On January 30, VitaDAO, a company in the DeSci field, received $4.1 million in investment from Pfizer Ventures, the venture capital arm of Pfizer, and others. VitaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization aimed at funding research projects in the field of longevity science.

This is the first time that Pfizer has joined the DAO, and it is also Pfizer's first investment in the Web3 field. In the past, Pfizer has cooperated with biotechnology companies in various modes of cooperation, such as R&D cooperation and equity investment. But when it comes to translating academic science into biotechnology, there are often obstacles, largely because many projects fail to find enough funding to move forward.

DeSci aims to replace the current scientific ecosystem that relies on centralized research and funding agencies, and raise funds for scientific research through DAO crowdfunding and decentralized ownership. It does not require the centralized control of governments and large institutions, and can provide new impetus for early scientific development. To improve the state of modern science, DeSci projects focus on different directions, with goals ranging from funding scientific research, disrupting scientific publishing, to pursuing specific research goals such as longevity and space exploration.

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This area includes decentralized finance, science and scientific publishing tools, and more.

Bio.xyzis a molecular program that funds decentralized science and biotech projects and provides practical support from legal to technical. Currently funding VitaDAO, LabDAO, ValleyDAO, PsyDAO, etc.

DeSci AcademyBring non-technical users into science to train the next generation of scientists. The team seeks out and trains people who want to contribute to science but lack the qualifications.

DeSci Africais a non-profit organization that aims to support scientists in Africa through decentralized science. Through specific meetups, travel grants, events and more, the DeSci Africa community will raise awareness of decentralized science on the continent. The team's goal is to reallocate funding to African scientists and labs, while creating outreach and knowledge channels for those new to Web3.

DeSci Foundationis an independent think tank of leading scientists and Web3 pioneers, dedicated to exploring the potential of applying Web3 technologies to the scientific ecosystem, as well as supporting initiatives that have the potential to improve scientific progress and create new ways to support high-quality scientific funding and incentivize high-quality, replicable science.

deScier(formerly known as SciDAO, now merged with Contract Research Organization DAO CRDAO) is an ecosystem for integrating and facilitating the synergy of decentralized scientific initiatives to expand various science-related collaborative possibilities. The editorial work of publishing scientific papers and sharing the financial benefits remains an important part of the project.

Gridcoinis a science-focused chain that uses a minting protocol and a fee-based mechanism to incentivize computational contributions to distributed computing projects (on the BOINC network) that engage in various fields of scientific research, raise funds for research, and Verify publication ownership.

Halogenis a platform and set of protocols aiming to replace the journal monopoly with a self-sufficient scientific community DAO. Publishing, review, documentation, and funding are all done at the community level. The model aims to address cognitive issues specific to journal science and to restructure the scientific cognitive engine to produce an accurate, representative, and usable knowledge base.

IberoAmis a not-for-profit, triple-fold initiative to identify, promote and support Web3 projects that have a clear social and financial impact in the region and prioritize minorities.

The Innovation GameApply a cryptoeconomic framework to address funding and transparency market issues related to innovation.

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DeSci DAO

This area includes projects that fund science, disrupt scientific publishing, support open science, and pursue specific research goals such as longevity.

Antidote DAOis a Web3 DAO dedicated to funding various cancer initiatives.

AthenaDAOis a decentralized collective to fund women's reproductive health research and drug discovery.

BioDAOThe goal is to become a collective funding DAO for biotech startups and drug discovery.

Cherubs DAOAn NFT-funded, DAO-governed collective investment aimed at accelerating solutions and treatments for Alzheimer's disease, as well as promoting brain health and longevity. 80% of funding goes to ROI and impact, and 20% to funding junior research grants.

CRISPR DAOA decentralized organization is being established to fund cutting-edge CRISPR research to advance potential therapeutics and agricultural technology solutions.

CrunchDAOIt is a DAO where scientists use collective intelligence to solve complex problems. It focuses on quantitative finance, using DeSci as a tool to coordinate its members.

CureDAOis a coalition of digital health innovators dedicated to how to minimize clinical suffering by accelerating clinical discovery. This is done through community-owned rewards for cooperation rather than competition. The end result is discovering how substances such as food, drugs and supplements affect human health.

DeNature DAOis a decentralized science DAO designed to empower STEM innovators using blockchain technology.

DeSciWorldDAOAims to connect the decentralized and scientific communities to help further the mission of decentralized science. DAO is used to coordinate fiscal expenditures and future development goals.

FrontierDAOis an R&D DAO for science and engineering to incubate promising innovations in focus areas such as fusion energy, space exploration and climate solutions. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the commercialization of the most promising technologies. They raise funds through memberships and NFT collectibles, available atOpenSeaCheck it out.

