Decentralized Science, or DeSci, is embracing consumer data with an eye toward empowering preventative health, opening data networks to drive better outcomes by fostering open-source scientific innovation. Yet, industry-wide inconveniences associated with health information center RBACs, siloed data, and an inconsistent tap of experimental data have made it difficult for developers to access sufficient datasets to drive health innovation across DeSci. This has led to innovation gaps across science, widened disparities in engagement, and slowed preventative health data access overall, even as decentralization and AI progressively enable the field. Driving innovation requires data. While STEM professionals can create preventative health solutions provided the right amount of data, this capability declines due to the variable difficulty of accessing it. Health data is not only permissioned strictly along health data system hierarchies, but heavily siloed. Siloed health data is not openly available to drive innovation, leading to slower treatment development, care standards, and more. Open health data sources would preponderantly empower STEM practitioners to create optimized, highly personalized digital health services, empowering scientists and consumers alike. Highly personalized digital health services must scale to maintain relevant value to the public. Streaming data access is therefore required. Blockchain technology is famous for creating decentralized access to data, yet a core reason it had to be developed is because data silos are in every industry, and, paradoxically, they undercut every sincere effort by principled data access professionals within them to advance those selfsame fields. DeSci as a service to public health cannot exist without scalable access to health data sources actively used for STEM innovation. Decentralizing health data sources is one way to achieve both of those things, giving users control over the way their data is used while incentivizing them to leverage and allocate it in ways that help scientists and themselves. The market is specialized, though a bevy of mature participants have combinedly and alternately used blockchain and AI to do just that. and HealthBlocks HealthBlocks HealthBlocks is a blockchain-based, private-by-design, open-source health data space. Leveraging its recent partnership with Nillion, HealthBlocks decentralizes trust for users’ sensitive health data, enabling them to connect with and exercise total control and ownership over their consumer health data. Its centralized data-sharing platform enables dramatically faster and personalized health data action for users, and developers and innovators can use such open-source data to drive innovation. Off the heels of their recent soft launch, their 45% ROI platform blows open health data for DeSci practitioners, enabling faster and more enduring innovation. Developers and scientists can get access to the open health data network in a privacy-preserving way and build personalized data services directly with and for the users. This positive feedback loop helps scientists build faster and with greater quality, accuracy, and applicability. By re-engineering the health data value chain, users can now access their health data with ease. Crucially, HealthBlocks’ private-by-design singularly makes DeSci and AI innovation possible via blockchain open-source, which is even more important in terms of handling sensitive health data and complying with HIPAA. Web2 health data apps - like Strava, Fitbit, or Whoop - can work well for users. Yet, none of them give the user personal autonomy over how their data is used. Instead, they log, possess, and take responsibility over your data, and decide for themselves which analyses to run. HealthBlocks gives the user full control, enabling them to personalize inputs for personalized outputs. With their users seeing a 15% step increase in the first month of their launch, nutrition, aging, and stress are all on the table here. HealthBlocks also gives STEM professionals in the space access to the largest and most diverse consumer health database to conduct research, train AI/ML models, and offer personal health services based on their personalized findings. HealthBlocks is decentralizing and blowing open the health data chain - all while keeping it private to the user. HealthBlocks enables users to wield full control with decentralized health data access over their health outcomes while simultaneously enabling STEM practitioners and health data professionals to innovate faster and more personally for the patient. The app blows open health data while retaining user privacy by using blockchain technology to decentralize trust and eliminate tampering. Their soft launch just dropped - see more here. ee more here OriginTrail OriginTrail OriginTrail is an AI-powered decentralized knowledge graph for global supply chains to exchange data in a trustworthy way. Combining its multi-chain capabilities and open-source data decentralization model, OriginTrail enables businesses to connect disparate data silos, personalizing data distribution by user intent, and establishing verifiable and transparent data liquidity. OriginTrail enables developers to build dApps on its Knowledge Graph, which creates highly novel solutions for supply chain management, asset tracking, and data provenance. Gamified incentives for users fuel their positive data-innovation feedback loop, enabling in-ecosystem innovation driven by user engagement. That this is real-time streaming user data OriginTrail uses drastically improves the reliability, accuracy, accessibility, and personalizability of both how the data is used to build and optimize supply chain solutions, and the resulting return on investment. OriginTrail re-architects how supply chain data is managed, giving users heightened visibility and enabling enhanced trust in the provenance of goods. Supply chain management systems traditionally suffer from data siloing and shaky or nonexistent interoperability, which hinders transparency and efficiency. OriginTrail gives users total control over their contribution and consumption of data within the knowledge graph, powering human-AI collaborative problem-solving and derivative personalized health insights. Across industries, businesses are using OriginTrail to share data securely, as well as train AI and ML models to power predictive analytics. It decentralizes and blows open the entire supply chain data landscape while maintaining integrity and provenance. OriginTrail gives users decentralized control over their supply chain data and incentivizes them to share it, enabling developers and businesses to innovate faster and more collaboratively. Through its blockchain-based knowledge graph, it breaks open data silos while maintaining data integrity, eliminating single points of failure and enhancing supply chain resilience. Binance Labs' BIO Protocol Binance Labs' BIO Protocol Traditional biotech and pharma research face obstacles in data siloing, opaque research processes, and secure IP management. Even established research institutions have difficulty here, given they lack trustless security otherwise available via blockchain integration. BIO Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure layer focused on revolutionizing the biotech and pharmaceutical industries using blockchain technology to create a secure, transparent ecosystem for research data sharing, intellectual property management, and the advancement of scientific innovation. Incubated by Binance Labs, BIO Protocol decentralizes trust for sensitive biological and pharmaceutical data, enabling scientists and institutions to collaborate securely, accelerating breakthroughs with added efficiency. The protocol empowers innovators to both manage and protect their intellectual property in a decentralized way, improving collaboration while preserving ownership. BIO Protocol provides researchers and organizations with greater autonomy over their intellectual property data in terms of access control and provenance tracking, and offers developers and data scientists a secure and auditable data infrastructure to pursue innovation in health data analysis, AI-driven drug discovery, and decentralized IP management collaboratively. Personalized research collaboration becomes much easier when the requisite tools are all in one secure environment, and, leveraging this, BIO Protocol is blowing open the landscape for both biotech and pharmaceutical research. BIO Protocol hosts dApps, enabling novel solutions for pharmaceutical R&D, research data exchange, and clinical trial management, incentivizing data sharing and research collaboration among DeSci practitioners. This environment accelerates innovation and development with greater reproducibility and impact. A reimagining of the traditional biotech and pharmaceutical research pipeline, BIO Protocol allows stakeholders to access and share high-priority research with improved security and provenance, enabling scientific advancements through IP protection and decentralized collaborative research in Web3-enabled life sciences. Binance Labs’ BIO Protocol gives scientists and institutions fully decentralized and transparent access to research data exchange and IP management, breaking down datra silos while maintaining data integrity and IP protection. Within the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, it enables DeSci practitioners to innovate and collaborate on developing novel solutions at an accelerated pace. Wrap-Up Wrap-Up Blockchain technology’s influence on everyday life has already grown to sizable proportions. Within industry, the fusion of blockchain and science, or decentralized science, is powering faster, more collaborative innovation across health and life sciences. Whether incentivizing data sharing with gamification, improving data provenance, or enabling DeSci dApps, DeSci companies are leveraging blockchain technology to democratize health data access, helping scientists innovate faster and help more people than ever.

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