dao_data/DAOwiki.txt

AthenaDAO
Decentralized collective to fund women’s reproductive health research and drug discovery.
https://www.athenadao.co/ 

VitaDAO  
VitaDAO is a DAO collective for funding longevity research. Our core mission is the acceleration of research and development (R&D) in the longevity space and the extension of human life and healthspan. To achieve this, VitaDAO collectively funds early-stage research projects and spins out startups to commercialize them. It also aims to improve longevity awareness through both scientific and general audience publishing initiatives. 
Website with funded projects, explainers etc. https://www.vitadao.com/ 
All links: https://vitadao.com/links
Governance Proposals: https://gov.vitadao.com/
Video Podcasts etc. https://www.youtube.com/c/vitadao
Audio Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/vitadao
Articles: https://vitadao.medium.com/
Monthly summary: http://newsletters.vitadao.com/
Paid on-demand peer review services: The Longevity Decentralized Review (TLDR) and Proof of Peer Review (PoP Review) for longevity research and general biomedical research, respectively.
The Longevity Journal (link TBD)

MedDAO
MedDAO creates new incentives and systems for a global, distributed medical knowledge network leveraging a highly-engaged community of public health stakeholders who are co-owners of the organization.
Discord: https://discord.gg/qwWATcETDq
Documentation: https://docs.meddao.xyz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MedDAO_xyz

Open Science DAO 
We're a community-owned open science ecosystem that unlocks data silos, revolutionizes collaboration, and democratizes funding.  
Twitter: @OpScientia 
News: https://pulse.opsci.io/ 
Resources: 
Shady El Damaty DeSci Stack at MR Hack-a-thon
Shady El Damaty Opscientia at OceanDAO Sailor’s Lounge
Background: Sarah Hamburg Unstoppable Podcast (note - no longer with OpScientia, but this podcast interview was great IMHO) 
Opsciverse Project from the Opscientia DAO: "Portal to the world of decentralised laboratories. Powered by the Open Science Framework and running on smart contracts for autonomous research workflows" 
Jocelynn’s notes: some of the better conversations around open science and scientific publishing happen on this server. A lot of good chatter around articles related to open science. Focus seems to be decentralized file storage. 

The Science DAO 
From their whitepaper: A decentralized think tank to foster growth and incubate scientific ideas. DeFi community/DAO to fund scientific research, primarily biomedical.
		Currently seeking projects for funding 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScienceDAO 
Deck: https://thesciencedao.io/files/deck.pdf 
Discord: https://discord.gg/4pByE4Ft7r 

GenomesDAO 
GenomesDAO strives to meet the increasing expectations of research organizations, institutions as well as customers for the security of genomic data and the quality of research workflow. In order to increase the democratization and decentralization of genomic studies, they focus on combining cutting-edge technologies such as AMD’s SEV, blockchain and decentralized finance.
		DAO docs - https://genomes.gitbook.io/genomes.io-docs/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GenomesDAO 
	Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3DaD2na4XJ 
Jocelynn’s notes: I haven’t been in their discord yet, but have heard them speak about the project. Seems DeFi focused.
Note from Alan Hyndman: I am involved in the GenomesDAO project, feel free to drop into the Discord to ask any questions.

ResearchHub DAO 
Our mission is to accelerate the pace of scientific research. ResearchHub provides an open forum where users can port in scientific publications, upload preprints through our notebook feature, generate scientific bounties and discuss science (like Reddit) incentivised by ResearchCoin. As an alternative to scientific journals, ResearchHub contains hubs of all genres of scientific research. 
		Discord: https://discord.gg/researchhub
		ResearchHub Platform: https://www.researchhub.com/
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResearchHub
		Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4kRS13JPo1hIPNV6eONmg

CRISPR DAO 
CRISPR DAO is building a decentralized organization to fund cutting edge CRISPR research to advance potential therapies and Ag-tech solutions.
Join the Discord: https://discord.com/invite/NWGqnU6Zjt
Led by Nat Harooni: https://twitter.com/NatHarooni 