Future Foods DAOis a community-funded DAO for early open-source research on alternative proteins. This project aims to identify and fund the most promising basic alternative protein research.

Genomes DAOCommitted to meeting the expectations of research organizations, institutions and clients regarding genomic data security and research work. To increase the democratization and decentralization of genomic research, they are focused on combining cutting-edge technologies such as AMD's SEV, blockchain, and decentralized finance. They partnered with Nebula Genomics to sequence the genome and then securely store the sequencing data.

HairDAOis a decentralized autonomous organization dedicated to finding a cure for hair loss. Hair loss remains one of the most prevalent conditions worldwide: 80% of men and 50% of women will experience significant hair loss during their lifetime, with androgenetic alopecia being the cause of more than 95% of cases.

Immortalityis a cryptocurrency designed to bring scientifically proven aging prevention and anti-aging to reality. Envision the use of proven new therapies for aging in world-class clinics, such as prediction using TensorFlow machine learning, improved diagnostics and imaging analysis, in vivo gene therapy, stem cell and partial reprogramming in the body, and more.

LabDAOis an open, community-run network of laboratories designed to accelerate advances in the biomedical and life sciences.

Love Healthand Love DAO represent a human-centered approach to decentralized pharmacy. Through Love DAO, community members can submit clinical trial proposals and share in the proceeds when treatments are launched.

MedDAOCreated new incentives and systems for a globally distributed network of medical knowledge.

NeuraDAOis a community-governed decentralized neurotechnology research and intellectual property platform.

OpenNMNis a DAO designed to make complementary NMN accessible to community-based biotechs.

Open Science DAOis a community-owned open science ecosystem that unlocks data silos, revolutionizes collaboration, and democratizes funding.

PsyDAOis a decentralized organization whose goal is to fund research at the intersection of psychedelics and mental health.

Reputable DAOis a biohacking and personalized health community that allows members to sell their data to third parties through places like Ocean Marketplace.

Research Collectiveis a DAO that performs decentralized experiments and "adversarial research," often in opposition to the status quo. It acts as a bridge between the "biohacking" and crypto communities.

ResearchHub DAOIts mission is to accelerate the pace of scientific research. ResearchHub provides an open forum where users can share scientific publications, upload preprints via our notebook feature to generate scientific bounties, and discuss science powered by ResearchCoin (like Reddit). As an alternative to scientific journals, ResearchHub contains all types of scientific research hubs.

Science DAOis a decentralized think tank designed to foster growth and incubate scientific ideas. The DeFi community and DAOs fund scientific research, primarily biomedicine. The goal is to serve as a venture fund that gives the public access to scientific knowledge before a drug hits the market. They plan to raise funds for the project through NFT sales, and 90% of the funds raised by NFT issuance will be used for the project (10% for the DAO).

ValleyDAOThe vision is to support the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy by funding democratically elected academic research and collectively managing intellectual property generated.

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Decentralized Finance and Philanthropy

These DeSci initiatives and DAOs experiment with cryptocurrencies, NFTs, crowdfunding, and other mechanisms to fund research and reward scientists.

Beaker DAOis a DAO, co-initiated by Tribute Labs, which supports the scaling of decentralized science. Through research funding and intellectual property management, the DAO aims to promote open accessibility and create decentralized market liquidity in DeSci.

Experimentis a scientific crowdfunding platform launched in 2012.

GainForest / LabDAO The Rainforest Detection Lab brings together young engineers, students, and scientists to contribute to an open and reproducible machine learning library for rainforest monitoring. These models will then be used to transparently analyze carbon offset projects around the world and assess nature's contribution to ReFi.

Gitcoinis a Web3 funding mechanism focused on public goods. Gitcoin conducted its first round of DeSci funding from September 7th to September 22nd, 2022.

GivethThe goal is to use Web3 to fundamentally change the way public goods are financed by helping nonprofits evolve from a system that relies on sacrifice to one that creates a win-win situation for all involved. Giveth enables them to eventually evolve into a DAO with its own regenerative economy, and Giveth itself becomes an impact investment center for public goods.

Impact FinanceThe purpose of building Web3 tools is to increase the influence of citizen scientists on the scientific research process and the development of new technologies. It is a community management platform that enables creators of science-based digital assets to grow their professional networks, track reputations, fund research and unlock new opportunities for collaboration and collaboration.

Medical.watchA medical knowledge base is being built for the world. Imagine a medical version of Wikipedia + UpToDate, updated in real time by doctors. With Medical.watch, doctors will treat patients with the latest medical knowledge.

