Ecosystem

Core Participant Network

The BTT ecosystem thrives through a diverse network of participants who collectively drive value creation across the healthcare landscape. This interconnected community brings together healthcare providers, patients, computational contributors, investors, and technology developers, all of whom interact seamlessly and exchange value through the BTT token economy.

Healthcare Service Providers

Healthcare professionals form the backbone of the BTT ecosystem, serving both as core users and service providers. Through the platform, these professionals can utilize advanced AI diagnostic tools powered by the decentralized computing network, significantly enhancing their capabilities in medical image analysis, disease detection, treatment planning, and clinical decision support. The tokenization framework enables these providers to transform traditionally illiquid assets (such as medical equipment, intellectual property, and service rights) into more liquid capital, thereby opening new financing channels and improving overall financial efficiency.

The BTT points and rewards system has been particularly effective in enhancing patient engagement, with participating medical institutions reporting significant improvements in treatment compliance and long-term retention rates. Additionally, the integrated PayFi payment solution simplifies medical transaction processes, reducing administrative costs and accelerating settlement times.

The ecosystem has been adopted by over 15,000 medical institutions nationwide, covering various forms of medical services such as comprehensive hospitals, specialty clinics, and community health centers, demonstrating its rapid market penetration and wide applicability.

Computational Contributors Network

At the core of BTT's technological infrastructure lies its pioneering DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) model, which revolutionizes the provision of computational resources needed for healthcare AI applications. This approach enables a wide range of participants, from individual enthusiasts to large institutions, to deploy dedicated DePIN devices and receive BTT token rewards based on their contributions.

Individual participants enthusiastically deploy home-scale micro-DePIN nodes, forming a widely distributed computational foundation across residential areas. Meanwhile, institutional investors have established professional-grade high-performance computing centers specifically designed to handle more complex, data-intensive healthcare AI applications, including large-scale medical image processing, genomics analysis, drug discovery computation, and clinical prediction model training—scenarios that require specialized hardware acceleration or highly parallel computation.

Medical institutions themselves play a dual role in the ecosystem, serving as both service providers and computational contributors. This innovative arrangement allows these institutions to utilize their idle computing resources during non-operational hours, generating additional revenue streams. Complementing these distributed resources are strategic partnerships with regional data centers that provide critical supporting infrastructure during peak periods.

The effectiveness of this model is evidenced by the more than 80,000 active DePIN nodes worldwide, concentrated in medical technology hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Singapore, and Tokyo, forming powerful computational clusters in regions where demand for healthcare AI services is highest. This geographically distributed architecture ensures system redundancy and reliability even in the face of network disruptions or regional demand spikes.

Patients and End Users

Patients and healthcare consumers are key demand-side participants in the BTT ecosystem, directly benefiting from the platform's innovations in healthcare engagement and payment methods. The ecosystem fundamentally transforms the patient experience by creating economic incentives aligned with health outcomes. Individuals can earn BTT points by participating in preventive healthcare, adhering to treatment regimens, and maintaining healthy lifestyles—converting positive health behaviors into tangible economic rewards.

Beyond reward mechanisms, patients also experience significantly improved financial accessibility to healthcare through BTT's integrated payment infrastructure. BTT tokens and physical PayFi cards enable nearly fee-free and rapid settlement of medical payments, eliminating traditional financial barriers and greatly enhancing service accessibility. For many patients, particularly those in resource-constrained communities, this represents their first experience with a truly frictionless healthcare payment system.

The tokenization framework also opens unprecedented investment pathways for ordinary consumers, allowing them to participate in medical infrastructure investments previously limited to institutions, thereby deepening their connection with the healthcare system and accessing potential returns.

More importantly, the data-driven nature of the BTT ecosystem enables truly personalized healthcare pathways, with AI-enhanced treatment plans ensuring continuity across multiple healthcare providers and specialties. The platform currently serves over 2 million active patients and is projected to expand to 25 million users by 2027, comprehensively covering a broader spectrum of healthcare domains.

Institutional Supporters

The BTT ecosystem draws significant strength and credibility from its robust institutional backing. BitHive (BTT) was initiated by BitWave Protocol Labs in the United States and successfully secured $6 million in Series A funding.

China Digital Healthcare Group HK.08406, as the lead investor, brings rich industry experience in digital healthcare and an extensive network of medical resources, providing BTT with critical market access and industry connections.

M DAO, as a participating investor, focuses on governance and community building for healthcare blockchain projects, providing valuable experience and guidance for BTT's decentralized governance. Web3 Ventures possesses strong technical expertise in blockchain infrastructure and DePIN projects, offering critical support for BTT's technical architecture.

KNCapital, as a specialized medical technology investment institution, brings rich investment experience in AI healthcare and digital health. CryptoSeed Fund focuses on early-stage blockchain project incubation, providing important initial funding and strategic guidance for BTT. AN Innovators Capital has extensive networks and resources in the Asian healthcare market, providing key support for BTT's market expansion.