LabDAO 
The future of biomedical science is an open, community-run network of laboratories. CRO/Marketplace focus.  
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lab_dao 
Resources: 
Arye & Niklas–Building a labDAO for web3 Biotech 
Niklas Rindtorff–Graph Based Protocols 
UltraRare podcast episode featuring LabDAO; also here. 
Monthly updates: summary of what happened

PsyDAO
PsyDAO is a decentralised organisation with the goal of funding research at the intersection of psychedelics and mental health.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PsyDAO_
		Discord: https://discord.gg/hUH4MWxVFx 
		Telegram: https://t.me/+KvFGR2sVlOg2NTM0
		PsyDAO video: https://youtu.be/QInIDUDf_YQ?t=3797 

DeSciWorldDAO
DeSciWorld aims to connect the decentralised and scientific communities to help further the mission of Decentralising Science. The DAO coordinates treasury expenditure and future development goals.
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeSciWorld 
		Discord: https://discord.gg/jnEUqVH8xv 

BioDAO
BioDAO aims to be a collective funding DAO for biotech startups and drug discovery. 
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/biodaoxyz 
		Discord: https://discord.com/invite/7yMtZwp7Rq

NeuraDAO
NeuraDAO is a community-governed, decentralized platform for neurotech research and intellectual property. 
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/neuradao 
Website: https://neuradao.co/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/HnMQsGP8jB

Cherubs DAO
NFT funded, DAO governed collective investing in accelerating solutions & cures to Alzheimer’s disease and advancing brain wellness and longevity. 80% of funding dedicated to investments for ROI and impact, and 20% to fund primary research grants.
Website: https://cherubsdao.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CherubsDao
One-pager: https://cherubsdao.com/downloads/20211203_Cherubs_DAO_One_Pager.pdf

FrontierDAO 
FrontierDAO is a Research and Development DAO for science and engineering that looks to incubate promising innovation in their focus areas of fusion energy, space exploration, and climate solutions. The end goal is to catalyze commercialization of the most promising technologies. They raise funds through membership and their NFT collection, available on OpenSea. Their NFT collections include IP-NFTs which are foundational to their scientific publishing platform, FrontierRegistry, which is an open publishing platform for scientists, academia, engineers and researchers who can opt to self-publish and choose to mint their research papers as NFTs. FrontierRegistry is a user-owned platform.     
Whitepaper 
NFT Collection 
Linktree 
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/UQVVw8QWrV 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FrontierDAO 

Research Collective
The Research Collective is a 501c(3) / DAO performing decentralized trials and ‘adversarial research’, often going against the status quo. It acts as a bridge between the ‘biohackers’ and crypto community. 
Telegram:  https://t.me/+hDgQ1cZ_jZQ3MDgx

ValleyDAO
Our vision is to support the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy by funding democratically elected academic research and collectively govern the generated IP.
		Announcement article: valleydao.medium.com/5bc470a58482 
		Discord: discord.gg/APD46yZD7E 
		Twitter: twitter.com/valley_dao 

HairDAO
HairDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization in search of a cure for hair loss. Hair loss remains one of the most pervasive medical conditions globally: 80% of men and 50% of women will experience noticeable hair loss in their lifetimes, with over 95% of cases caused by androgenic alopecia (male and female pattern baldness). 	
Whitepaper
Website: https://www.hairdao.xyz/ 
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nEKD4qBPSU 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HairDAO_  

CureDAO
CureDAO is an alliance of digital health innovators working to minimize suffering in the universe by accelerating clinical discovery. This is done through a community-owned rewards collaboration over competition. The end result is the discovery of how millions of factors like foods, drugs, and supplements affect human health. 

DeNature DAO 
We are a decentralized science DAO that aims to empower STEM innovators using blockchain technology. 

OpenNMN
OpenNMN is a DAO formed to make the supplement NMN accessible with community based biotech

Antidote DAO 
AntidoteDAO is an altruistic Web3 DAO Dedicated to Funding Various Cancer Initiatives

Reputable DAO 
Reputable DAO is a biohacking and personalized wellness community that allows members to sell their data to third parties over places like the Ocean marketplace. 
Whitepaper: https://docs.reputable.health/product-docs/ 

Future Foods DAO 
Future Foods DAO is a community-owned collective funding early-stage alternative protein open-source research. We identify and fund the most promising foundational alternative protein research. We support early stage research and facilitate commercialization. Members can join Future Foods DAO by purchasing tokens or earning them through contributions of work or Intellectual Property. 