Moon RabbitIt is a distributed encryption group that constitutes a system jurisdiction that combines distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies in the ultimate cross-chain protocol - Metachain. Moon Rabbit is focused on building a scalable incentive model and Web3 infrastructure to accelerate the development of Longevity. They are constantly integrating new chains and most recently entered into a partnership with the Foresight Institute, the world's leading longevity research institute.

Science Fundis an initiative to create a funding pool for science through NFTs.

Sesame FoundationProvides a platform for science enthusiasts and philanthropists who wish to support computational mathematics research to create and contribute prizes. The platform uses smart contracts to ensure that prizes are only awarded after a given problem is actually solved.

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Decentralized scientific publishing

These initiatives seek to improve how and where scientific research is published. Some approaches are incentivized peer review, small publications, platforms where scientists can receive donations for their contributions, etc.

Agora Labsis a platform where one can "invest" in scientific publications and their researchers.

Ants Reviewis a privacy-oriented smart contract protocol that incentivizes peer review. Ants-review allows authors to reward anonymous peer reviews using the ERC-20 token ANTS. This incentivizes academics to contribute reviews, speeds up peer review times, and reduces redundancies in peer review. To reduce the ability to abuse, peer review quality is assessed by the community.

Atomsintends to improve scientific incentives by developing smart contracts mediated by a peer-reviewed network. Together, these will reward scientific contributions, including proposals, papers, datasets, analyses, annotations, editorials, and more. In the long run, these smart contracts help accelerate research by minimizing scientific friction, ensuring scientific quality, and maximizing scientific disparity.

DeSci LabsCommitted to developing new technologies to improve the accessibility, reliability, transparency and value sharing of scientific publications.

Longevity Reviewis a platform that provides funding for researchers to review each other's work.

Planckis an incentive system designed to improve scientific knowledge around open innovation to produce incentives. The team developed an incentive system to reward thinkers, innovators, and creators by programming around scarce, irreplaceable manuscripts called Glyphs. This incentive system can be thought of as an alt-IP.

Sci 2 sciDeveloped a "sci 2 sci" platform to easily store, share and search research data. Electronic lab notebooks are conveniently paired with publishing platforms, making it easy to publish research data into open access. In addition, search engines tailored specifically to datasets allow advanced searches, such as using structural similarity searches to find datasets that contain the same information. It indexes data found on the sci 2 sci platform and external services such as Zenodo and FigShare.

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Information structure, data storage and management

These blockchain projects build the infrastructure for decentralized science and provide the tools for the Web3 data economy.

Abakhusis a decentralized and interconnected set of privacy-preserving health and life sciences data and services that leverage the full power of private smart contracts on the Secret Network and IBC from the Cosmos ecosystem. Through extensive use of private metadata, the Abakhus protocol brings together clinical/veterinary laboratory specialists, multi-omics, bioinformatics and systems biology specialists, software developers in health and life sciences, physicians and veterinarians, and end users in need In one clinical/veterinary/multi-omics/systems biology service.

BacalhauThe goal is to enable researchers and data engineers to publicly reproduce data pipelines, thus making their research more transparent and reusable.

Ceramicis a decentralized network where people can collaborate on open datasets while controlling their own data. ComposeDB is a graph database built on Ceramic that enables developers to create public knowledge graphs, social applications, DAO coordination tools, and more. Ceramic works with most existing Web3 wallets and provides users with a seamless experience interacting with data in the system.

Data Lakeis an EU-funded start-up company that has created a global medical data donation system based on Web3 technology. Like donating blood, people can donate their medical records to researchers around the world who need medical data to cure diseases, develop new treatments, and improve diagnosis and patient outcomes. Data is recorded on the Polygon blockchain, which ensures that researchers can have legal rights to access donor data. The entire process respects patient privacy and data can be revoked at any time. To incentivize stakeholder participation, the project is tokenized and uses LAKE tokens to reward data donors as well as other market participants.

DataUnionis a powerful way for the scientific community to collaborate. They provide opportunities to mobilize and reward groups to produce and evaluate datasets (beyond scientific reuse). All participants benefit from value creation in these DataUnions, which can provide additional funding opportunities for research projects and help develop inclusive datasets.

DeSci LabsInfrastructure for decentralized science is being built. DeSci Nodes, the first product from DeSci Labs, enable a fully transparent ledger of scientific records that is secure, permanent, interoperable, and resistant to transnational censorship.

Fleming ProtocolOur mission is to create a data economy and allow patients to obtain the value of data. Through incentivized and innovative data monetization mechanisms, they enable patients and biomedical innovators to collaborate and create value in a privacy-preserving manner.

