Step Aside Whoop: Pulse is Reinventing Wellness Wearables with User Rewards

A Solana-based startup gives users the best of both worlds, balancing meaningful healthcare insights with data sovereignty.

Finn Miller

Published: Dec 13, 2024 at 18:28
Edited: Dec 13, 2024 at 18:47

Pulse, an early-stage DeSci project, promises to reimagine our relationship with healthcare. As artificial intelligence revolutionizes the healthcare industry, consumers are more concerned than ever about the safety and security of their personal data.

Emerging at the crossroads of wellness, AI, and privacy, Pulse is set to disrupt the $28B wearables market, supplanting industry giants like Whoop and Oura.

What is Pulse? How will this emerging DeSci hardware reinvent the healthcare market and why are prominent industry figures like Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko backing the band?

What is Pulse?

Pulse is a wearable device that provides users with comprehensive, meaningful healthcare data. The sleek, subtle wristband tracks critical health metrics, including heart rate variability, blood-oxygen levels, and sleep patterns.

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Beyond the wearable device, the Pulse app analyzes health data to deliver personalized, actionable insights that enhance and optimize users' lifestyles. Hearing the unspoken demands of our physiology, Pulse helps users enhance their energy levels, balance their lifestyles, and get something that eludes every crypto enthusiast: a good night’s sleep.

Where Pulse differs from your standard Web2 wearable is in its management of healthcare data. Unlike traditional rivals, Pulse gives users full sovereignty and control over their personal data, allowing them to earn rewards for sharing their information with researchers and professionals of their choosing.

This refreshing approach to healthcare data sovereignty flips the existing industry on its head. Instead of paying for a product and risking the exploitation of their data, Pulse transforms user data into a valuable asset that they can protect or resell on their own terms.

Blockchain Brings Greater Security to Untapped Healthcare Data

In 2024, over 168 million people have had their healthcare data compromised through security breaches. According to Healthcare Dive, the average exploit costs the industry $9.8M, making healthcare one of the world’s costliest sectors for data security.

Blockchain technology could offer a timely solution to these vulnerabilities. DeCC (Decentralized Confidential Computing) technologies like MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and (Fully-Homomorphic Encryption) enable secure data processing, without exposing sensitive information to potential threats.

Pulse argues that harnessing these technologies offers users unrivaled data privacy, while still enjoying the wealth of benefits that effective health monitoring provides.

Backed by Toly, Delphi, Lattice

Pulse has already made a splash in private markets, attracting 1.8M in pre-seed funding. The Pulse pre-seed round was led by Collab Currency and Lemniscap, with support from industry heavyweights Delphi Ventures and Lattice.

Additionally, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has also thrown his weight behind the project, listed as a Pulse angel investor.

With wearable devices scheduled to ship to pre-order participants in Q1 2025, Pulse has established itself as one of Solana’s key players in the emerging DeSci sector.

DeSci has been slated as one of the key fields to watch in 2025, with Solana quickly emerging as a hub of DeSci activity through popular initiatives like pump.science.