DataMart

🌟 Inspiration

In today’s data-driven world, companies generate a wealth of high-quality data from users' activities and actions. This data is invaluable for third-party organizations looking to gain insights, improve analytics, or train machine learning models. However, selling this data directly while maintaining privacy, security, and user consent is a complex challenge. Additionally, users often need their data to be portable between apps in a legal and secure way. DataMart was inspired by the need to solve these data-sharing roadblocks, making data liquidity a reality in a transparent, privacy-first way.

🔍 What it does

DataMart is a platform that leverages metagraph technology to enable secure, user-controlled data sharing between organizations. Here's how it works:

• A data buyer organization submits a data request with a specific data schema.
• A data provider organization reviews the request and, if it can fulfill it, submits a proposal.
• Upon approval by the data buyer, the provider prompts users to share their data, offering incentives (e.g., free subscriptions).
• The user, in control, authorizes the data sharing.
• The data, encrypted on the metagraph, remains secure, viewable only by the user and the data buyer.

By ensuring compliance with regulations, DataMart turns data-sharing into a seamless and privacy-focused process.

🛠️ How we built it

DataMart is built using cutting-edge technologies:

• Metagraph Technology: At the core of the platform, metagraph enables the creation of application-specific blockchains that securely handle data transfers.
• Euclid-SDK: This framework helped us build the blockchain infrastructure and manage data transactions.
• React.js: We crafted a sleek, intuitive frontend that gives organizations and users a smooth experience during data sharing interactions.

🧗‍♂️ Challenges we ran into

One of the main challenges was ensuring that data sharing is fully user-controlled while maintaining privacy and compliance with legal regulations. Building a secure, encrypted data-sharing protocol that keeps the data flow transparent between organizations, without compromising on security or user experience, was no small feat. Integrating metagraph with our front-end design also presented technical hurdles.

🎉 Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud to have created a robust protocol that bridges the gap between data buyers and providers while keeping the user at the center of every transaction. This system not only ensures data privacy but also empowers users by offering them incentives for sharing their data. Bringing together compliance, security, and user consent in such an elegant way has been a significant achievement.

📚 What we learned

Throughout the development process, we learned the intricacies of blockchain technology and how to integrate it into real-world solutions. We also deepened our understanding of the importance of user-centric design in data-sharing processes and the nuances of legal compliance when dealing with sensitive user data.

🚀 What's next for DataMart

Looking forward, we plan to:

• Expand DataMart’s ecosystem by onboarding more organizations as data providers and buyers.
• Enhance the user interface to offer more dynamic, customizable data-sharing flows.
• Further strengthen our privacy and security measures with advanced encryption techniques.
• Implement AI-driven insights to provide both users and organizations with actionable data-driven recommendations.

The future of data sharing is here, and DataMart is leading the charge! 🔐🌐

Built With

• euclid-sdk
• react.js
• scala
• stargazer-wallet