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The DecentraTech Collective
The DecentraTech Collective is a community of subject matter experts, business executives, entrepreneurs, and academics. Led by Lighthouse Partners and Massing PR, the Collective advocates for and innovates to accelerate the adoption of decentralization technologies (aka DecentraTech) to address business and scientific opportunities and challenges.
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While DecentraTech encompasses a broad collection of technologies, the current principal focus of the Collective is on those that enable the implementation of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) and Decentralized AI (DeAI) applications.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) – which allow communities to collaborate in the capital formation and rapid provision of CPU and GPU compute, data storage and sensor deployment at scale. DePINs incorporate crypto asset incentive models that reward those that provide hardware, often on a fractional basis.
To find out more about DePIN and the applications that it is increasingly supporting, such as DEAI, register for the Discovering DePIN online educational series.
Decentralized AI (DeAI) – an emerging approach to artificial intelligence that uses distributed networks, such as blockchains, to move control and governance of AI models,
data, and computing power from centralized entities (such as Big Tech companies) to many independent participants.
Privacy-Enhanced Technologies (PETs) – are a suite of tools that can help maximize the use of data by reducing risks inherent to data use. This includes cryptographic approaches to enable collaborative analysis and processing on private datasets, allowing data to be leveraged without disclosing copies of data or ownership attributes.
The Collective continues to track the rise of Tokenization as an on-chain enabler of next-generation decentralized business.
Check out the DecentraTech Stack for a fuller overview of the hardware and software technologies of interest to the DecentraTech Collective.
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Collective Activities
Working to Enhance Data Privacy for AI in Healthcare
Throughout 2021 and 2022, the DecentraTech Collective provided marketing support to an innovative startup focused on aligning blockchain technology with AI for healthcare applications.
In particular, the startup put in place designs for tokenization of personal health data and using privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) to support the sharing of personal data with applications, such as medical research and clinical trials.
The DecentraTech Collective assisted with messaging, community outreach and collaboration with industry groups, such as the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger.
Showcasing Health 3.0 Innovation
In 2022, the DecentraTech Collective hosted a session as part of the Consensus Festival in Austin, TX focusing on Health 3.0 – sometimes referred to as “ownership health.”
The session included a primer on healthcare information and issues, such as ownership and monetization, as well as presentations from a number of health startups focusing on that technology response.
Adding Compliance Capabilities to DeFi
In 2023, the DecentraTech Collective provided technology marketing and evangelism to a blockchain technology provider in the tokenization space. The company developed technologies to allow tokens to be embedded with logic to support compliance capabilities, even when they are transacted in peer-to-peer DeFi markets.
The DecentraTech Collective researched and authored technical marketing documentation of interest to customers and regulators and made proposals for creation of a standards-oriented community to support the widespread use of it.