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You’ve been tracking your runs, sleep and heart rate for years. Now, you can put that history to work. Health Data Season starts today. Give the health data you’ve been recording...a new use. Connect your Garmin, Strava or Oura in the Vana Community App. Your data moves to your own Personal Server, where you choose which apps can access it. Grant permission, revoke it, take your data with you. Discover what kind of runner you are with a shareable Strava card. Or connect a health app to OpenPet and meet a pet that brings your activity, recovery and other health insights to life. Data is more useful when it can move. See what your history can do for you. Connect a health app this month to earn XP in the Vana Community App.

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.

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.

The Vana Community Program is live. Earn XP and compete for real rewards. One membership and one XP balance across the whole Vana ecosystem. Explore apps, complete tasks, earn XP and spend it in the weekly Store. Here's how to get started: 1. Join the community Create your profile and link your X and Discord. That's 200 XP before you've done anything else. 2. Explore the ecosystem Try OpenPet. Connect your Oura Ring, approve the request in the Vana App and meet a pet that reads your sleep back to you. Share it on X for more XP. 3. Bid for rewards Take your XP to the weekly Store. The highest bid at close wins. A new Store opens every week. Links below 👇

Nobody is going to hand your data back to you. So we’re taking it back together. The Vana Community app is where that starts. Try apps built on Vana, earn XP, and spend it in the weekly store. Start with OpenPet, built by the Vana Builder League. Connect your Oura Ring and your sleep data becomes a virtual pet that shows how well you slept. Your XP goes into bids on limited edition Vana merch and digital rewards.

The new Vana App is now live. It sits behind the apps you use. When one of them asks for your data, you see exactly what it wants and decide. Say yes and the data moves with your permission, and the move is recorded. See it work in OpenPet: connect an Oura Ring, get a pet that reads your sleep back to you. Trying it this week earns XP. Full write up: vana.org/blog/vana-is-stripe…

AI agents can only help you if they know about you. And what they know is your data. So who moves it, and who decides? That was the question at Builder Nights Seoul with @MetaMask, @lfdecentralized and @0xTicker. @juliangordonhk8 opened on who is already building this. LF Decentralized Trust counts ten central banks among its members, including the Bank of Korea. It also hosts the standard Vana wrote for how personal data moves. On the first panel, @francescoswiss and the MetaMask team talked about agents moving from trading to doing everyday things for you. For that, an agent needs your data, and you need to stay in charge of it. On the second, @sheila_warren and the panel made a harder point. Regulators everywhere are talking about digital public infrastructure and decentralization. It’s a natural fit for Web3, but very few Web3 projects are in the room. Web3 doesn’t need to invent new use cases. It needs to meet the ones that already exist. Which projects do you see showing up for this work?

Vana sat down with Singapore's business and government leaders at the Tanglin Club, hosted by the MIT Club of Singapore. Singapore wants AI built on people's real data, and its law already gives people the right to move that data from one organisation to another. What it needs is a way to do it. That is what Vana is. A person decides who can use their data, for what, and for how long. Every move is recorded. Vana wrote the standard for this, the Linux Foundation hosts it, and governments are scoping national rollouts. The network already carries 1.5 million users and more than 20 million transactions. Singapore is putting S$1 billion into AI research through 2030. The countries that get the most out of AI will be the ones where people's data can move with their permission. Vana is how it moves.