Immortality
Immortality is a cryptocurrency designed to bring scientifically proven, peer reviewed age prevention and reversal into reality. Envisioning the treatment of aging in a world-class clinic using proven and novel therapies such as working with TensorFlow machine learning for prediction, improved diagnostics and imaging analysis, in vivo gene therapy, stem cells and in vivo partial reprogramming. Immortality's development team researches and works on three essential areas of longevity; lifestyle, pharmacology, and clinical. Contributing to peer-review and improve existing therapies and brainstorming novel therapies.

Homepage: https://imt.cx
Whitepaper: https://imt.cx/assets/pdf/whitepaper.pdf

Love Health

The Love DAO and Love Token represent the first decentralized approach to People-Powered Pharma™. Through the Love DAO, members of the community can submit clinical trial proposals, and share in the upside when treatments are launched. Our expert blockchain team has experience building unicorn startups and launching world-changing DAOs.

Documentation: https://trylove.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/litepaper.pdf 
Discord: https://discord.gg/love-dao


Decentralized Science Ecosystems
We wanted to create a category for projects that are tackling multiple problems at once, such as decentralized financing of science and scientific publishing tools. These projects include multiple sectors but are not necessarily operating as DAOs. 

Bio.xyz
A Molecule initiative funding decentralized science and biotech projects, and providing hands-on support from legal to tech. Funded VitaDAO, LabDAO, ValleyDAO, PsyDAO and more soon. Apply here for up to $100k: https://www.bio.xyz/.

Halogen
A platform/set of protocols aiming to replace the journal monopoly with a self-organizing network of self-sufficient scientific communities. Publishing, review, documentation, funding is all done at the community level. This model will solve the epistemic issues endemic to journal science and restructure the scientific epistemic engine to produce an accurate, representative, and usable knowledge base. 
Whitepaper: Halogen- theoretical background
Website: https://halogen.cloud/
Point of contact: [email protected] or Twitter DM @AsmiNatasha

SCINET
SCINET is a decentralized life sciences ("DeSci") research and investment platform that revolutionizes the way people do and support science. Powered by blockchain technologies, SCINET allows retail and institutional investors to invest directly in life sciences research and technology with security and authenticity.
		Core team: Jordan Smith, Hank Brigham 
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scinet-us/ Tw: https://twitter.com/SCINET_INC 

DeSci Foundation 
We are an independent think tank of leading scientists and web3 pioneers, dedicated to exploring the potential of applying web3 technologies to the scientific ecosystem. Our mission is to support high-quality science by: 
Thinking carefully about the potential opportunities and risks of applying web3 technologies to the scientific ecosystem.
Bringing scientists & web3 pioneers together. 
Supporting initiatives that have the potential to improve scientific progress.
Creating new ways to finance and incentivize high-quality, replicable science.
Core team: Christopher Hill, Sina Iman, Philipp Koellinger, Erik Van Winkle
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DesciFoundation 

Gridcoin
Gridcoin is a science-focused blockchain which uses minting protocols and fee-based mechanisms to incentivize computational contribution to distributed computing projects (on the BOINC network) working on various areas of scientific research, raise funds for research, and verify publication ownership.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork 
Discord: https://discord.gg/7EnbsJCWXD 

The DeSci Academy
Onboarding non-technical users into science to create the next generation of scientists. 
We find and train passionate, driven and curious individuals who want to contribute to science but lack the credentials.
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDesciAcademy 

The Innovation Game
The golden era of hardware speedups is coming to an end. This has profound ramifications for our scientific & technological progress, as we are operating on a paradigm of solving increasingly complex computational problems.   

