helixstreet.io is a Polkadot SDK chain and autonomous Google Cloud agent fleet that records what genomic and proteomic datasets exist, who owns them, who granted access, and what was computed against them — without putting the underlying sequences on chain.
🏆 Google Cloud × Devpost Winner · Best Architectural Design · $180,000 Prize Pool · 12,260 Participants · 78 Judges
helixstreet — Autonomous Genomic Fleet
Track: The Fortified Enterprise Fleet. Competing in one of the largest AI agent hackathons globally ($180,000 USD in prizes across 12,260 participants evaluated by 78 Google & GDE judges), helixstreet won Best Architectural Design. Drop a raw sequencing file (BAM) into a Cloud Storage bucket and walk away — no chat loop, no clicks, no waiting human. Eventarc wakes a governed five-agent fleet on Google ADK: a Gemma 4 31B intake gatekeeper screens with Model Armor and scrubs PII via Cloud DLP, Gemini 3.5 Flash dispatches Google DeepVariant on Cloud Batch, goes dormant across the compute gap, wakes itself when the VCF lands, cross-references 1000 Genomes in BigQuery and CPIC pharmacogenomics, and seals a tamper-evident digital twin in ~9 minutes.
Full 4-minute live run on Google Cloud: Eventarc ingest, Model Armor + DLP redaction, DeepVariant on Cloud Batch, 3 parallel PGx patients, selective Merkle disclosure, and hash-chained audit verification.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Stack & NVIDIA Nemotron EvaluationBuilt natively on Google Cloud Platform: Google ADK, Vertex AI (Gemini 3.5 Flash global endpoint), Gemma 4 31B, Google DeepVariant on Cloud Batch, Cloud Run, Eventarc, Cloud Storage, Firestore (Memory Bank, Agent Registry, Audit Ledger, Merkle Vault), BigQuery (1000 Genomes), Model Armor, Cloud DLP, Secret Manager, Cloud Trace (OpenTelemetry), and Cloud Logging. As an NVIDIA Inception member, we are also actively evaluating NVIDIA Nemotron models (Nemotron-3 Nano 30B / Super 120B) and NVIDIA Clara Parabricks for multi-cloud sovereign deployments.
01 · The Grand Vision: Elevate Life on Earth & Carry It to Mars
Our long-horizon mission is to advance all forms of life and health, enhance human biology, and cryptographically preserve the genomic blueprints of Earth's species as humanity expands toward Mars. By sealing genomes in salted Merkle trees and SHA-256 ledgers, altering a single base pair changes the root hash — giving us mathematical, tamper-evident proof of authentic, original life. NO LIMITS AT THE FRONTIER OF AI, GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS.
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02 · Relentless Execution — Proven in Code, Not Noise
We are measured by systems in production: winner of Best Architectural Design in Google's All Things Agentic Hackathon ($180,000 prize pool · 12,260 participants · 78 judges), Polkadot validators consistently graded A+ with top-tier slot inclusion and era performance, and public RPC nodes delivering 100.00% availability at the lowest latencies on the network. WE DELIVER REAL RESULTS — NOT LINKEDIN AND TWITTER NOISE. WE DELIVER.
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03 · AI-Native Architecture & Radical Lean Speed
A focused, senior engineering core amplified by a governed fleet of autonomous AI agents — orchestrated during the Google hackathon and in daily engineering with our own multi-agent orchestrator uta (unleashtheagents.ai) ↗. No bloated committees, no performative roadmaps, and zero organizational drag — WE DO NOT OVERTHINK. WE JUST DO.
Core Capabilities
What helixstreet does — and doesn't
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Cryptographic Proof of Original Life — Earth to Mars
Salted Merkle trees and hash-chained ledgers seal human and planetary genomes against silent mutation or tampering. Modify a single nucleotide and the cryptographic root changes — establishing mathematical proof of original biological life on Earth and for future habitats on Mars.
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Eligibility proofs, not raw DNA
ZK circuits in the style of Icefish (IACR 2026/463) let you prove "my genotype meets the inclusion criteria" without revealing the genotype.
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On-Chain Governance
Connections validated by both data providers and approved through transparent on-chain governance.
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HelixGroups
Decentralized groups making drug development and safety rating more objective through collective intelligence.
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Proteomics & Genomics
Application-specific blockchain built for life sciences, supporting genomic and proteomic datasets natively.
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Polkadot SDK chain
Secured by Polkadot's shared validator set via coretime, with XCM v5 to compose with KILT identity, Crust storage and the wider ecosystem.
Polkadot Relay
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Ecosystem
Built for Interoperability
Ancestry data and links in the helixstreet parathread can be utilized by other chains to create Clans in the Metaverse. Through Cross Consensus Messaging (XCM), Metaverse projects can integrate real-life data and relationships.
The helixstreet foundation is a Swiss foundation stewarding the protocol, its open standards, and its validators.
A Polkadot validator, Asset Hub and People Chain collators, and public JSON-RPC endpoints for all of them, operated by the helixstreet team. No hidden infra, no third-party rentals.
Live block production — the metanode helix
WebSocket subscriptions to our own nodes · nothing is simulated
Each strand is a chain, each bead a block, right edge is now: horizontal distance is seconds. Bead size follows the block's extrinsic count, hollow beads await finality, filled beads are final. Blocks authored by helixstreet.foundation/2 glow white once our collator is in the active set.
