DLP Labs is integrating the Sui Stack to turn EV-generated vehicle data into auditable, monetizable assets, a model the company says can deliver more than $900 in annual ownership savings per driver. The initiative emphasizes privacy-preserving, permissioned access combined with on-chain payout mechanics to convert consented data contributions into direct economic value.
Converting EV Data Into a Structured Digital Asset
The integration is built around three coordinated technical pillars: a decentralized storage layer, a secrets-and-access-control service, and on-chain tokenization and payout rails. The storage layer preserves vehicle data as an auditable asset with traceability, giving downstream counterparties verifiable inputs for commercialization and verification.
At the access layer, Seal operates as a secrets-as-a-service tool that enforces encrypted, permissioned access to scoped data fields. Third parties such as insurers or energy providers can only access information that aligns with explicit schema parameters like contributor_id, consent_status and permissions_scope, ensuring that data usage is both consent-driven and tightly controlled.
On-chain, tokenization is applied to carbon credits and virtual power plant (VPP) revenues so that environmental and grid-contribution value can be represented as transferable digital tokens. The Sui Stack is used to route stablecoin payouts directly to drivers when credits or earnings are generated or sold, creating a low-friction settlement path from data-derived revenues to end users.
DLP Labs operates within a vehicle-data ecosystem where drivers opt in via dedicated hardware or compatible applications to form a data union that exchanges consented telemetry for economic rewards. Participants receive DIMO tokens that can be used for governance, staked in DeFi-style mechanisms or exchanged for other value, establishing a direct token-based return for sharing data.
The economic model aggregates personalized insurance discounts, VPP revenue shares and carbon-credit monetization to support the company’s projection of more than $900 in annual savings per driver. Payouts are intended to flow as on-chain stablecoin transfers, increasing transparency and reducing friction between third-party purchasers of data-derived assets and the vehicle owner.
Framing the strategy, CEO Ryan Kuhel describes data as an asset class on par with capital and labor and argues that individuals should directly benefit from the value their data creates. In his view, the combined stack of decentralized storage, encrypted access and tokenized payout mechanics enables the trust and transparency required for user-controlled economic value.