We predict the coming era will be one where there is immense value in improving the efficiency of foundational scientific algorithms, as they will determine which new scientific and technological advancements are tractable. Pre-empting this future, we are applying a framework of crypto-economics to address the market failure related to funding and transparency around the innovation of such algorithms. We call this framework The Innovation Game.
		Litepaper: Link
		Discord: https://discord.gg/YTJGVpZD 

deScier 
Previously SciDAO, now merged with CRDAO (a contract research organization DAO)

An ecosystem to integrate and foster synergies in decentralized science actions to expand the possibilities of collaboration in the various science-related initiatives. Editorial work for publishing scientific papers with shared financial gains continues being one of the important arms in this project. co-Led by: Maria Goreti Freitas (@goreti_freitas on Twitter) and Danilo Melo (@drdanilogestao on Twitter).
Mirror
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@desciers  
Discord: https://discord.gg/Z6U9P28YtV
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sci.dao?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Telegram Early Adopters Testing group: https://t.me/+KMddKMNNRwY0YTMx


Resources for DAOs
Building and running a DAO
DAO Resources

Scientific Publishing
Teams, projects and companies trying to make improvements to how and where science gets published. Some of the themes include: incentivized peer review, micro-publications, and platforms where scientists can receive donations for their contributions. 

Longevity Review by VitaDAO
A platform that provides funding for researchers to review each other's work. It addresses critical issues with academic journals:
Website: https://longevity.review/about
 
Agora Labs
A platform where scientific publications and their researchers can be ‘invested in’. Actually building out the platform - expected to release ~ September 1 
Website: https://www.agora-labs.com/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoralabscom/about/ 

Planck 
Manuscripts as NFTs by Matthew Stephenson https://www.p1anck.com/
Hasn’t been a lot of activity recently as of 05/2022 
Interview with Matt on The Unstoppable Podcast 
Interview with Matt on SciBetter

Atoms.org
Smart Contracts - https://atoms.org/scientiae#smart-research-contracts
Led by Darren. Many good essays here  
Twitter: https://twitter.com/atoms_org/status/1409574011244204032

Ants Review
Incentivized peer reviews w/ @AntsReview (since April 2020)
Led by Bianca Trovò: https://twitter.com/bianca_troveaux 
Not a lot of recent activity
		MVP: https://ants-review.on.fleek.co
Paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-71593-9_2



Discourse Graph
Documentation

Flashpub.io
A platform for micro publications and articles 
Led by Nate Jacobs - also active in the Blockchain for Science Telegram group 
Link to Medium article



TalentDAO 

sci2sci
sci2sci develops a “scientist-to-scientist” platform to conveniently store, share and search for research data. An electronic lab notebook conveniently paired with a publishing platform allows to easily release research data into open access - whenever it’s ready - in one click. Additionally, the search engine tailored specifically for datasets allows for advanced search options, such as finding datasets that contain the same information using search by structural similarity. It indexes data found both on the sci2sci platform and on external services such as Zenodo and FigShare.
		LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sci2sci/ 
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/sci2science 


IP-NFTs
What exactly are IP-NFTs? I recommend watching the following video and reading Tyler Gelato’s article linked below as a primer:
	Video presentation: https://twitter.com/Molecule_to/status/1458455154382946306
IP-NFTs for Researchers: A New Biomedical Funding Paradigm by Tyler Golato
Molecule’s Biopharma IP-NFTs - A Technical Description by Clemens Ortlepp
IP/NFT Possibilities by Tristan Roberts
Molecule’s IP NFT collection 

Decentralized Biotech / Biopharma 

A Guide to Decentralized Biotech 
By Jocelynn Pearl, published in Future (a16z) 4-20-2022 

Perlara PBC
Led by Ethan Perlstein
Perlara employs consultants that write work plans and perform project management for the development of therapies for families and nonprofit foundations seeking cures for rare diseases. It is a distributed biotech in the sense that it employs scientists around the world to work together to build ‘cure roadmaps’ for identifying new treatments for patients and foundations. 

