Hera Commons

A protocol for compliant exchange of medical datasets between clinics and research institutions. Providers keep their raw data; consumers get cryptographically-verifiable query results. Payment is trustless via XRPL escrow.

The Problem: Healthcare institutions sit on enormous datasets that could drive life-saving research — but GDPR, HIPAA, and institutional data-sharing agreements make direct exchange legally and technically intractable. Data brokerage through third parties creates new privacy surfaces. The result: petabytes of idle, siloed medical data.

The Solution: Hera introduces a sealed computation model:

The provider seals their dataset locally (hash + secret seed). Raw data never leaves their machine.
Metadata (description, available query types, price) is published on-chain.
A consumer discovers the dataset on-chain, opens an escrow, and sends a named compute request — a query from a pre-approved list with specific parameters.
The provider runs the query locally and returns only the aggregated result (e.g. COUNT: 142), along with a cryptographic proof that the result corresponds to the sealed dataset.
The escrow resolves and payment is released atomically.

No raw data is transmitted. No new privacy surface is introduced beyond what the provider already manages internally. Every request and response is permanently anchored on the XRPL ledger.

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Pitch html: https://hera-commons.github.io/