Despite the high prevalence of common medical conditions among womxn, investment in their non-reproductive health remains minimal. This adversely impacts diagnosis and treatment outcomes, reducing social productivity and increasing social costs. Asterisk is working to backfill 500 years of missing data by building a decentralized platform ecosystem that confronts these issues. The platform comprises three key modules: a data union, which collects, aggregates, and monetizes anonymized womxn’s health data while ensuring privacy through zero-knowledge compute methods; a tech transfer marketplace that decentralizes and scales global intellectual property transfer; and a co-governance module that empowers data prosumers to transparently orchestrate the platform’s data pools, ecosystem and issue critical investments in critically absent womxn’s health research.

After a year of business model development, we are proud to have built our first prototype at ETH Global Brussels July 2024. The GitCoin grant ecosystem is directly responsible for this major milestone. We aim to utilize GG21 to evolve the prototype into an MVP. Thank you!