Vibe Bio 
Led by Joshua Forman and Alok Tayi 
Vibe hopes to bring power and agency to patient communities by building out a DAO toolbox of sorts so that a given patient community could organize via a DAO, co-own and co-develop therapeutics to treat the illness they are suffering from. (Please note that this is Jocelynn’s ‘take’ and could be misleading, company is under development)

Molecule 
Led by Tyler Golato & Paul Kohlhaas 
Molecule was inspired by the open science movement and open drug development that was happening in certain patient communities. The idea was to utilize blockchain tools to help advance and fund early stage drug development. To that end, the company has made several savvy decisions that have advanced the DeSci space, including ideating IP-NFTs, NFTs tied to intellectual property (think, a drug or research-based IP), and launching the VitaDAO community to fund longevity research. They continue to seed new DAOs and help advance the funding of early stage drug development. Their marketplace currently boasts around 60 research projects available for funding. 
Visit the Molecule Discovery dapp


BioDAO
BioDAO aims to be a collective funding DAO for biotech startups and drug discovery. Led by Rushi Trivedi and Alex Pustov. 
Discord community is still somewhat small. Project has been going on for 7+ months and the team has chosen to build mostly with core team and not community involvement. Similar to Molecule, the goal is to own biotech assets developed by DAO-funded projects. 
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/biodaoxyz 
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/7yMtZwp7Rq


Phage Directory
Learn more about Phage Directory in this UltraRare Podcast episode with the founders: https://rss.com/podcasts/ultrarare/452751/ 
Led by Jessica Sacher and Jan Zheng. Phage Directory was started from the observation that clinicians and scientists were seeking cures to antibiotic-resistant infections. Phage Directory was formed with a simple solution: building out a more concrete network of the people who might have the tools to help (in this case, phages). To date, the group has helped with three different cures. They continue to grow. Great model and simple template for decentralized cure discovery. 



Recerca - Tokenizing Research 
Led by David Hunt, Dr. Sean Young, & Tyler Ruben. Recerca first got momentum after the team won 2nd prize in the Hedera X Filecoin Grant, for an application centered around solving data integrity problems, crowdfunding research, and NFT based participant rewards. So far the team has made great strides with its premier study completed in November 2021, and the user facing application that distributes participant NFT rewards is currently in closed alpha.


Crowd Funded Cures
Could a pay-for-success model bring certain off-patent treatments and repurposed generic drugs to the forefront and into patient hands without patents? That is the dream of Crowd Funded Cures, led by a team including Savva Kerdemelidis, Amir Amraie, Andrew Horton, Nick Fiorenza, Ariella Coler-Reilly, Zack West, & Spyridon Antonopoulos, Kash Nouroozi, Zan Lowe-Skilern, Dominic Nutt, Daniel Dohne. 
Article explainer of the model
		Blog: https://crowdfundedcures.org/blog/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrowdFundedCure
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crowdfundedcures/
Gitcoin GR15 Round 
Discord: https://discord.gg/6tFG8RDygW


LabDAO 
The future of biomedical science is an open, community-run network of laboratories. CRO/Marketplace focus.  LabDAO hopes to build an on-chain marketplace for wet and dry lab services to enable scientific progress. Prior to token launch, the team has already been hard at work on a command line interface for lab transactions that will have a test launch in early Q2 2022. Team is led by Niklas Rindtorff. 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lab_dao 
Website: https://www.labdao.com/ 
Resources: 
Arye & Niklas–Building a labDAO for web3 Biotech 
Niklas Rindtorff–Graph Based Protocols 
UltraRare podcast episode featuring LabDAO; also here. 

CRO Directory Resource 

Virtual Drug Development or Clinical Trial Platforms: coming soon
mRNA Swap for offsetting risk in clinical trial efficacy studies

Decentralized Space Exploration projects
LunCo  
permissionless collaborative space missions design tool powered by web3. With the help of LunCo it’s possible to run complex projects like planning civic CO2 tracking constellations, Lunar colony etc.
Our mission is to make humanity multiplanetary species by providing a collaborative tool to plan missions together
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/LunCoSim
		Discord: https://discord.gg/p4KvvvG6 
		Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/grants/5939/lunco-full-cycle-space-operations-sim-tool 
		Giveth: https://giveth.io/project/lunco-a-full-cycle-space-operations-sim-tool 
		Github: https://github.com/LunCoSim/lunco-sim

