DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is an open-source oracle platform that enables market actors to source, supply and share trustable data. DIA aims to be an ecosystem for open financial data in a financial smart contract ecosystem, to bring together data analysts, data providers and data users. In general, DIA provides a reliable and verifiable bridge between off-chain data from various sources and on-chain smart contracts that can be used to build a variety of financial [DApps](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-applications-dapps).
DIA is the governance token of the platform. It is currently based on [ERC-20 ](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20)Ethereum protocol.
The project was founded in 2018, while the token supply was made available to the public during the bonding curve sale from Aug. 3 through Aug. 17, 2020, where 10.2 million tokens were sold.