PANews, July 31—According to CoinDesk, Rice Robotics, the company behind the RICE AI platform, announced that it will begin selling its RICE token on August 5 via the TokenFi Launchpad. RICE will power a decentralized data marketplace for AI robots, as part of a broader initiative to tokenize robot-generated data and expand the DePIN ecosystem. The $750,000 presale represents 10% of the total token supply of 1 billion, valuing the project at $7.5 million. Launch partners include BNB Chain, DWF Labs, and Floki.
The company’s indoor delivery robots have already been deployed at SoftBank’s Tokyo headquarters, Mitsui Fudosan properties, and 7-Eleven stores in Japan, and are integrated with the 7-Now delivery system. The RICE token will be used to incentivize data contributions, subscribe to AI models, and for platform governance, with a deflationary mechanism through fee-based buybacks. Earlier this year, the company raised $7 million in a Pre-A round from investors including the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund.