Cat In A Box
Cat In A Box is a DeSci and Social Fi platform empowering anyone to participate in community science and decentralized experiments. It incentivizes users to share private health data securely and engage in citizen science projects tailored to their interests.
Cat In A Box
Created At
Winner of
Blockscout - Blockscout Explorer Big Pool Prize
Prize Pool
Protocol Labs - Filecoin Foundation: Storage & Retrieval 1st place
Phala Network - Best Use of TEE in Blockchain - 🥇
Zircuit - Best project on Zircuit 1st place
ETHGlobal - 🏆 ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024 Finalist
Project Description
Problem: Scientific discoveries take too long to reach practical use for the average users, especially for those seeking personalized health solutions. Most insights are limited to scientists or biohackers, often inaccessible or irrelevant to everyday users. Public participation in scientific studies is low due to a lack of incentives, understanding, and engaging social features, leading to a shortage of diverse, high-quality data for innovation.
Solution: Cat In A Box enables average users to:
- Participate in scientific studies with minimal cost and earn rewards in crypto
- Engage in community-driven experiments (e.g., pharmacogenomics, nutrition, personalized healthcare).
- Own and control their health data while contributing to collective knowledge. And it allows BioDAOs/ DeSci communities to:
- Easily set up citizen science projects and recruit users
- Foster transparent experimentation and data collection
- Privately store and analyze data
Product Features:
- 100% User-Owned Data: Health data encrypted and stored on-chain using Filecoins decentralized storage, under a single user wallet.
- User-Controlled Data Sharing:
- Users share specific data as needed (e.g., a single SNP for an experiment) and earn crypto rewards.
- Data processing occurs in TEE to ensure privacy
- Intuitive UX/UI built for Desci projects:
- Social login via Dynamic as individual user or community.
- DeSci organizations can seamlessly create experiments
- AI agent assists users in understanding their participation and results.
- Social Engagement:
- Share results with friends, compare personal data to community data
- Leaderboard
- Scientist-lead Experimentation :
- Scientists can participate and guide experiment designs while maintaining anonymity.
How it's Made
Technical implementation:
- Filecoin and Lighthouse for encrypted and decentralized data storage
- Phala for TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) computation, used for partial data sharing and data aggregation
- Dynamic wallet used for easy user onboarding
- Deployed on the Zircuit testnets (Main contract: https://explorer.testnet.zircuit.com/address/0x0074690aC91AbF6a5E2c1E410160582D92E6a2bE?activeTab=3 Token: https://explorer.testnet.zircuit.com/address/0x0AEB92fB117206D3ae314dFC442db6Bcd98b4309?activeTab=3)
- Deployed on Scroll testnet and verified on Blockscout (Main contract: https://scroll-sepolia.blockscout.com/address/0xb636c074c42F383EE418a3fFF57e07b67274730A Token: https://scroll-sepolia.blockscout.com/address/0xD6e4FC9f0Ab4407024d86D0349Acb3b9567BD0Bf)
