PATHFORM: Consciousness Development for the Age of Blockchain and AI, Minting Brain/Biometric Data on Cardano

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

Pathform is a consciousness development (i.e. "mind hacking") that promotes custom growth paths for users using neuroscience-and-consciousness-expert–based micro-practices, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative user data to refine user journeys. <u>Pathform currently already exists in prototype-MVP app format</u>, thanks to a successfully closed-out Catalyst F7 project, as well as the incorporation of psychometric tests via a successfully closed-out F8 project. The prototype app already has an initial selection of safe, neuroscience-based consciousness-hacking micro-practice techniques (30 seconds -4 minutes in practice length). <u>The present proposal aims to add a brainwave measurement feature set, with the ability to capture user brainwave and biometric response to micro-practices thereby mint Cardano NFTs based on the user's response.</u> This will create the first brainwave enablement of expertly created and curated no-fluff micro-practices for consciousness development on blockchain, and it will sit on Cardano. This project is not an NFT project per se; NFTs are simply serving as a way to represent unique user responses to practices, allowing them to be utilized in other ways (example potential use cases below). This F11 project will focus on capturing first the brainwave/biometric responses of the project lead (Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, PhD) and one student in order to establish the reference data patterns for these practices. This is an important step before deploying the brainwave/biometric feature and hardware broadly/publicly, as mass deployment will require quality standards in order to work properly as intentioned.

The project lead is Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, PhD, who has a an expert background in neuroscience, AI, blockchain, and consciousness research and practice.

This proposals comes on the heels of three directly relevant previous successful and closed-out Catalyst proposals (1 in F7, 2 in F8), all executed by the proposer. The present proposal builds upon previous work.

Proposer Achievements to-date:

Pathform biometrics for consciousness development MVP (F7)
Pathform enhanced with Neuralprint MVP (F8)
Neuralprint MVP [brain-based authentication] created (F8)
Neuralprint Patent-pending Status
DAOJob/Gov3: Cardano governance dashboard (F7 & F8)

See Successful and closed-out Pathform F7 prototype-MVP project for more background information and overall vision, as relevant to the present proposal, here.

Neuralprint MVP was added to the Pathform MVP prototype web app (which was partially incubated with SIngularityNET), as a result of closed-out Catalyst F7 (Pathform prototype creation) & F8 (Neuralprint integration into Pathform) proposals. You can access Pathform here and there are public discussions about it here.

Risk Mitigation:

Risk (1): Immediate hiring need. Our team is actively searching for a machine learning now. Due to global demand for AI talent and in order to attract suitable talent in a timely manner, we are offering (in the budget) an above-average salary. This will also help to increase the chances of keeping a strong engineer beyond the scope of this proposal.
Risk (2): EEG brainwave biometric development, like much of any hardware development, can take time, typically more than software development. To mitigate, the proposed project is focusing on one or two study participants (the proposer and one student), which removes the logistics barrier associated with recruiting participants, etc.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

This is a cutting-edge, first of its kind, project – and it is being developed for Cardano.

The proposed project brings a novel technology to Cardano, making Cardano a first-mover chain in the space. This proposal poises Cardano to be used in a key technology in the world. It also builds on and adds functionality to existing projects (successful, closed-out proposals from F7, F8).

This proposal thereby fulfills criteria of Cardano usefulness, including the following metrics:

Increasing the number products available for the community to use that help to enrich the ecosystem with new use cases.
Increase the number of integrations that bring existing solutions together for a more seamless and connected experience between different products.
Increased quality of existing products & integrations through improvements and new functionality.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

This project comes on the heels of 4 previous Catalyst proposals that have all be successfully completed and closed-out. This offers a measure of predictability for proposer trust and accountability in delivering on this proposal.

The project is based on neuroscience and blockchain, two of the proposer's areas of expertise. Feasibility is based on the technical achievability of the R&D, which we have already been doing successfully since Catalyst F7. The main objectives are to be a first mover in the space to solve future blockchain issues that are foreseen.