card against the phone, no cable and no battery in the card, with the SOL for fees and the GRASS balance read from the network side by side. For a token you claim once or twice and then mostly leave alone, that is about as little friction as holding it can involve.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): Solana.