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DecentraTech Collective Accelerating Blockchain and Web 3.0 for Business (Website) (Websit

The DecentraTech Collective

The DecentraTech Collective is a community of subject matter experts, company 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.

DecentraTech Collective Accelerating Blockchain and Web 3.0 for Business (Website) (Websit

While DecentraTech encompasses a broad collection of technologies, the current principal focus of the Collective is on those that enable the implementation of scalable Web3 applications for enterprise business transactions and artificial intelligence.

Check out the DecentraTech Stack for a fuller overview of the hardware and software technologies that the DecentraTech Collective is tracking with a view to developing advocacy positions and programs in collaborations with innovation partners.

For 2025, the DecentraTech Collective is focusing on three specific technology areas that show great promise to underpin trustworthy and responsible AI models and autonomous agents:

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) - which allow communities to collaborate in the capital formation and rapid provision of GPU compute and data storage 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, register for the online meetup series on Discovering DePIN.

Privacy-Enhanced Technologies (PETs) - are a suite of tools that can help maximize the use of data by reducing risks inherent to data use. A focus for the Collective is on cryptographic approaches to enable collaborative analysis and processing on private datasets, allowing data to be used without disclosing copies of data.


Using PETs such as zero knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation, applications including those that use artificial intelligence can benefit from access to data, while it remains private and secure. Stay tuned for the launch of our PET Podcast series.


Data Tokenization – drawing on a popular move by TradFi players to tokenized real-world assets, data tokenization is a mechanism to create a blockchain-based audit trail of data objects that can represent AI inputs, outputs and the models themselves.

By tokenizing data, a complete record of provenance can support trustworthy AI approaches where outputs from models can be mapped directly to inputs, and where updates to a model’s logic can be logged. We will explore this topic via our Tokens for Trustworthy AI blog series.

Check out our Educational Series of Free-to-Attend Online Meetups on the Benefits and Applications of DePIN

Meetups are online via Zoom, and will include a presentation and an interactive discussion.

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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.

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