Focused Research Organizations & Institutes

Foresight Institute

Convergent Research

Astera Institute

Arcadia Institute

New Science

Science NFTs

DNAverse 
DNAverse is an NFT project collection customized with real DNA data. The long term mission is the geneticizing of avatars in the metaverse and the replication of life in the digital world with a self-sustainable decentralized model.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dnaverse_io
 		Discord: https://discord.gg/jxHBUghdnT

GeneNFT 
GeneNFT is an experiment at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

UltraRare 
UltraRare is a web3 collective exploring the intersection of art and science. Our team includes scientists, developers, and artists. We care about communicating science through audio and visual means, and we produce the UltraRare The Podcast to help onboard people to the web3 space. 

AtomicHeartNFT 
AtomicHeartNFT is a web3 collective showcasing images produced using electron microscopy and other advanced microscopy techniques. 
Twitter: @atomicheartNFT

SameYou 
SameYou is an NFT collection to raise money for treatments for brain injury or stroke.

FrontierDAO 
FrontierDAO is a science investment DAO with an art gallery as well - opensea.io/frontierdao 

PLANT GANG 
PLANT GANG is a community building the herbarium of the metaverse, producing scientific 3D model NFT plant specimens, with associated metadata and physical counterparts. 
Twitter @PLANTGANGxyz
Discord: https://discord.gg/hfQhrFFnD4

ArtBlocks “Gels” 
By Jason Brown & Shawn Douglas. Gels is a science-inspired generative piece. Our algorithm simulates gel electrophoresis. The DNA band patterns in this work derive from combinations of a simulated experimental data and real-world data, including DNA sequences that encode several variants of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the corresponding mRNA vaccines. Our algorithm first generates plausible sample tubes that typically contain one or more DNA fragments. Then, each sample is distributed and "run" on a simulated gel to create the characteristic band patterns that might be observed on real gels. Our simulations also take into account human error — mistakes are common in the lab. 

Decentralized Financing of Science and/or Philanthropy

BeakerDAO
BeakerDAO is a DAO, co-initiated by Tribute Labs that supports the expansion of decentralized science. Through research funding and IP management, the DAO aims to promote open accessibility & create decentralized market liquidity across the DeSci space.
		Twitter: https://twitter.com/beakerdao

Medical.watch
We're building a medical knowledge base for the world. Imagine a medical version of Wikipedia + UpToDate, updated by doctors in real-time. With Medical.watch, doctors will have the latest medical knowledge to treat patients.
Our profile 
Twitter Spaces with DeSciWorld

Moon Rabbit
Moon Rabbit is a distributed crypto-conglomerate — 安居財閥 (AngoZaibatsu) — constituting a system of systems (Jurisdictions), uniting all distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies in the ultimate cross-chain protocol – a Metachain. Moon Rabbit is focused on building scalable incentive models and web3 infrastructure to accelerate Longevity R&D. We are constantly integrating new chains and recently partnered with the world's leading Longevity research institution, Foresight Institute.
Chain info
Live Jurisdictions 
NFT Marketplace

Gitcoin
Gitcoin is a funding mechanism for web3 focused on public goods. Many of the DeSci projects in this Wiki are available for funding through Gitcoin, where your ‘dollars’ will be matched significantly (sometimes 4-60x!)
Gitcoin had its first DeSci funding round from 9/7-9/22, 2022. 
“The GR15 Cause Rounds showcase projects using web3 to build & fund solutions related to 4 key social and environmental causes: Climate Solutions, Crypto Advocacy, DEI (Diversity Equity & Inclusion), and [NEW!] DeSci (Decentralized Science). Over $900k of matching funds is available for Cause Rounds so far!” -Gitcoin

Experiment 
The first crowdfunding platform for science. 
Launched in 2012 by Cindy Wu and Denny Luan. 
UltraRare’s Podcast episode with David Lang covers crowdfunding platforms for science (and DeSci): https://rss.com/podcasts/ultrarare/476700/ 
Experiment Patron NFTs: ​​https://opensea.io/collection/experimentpatrons

Crowd Funded Cures (see above)
@CrowdFundedCure 
Pay for success Contracts 

Giveth.io

Science Fund
An initiative to create funding pools for Science through NFTs

Impact Finance
Impact Finance builds web3 tools with the aim of increasing the impact that citizen scientists can have on the scientific research process and the development of new technologies. We’re building a community-governed platform that enables science-based digital asset creators to cultivate their professional networks, track reputation, fund research, and unlock new opportunities for collaboration and cooperation. 


