A GIANT leap for decentralized research was made today 🧬
For the first time, real-world biopharma research and IP was transferred and funded on-chain as an NFT via
@Molecule_to
@Nevermined_io
@vita_dao
A DAO now owns IP and funds biotech research at a leading lab... 👇
1/🧵
I'm humbled, in awe, and excited to announce
@Molecule_dao
raised a $12.7m seed round led by
@NPV_vc
to build the future of
#DeSci
and biotech
Grateful to my love Laura, my Co-Founder
@GolatoTyler
, our entire team, and the
@vita_dao
community
And to our visionary backers!
Top 3 things to do in crypto:
1. Start a "hedge-fund"
2. Start a podcast
3. Launch an ICO
Top 3 underrated activities:
1. Mentor and educate
2. Build real useful dapps
3. Work on protocol & scaling
DeSci is a new web3 field 👩🔬🧪 with unbound potential
Web3 will change how we publish, access, and fund breakthroughs and manage them democratically
Lego blocks 🏗️
- Publish
@ResearchHub
@viamirror
- IP & funding
@Molecule_dao
- R&D DAOs
@vitadao
- Data generation
@lab_dao
Today
#ethereum
transact over $100,000,000 per hour on average, with over 53% of transactions going to smart contracts. Really speaks for Ethereums success as a contract platform. Great stats from
@Amberdataio
#EDCON
If DeSci succeeds, it will be as significant as the printing press
Gutenberg enabled broad dissemination of knowledge connecting scientists globally
But gatekeeping emerged
DeSci will change this paradigm and make science self-sovereign, open, distributed and unstoppable
I've been keeping a wonderful secret - I'm now a father of two!
Our second son arrived recently, and we couldn't be happier. Fatherhood has been an incredible journey of growth and discovery
With a thriving family, I'm ready to pour my energy into DeSci summer - stay tuned 🔥
This IP-NFT represents full legal IP rights + data access control to biotech research and data at
@ScheibyeKnudsen
@uni_copenhagen
.
Purchased for $325,000 & going directly to fund the R&D.
Virtualised IP is a new asset class.
Today marks a historic day for DeSci: the first time a academic institution in the US is transacting & financing R&D via an IP-NFT in web3 to a DAO 🇺🇸🧑🔬
Join Dr Jonathan An from the University of Washington
@UW
Aging Research Institute &
@vita_dao
👇
DeSci could be significantly larger than web3 gaming 👇
1) R&D and funding models largely same as in the 60s - leapfrog will be massive 🐸
2) science is expensive and touches every industry 🚀
3) scientists are a largely disempowered and desperate user group 👩🔬
DeSci is a new web3 field 👩🔬🧪 with unbound potential
Web3 will change how we publish, access, and fund breakthroughs and manage them democratically
Lego blocks 🏗️
- Publish
@ResearchHub
@viamirror
- IP & funding
@Molecule_dao
- R&D DAOs
@vitadao
- Data generation
@lab_dao
What if we could re-design intellectual property?
And live in a scientific system that makes patents obsolete.
Not because we fought the patent system, but because IP-NFTs reinvent incentives, and make science self sovereign.
#DeSci
will be bigger than open source software.
A small step for man 🌔 but a giant leap for
#openscience
today 👩🔬
I just funded the first open science
#NFT
for $24,000. It will directly fund a novel study in appetite theory, generate open data & donate to
@OSFramework
Congratulations
@mattstephenson
this is history 🌱
The first Open Science NFT just sold for the mindblowing amount of 13 ETH ($24,000)!
10% of that will go to
@OSFramework
and the remainder will fund a full replication of the study.
Thank you so much to everyone who bid and helped make this happen. I'm stunned.
Some takeaways from
#DevCon
so far
- diversity in the ecosystem is greatly increasing 👫👭👬 and all the oldtimers remain committed 🦄
-
@EFDevcon
& Foundation really stepped up their org 👏🏼
- big focus on UX, user onboarding, purpose
The future of
#ethereum
is bright 🌟
This is a monumental day for open biotech and DAOs 🤯
@vita_dao
genesis just concluded with an astonishing 3.4k ETH in bids and a final price of 0.0004 ETH per $VITA. True community price discovery!
