Neuralprint: Brain EEG Data on Cardano Blockchain for Many Use-Cases

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, PhD

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Incorporated)

[GENERAL] Requested funds in ada

300000

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

6

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

We will capture brainwave (EEG) states on blockchain (first ever) through expert R&D on brain and biometric states across various use cases.

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

No dependencies.

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

No

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

This proposal is to support necessary R&D of a project that is being designed to sit on Cardano. Some of the R&D is privacy-sensitive. The project also takes user privacy seriously, so these aspects cannot be public/open-source.

[METADATA] SDG rating

SDG Goals

3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

SDG Subgoals

3.4 - By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being

#sdg

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

Neuralprint is a novel brainwave-based authentication technology (patent-pending) that utilizes EEG and AI to identify brain states. The present proposal meets Catalyst Solution category guidelines, as a prototype-MVP is already public on Cardano blockchain (thanks to an inaugural successful and closed-out F8 project), which is using psychometrics to mint NFTs on Cardano. The present proposal aims to add brainwave data features (on Cardano blockchain) to the Neuralprint product to make it capable for various relevant use cases. This will be the first-ever brainwave-on-blockchain project, and it is being proposed here to be on Cardano.

We will conduct research analysis on key EEG datasets (which we already have) in order to populate Neuralprint blockchain-represented mind states. We will also cross-validate these with a consumer-grade EEG device to allow for greater mass adoption capability. We will offer these data(sets) in the form of "high-level NFTs", i.e. generalized NFTs that represent overall/average group-level (non-individual) brain states. This will form a key part of an architecture that then enables the categorization and analysis of blockchain-able human states at the individual level. This project is not about NFTs per se, but more about enabling the use of brain data in various use cases in other Cardano/blockchain community applications and future uses by Neuralprint, in a way that plugs the brain into web3. The final result of this proposal will be the aforementioned features to the Neuralprint product, the many uses of which will develop over time by Neuralprint and the community more widely.

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:

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

See Successful and closed-out Neuralprint F8 MVP project for more background information about 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.

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About Neuralprint:

Neuralprint

Next Generation Biometric Identity, Authentication, Permissioning, And Security

<< Neuralprint technology is Patent-pending >>

Company Purpose:

• To Revolutionize Identity, Authentication And Security Using State Of Mind Technology (Static vs. Dynamic). 
• Bringing The Mind To The Forefront Of Engaging With Technology.

The Problem:

Security Solutions Today Are Expensive, Clunky, Hard To Implement, And Aren’t As Secure As Advertised. They Also Suffer From A Lack Of Nuance.

The Solution:

Neuralprint’s System Is Unique, Fast, Easily Measurable, Inexpensive, And Easy To Install

Why Now?

Existing Systems Aren’t As Secure As Advertised. Ours Is. Static Today; Dynamic Learning System Tomorrow That Enables Greater Functionality.

Market Size:

The Global Cyber Security Market (TAM) Is $249 Billion.

By 2027, 50% of large enterprise CISOs will adopt human-centric security design practices. Cybersecurity threats are changing.

Product:

Neuralprint Is A Brain Wave Reader System. Slim form-factor EEG interface + Cloud Data. (Patent-pending)

Team:

• Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes: CEO, Founder. SingularityNET. Neuroscientist, Consciousness expert. Ethical AI. History of successful Cardano Catalyst engagement.
• David Harding: Advisor. CTO, SVP Engineering, Renown Security, Identity, Cloud Expert. Private Equity.
• Dan Mapes, PhD: Advisor. Co-designer of the Spatial Wb IEEE Protocol. President, VERSES.ai & The Spatial Web Foundation.
• Edward Brennan: founding CFo & Advisor. Venture Capitalist, Board Member, Advisor to Several StartX & Y-Combinator Companies.