Sesame Foundation
For science enthusiasts and philanthropists who want to support research in computational mathematics, the Sesame Foundation provides a platform for creating and contributing to decentralized prizes. Unlike other research funding platforms, Sesame Prizes use smart contracts to ensure that prizes are awarded only once a given problem is actually solved.

GainForest / LabDAO Rainforest Monitoring Lab
The rainforest monitoring lab is bringing together young engineers, students and scientists to contribute to an open and reproducible machine learning repository for rainforest monitoring. The models will then be used to transparently analyze carbon offset projects around the world and assess nature’s contribution for ReFi. We encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. LabDAO and GainForest team members will guide all stipend recipients during their research journey. Recipients will receive impact certificates as POAP. Additionally, developed machine learning models have a chance to contribute to GainForest’s $10M XPRIZE Rainforest participation.
Science program: https://beta.gainforest.app/science
Main website: http://gainforest.earth/

ViralCure
We are an impact-first Decentralized Science platform that helps fund healthcare-oriented research and development in alternative ways. Part of the Sthorm Web3 project ecosystem with a long trajectory working with alt-funding for scientific projects.
		Our Linktree
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/viral_cure
		Discord: https://discord.gg/Wv4EQHPuT7 

Data Storage & Blockchain Protocols

DeSci Labs
DeSci Labs is building the infrastructure for Decentralized Science. DeSci Nodes, the first product from DeSci Labs enables a radically transparent ledger of scientific record that is secure, permanent, interoperable and resistant to cross-national censorship. 
Watch the product demo or join the discord to learn more
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeSciLabs

Fleming Protocol
A data economy where patients capture the value of their data. Through incentivization & innovative data monetization mechanisms, we enable patients & biomedical innovators to collaborate & create value in a privacy preserving way.

OceanProtocol 
Tools for the web3 data economy 
​​Data owners and consumers use Ocean Market app to publish, discover, and consume data in a secure, privacy-preserving fashion. OCEAN holders stake liquidity to data pools. Developers use Ocean libraries to build their own data wallets, data marketplaces, and more. Ocean datatokens wrap data services as industry-standard ERC20 tokens. This enables data wallets, data exchanges, and data co-ops by leveraging crypto wallets, exchanges, and other decentralized finance (DeFi) tools.

Bacalhau
The goal of our project is to give researchers and data engineers the ability to publicly reproduce data pipelines, thereby making their research more transparent and reusable. Please see our project page here for more detail:
https://bacalhau.webflow.io/
https://github.com/filecoin-project/bacalhau

Weavechain
Weavechain offers a solution for both public and private datasets, with immutable blockchain properties guaranteeing data lineage and advanced role-based permissioning to the table level guaranteeing security. Researchers can share and access secure and tamper-proof data instantly, without any need to download updates, since additions are reflected in real-time. 

Ceramic
Ceramic is a decentralized network where people can collaborate on open data sets while being in control over their data. ComposeDB is a graph database built on top of Ceramic that enables developers to create public knowledge graphs, social applications, DAO coordination tooling, etc. Ceramic works with most existing web3 wallets and enables a seamless experience for users interacting with data in the system.

Kamu
Kamu is a decentralized data supply network created to address the ongoing reproducibility crisis in science. Think of it as "Git for Data" that lets you easily share both static and highly dynamic data without losing ownership, collaborate with others on building data processing pipelines that continuously clean, combine, and enrich data from other sources, and effortlessly maintain 100% reproducibility, verifiability, and detailed provenance of data for your analysis and ML projects. 
To learn more: https://docs.kamu.dev/cli/
Join our Discord and visit our Github!

Articles / Misc. Resources 
Feel free to suggest new categories as trends appear.  	

