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The Guardian Protocol

A completely new and decentralised blockchain protocol for Medical fact-checking, designed to eliminate any central control over Medical information and eliminate biased Authorities.

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The Guardian Protocol

A completely new and decentralised blockchain protocol for Medical fact-checking, designed to eliminate any central control over Medical information and eliminate biased Authorities.

The problem The Guardian Protocol solves

One of the overlooked, yet critical problems that the pandemic is continuously exposing, is the staggering rate at which crucial medical information and practices, spread without verification,a trusted fact-check, or with less or no scientific validation. The current means to verify a certain fact or procedure, is to either research yourself , or wait for validation by any of your trusted source (like your doctor, govt etc).

Now its rather clear that the first method is time consuming, and requires you yourself to have experience and knowledge in the relevant field which won't be the case most of the time.

However, the second option seems more feasible, doesn't it? you could simply ask your trusted source, like a doctor, or the government officials. The problem here is that most of the times, your trusted source could be prone to error itself, simply because most of the time, your "source" is not incentivized to provide you the factually correct information.

Challenges I ran into

This was a challenging projet.

Firstly the ideation for this project is complex as designing an accurate blockchain protocol itself is a lengthy process.
So in many places I got stuck with the methodology of this protocol, trying to ideate the most accurate solution to the problem.
Also given the complexity of the project, many sub problems emerged which took a lot of time to solve.
Also there were a few logistic problems with me during the hack, which also halted the implementatin of this project, but overall this was quite a learning experience for me !

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