Unification

Unification - A Cross Chain Protocol For Data Liquidity

Unification is a decoupled architectural framework that provides generalized state channels for data standardization and interoperability across enterprise tech stacks.

What this means is, we allow existing apps, websites, researchers, and users to open and close standardized data streams through state channels, efficiently and safely. Through a simple SDK and Smart Contract system, existing enterprises can become integrated into our unified ecosystem.

Unification uses blockchain-based smart contracts to give users full control of how their data is shared - and be compensated. Transparent records of data access permissions, immutably backed by the blockchain.

By bringing end users, apps, websites, and data purchasers together on the Unification protocol, user data can be managed, permissioned, bought and sold more safely, accurately, and inexpensively than ever before.

A unified data ecosystem benefits everyone:
-Businesses can efficiently open direct state channels with any actor in the network, quickly and safely sharing and cross-referencing standardized data.
-Smaller apps have access to an open marketplace to buy and sell standardized data. Currently no cross-industry standardization exists, and no transparent marketplace accessible to all.
-Businesses can add a crypto payment gateway and unified user control panel without rewriting their app or website.
- Advertisers get more accurate user preferences that were ethically obtained. Information is decoupled from a user identity,
-Researchers gain access to large amounts of cross-referenced data to make discoveries.
-Researchers can directly outsource trial patients, which currently can cost between 10-50 thousand dollars to find.
-Users have a full control of how their data is used and shared, with a full overview and user friendly controls, and can be compensated for sharing. With access permissions all backed by the blockchain.

Powering Horizontal Scalability

Unification provides a software suite to improve the value and utility of data.

HAIKU

HAIKU is a deployable smart contract runtime that supports rapid off-chain state transition and data transfer protocols.

CAPSULE

Providing a client and server side packaging suite, CAPSULE enables and secures off chain storage, thus allowing a vast reduction in operating costs and increase in speed solutions.

MOTHER

A handshake verification smart contract that ensures technical compliance while providing an autonomous proof and validation for the participants in the system.

BABEL

BABEL is Unification's mobile and desktop dashboard for the end consumer. It is designed to act as a wallet, identity center, and data clearinghouse where individual users can visualize and manage the permissioned flow of their data.

Seamless Integration Into Existing Tech Stacks

Because most blockchain solutions operate in veritable “walled gardens,” where the benefits of a blockchain are only accessible by using proprietary DApps, there is currently a huge burden placed on businesses to change customer's behavior if they want to unlock the potential of this technology. Unification is different. Rather than forcing enterprises to redevelop their tech stack, our proprietary technology helps businesses adopt Distributed Ledger Technology into their existing frameworks.

State Channels For Enterprise Connectivity

The secret to offering a secure layer on top of traditional technologies lies in HAIKU, Unification’s distributed database. HAIKU seamlessly links together websites, apps, and DApps inside a singular, unified protocol, creating Unified Apps (UApps). Rather than having each technology be an island unto itself, HAIKU allows each user’s data to be stored within a CAPSULE on a UApp’s server, which the users themselves maintain and can lend a temporary key to access the data to an app, company, researcher, or any other data purchaser.

Unified data has the power to dramatically improve lives.

There are infinite potential use cases for the Unification protocol, including:

MEDICAL: One UApp collects a user’s GPS data. Another UApp privately stores that user’s medical records. A third UApp receives permission to access this data across millions of users and sees that all of the users whose GPS data shows them walking daily by a certain lake have a 67% higher chance of developing a particular rare disease.

This leads to notifying authorities, who test the waters in the lake to discover there was a previously unknown pollutant present in the lake.

MATCHMAKING: One UApp collects browsing and social media data. Another UApp uses intelligent matchmaking to help users find the perfect romantic partner. The matchmaking UApp, which has access to the web and social data of millions of other users, is able to make amazing and unequivocal romantic matches.

ADTECH: An AdTech UApp is installed on a user’s mobile and desktop devices. This collects their typical behaviors and browsing data and sends it back to the AdTech firm. In the old paradigm, the firm would then package and sell the data to advertisers; this whole process would be something the users were neither aware of, nor compensated for, as they had previously agreed to some vague Terms of Service when signing up for the app. In the new paradigm, users allow permission to access and sell their data through a HAIKU Smart Contract.

The AdTech firm sells dynamically-packaged and tailor-made data to advertisers and pays a remittance to the users. The HAIKU dictates that continued access to the data requires ongoing payments of UND to both the AdTech firm and user.