With cryptocurrency and NFTs, ‘decentralized science’ seeks to upend drug industry financing. 
Stat News article by Allison DeAngelis - June 23, 2022

Molecule Fundraising Announcement
Decentralized science platform Molecule raises $13 million in seed funding 
By Tom Matsuda - June 13, 2022 

A Guide to DeSci 
By Sarah Hamburg published in Future (a16z)

Retroactive Public Goods Funding

How to DAO with People, not just Protocols  
By Mike McCoy 
How to organize, make decisions, structure and allocate wealth in DAOs

Science and Web3: Do non-fungible tokens (NFTs) provide a way to democratise and increase scientific funding?
By Adrian Stencel 
Article on democratizing science through web3 

Non fungible tokens (NFTs) for academic publications?
By David Greshan 

How scientists are embracing NFTs
Nature Article

IBFS (Blockchain for Science) First Announcement 

Epoch 16 - Decentralized Science - DeSci
By BowTiedBiotech

DeSci: Can Crypto Improve Scientific Research? 
By Max Parasol

A DeSci Origin Story 
by Dr. David Koepsell 

Introduction to DeSci
By Alexandre Demailly - May 19, 2022 

DeSci: How Can DAOs Facilitate Collaboration And Push The Open Science Movement Forward
By Eliot Couvat (Coinvise)

The New Web 3 Movement to Revolutionize Scientific Research and Funding
By Sergey Baloyan - May 3, 2022

How do Decentralized Science Organizations Work 
By Maria Isabella - Feb 25 2022

The Rise of DeSci Blockchain and the Future of Research 
By AIBC - May 30, 2022

Why Science? Why Blockchain? Why DAO Now?
By Paige Donner - Dec 26, 2021

Trustless Science
By Jonathan Starr - May 9 2022

Mediverse Database 
By Mike Pica
The Mediverse team has built a page for some of the content contained in this Wiki located here. The rest of Mediverse is for overviews of blockchain and DeSci projects, such as Molecule.

DeSci-Web3 Twitter List 
By Jocelynn Pearl 
 
DeSci-Web3 Twitter List 
By Kyosuke Iyama

DeSci Social Communities 

Discord communities 
VitaDAO discord: https://discord.gg/invite/vitadao
LabDAO discord https://discord.com/invite/labdao
Molecule discord: https://discord.com/invite/uAGW7K4hQU 
Crowd Funded Cures discord: https://discord.gg/6tFG8RDygW 
DeSciAlliance: https://discord.com/invite/D2DxBpkfWZ  
DeSci Labs discord: https://discord.gg/s5tJFwCYvK 
DeSciWorld discord: https://discord.gg/KchqF35uKm 
Web3 Women in Science discord: https://discord.gg/X3cx5zer 
DeSci Africa:  https://discord.gg/4QyGdzknP8

Telegram communities
Blockchain for Science: https://t.me/BlockchainForScience
Open Science Ecosystem: https://t.me/osftw
Research Collective: https://t.me/joinchat/PDmTa9ByTy44MDIx 
Design Thinking / UX in DeSci (reach out to @danielyse_ on Twitter) 
DeSci Africa:  https://t.me/DeSciAfrica

Book Recommendations

Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal 

Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

Impact Networks by David Ehrlichman



Archived Projects 
OpenAccessDAO 
Making science open access for all. 
	Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenAccessDAO
	Discord: https://discord.gg/qQWeRAXg
FAQ
OaDAO Knowledge Resources
Jocelynn notes: server now dead. 

Framework Bio 
Founder: Patrick Thayer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frameworkbio 
Dani notes: Project on hold while team is focused on continuing education 

DeSci Nerdery 
Discord: https://discord.gg/R3pjhntRDj (not company affiliated)

DeBio Network 
DeBio eliminates risks of genetic discrimination by leveraging blockchain technology and high-level encryption to protect identity — while allowing users to access the benefits of genetic testing
Whitepaper here
DeBio discord: https://discord.com/invite/J2nWEB4Vn2 
Try it out on Testnet or run on Mainnet  

LYNX 

Cloud Labs
Strateos, Emerald Cloud Labs