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Judging the public goods / social impact track at ETHDenver. Feels good, man!
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At the minimum, you will get your genotype data anonymously and for free. :) If you zoom out, you will realize the world is about to change. Will you be there with us when it happens?
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DNA belongs to the people. DNA wants to be free. Encryption is for the masses. https://lu.ma/197ie64i
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Please join us in Denver this Friday and help make history. Perhaps for the first time ever we're going to anonymously sequence DNA and calculate genetic traits under full encryption. This is a proud moment for the whole Monadic DNA team. Info & event link below 👇
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There's no winning here. Regulations prevented many companies from running payroll and benefits using crypto so they had to rely on existing rails. Then, even if a company didn't issue or trade crypto, they still got debanked for just being associated with new tech.
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If I am reading this right, it's not that critical, right? As long as one secures their keys, one should be more or less fine?
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We're building one for structured medical data, starting with DNA, at Monadic DNA.
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Infrastructure: Finally, the underlying storage and compute infrastructure itself should not be controlled by any single entity and blockchains should be used for coordination, especially payments for the infrastructure providers (e.g. @nillion).
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User sovereignty: User should directly own their data and identity (with good UX). Their active consent should be needed for anything requiring their data. People should be able to modify and delete their own data at any instant they wish.
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Composition: Attestations are great for coordinating on an open ecosystem. Blockchain attestations, e.g. using Sign Protocol, should be used to build chains of trust and composing results and business processes between different providers.
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Decentralization: The app should not rely on the existence or fitness of any one entity. Users should not be locked into any single interface or actor. My own organization should only stay in business as long as it is the best at what it does for the ecosystem.
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Comedy of the commons: The utility of the app should grow with the numbers of providers and users on the platform without running into any technical hard limits or saturation or limits on the number of actors and participants. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Comedy_of_the_Commons
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Coordination: Blockchains should be used for coordination between actors but not for computation or storage. The less smart contracts are used, the better. The dumber smart contracts are, the better.
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I am not working on a blockchain app but an app ecosystem which uses blockchains with a light touch. Here are the related and adjacent features I am aiming for in a next generation personal genomics product:
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Now there’s a bunch of specific features I can think of but building on an open, secure protocol lets countless informed and talented builders bring in their expertise to accelerate the progress of personal genomics apps.
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Finally, laws permitting, I should remain as anonymous as possible. DNA kits should have a serial number on them which can serve as end to end identifiers on the platform. My personal details don't add much to my experience on 23andMe anyway.
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Since the latest secure computation platforms never need data to be decrypted, my genomic data should always be encrypted and I should be the only person ever allowed to view my own data. @nillion and @zama make this possible.
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If third parties are operating on my data, then they should use secure computation methods such as MPC or FHE, e.g. using @nillion or @zama, such that their programs don’t need to decrypt and view my data to operate on it.
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23andMe is opinionated and narrow in what it offers. For more, I have to download my data and then upload it to services like IllustrativeDNA and Promethease. Instead, I’d like an open protocol that lets authorized third parties directly run their programs on my genomic data.
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I am an early adopter of 23andMe and now I am working on a next generation personal genomics service. Here’s some stuff I’d like to do better using the latest in encryption technologies. 👇
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