Perle Labs

77 reviews, 8% of them positive.8% positive · 77 reviews· Influence factor 38, above 7% of accounts

The record

From 77 activities · Apr 2026

Perle Labs (formerly Kiva AI) is widely characterized as an exploitative project that farmed users for months through gas-fee-dependent tasks, badge minting, and data labeling while promising airdrop rewards. The majority of participants—reportedly 80–90%—were marked ineligible at the checker stage without clear criteria or explanation, despite completing all requirements and paying significant SOL fees. Users report the project raised $17.5 million but distributed less than $350k in actual airdrop value (0.23% of promised 7%), extracted $30k in claiming fees, and maintained poor communication and lack of transparency throughout. A small minority of positive reviews praise the technical vision around on-chain privacy and AI infrastructure, but these are vastly outweighed by accusations of community exploitation, data theft, insider favoritism in role distribution, and deliberate bait-and-switch tactics.

What people say

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“scam project”tthis project invited the public to their incentivised program and end up not rewarding up to 1% of those who joined the campaign

0xlas · 1395· 7mo ago · negative6

“il progetto peggiore della storia”avevo piu di 11k punti e non sono eleggibile. ho perso un sacco di tempo per quelle task di decerebrati per nulla. fate proprio schifo. ritiratevi e fate qualcosa che potete fare, tipo giocare alla play station, altro che innovativo progetto ai

0xAndrew · 1423· 7mo ago · negative20

“To me, this project is a complete scam”I put a lot of work into this project, spent a great deal of time on it, and did a high-quality job. I was well placed on the leaderboard and brought a lot of people into the project, but they’ve really let me down. I filled in loads of appeal forms but nobody replied; nobody from the team replied on Discord either. I want there to be as few projects like this in crypto as possible – they ruin the general perception of the market.

shegy · 1342· 6mo ago · negative5

“Scammer devs”Projects like this gradually erode the positive reputation of Web 3. 0 by exploiting the very principles that make decentralized ecosystems attractive in the first place. Instead of building genuine value, these teams harvest community data, social‑media engagement, and token‑sale hype, then pivot to schemes that siphon off funds or lock users into unfulfillable promises. The result is a leech‑like behavior: they cling to the trust and enthusiasm of early adopters, only to dump their credibility onto the ground together with the community’s hard‑earned goodwill. When such tactics become commonplace, the overall perception of Web 3 shifts from a frontier of innovation to a minefield of scams, making investors especially those who trade in AUD and other fiat‑on‑ramps more reluctant to participate. This hesitancy slows down genuine projects, hampers legitimate token launches, and raises regulatory scrutiny, all because the ecosystem’s signal‑to‑noise ratio is crowded by bad actors. If developers and founders continue down this path, the network’s collective security both technical and reputational will be compromised, and the community will bear the brunt of the fallout, seeing their funds diminish and their trust eroded. In short, these opportunistic projects have no place in Web 3; their existence undermines the core promise of decentralization, transparency, and community‑driven value creation, and the only sustainable remedy is a concerted effort from honest builders, vigilant users, and platform custodians to expose, discourage, and ultimately eliminate such malicious behavior.

Raia Renaiss · 1263· 6mo ago · negative5

“Sahar... Perle Labs”The project looks like a carbon copy of the already released (and essentially dead) Sahara AI with tasks for “developing” artificial intelligence. I didn't find any obvious drawbacks with the team or the product itself, but the advantages aren't very clear either. The number of users can be explained by the free activity in the project, and this has long ceased to be an indicator. Only time will tell what they are really like.

Plebey by · 1307· 8mo ago · neutral5

“gPerle”It's an innovative project developing data privacy and AI focused solutions within the Web3 ecosystem.Its goal is to provide infrastructures that allow users to securely process and share their data and utilize it more efficiently with AI By working specifically on on-chain privacy, encryption technologies and scalable structures,it aims to provide a reliable experience for both developers and end users This contributes to building future AI-based applications in the Web3 environment in a more secure, transparent and sustainable way.

IG.eth · 1366· 1y ago7

“Community farmed”I've been actively involved in this project for some time now, and I had high hopes for its potential. Initially, I believed it would lead to positive outcomes and a sense of community growth. However, my experience has turned out to be quite different. It feels more like a persistent cycle of farming without any significant rewards or advancements. I expected to see some bullish developments, but instead, it appears to be all about farming, not much else. This realization has left me feeling somewhat disappointed, as I truly wanted to see this project thrive and benefit the community as a whole.

azile · 1235· 7mo ago · negative1

““Perle Labs: Where AI Meets True Data Ownership””Perle Labs caught my attention for how quietly yet confidently it’s building. Instead of chasing hype, they’re focused on something that really matters — giving users control over their data while enabling AI to work with them, not on them. Their approach to on-chain privacy and encryption feels mature — it’s not just buzzwords, it’s infrastructure. By combining scalable data frameworks with privacy-first AI tools, Perle is building the foundation for a new kind of Web3 experience where both developers and end-users can trust the system by design. It’s rare to see a project this early with such clarity of purpose. If they keep executing the way they are, Perle Labs could easily become a cornerstone for privacy-driven AI applications in Web3.

@sara021 · 1268· 12mo ago4

““Perle Labs: Human-Centric AI with Web3 Privacy at Core””I first discovered Perle Labs on X, and it stood out immediately—not because of flashy marketing, but because of the consistency and clarity in what they build. Their mission to integrate on-chain privacy, secure data processing, and AI infrastructure is ambitious, and they’re showing that it doesn’t have to remain theoretical. What makes Perle Labs compelling is how they aim to let users own and control their data while still leveraging AI. Their architecture is thoughtfully designed—encryption, scalable structures, and developer-friendly integration—all focused on real users instead of buzz. In a space where projects often promise too much, Perle Labs feels like it’s building from the ground up: privacy-first, technically sound, and user-aware. It’s the kind of forward-thinking work that could quietly shift how Web3 handles data + AI.

atan1430 · 1248· 12mo ago3

“PERLE”What if AI were trained by humans rather than open-source resources? The beta version of the AI developed by Perle Labs is launching soon. I've been involved in a few similar projects before. Frankly, it's both dangerous and fun.

137 · 1253· 12mo ago3

“A lot of potential”I’ve been working in the industry as a Machine Learning Engineer for several years, and we’ve always faced a problem regarding the availability of clean and trusted labeled data for training our supervised models. It usually costs a lot of time, energy, and money to gather enough high-quality training data for the task at hand. Even though I’ve heard many people over the last two years talk about the impact of cryptos and web3 on AI, I never really believed it could be possible, simply because AI is a completely independent domain from web3. I used to see the relationship more as AI helping web3 develop, not the other way around. But projects like Perle are actually starting to change my mind a little. Perle is trying to address the problem of training data quality by mobilizing the web3 ecosystem, which I think is clever since the community is the main strength of web3. I think it’s too soon to say whether the project will be successful or not, but I do believe in its utility, and I wanted to support them with this review.

Onigashima · 1291· 8mo ago1

“Perle? More like Peler”

Rimuro · 1269· 6mo ago · negative0

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