Building on the success of the Austin Blockchain Collective, the DecentraTech Collective was soft-launched during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual-first community with a mission to advocate for and accelerate the adoption of decentralization technologies (DecentraTech for short).

Expanding beyond just blockchain to encompass related technologies, such as decentralized identity, cryptographic privacy and edge computing was a natural step for the DecentraTech Collective as businesses looked to roll out products and solutions that tap into a set of complementary innovations.

Since its creation, the DecentraTech Collective – and its global membership – has worked with many emerging hardware and software technologies, including those that support regulatory-compliant DeFI transactions. enable privacy-first Web3 applications for personal health data and allow data provenance for trustworthy and responsible artificial intelligence applications. Some collaborations to date include:

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.

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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.