Collectively, these institutions hold 30% of the ecosystem's governance rights, constructing a balanced structure that combines professional oversight with progressive decentralization. This institutional foundation provides BTT with a rare combination in blockchain healthcare projects: medical expertise, technological innovation capability, and ethical governance systems.

Ecosystem Value Flow

The BTT ecosystem has constructed a circular economic system that enables continuous value flow among participants through four complementary mechanisms, creating sustainable economic value while enhancing the healthcare experience.

Computational Resource Marketplace

At the core of BTT's technical architecture is a sophisticated computational resource marketplace that ingeniously connects healthcare AI computational demands with decentralized computational supply. The marketplace operates with a smooth workflow where mining rig operators contribute GPU and AI-specific accelerator resources to the network, forming a vast computational pool. BTT's intelligent resource allocation algorithm schedules computational tasks based on urgency, complexity, and resource availability, ensuring optimal utilization of network resources.

Contributors receive BTT tokens as rewards based on their computational contributions, online time, and service quality, establishing economic incentives for participation and high-quality service provision. On the demand side, healthcare service providers call upon these resources as needed to run AI services such as diagnostic image analysis, treatment planning, and patient risk assessment, without having to build expensive dedicated infrastructure themselves.

This market architecture addresses the core inefficiency in traditional computing models—the misalignment of computational resource supply and demand across time and geography. Through its dynamic responsive market mechanism, BTT allocates resources on demand, maximizing value while reducing waste and optimizing healthcare service delivery efficiency.

Asset Tokenization Platform

BTT's asset tokenization trading platform represents a breakthrough innovation in healthcare financing, enabling unprecedented liquidity for traditionally illiquid assets. Healthcare service providers can register physical equipment, properties, service rights, or intellectual property to the BTT ecosystem, which undergo compliance and technical standard reviews before being tokenized.

After approval, digital tokens representing partial ownership or usage rights are generated, reflecting their true market value and future expected returns based on transparent valuation models. These tokens can circulate on BTT's compliant trading platform, allowing healthcare service providers to access capital without completely disposing of assets, while opening up previously inaccessible healthcare infrastructure investment opportunities to investors.

The trading platform currently facilitates approximately 50 million RMB in tokenized asset transactions monthly, projected to grow tenfold to approximately 500 million yuan in monthly transactions by 2027, demonstrating the enormous potential of the medical asset tokenization market.

Health Incentive System

The BTT health incentive system directly links positive health behaviors with actual economic rewards, fundamentally reshaping the incentive structure for "prevention-first" healthcare. Patients record their health-promoting behaviors through authorized health applications and connected devices integrated with the BTT platform, including regular check-ups, medication adherence, and lifestyle improvements.

Each activity requires verification through trusted data sources, including professional service confirmations, IoT device data, or trusted oracle channels. After verification, the system allocates BTT points through an intelligent algorithm based on health value, potential impact, and execution quality.

These points have real economic value and can be used to exchange for medical services, health products, or directly converted into BTT tokens for broader economic circulation.

System data shows that patients participating in this incentive system have a 39% increase in preventive treatment compliance and a 29% increase in treatment plan completion rates, resulting in better health outcomes and lower long-term medical costs, benefiting all ecosystem participants.

PayFi Payment Network

BTT's PayFi payment network serves as a critical bridge connecting the digital ecosystem with the physical healthcare economy, spanning the entire payment lifecycle while reducing friction and costs. Users can access the system through various methods including digital wallets, physical BTT cards, or mobile QR code payments.

A major feature of this network is its powerful cross-border payment capability with extremely low transaction fees, particularly suitable for medical institutions operating across regions or international patients seeking specialized medical care. As more medical institutions support BTT payments, a virtuous cycle forms between user expectations and merchant adoption.

Most critically, BTT PayFi enables almost instantaneous fund settlement, significantly faster than the 2-5 day clearing cycle required by traditional healthcare payment systems. This mechanism improves the cash flow situation for medical institutions while eliminating payment uncertainty for patients. Currently, the network processes over 30 million RMB in medical transactions monthly, with adoption rates accelerating as network effects strengthen.

Ecosystem Expansion Strategy

The BTT ecosystem follows a carefully designed phased expansion plan to ensure sustainable growth, strategic market penetration, and gradual ecosystem refinement. This approach balances active expansion with necessary infrastructure building and the compliance pace required by the healthcare industry.

Phase 1: Foundation Building (2025)

The first phase focuses on establishing a solid foundation in China's most technologically advanced first-tier cities. BTT will concentrate deployments in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, which are most suitable for driving innovation in terms of healthcare infrastructure, technological maturity, and regulatory environment.

During this phase, the ecosystem will prioritize diagnostic imaging AI applications and computational sharing services used by medical institutions, addressing the most urgent and value-evident scenarios. Goals include connecting at least 800 active medical institutions, serving over 500,000 patients, and establishing a distributed computing network of over 15,000 DePIN nodes. Through city-focused deployment, rapid iteration can be achieved, early challenges can be closely monitored, and optimized processes can be established, laying the foundation for subsequent expansion.

Phase 2: Market Penetration (2026)

Building on the first phase, the ecosystem will geographically expand to China's second-tier cities and provincial capitals, significantly extending market coverage while controlling operational complexity.