Welcome to a new age of open, global and democratic longevity research 🧬
Just spent an amazing weekend in sunny Montenegro at the intersection of network states, synthetic biology and
#DeSci
🌞🧬
Hearing
@DrewEndy
@VitalikButerin
debate the future of science and web3 makes me hopeful for network states
#Zuzalu
Truly inspiring to see these spaces…
The IP NFT was transferred into full ownership of a DAO
@vita_dao
which will fund the research project.
A DAO now owns real-world research IP 🤯 it voted and approved this project with 88/12.
Drug development DAOs 🌱
What if it was possible to vaccinate against aging?
Utopian? Work on this is already underway in labs around the world.
Vaccines may teach our immune system to target senescent cells in our body similarly how they target smallpox or covid.
Dare the impossible. Join
@vita_dao
gm
#desci
fam 👩🔬 I'm working on an article about IP-NFTs covering legal, tech, and future design parameters
What common questions should it clarify? Lmk and I'll try to highlight it 🙏
We may be witnessing the largest financial paradigm shift of our lifetimes. /1 🧵
Stagflation is really bad. Much worse than 2000 or 2008, because governments are helpless.
So, equity markets could go down a long way for a long time. And crypto will decouple as a commodity👇
"We need to design for people, not keypairs"
@somemikesena
presenting key
@uport_me
design principles at
#EDCON
. And by the way, we're live on main-net!
Think of this NFT as a 🔑
🧪 Enables funding, liquidity and valuation of the IP and research
📃 Transacts the real-world legal rights/licenses of the IP (req. for patents)
🔐 Secures access control to the underlying research data via
@Nevermined_io
But wait, there's more...
Buendia Bogota 🇨🇴 from
@Molecule_dao
team 👨🏼🔬👩🔬
So excited for my 5th
@EFDevcon
and eternally grateful to be a part of this incredible world-changing community!
We're hosting a
#DeSci
workshop at Devcon at 4pm Thursday 🧬
Just did a warp restore with the new
@ParityTech
client - took around 20mins to sync over 800k blocks, 4.9m to 5.7m. I'm consistently impressed with the amazing tools this team delivers to the
#ethereum
ecosystem. And they do so with great humility.
#DeSci
is currently where DeFi was late 2018 post $DAI
Ultra early with a lot of idealism, wild ideas, many first time founders in web3, facing hard real world challenges, few teams that ship (yet)
I'm amazed by the ideals, optimism and culture emerging. Bullish on the vibes 🌈
We won first prize with our
@Molecule_to
hack for the
@oceanprotocol
data economy challenge 🎇
Looking forward to taking this live 🌊
Congratulations
@BenScholtz
@titiansteiger
& entire team! Incredible to have pulled this off in parallel to a main-net launch 🏗
For the Network Integration track:
🥇
@Molecule_to
DataSwap, DAO-like management and monetization of research data (🇿🇦)
🥈ManaTee, a
@SlackHQ
workplace integration for
#datascientists
and developers (🇮🇳)
🥉Osmosis Streaming Driver to download live data from WebSocket Stream (🇨🇦)
A small step for man, but a giant leap for patients 👩🚀💛
A first Drug Development DAO
@vita_dao
went live last week democratizing longevity R&D by wrapping biotech IP into NFTs 🧬
Genesis auction will end in exactly t-24h - 80% filled! Join the community via
@GnosisAuction
👇
IP NFTs are absolute game-changers as they combine all of the above.
1. Transfer and finance research and IP at early stages - without needing to patent/startup/raise VC.
2. IP-NFTs are data-rich. More R&D = more data flowing into the IPNFT = more value.
„A movement ignites passion and transforms participants into champions of the cause“
@GolatoTyler
presenting about successful pattern languages for DeSci. So much alpha here on what makes a successful unstoppable DeSci movement and DAO
@DeSciBerlin
off to a powerful start 💥
On my way to Osaka for
#devcon5
🇯🇵✈
Can't wait to meet all my long-term friends again and make new one's 🌱
Will be my 4th Devcon 🤯...
Honoured to be speaking this year!!! We'll explore the role & influence of capital & funding in web3 infrastructure.
This is BIG!
@metamask_io
announces new slick mobile app
#Devcon4
I've been using the fox since early 2016 as the primary way to interact with contracts and introduce new users to play with dapps. Mobile is a huge step.
Congrats
@KuMavis
@danfinlay
& the entire team!
#Ethereum
Big milestone 🌊
@Oceanprotocol
's PoA network went live today!
Time to play and test the waters. Just accessed my first medical data set, using
@metamask_io
to sign a digital service agreement.