Anticipated R&D areas for determining the neural correlates of states of mind relevant to Neuralprint:

• Distinguishing music categories/genres, and identifying the emotions experienced during music listening, and distinguishing between familiar vs unfamiliar auditory stimuli;
• Monitoring attention to auditory stimuli, e.g. music and speech;
• Distinguishing movement synchronised vs. non-synchronised with ambient stimuli in the environment;
• Ad-tech: responses to key design elements ("primitives") used in branding and advertising;
• Signatures of exalted non-ordinary states of consciousness (benchmarked using EEG data of DMT psychedelic trip)
• Cognitive mental load;
• Operating under a state of fear;
• Sleep signatures.

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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): Challenges in appropriate marketing reach.

• We have budgeted for a social media in this proposal in order to begin building toward this goal from the beginning.
• The proposer is a veteran member of and leader in the SingularityNET ecosystem, which has multiple projects with existing and expanding user bases that could be marketed to and leveraged.

• Risk (3): 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 primarily and largely on already available (collected) datasets, 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 products (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 F8. The main objectives are to be a first mover in the space to solve future blockchain issues that are foreseen.

[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Survey of key brain/biometric states of interest

Output: Progress report

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

(Due to the research nature of the project, it is a challenge to predict the precise advancements that will be made with each milestone, which is why we defer to a standard progress report and technical outline format, which is sufficiently flexible to accommodate a range of advancements.)

Transposition of larger EEG interface data to slim form-factor analysis commenced

Research on first 33% of data sets

Output: Progress report and technical outline

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

Transposition of larger EEG interface data to slim form-factor analysis (cont'd)

Research on second 33% of data sets

Output: Progress report and technical outline

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

Transposition of larger EEG interface data to slim form-factor analysis (cont'd)

Research on third 33% of data sets

Output: Progress report and technical outline

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

Transposition of larger EEG interface data to slim form-factor analysis (cont'd)

Encoding the datasets into categorized NFT sets

Output: Progress report and technical outline

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

Transposition of larger EEG interface data to slim form-factor analysis (finalized)

Encoding the datasets into categorized NFT sets (completed)

Output: Progress report and technical outline

Acceptance criteria: Output describes the progress and technical achievements/learnings developed.

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, Ph.D.

[LinkedIn]

Neuroscientist, SingularityNET (Cardano partner) pedigree; founding extended team, Head of People, Music Co-Director and guitarist for in-house touring band with humanoid robot vocalist.

Formerly, VERSES Director of Communications and researcher, building the Spatial Web (realistic metaverse).

Will serve as the project creator, leader, and director, and delegating tasks for execution. Gabriel has a team of contractors who have track record of delivering on past Catalyst proposals, including and not limited to neuroscience engineers, tokenomics experts, blockchain developers, and project management.

Advisors:

• David Harding: Advisor. CTO, SVP Engineering, Renown Security, Identity, Cloud Expert. Private Equity.
• Dan Mapes, PhD: Advisor. Co-designer of the Spatial Wb IEEE Protocol. President, VERSES.ai & The Spatial Web Foundation.
• Edward Brennan: founding CFo & Advisor. Venture Capitalist, Board Member, Advisor to Several StartX & Y-Combinator Companies.

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

R&D and Project Management: $40,200 ($6,700 x 6 months)

Engineering: $22,200 ($3,700 x 6 months)

Social media: $10,800 ($1,800 x 6 months)

Biometric equipment: $22,800 (2x slim form-factor EEG interfaces)

Data analysis (cloud time and algorithm use): $18,000

Total: $114,000

An exchange rate of $0.38/ADA (reflecting that of the time of this writing) was used for budget calculation.

[VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

All costs will be commensurate to majority of wages and capital required to execute. Due to the high value-add scientific and engineering work required of the proposal, costs are above that of the average proposal; due to the nature of the work and in order to rapidly secure the human resource talent and equipment needed to conduct the work.

All previous work on this project has been centered in Western countries, now with Western (US)-based patent work, and thus costs account for Western wages and inflation.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agrees to Fund Rules and also that data in the submission form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept