Unlock the power of decentralized scientific communities
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the field of biotechnology ("BioDAOs") are distributed patient and researcher communities. They raise funding via token sales, and use their treasuries to back and develop biotech projects related to their mission. BioDAO proceeds from IP and product sales can flow back into the BioDAO to fund and translate the next generation of R&D, further advancing the BioDAO's mission.
The DeSci Advantage
How Decentralised Science is accelerating scientific progress where traditional models have failed
Streamlined Funding
Leverage a global community of funders with low barriers to entry.
Open Access
Remove gatekeeping in scientific funding and decision-making.
Flexible Work Model
Tap part-time contributions from experts across the globe.
Patient-Centric Development
Patients freely contribute their capital and data, lowering innovation costs.
Meritocratic
The best ideas rise to the top and are implemented by the community
“This is the breakout moment for DeSci and there is no better incubator and launchpad for Curetopia than BIO.”
"BIO is poised to become the YC of DeSci. The team has been instrumental in rallying support from the crypto community to fund our quantum biology vision at unprecedented levels."
"BIO helped us understand the power of the Web3 community to accelerate treatments that Big Pharma and governments ignore."
Our track record of success incubating scientific R&D collectives
We've successfully launched and supported numerous Scientific R&D Collectives. These collectives are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) in the field of biotechnology. They are refered to as BioDAOs. Some of our notable BioDAO successes include...
VitaDAO has funded over $5M in longevity science and researched. The DAO is backed by Pfizer Ventures, and has partnered with research labs at Newcastle University & University of Copenhagen.
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HairDAO targets hair loss, which is chronically underfunded by traditional pharma. The DAO has 2 filed patents, deployed live clinical trials and has developed several consumer products in the field.
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CryoDAO advances cryopreservation research. The DAO has raised over $3M+, partnered with Advanced Neural Biosciences and Oxford Cryotechnology, and will soon attempt the first mammal revival in 60 years.
CryoDAO.orgThe BIO Accelerator Program
We provide a full suite of support services to help the most ambitious science accelerate using our BioDAO framework. We’re not just a school, we are a network of builders redefining scientific innovation.
Program Highlights
- How to build a sustainable decentralized organisation.
- How to close licensing partnerships with universities.
- How to pitch your DAO to researchers.
- DAO formation and structuring: unincorporated nonprofits, Swiss Associations, and other tools.
- IP licensing, sponsored research and IP fractionalization.
- Contract library with funding agreements, advisory agreements, service provider agreements, sponsored research agreements, sub-licenses, and more.
- Custom Governance Framework Design
- Budget and accounting
- Incentives engineering
- Access to web3 community-builders network
- Access to Molecule and BIO talent pool
- Engagement frameworks to implement across Discord, Telegram and Social Media
- Access to our growing network of BioDAO builders & alumni.
The BIO Ecosystem
Ecosystem contributors
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Frequently Asked Questions
All the details you need to know about BIO
BIO is a protocol for directing capital and talent to biotech DAOs ("BioDAOs”) and tokenized scientific IP. The protocol serves as a decentralized funding, governance and liquidity engine for early-stage science, supercharging preclinical research through globally-sourced liquidity and talent.
What Uniswap did for long-tail crypto projects, BIO aims to do for tokenized science.
BioDAOs are community-owned IP creation engines, focused on a specific biotech area. They bring together scientists, patients, backers and enthusiasts around specific therapeutic areas, such as women's health or neurodegeneration. The R&D and IP generated is monetized by minting IP-NFTs and IPTs, spinning out companies, and licensing/selling the IP to traditional biotech companies. Proceeds flow back to the BioDAO treasuries, to fund and translate the next generation of R&D, further advancing the BioDAO’s mission.
IP-NFTs and IPTs digitize scientific intellectual property (IP) by encoding the associated legal agreements and R&D data on a blockchain. IP Tokens (IPTs) are unique ERC-20 tokens that serve as governance tokens over the scientific IP generated, data-sharing policies and IP licensing and acquisition proceeds.BioDAOs typically hold portfolios of IP-NFTs and IPTs, which they help launch and incubate through tokenization, liquidity and governance.
BIO is the native governance token of the BIO protocol. BIO may be used by holders to signal which bioDAOs to support, vote on future BIO incentives("Bio/acc Rewards"), and vote on programs for the development of bioDAOs and specific IP assets in the BIO ecosystem.
While the BIO token is live, it is not currently transferrable and can only be bought or sold once governance votes to make the token transferrable. This vote is expected by early Q1, 2025.