Pulse

Pulse was a health-tracking wearable and personal health-data platform from Solana's decentralized science (DeSci) scene. It later rebranded as Makina, and as of September 2026 it appears to be inactive.

Status: appears inactive

Several signs point to the project no longer running as of September 2026:

• The official domain, pulse.site, does not resolve (NXDOMAIN). Its old blog subdomain, blog.pulse.site, no longer serves a valid site.
• The storefront used after the rebrand, checkout.makina.com, also does not resolve. The root makina.com domain now redirects to BrandBucket, a domain-name marketplace.
• The "Pulse by Makina" iOS app listing on the Apple App Store returns a 404.
• The project's X account (@PulseNoLimits, later shown as "Makina") returned no posts when we checked.

We found no formal shutdown announcement, so the exact date and reason it stopped are unknown. This profile describes the project as it was.

What Pulse was

Pulse started as a Web3 health-tech startup. Its goal was to build what it called "digital twins" for healthcare: single health profiles that combined data from wearables, electronic health records and diagnostics. Decrypt reported that the company framed its mission as solving healthcare's "trilemma" of privacy, personalization and prevention. Users would keep control of their own health data and could share it with researchers and healthcare providers in exchange for rewards.

The main product was a wristband wearable. According to Decrypt and SolanaFloor, it tracked heart rate variability, sleep, blood-oxygen levels and activity across more than 50 activity types. A companion app gave AI-driven personalized insights. SolanaFloor presented Pulse as a Solana-based DeSci competitor to consumer wearables like Whoop. It said the project planned to use confidential-computing techniques such as multi-party computation (MPC) to process health data while keeping it private.

History and funding

• April 2024: Pulse held its beta launch, according to Decrypt.
• November 2024: Pulse announced a $1.8 million pre-seed round co-led by Collab+Currency and Lemniscap, with Delphi Digital and Lattice Fund also investing. Angel investors included Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Santiago R. Santos. River Tamoor Baig was named as CEO. Decrypt reported that the first two wearable pre-order batches sold out within 48 hours.
• December 2024: Pulse raised $400,000 in three minutes on the Echo investment platform, plus $100,000 on Legion, which Decrypt described as 8x oversubscribed.
• December 2024: Pulse and pump.science, a Solana DeSci project, announced an on-chain wearable study to test a supplement pump.science was developing. Several hundred participants were to wear Pulse devices, with their health data streamed to the pump.science platform.
• Q1 2025: SolanaFloor reported that wearables were scheduled to ship to pre-order customers during this quarter.

Rebrand to Makina

Pulse later rebranded as Makina, and the wearable was sold as "Pulse by Makina." A case study by the agency DEPT says the rebrand moved the product away from a performance-focused fitness tracker. Instead it became a "personal experimentation platform" under the slogan "Play. Discover. Grow." It used a retro-futuristic, anime-influenced visual style. In 2025 the company described the device as "a wearable for n=1 habit experiments." In other words, it was a tool for testing which personal habits actually improve sleep, energy and productivity. DEPT's case study reported higher conversion and follower growth in the three months after the rebrand, but gave no independently verifiable user or device figures.

Place in the Solana ecosystem

Pulse was one of the more visible consumer projects in Solana's DeSci segment in late 2024. It drew attention because of Yakovenko's angel investment, its fast community fundraises on Echo and Legion, and its study with pump.science. Its stated Solana connection was user-owned health data and rewards for sharing that data. Public sources we reviewed do not document a live token, specific on-chain programs or a published security audit.

The official domains no longer work and the app has been removed from the App Store. Anyone holding a device or pre-order should treat the product as unsupported unless the team announces otherwise.