Kamuis a decentralized data provisioning network that aims to solve the ongoing reproducibility crisis in science. Think of it as "Git for Data", allowing you to easily share static and highly dynamic data without losing ownership, collaborate with others to build data processing pipelines, continuously cleanse, combine and enrich data from other sources, and effortlessly Maintain 100% data reproducibility, verifiability, and detailed provenance for analytics and ML projects.

Ocean ProtocolCreate tools for the Web3 data economy. Data owners and consumers use the Ocean Market application to publish, discover and consume data in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. OCEAN holders deposit liquidity into the data pool. Developers use the Ocean library to build their own data wallets, data marketplaces, and more. Ocean Data tokens package data services as industry-standard ERC-20 tokens. Realize data wallet, data exchange and data cooperation by utilizing encrypted wallets, exchanges and other decentralized financial tools.

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Decentralized Biotech and Biopharmaceuticals

These projects are dedicated to improving the fields of biotechnology and biopharmaceutical science through decentralized technologies.

BioDAOThe goal is to become a collective funding DAO for biotech startups and drug discovery. The goal is to own biotech assets developed by projects funded by the DAO.

Crowd Funded CuresIts mission is to create a pay-for-success model that brings certain off-patent treatments and repurposed generics to the forefront and into the hands of patients without patents.

LabDAOAims to build an on-chain market for wet and dry laboratory services to drive scientific progress. Their goal is to connect scientists with the specialized resources and expertise they need to advance their own work. They are currently addressing the challenge of standardization in computational biology.

Moleculeis to use blockchain tools to help advance and fund early drug development. To this end, the company has made several smart decisions to advance the DeSci field, including conceiving of IP-NFTs and NFTs related to intellectual property, and launching the VitaDAO community to fund longevity research. Their marketplace currently has around 60 research projects available for funding.

Perlara PBCDevelops therapies for families and nonprofit foundations seeking cures for rare diseases. It's a distributed biotechnology in the sense that it employs scientists around the world to work together to build a "cure roadmap" that identifies new treatments for patients and foundations.

Phage DirectoryBuild a more concrete network of people who may have the tools to help. So far, the group has helped bring about three different treatments.

Recercais a tokenization research initiative. The team won second place in the Hedera X Filecoin Grant, an application centered on addressing data integrity issues, crowdfunding research, and NFT-based rewards for participants.

Vibe BioHope to bring power to the patient community by building various DAO tools so that the patient community can organize through the DAO to co-own and co-develop therapies to treat the diseases they suffer from.

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Decentralized Space Technology and Exploration

These initiatives apply decentralized technologies to improve space development, research and exploration.

LunCoTheir mission is to make humanity a multi-planetary species by providing collaborative tools to jointly plan missions. Create a permissionless collaboration tool for space missions through Web3 technology. With the help of LunCo, it is possible to run complex projects such as planning cities CO2, tracking constellations, moon colonies, etc.

SpaceChainProviding space-as-a-service for the modern enterprise enables companies to innovate use cases using space products and bring their blockchain technology into space. The startup is more about leveraging existing infrastructure to improve the blockchain experience. SpaceChain is building the world's first open source satellite network running on blockchain nodes.

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Science NFT

Science is following the NFT trend, which provides scientists with a new way to fundraise and artists with inspiration, as well as an impetus to present science to the public.

AtomicHeartNFTis a Web3 collection showcasing images generated using electron microscopy and other advanced microscopy techniques.

DNAverseis a collection of NFT items customized with real DNA data. The long-term mission is to geneticize avatars in the metaverse, and to replicate life in the digital world using a self-sustaining decentralized model.

Frontier DAOis a scientific investment DAO with an art gallery.

GelsThe algorithm simulates gel electrophoresis. The DNA banding patterns in this work were derived from a combination of simulated experimental data and real-world data, including DNA sequences encoding several variants of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the corresponding mRNA vaccines. The algorithm first generates plausible sample tubes, usually containing one or more DNA fragments. Each sample is then dispensed and "run" on a mock gel to create characteristic patterns that might be observed on a real gel.

Gene NFTis an experiment at the intersection of art, science and technology. It generates an NFT of every human gene that encodes a protein.

PLANT GANGIt is a community that builds metaverse herbaria, produces scientific 3D model NFT herbaria, and related metadata.

SameYouis an NFT series aimed at raising funds for the treatment of brain injuries or strokes.

UltraRareis a Web3 collective exploring the intersection of art and science. The team includes scientists, developers and artists. They care about disseminating science through audio and video and produce UltraRare The Podcast to help get people into the Web3 space.