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Mental Health on PYRAX

Mental-health care carries uniquely high stigma, and fear of exposure keeps millions from seeking help. PYRAX enables genuinely anonymous care over its mixnet, keeps every session shielded off-chain, and lets patients prove treatment or eligibility without ever revealing what they disclosed — removing the privacy barrier that keeps people from the care they need.

Market size

$444.8B mental health market (2023)

Projection

$644.4B by 2030 · ~5.5% CAGR

The market

~50%

Adults with a mental illness untreated

leading

Citing privacy/stigma as a barrier to care

double-digit

Digital mental-health market CAGR

highest tier

Sensitivity of behavioral-health records

Source: Grand View Research, 2024. Figures are indicative and provided for context.

What's broken today

Stigma and fear of disclosure stop people from seeking mental-health care.

Behavioral-health records are the most sensitive PHI and the most damaging if leaked.

Patients need to prove treatment for work, court, or insurance without revealing content.

Crisis and peer-support platforms struggle to protect anonymity while ensuring safety.

How PYRAX transforms it

Concrete network elements mapped to this business.

Mixnet for anonymous care

Patients reach therapists, crisis lines, and peer support over the PYRAX mixnet, so participation cannot be traced back to their identity or network metadata.

Shielded-by-default session privacy

Session occurrence and content are committed off-chain; nothing on the ledger reveals that a person sought or received mental-health care.

ZK proofs of treatment without disclosure

A patient can prove to an employer, court, or insurer that they completed treatment or met a requirement — without exposing any diagnosis or session detail.

Consent-gated, revocable sharing

Behavioral-health records are shared only via explicit, revocable consent grants, honoring the heightened confidentiality these records demand.

On-chain escrow for care payments

Sessions with anonymous or pseudonymous clinicians settle through escrow, so payment never links a real-world identity to a therapy record.

Buildathon: dApp ideas

Ship-ready concepts for mental health on PYRAX.

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AnonTherapy

Mixnet-routed teletherapy where sessions are unlinkable to a patient's real-world identity.

mixnetanonymityprivacy

CrisisRelay

Anonymous crisis-support line over the mixnet with optional consent-gated escalation for safety.

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TreatmentProof

ZK attestation letting a patient prove completed treatment to a third party without disclosing content.

ZKattestationprivacy

PeerCircle

Pseudonymous peer-support community with shielded membership and revocable participation.

anonymityZKcommunity

MoodVault

Patient-owned mood and journaling record held off-chain as commitments, shared only via viewing keys.

viewing-keysconsentpatient

SessionPay

Escrow settlement for pseudonymous clinicians that never links payment to a therapy record.

escrowanonymitypayments

WellnessAI

PYRAX Compute on-device support model running inference on private inputs with nothing identifiable logged.

ComputeAIprivacy

AccessKey

Selective-disclosure tool sharing scoped behavioral-health records with a new provider under revocable consent.

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