Rejuve.AI

Overview

Rejuve.AI is a decentralized longevity research network that rewards ordinary people for contributing health data and AI models toward the science of extending healthy human lifespan. Founded in 2021 as a spin-off of SingularityNET — the decentralized-AI project led by Dr. Ben Goertzel — it sits at the intersection of decentralized science and artificial general intelligence. Where a classical longevity BioDAO funds drug programs through IP-NFTs, Rejuve pursues a different lever: pool the everyday health signals of a global membership, feed them to longevity-focused AI, and share the resulting value back with the people who supplied the data.

That makes Rejuve a clear example of a data-ownership DAO (a "data union") — the same archetype as genomic-data network GenomesDAO, but broadened from sequencing to the full stream of consumer health data (wearables, surveys, lab reports) and paired with an AI research engine. Its leadership team — CEO Jasmine Smith, CTO Dr. Deborah Duong, and Chief AI Scientist Dr. Ben Goertzel — ties the project directly into the SingularityNET and Cardano ecosystems.

The data-union model

Rejuve's core mechanism is an explicit two-sided exchange: contribute value to the network, receive RJV tokens in return. The network recognises two kinds of contribution — health data supplied through the app, and AI models supplied through the Global Collaboration Network (GCN). Members earn RJV by completing health surveys, uploading time-series data from wearables, joining focused data-gathering events, participating in Rejuve or partner-sponsored clinical trials, and referring others — and, crucially, by having their data actually used in a study or lead to new research or therapies.

This is the DeSci answer to the extractive Web2 health-data economy, where a platform monetises user data and keeps the upside. Rejuve inverts it: the contributor is the owner, consent and permissions are tracked on-chain, and the mission is to keep the resulting longevity insights affordable and accessible rather than locked behind a clinic paywall.

RJV token and the NFT layer

The RJV utility token launched in 2023, minted on both Ethereum and Cardano. It is the membership token of the Rejuve Network: it is earned by data and model contributors, and it is spent in the app's Rewards Store for discounts on wearables, medical tests, consultations, longevity therapies, and supplements — closing the loop so that the token's utility is health, not speculation.

Two NFT types sit alongside RJV to encode ownership rather than transactions:

Data NFT — a unique NFT minted per member and linked to their RejuveID, which records and manages the permissions attached to that member's data.
Product NFT — a fractionalized NFT allocated across everyone who contributed the data or effort behind a given product, so that downstream commercial value flows back proportionally to contributors.

The fractionalized Product NFT is the structural echo of the IP-NFT model pioneered by Molecule and VitaDAO, applied to data contributions instead of a single research program.

The AI research engine

What separates Rejuve from a pure data cooperative is the AI it feeds. The network's models are built on SingularityNET's AGI stack, including the OpenCog Hyperon framework. Rejuve's stated aim is not to fit surface correlations but to build mechanistic, dynamic models of human biology — combining neural nets, Bayesian networks, and simulation. Two named architectures anchor the current suite: BayesExpert, a probabilistic reasoning engine, and a Modular Transformer VAE neural network, together intended to produce a simulated model of a member's body with tailored, personalised longevity insights.

This AGI-adjacent ambition — treating aging as a systems-modelling problem — is what places Rejuve at the frontier where DeSci meets decentralized AI, and distinguishes it from BioDAOs whose value is a therapeutic pipeline rather than a model.

The Longevity app

Rejuve's consumer front door is the Rejuve Longevity mobile app, publicly launched in April 2025. It lets a global audience monitor health metrics, connect wearables, receive personalised insights, and accumulate RJV along the way — the on-ramp that turns the data-union thesis into a product ordinary people can actually use. Coverage at launch framed it as an attempt to give fairer, cheaper access to longevity advice and treatments, with crypto rewards as the incentive to contribute.

Governance and structure

Rejuve is best understood as a decentralized network with a token-membership economy inside the SingularityNET ecosystem, rather than an on-chain token-voting DAO in the Governor/Snapshot mould. RJV signifies membership and participation, and the NFT layer distributes ownership of data and product value; the network's direction is steered through the SingularityNET orbit and the Rejuve team rather than a formal proposal-and-vote treasury. In the DeSci landscape it is a reminder that "decentralization" spans a spectrum — from full on-chain governance to member-owned data cooperatives — and that the value being decentralized here is data and its upside, not just a treasury vote.

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