Blockchain could help solve many of the issues that Eterly would inevitably confront, for example, by rewarding user behaviour via token mining, building a ‘longevity marketplace’, anonymous health data storage, and data sharing, using a permissioned blockchain protocol.

Having completed a seed round, led by Deep Knowledge Ventures and a group of angel investors, Ahachinsky is now preparing to raise $15 million via an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to fund further development of the app, whilst adding a blockchain back end that the company hopes will become the ultimate longevity ecosystem.

Longevity United

Eterly’s MVP is currently available from the Google Play and iTunes stores, with the final version of the app due to be released early in 2019.

Vancouver-based tech startup Eterly is taking this a stage further with an app that works with wearables to derive insight about the user’s lifestyle habits that could be a factor in how long they will live.

As well as monitoring steps, heart rate, and sleep, Eterly employs an intelligent chatbot that prompts users for information about their eating habits, vitamin intake, and even their mood. It then assigns each user with a unique, algorithmically determined ‘Longevity Score’, which is updated on a daily basis.

Users will be able to ‘mine’ tokens by achieving their health and fitness goals designed and delivered to them by the AI-driven chatbot, which acts like a virtual personal trainer.

Eterly’s founder and CEO is Andrew Ahachinsky, a lifelong fitness enthusiast and longevity evangelist.

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He says: “Life extension became a personal interest for me when members of my family suffered illnesses, including hypertension and heart problems. I hit upon the idea of finding potential life extension solutions by optimising lifestyle factors; the concept of micro-managing one’s health with the help of AI.”