Nominate us — what you get, and what we don't promise
Nominating our validators earns standard Polkadot staking rewards at 0% commission. It creates no claim on helixstreet. There is no helixstreet token, no presale, no airdrop, and no planned distribution. Treat any “$HLX” listing you find as not us. Nominate because the nodes run well.
Polkadot's nominate flow does not accept a deep-link target — copy the stash above, then paste it into the dashboard's Favorites. Grade and performance numbers from turboflakes ONE-T.
Public RPC — Polkadot, Kusama & system chains
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Polkadot WSS
wss://rpc-polkadot.helixstreet.io
Kusama WSS
wss://rpc-kusama.helixstreet.io
Asset Hub & People WSS
wss://rpc-asset-hub-polkadot.helixstreet.io
wss://rpc-people-polkadot.helixstreet.io
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Regioneu-central
# chain name over HTTPS — one-liner sanity check
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"system_chain","params":[]}' \
https://rpc-polkadot.helixstreet.io
Post inclusion criteria as a circuit. Participants submit an eligibility proof generated locally against their VCF. You learn who qualifies, not what their genome looks like.
Off-chain proving, on-chain verification
Cohort-formation events are auditable
Composable with All of Us / UK Biobank workflows
Data owner
An immutable record of who saw what, and when
Every access request, grant, and revocation is a signed extrinsic. If your data is used in a study, the consent receipt sits next to the result — you can revoke prospectively at any time.
Signed grants with expiry & scope
Royalty splits routed at settlement
Data stays in your enclave; only proofs travel
Biotech / pharma
Provenance for derived datasets and IP
Sequence-alignment proofs and verifiable GWAS pipelines anchor "this result was computed against this consented cohort with this method" to the chain. Useful for regulators, partners, and downstream IP NFTs.
Listed peers are independent projects we compose with technically; this is not a statement of formal partnership.
Advisory
Pharma & biotech engagements
Beyond the chain itself, helixstreet advises large pharmaceutical companies on where blockchain actually helps a life-sciences workflow — and, just as often, where it doesn't.
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Where blockchain earns its keep
Consent and access audit trails, provenance of derived datasets, multi-party trial coordination, IP-NFT settlement, supply-chain attestations for biologics. Each one is a problem regulators already understand.
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Where it doesn't
Putting raw genomes on chain. "Tokenize the patient." Anonymous DNA marketplaces. AI-on-genomes-on-chain combo plates. We will tell you no, in writing, with the references.
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How we engage
Scoped reviews, architecture workshops, and reference implementations on testnet. We work in writing, with citations, and against a defined exit criterion. Get in touch →
Tech watch
What we're tracking outside Polkadot
helixstreet is Polkadot-native by design, but life sciences is a 20-year problem and the substrate matters less than the guarantees. These are the platforms we keep instrumented and benchmark against.
We benchmark consent-flow and proof-verification primitives against each of these on a rolling basis. When something there beats Polkadot for a specific life-science workload, we say so — and the advisory engagements above reflect that.
FAQ
Direct answers to the obvious questions
Is my DNA stored on-chain?
No. Raw sequences stay where they already live — a HIPAA- or GDPR-bounded enclave you or your provider control. The chain stores hashes, consent receipts, access grants, and verification of proofs computed against the data. WGS files are ~100 GB; that does not belong on a blockchain.
Can I prove I'm a unique human using my DNA?
We explicitly don't recommend DNA-based proof of personhood. Identical twins, family-tree leakage, and the irrevocability of a stolen genotype all break it as a Sybil-resistant primitive. Read the long-form note →
What can I actually do today vs what's roadmap?
Live now: Polkadot validator helixstreet.foundation/2 at A+ grade, Asset Hub and People Chain collators (metanode phase 1, dedicated metanode build in preparation), public RPC endpoints for Polkadot, Kusama, Asset Hub and the People Chains. Testnet: consent-receipt pallet, ZK eligibility-proof verifier. Roadmap: mainnet launch on Polkadot coretime, XCM bridges to KILT/Crust, federated-kinship coordinator. See the roadmap.
What's the commission and minimum nomination?
Commission is 0% (fixed). We have 35,622 DOT self-bonded and 124 nominators, including 14 nomination pools, backing roughly 1.6M DOT in total (era 2344, November 2026). Direct-nomination minimum is dynamic (typically 250–500 DOT); via nomination pools any amount works.
How does this differ from VitaDAO, Bio Protocol, or GenomesDAO?
Bio Protocol and VitaDAO operate on Ethereum/Optimism and focus on funding IP-NFTs for biotech ventures. GenomesDAO is a Polygon-based encrypted-vault experiment. helixstreet operates a sovereign Polkadot-SDK chain optimized for the coordination and audit layer — consent receipts, eligibility proofs, provenance — and composes with Bio Protocol's IP‑NFT standard rather than replacing it.
Is there a token? Why nominate the helixstreet validators?
No. There is no helixstreet token, no presale, no airdrop, and no planned distribution. Treat any “$HLX” listing you find as not us.
NOMINATE US: Nominating our helixstreet.foundation validators earns standard Polkadot staking rewards at 0% commission and creates no claim on helixstreet. Nominate because the nodes run well. Nominate our validators →
How do I reach the validator operator if something looks wrong?
Email info@helixstreet.io, or open an issue on the GitHub org (linked from the infrastructure page). Response SLA for validator-affecting reports is one business day.