Common Crawl secured. DC activated. DTM’s out the door.

5 min readMay 8, 2025

✅ Common Crawl’s 9PB dataset — the backbone of modern AI — is now secured by DAG

✅ Delegated staking updates are live, with ERC-20 DAG on Base and Uniswap v4 liquidity ramping

✅Ben Jorgensen heads to Capitol Hill to push for stablecoin legislation

✅ODC Week 2 is underway: more referrals, DTMs out the door, and more ways to get involvedThis isn’t roadmap chatter — it’s execution.

🧐 Did You Know?

Apple quietly broke geofencing — and no one’s really talking about it.

🔒 With iOS 17 and 18, Apple made background location tracking nearly unusable. Unless users opt in (and 80%+ don’t), geofencing just… fails.

📉 Even when users do opt in, location triggers often don’t fire unless the app is open. That’s left platforms like GroundTruth, Foursquare, and Near scrambling — as noted in this marketer breakdown and real-world user reports.

But Dor?

Dor doesn’t care what Apple does.

✅ No apps. No opt-ins. No phones.

✅ Just plug-and-play thermal sensors — delivering real-time, privacy-first foot traffic data.

✅ Already live in airports, malls, and retail chains.

Apple broke the old playbook. Dor rewrote it.

And with the Open Dor Collective, we’re helping 1,000 more businesses level up — zero tech lift required.

🧠 Common Crawl x DAG: The AI Backbone Just Got an Integrity Upgrade

✅ Common Crawl’s 9-petabyte dataset — the open internet archive powering GPT, Claude, and nearly every major AI model — is now secured by DAG.

That’s not hype. It’s real.

Constellation has officially partnered with Common Crawl, one of the most important open data initiatives in the AI ecosystem, to bring cryptographic trust and verifiable provenance to the web’s largest public dataset.

Why this matters:

🔍 LLMs trained on web-scale data need to verify what’s real, what’s altered, and what’s stale

🧱 DAG now anchors Common Crawl releases to an immutable audit trail — giving developers, researchers, and AI teams Web3-grade authenticity for their training data.

🌐 It’s like a checksum for the open web — with receipts.

📸 Here’s what Wayne from Common Crawl had to say:

This press release outlines how Constellation’s blockchain infrastructure brings scalable validation to one of the most mission-critical datasets in modern AI.

This isn’t just about decentralization.

It’s about preserving trust in the internet itself — and DAG just became the integrity layer for open knowledge.

💬@CryptoRickNL nailed it:

“People have no idea

@Conste11ation and @CommonCrawl

just set the foundation of globally trusted AI data validation.

It’s in one word massive.”

Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

$UP @TheUpsiderAI is now live on Mainnet

🪙DAG Is Now Live on Base (ERC-20 FTW)

You can now get wrapped DAG as an ERC-20 directly on Base — and yes, that means:

✅Buy and hold it via Coinbase Wallet

✅Use it across Base like any other token

✅Bridge it to Constellation Network anytime

This is a major step in making DAG accessible across the broader DeFi ecosystem.

🌊 Expanding Liquidity: Balancer + Uniswap v4

Constellation is actively building liquidity depth on Base.

Conversations are live with Balancer, and a fresh pool is coming to Uniswap v4 — giving traders and liquidity providers even more ways to participate.

Liquidity is king — and Constellation is securing the crown.

📚 Delegated Staking Docs Are Live (For Devs Only)

The technical documentation for delegated staking just dropped — and it’s geared toward builders and integrators.

📌 Want to integrate staking into your app, DEX, or exchange UI?

📌 Curious how delegated stake creation, updates, and withdrawals work via Constellation APIs?

These docs have you covered.

👉Explore the tech docs here

TL;DR: You don’t need to run a node to stake DAG — and developers can now build those tools for everyone else

Ben Jorgensen in Texas, Then D.C. — From Stage to the Hill

Constellation Co-Founder & CEO Ben Jorgensen took the stage at the Digital Fusion Summit in Texas alongside Cointelegraph’s Rachel Wolfson — spotlighting DAG’s real-world momentum and regulatory foresight.

“We need to pass the stablecoin bill to keep the momentum going. We have to see this legislation go through to build retail confidence and give institutions the signal they’ve been waiting for.”

— Ben Jorgensen, Digital Fusion Summit

He took that message straight to Capitol Hill — standing alongside The Digital Chamber to advocate for U.S. stablecoin legislation that will accelerate digital dollar dominance and keep innovation anchored on American infrastructure.

📸 From the Summit in Texas to policy boots on the ground in D.C., Constellation is showing up — not just to build, but to lead.

🧠 Blockchain isn’t just tech. It’s public infrastructure. And this week, we’re making sure the right people hear it.