MedDAO will provide a platform for healthcare providers, patients and other industry stakeholders to collaborate and distribute medical knowledge on a global scale. We do that by leveraging a highly-engaged community made up of public health stakeholders who are co-owners of our organization. We do it because we believe that access to medical knowledge and expertise should not be constrained by geography or other artificial barriers. MedDAO was founded and funded by DecentraMed, LLC, a Wyoming LLC. The owners of DecentraMed are: • Drs. R. Morgan Stuart and Brad Zacharia, practicing neurosurgeons that trained together at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University Medical Center. • George Cecil and Ryan Zacharia, who invest in blockchain and web3 infrastructure for regulated financial institutions. Other core team members and advisors include: • Tracheopteryx, co-founder of Coordinape and yearn OG. • Dr. S.K. Steven Houston III is a vitreoretinal surgeon who trained at Wills Eye Hospital and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He is a web3 enthusiast, building at the cross-section of medicine, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DAOs. • Katherine Onk, a data analytics leader with experience in advertising, fundraising, social platforms and education. An advisor for clinical research after navigating patient advocacy for parents with neurological conditions. Web3 enthusiast with experience in cryptocurrencies, digital assets and blockchain data curation. • Elijah Spina Ph.D., a molecular biologist who's contributed to various DAOs focused on decentralized data ownership and scientific publishing. His experiences as a traditional biotech founder and web3 podcast marketer lend a broad entrepreneurial skill set to the team. • Dr. Lukas Vogel is a medical doctor from Germany with additional degrees in blockchain technology and biology. Web3 x healthcare enthusiast with over 10 years of experience in the cryptocurrency space. • Members of the LexDAO & Bankless communities. MedDAO is a Trustless Unincorporated Nonprofit Association under the Delaware Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act. You can view MedDAO's proposals, members and other information here.

• It’s not telehealth -- while patient-facing use cases are on MedDAO's long-term roadmap, it is not currently equipped to handle patient-facing interactions or personal health information. • It’s not attempting to displace healthcare professionals, eliminate doctors' offices, hospitals or insurances companies. • It’s not shilling NFTs or a speculative, profit-making opportunity. Instead, MedDAO is seeking to build a platform that provides long-term value (be it philanthropic, economic, educational, etc.) to its members and users. MedDAO is, first and foremost, about coordinating public good. If you’re looking to get rich quick, you’re in the wrong place.

Any individual is welcome to join MedDAO. We aim to create a globally connected community dedicated to sharing all medical knowledge and experience. • Healthcare professionals - for those that have dedicated their lives to acquiring and applying their medical knowledge, MedDAO hopes to build a platform to allow these professionals to expand their medical networks and more effectively distribute their knowledge. • Patients - while patient-facing use cases are contemplated, they will not be MedDAO's initial focus due to the complex legal and privacy considerations. However, patients also possess a wealth of medical and experiential knowledge and foresee use cases that tap into this vast, and previously underutilized, knowledge base. • Medical industry - MedDAO sees great potential to work with the medical industry as partners, working together to expand connectivity, increase efficiency and transparency and further the collective mission of advancing healthcare. • Academic institutions/researchers - MedDAO endeavors to help institutions and medical researchers discover new resources and find new methods or collaboration. • Caused-based organizations - organizations have traditionally been forced to rely upon fully centralized systems for their community engagement and platform development, we hope to enable these organizations to more easily communicate with those they’re trying to help and to facilitate the creation of new, completely decentralized organizations. • Medicolegal experts - we hope medicolegal experts will guide the DAO, defining the permissible activities and further exploring the boundaries of Healthcare 3.0. • Web3 natives - the web3 community plays a crucial role in our success as they rally around the mission of MedDAO to aid in the architecture built-out and continued growth of the DAO, protocol, and Healthcare 3.0. • Regulators - regulators play a crucial role in facilitating the legal and ethical practice of medicine globally. MedDAO expects to engage with global regulators on an ongoing basis and welcomes their participation in the DAO to further the goals of Healthcare 3.0.

All members of the community must go through a Proof of Humanity check. Additionally, subDAOs may have their own credentialing requirements. U.S.-licensed healthcare providers’ credentials will be checked against the American Board of Medical Specialties database, and once the provider has been approved, a non-transferrable NFT (with an expiration date that requires future reverification) will be minted to their wallet enabling their entry into the proper subDAO. We would like to work with the community to replicate such a process across other geographies. Please click here for more information.

As a patient (or caregiver), you possess a unique perspective and we believe there is value in creating a platform for you to share your experiential knowledge with others who may be facing a similar medical problem. In this way, MedDAO seeks to create a regenerative platform around medical knowledge and experience.

MedDAO seeks to collaborate and partner with a broad range of stakeholders in the healthcare space. We believe creating global access to a large community of healthcare providers organized by medical specialties and other medical stakeholders presents novel opportunities for researchers, charitable organizations, pharmaceutical and health insurance companies alike. In this way, MedDAO seeks to become an ImpactDAO, creating positive externalities for the world.

Knowledge Requests (KRs) are one of the proposed use cases and primitives of the MedDAO protocol. A KR begins with a knowledge requestor submitting a question/query/or proposal to a subDAO (or multiple subDAOs); the subDAO members then go through a request fulfillment process and, after internal quality check processes, return the completed KR. MedDAO’s minimum viable product will support Industry Knowledge Requests. In the future, we plan to expand Knowledge Request use cases to include legal, government, research and other areas contemplated by subDAOs.

If we’ve piqued your interest, we encourage you to learn more by following our socials, reading our documentation, subscribing to our newsletter (below) and joining our Discord server (our primary engagement platform). Our Discord server is where you will become part of the conversation and a member of the team to making the vision of Healthcare 3.0 a reality. Please reach out to us if you have any questions, comments or issues.