Really looking forward to seeing the first vibrant data marketplaces come alive.
@vita_dao
is a collective aiming to democratize research into longevity therapeutics - focused on early stages where researchers struggle to obtain funding
Last week
@vita_dao
held an on-chain vote to acquire and fund this project using its native governance token VITA
I’m incredibly honoured to be a recipient of the Global Synthetic Biology award
Helping catalyse organisationa like
@valley_dao
@bio_xyz
into existence and enable a decentralised research economy for synbio has been humbling
My
@SynBioBeta
my talk will focus on how DeSci is…
#artonomos
the self sovereign artist that lives on the blockchain and incentivizes humans for its success has been brought to life! Winning project at
@ETHBerlin
#ETHBerlin
- first conceptualized by
@simondlr
its a few months ago, incredible how quickly ideas are starting to move
I’ve spent the past 3 years at the intersection of pharma and Web3.
Fundamentally, pharma is 3 core value drivers:
1. IP Rights of medicines
2. Data on their efficacy
3. $$$
Sell ownership in 1. to fund 2. to maximize 1.
More on this:
Milestone achievement for
@vita_dao
and
@Molecule_to
team 👩🔬✅
If approved this will be the second fully web3 native biotech IP-NFT issued and owned by a DAO
Incredibly fascinating IP generation in autophagy inducers with Korolochuk Lab at Newcastle University
$VITA Voting Time!🗳
📢 VDP-16: Korolchuk Lab-Autophagy Activators Funding Proposal is live on-chain.
Prof. Korolchuck lab proposes to initiate a drug discovery programme with the aim of identifying novel bioactive autophagy inducers.
👉
🧵/
Lisboom 💥
Decentralised bio interest is ATH 📈incredible people excited about biodaos, longevity and web3 science - OG to newbies
We
@Molecule_to
@vita_dao
gave 2 talks, a workshop, a panel
@0xliscon
@TheDAOist_
and hosted 2 epic meetups
Now the hacking starts
@ETHLisbon
🧑💻
Permissionless science is unstoppable
Incredible closing panel at
@DeSciBerlin
I‘m so impressed by the calibre of talent, intellect and burning desire to revolutionise science and help patients
Excited where we‘ll be in a year & the daos and ideas that were born here 💥
If you're into the symbiosis of open science, web3, ip-nfts and decentralized biotech
Contribute to May 23/24th. Unconference & workshop format w/ the brightest minds in traditional bio, science & the web3
#desci
avantgarde
Right before
@NFTBERLINteam
We need new open-science-powered organizations for fertility, as human reproduction is declining at a staggering rate
@athena_DAO_
is positioned to become the first global network of women's health R&D
I just contributed $10k to their genesis:
1/ 👇
I just published Hello World. Hello Molecules.
Excited to unveil what I've been focusing on over the past year, and why.
@Molecule_to
is creating open innovation markets in pharma and biotech using open science, web3 and curation markets 🧪
PSA to web3 conference organizers rn📢
You ROCK. Thanks. Plz don't stop 💛
BUT plz give more unpaid speaking slots to young new founders w cool ideas vs. the same old gang
Why? It has huge impact
💡 Exposes community to new ideas
🌱 Helps founders massively in funding & hiring
Hey DeSci SF frens 🌉👩🔬
I‘m organising a small meetup before
@SynBioBeta
with our friends at
@fiftyyears
@atriaVC
@Molecule_dao
Join us for a community evening & learn about the latest in DeSci from several leading founders and bio DAO
@bio_xyz
teams
Longevity escape velocity will first be achieved by network states, before corporations or nations
How? Join me
@balajis
@bryan_johnson
@vita_dao
@MaxUnfried
and many others at the groundbreaking DeSci49 Summit in Dubai's Museum of the Future next week
Congrats
@vita_dao
on funding another amazing longevity therapeutic for 300k. The pipeline of bio IP emerging is astounding, so many great projects about to launch
Get ready for a cambrian explosion of IP-NFTs and open research transacted via
@Molecule_dao
📢 VDP-18 funding proposal has successfully passed! ✅🎉 💛
This proposal asks for up to 300.000 USD to fund Jonathan An's research on geroscience-based treatments for periodontitis.
Read the proposal 👇
Thanks for voting! 🙏
3. Give secure access control to the IP and data to buyers - speeds up due diligence and saves costs.
4. Enables the monetization of the research data, empowers
#openscience
/ zero-knowledge compute etc...
