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Announcing DataConnect: an open source desktop app that pulls your cross-platform data in one click.

Platforms lock your context in: there's no API to get your Shopify purchases, ChatGPT memories + conversations, or Spotify listen history.
Try it out: account.vana.org/download-data-…

2 in 3 Americans track their heart with a device. Only 1 in 4 of them shows that data to a doctor.

The rest stays in an app, doing nothing for them. Your history can work for you, but only if it can move to the people and apps you choose, with your permission and a record. Vana is the open network it moves on.

Health connectors make that work. Each one is a small open-source program built for one app. It moves that app’s data in a form other apps can read. Anyone can build the next one.

See it work for yourself: connect your health apps via the Vana App and open OpenPet.

Whenever someone moves their data into an app, the app reads it, and the network earns.

But when you use an app on Vana...you get to choose what it can see.

Since the Vega upgrade, every time an app reads your data, it pays a small fee to the network. You, the person whose data it belongs to, pay nothing.

On the other hand, stakers are paid from the fees the network earns. So the more apps read data on Vana, the more stakers are paid.

And every one of those reads is consented.

@luganodes walks through the full flow, step by step.

19 of 24 health apps share your data with other companies. Those companies send it to 216 more. 213 of them are not even health companies. You never see it. And you cannot stop it. 

Until now.

Garmin, Strava, Oura, Fitbit and Apple Health now connect to the Vana App. Your runs, your sleep and your heart rate move to your own Personal Server. From there, you decide. Grant an app access, revoke it, take it with you. 

Your data is more useful when it can move. It should move for you, not for 213 companies you have never heard of.

Try it: connect your Oura Ring and open OpenPet. It turns your sleep into a pet. 1 minute.

Connect a health app this week and earn XP in the Vana Community App.

Your smartwatch may know you are getting sick before you do.

In a Stanford study, smartwatch data could have spotted 63% of COVID-19 cases before people felt ill. Four cases showed up at least nine days early.

The watch did not do that alone. The data had to move to researchers who could read it. Data is more useful when it can move.

Your sleep, your runs and your heart rate can help you the same way. A coach can plan your training. A doctor can see your week. But only if the data goes where you choose, and nowhere else.

Vana moves your data where you choose and keeps your permission on record.