The application scope will also move beyond basic image diagnostics to more complex scenarios such as personalized treatment plans, comprehensive risk assessments, drug development computation, and medical operation optimization. These functionalities will rely on the growing computational network to create richer value for different participant groups.

By the end of this phase, BTT aims to serve over 8,000 medical institutions, cover more than 3 million patients, and operate over 150,000 distributed DePIN nodes, forming a cross-regional service density network.

Phase 3: Industry Integration (2027)

The third phase will achieve a leap in scale and complexity, with BTT not only achieving nationwide coverage in China but also launching multiple strategic international pilot projects.

Simultaneously, platform functionality will expand to more comprehensive healthcare provider suites, covering multiple medical specialty areas, and gradually integrating peripheral systems such as insurance networks, pharmaceutical platforms, and medical equipment management. As different healthcare segments interact through the BTT platform, network effects will significantly strengthen.

Phase goals include connecting over 25,000 medical institutions, serving more than 15 million patients, and running more complex AI medical applications supported by over 400,000 enhanced DePIN nodes.

Phase 4: Global Ecosystem (2028 and Beyond)

The mature expansion phase will propel BTT globally, first targeting key Asian healthcare hubs before gradually expanding to global markets with regulatory readiness and market potential.

The technical architecture will support cross-professional healthcare ecosystem integration, evolving BTT from a healthcare chain platform to a comprehensive healthcare infrastructure. At that point, data interoperability, cross-specialty collaboration, unified patient experience, and global computational resource sharing will become realities.

Long-term goals include connecting over 50,000 medical institutions worldwide, serving more than 80 million patients, and operating over 1.5 million distributed nodes to provide sufficient computational support for increasingly complex AI medical applications.

Ecosystem Governance

BTT has implemented a mature governance mechanism that is institutionally led during the early stages of ecosystem development and gradually transitions to community decentralized governance, achieving a natural evolution from regulatory compliance to user self-governance.

Current Governance Structure

The current governance structure is divided into four key participant categories to balance oversight powers and prevent power concentration:

  • Founding Institutions (such as BitWave Protocol Labs and core developers) hold 30% of governance rights, providing critical technical and industry decision-making power;

  • Computational Contributors account for 25%, allocated based on node computing power and operational quality, ensuring infrastructure contributors have governance representation;

  • Token Holders comprise 35%, participating in voting through token proportion, aligning economic interests with governance power;

  • Community Representatives constitute 10%, elected by ecosystem participants, ensuring the voices of healthcare practitioners and patients are included in the governance process.

Progressive Decentralization

While the early stages are led by institutional oversight to address technical and compliance challenges, BTT has established a clear decentralization timeline:

  • 2025: Institutions hold 70% power, community 30%, focusing on establishing basic parameters and technical standards;

  • 2026: Structure balanced to 50%-50%, with the community beginning to lead fund allocation and network upgrades;

  • 2027: Community governance increases to 60%, with authority to determine protocol evolution and incentive adjustments;

  • 2028 and Beyond: Community governance proportion reaches 80%, achieving on-chain governance and DAO maturity, with transparent automated community proposal and execution.

This progressive mechanism ensures the ecosystem benefits from professional guidance during critical phases while laying the foundation for community-led governance, ultimately achieving true user self-governance.

Strategic Partnerships

The BTT ecosystem operates on a strategic cooperation network spanning technology, industry, and finance. These partnerships provide critical support to the ecosystem, accelerating implementation, strengthening capabilities, and expanding coverage.

Technology Cooperation

BTT has established deep cooperation with top-tier research institutions such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to continuously advance research and innovation in healthcare AI algorithms.

Simultaneously, BTT has established hybrid cloud architecture integration with enterprise-level infrastructure providers such as Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud, combining decentralized and highly available computing to meet the requirements of critical healthcare scenarios.

At the blockchain foundation level, BTT has established technical interoperability with Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, and others to create cross-chain compatible, secure, and efficient infrastructure.

Industry Cooperation

In the medical equipment field, BTT has established integration protocols with leading medical imaging equipment manufacturers to achieve seamless connection between physical diagnostic equipment and AI analysis modules, covering various imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, ultrasound, and X-ray.

BTT has reached deployment agreements with major medical groups and chain hospitals nationwide to achieve technology iteration and feedback loops in real environments. It also participates in medical data standards organizations, promoting semantic interoperability between the BTT health data chain and traditional systems to solve long-standing data silo problems.

Financial Cooperation

BTT collaborates with payment institutions such as UnionPay to build domestic settlement systems and connects with international networks to support cross-border payments, ensuring universal coverage of the payment system under regulations.

In terms of asset liquidity, BTT interfaces with compliant digital asset trading platforms to ensure the legality and convenience of token transactions. It also collaborates with healthcare industry funds to jointly promote the circulation, valuation, and investment support of tokenized healthcare assets.

These partnerships provide BTT with a powerful ecosystem support network, ensuring its continuous evolution and stable growth in the healthcare blockchain domain.

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