The design space here is really wide and we're only starting 🌱
Asia has a huge role to play in the globalization and decentralization of science
@Molecule_dao
is issuing a $50,000 grant bounty to fund the first Asian scientist(s) via an IP-NFT
Excited to touch down in Taipei tmrw to meet with
@DeSciAsia
community, bio daos & funders for…
Excited to be in SF for JPM next week! If you‘re in town and want to chat
#DeSci
, Bio DAOs or tokenised IP hit me up to meet 1-1
If you want to learn how pharma is getting involved in DeSci we are hosting a meetup with
@pfizer
@fiftyyears
@atriaVC
on Wednesday…
@justinsuntron
@VitalikButerin
Hey Justin -
@vita_dao
here 💛 VitaDAO funds early-stage longevity research and democratizes IP ownership. Think YC for life extension therapeutics.
We'd love to support you in this and are web3 native. We already have a first world-class lab funded + pipeline of many more 👩🔬
The token engineering
@tecmns
hatch concluded successfully this weekend 🎉🐣 +$1.5m raised for DAOified open web3 engineering tools 🛠️
An incredible community to watch & learn from
Proud to be a major supporter and help grow the Commons🌱
@commonsstack
I just funded 10 grants on
@gitcoin
from longevity therapeutics to biotech movies, to new science DAOs
The magic of quadratic funding 10xd my $420 in donations to a whopping $4730 📈
Keen to test this in other research areas soon at
@Molecule_to
Today marks a monumental day for
#DeSci
decentralized science that will accelerate scientific R&D and make research furiously FASTer through liquid science
@vita_dao
just launched VITA-FAST the first-ever tokenised intellectual property pool with
@VIKorolchuk
in a sale that was…
When bonding curves 📈meet🍄 psilocybin:
@molecule_to
is shipping to main-net 🚢
After +1 year working at the intersection of token engineering & biotech our team is launching our first crowdfunded research experiment!
Subscribe & get your science on 🔬
Looking for a web3 lawyer to help guide a workshop on IP, NFTs and DAOs at
@TheDAOist_
during
@ETHLisbon
@0xliscon
We'll be exploring how DAOs could be a catalyst in global R&D and how they can transact IP assets
dm
@theobtl
@audieleon
or me 🙏
Hey developers frens 👩💻
@Molecule_dao
is hiring a Head of Engineering - 2 ETH referral bounty🌱
Our growing remote web3 dev team is looking for an empathic leader who enjoys creating a smooth, fun, and supportive environment, no web3 exp needed, just vision and vibes 🌳 DMs open
My takeaways from Zero Knowledge Conf
#ZK0x02
:
1. Mainstream use of ZKP by devs still 3-5 yrs away
2. Issues are i) Size of proofs ii) memory constraints iii) time to compute
3. ZKP can solve key issues w/ GDPR
4. Need lots of education & dev tools
Big props to
@AnnaRRose
!!
Full house at
@ETHLisbon
opening ceremony! Really excited to see what new projects emerge this weekend 🌱
Our hack team
@vita_dao
is working on fractionalising one of the first
@Molecule_to
longevity IP NFTs to enable liquid research curation markets using $VITA 👀
Hey developer frens, want to go on an adventure? There be dragons 🐉
@Molecule_dao
is hiring protocol developers to re-invent IP ownership through IP-NFTs.
Excited to be speaking on
@binance
live this morning. Sharing our journey and mission building
@Molecule_dao
and
@bio_xyz
DeSci is slowly but surely going mainstream 👩🔬🚀
Tune in here 👇 with
@Karmaverse_io
bom dia fam 🌞 who's amped for Lisbon 🤟
So many good events with
@ETHLisbon
@TheDAOist_
@0xliscon
content quality off the chart
My first conf in 2 years and cannot wait to hug all my web3 frens 💛 especially stoked to meet our
@vita_dao
team irl first time will be special 🌈
@aryelipman
For token related projects, SAFTs have fallen out of favour a bit as they tend to resemble securities too closely.
We're using a combination of grants, token swaps and token warrants.
Should do a twitter spaces on web3 funding best practices for
#DeSci
👩🔬
gm DeScientists 🥼
So grateful to meet some of you in person at
@DeSciBerlin
next week🌎 participant lineup is amazing!
For anyone who can't make it, we will have great live streaming by yours truly
@steveodega
&
@ThiloWitting
📷 so mark the date