On December 23, Binance announced that Binance Launchpool will launch the 63rd project, BIO Protocol (BIO), and trading pairs such as BIO/USDT, BIO/BNB will open on January 3, 2025. According to Binance's announcement, the total supply of the genesis token of BIO Protocol is 3,320,000,000 tokens, with an initial circulating supply of 1,296,529,168 tokens at the time of listing, accounting for about 39.05% of the total genesis token supply. Of these, 56% of BIO tokens will be allocated to the ecosystem and community, 25.4% to early contributors, and 18.6% to early supporters.
Since Binance Labs announced its investment in BIO Protocol, the DeSci market has reignited, with related concept tokens such as VITA, GROW, and RSC all experiencing significant increases. Following the news of Binance Launchpool, recently popular ecological meme coins also surged rapidly, with RIF briefly rising over 40%, URO over 35%, and DRUGS over 150%. Additionally, established DeSci tokens such as VITA and RSC have started to see market reactions.
In this article, BlockBeats provides a comprehensive overview of the current BIO ecosystem and potential targets related to the DeSci concept, from DAOs to NFTs to meme coins, indicating that the DeSci field is not short of speculative opportunities.
BIO Ecosystem DeSci DAO
BIO is a network of biological DAOs, each focusing on developing research and products in specific scientific fields. Currently, the BIO network consists of eight different scientific communities focusing on longevity, women's health, neurodegenerative diseases, and synthetic biology, among others. The background and mechanics of the BIO Protocol are not elaborated on further in this article.
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Initial DeSci DAO
The initial DeSci DAO was established before the BIO Protocol separated from Molecule, and currently, there are 7 DAOs. After the establishment of the BIO Protocol, these DAO organizations were first incorporated into the BIO network. In the previous BIO Genesis Event, users had to use the tokens of these DAO organizations to exchange for BIO tokens, so these DAO tokens are also part of the assets of the BIO network.
VitaDAO: Secured over $5 million in funding in the field of longevity science, supported by Pfizer's venture capital department and Balaji Srinivasan, a decentralized science organization collaborating with Newcastle University. It is noteworthy that VitaDAO is the 'elder among elders', the first DeSci DAO of Molecule, the mother of the BIO protocol, focusing on research in the field of longevity. The current BIO Protocol Association is also a Swiss nonprofit organization founded by main members of VitaDAO.
HairDAO: Targeting hair loss; the DAO owns patented consumer products Follicool.
CerebrumDAO: Promoting brain health, raising over $1.5 million, and partnering with Fission Pharma to address mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases.
ValleyDAO: Focusing on synthetic biology, has raised over $2 million and collaborated with Imperial College London.
AthenaDAO: Promoting women's health R&D, providing $500,000 in funding for translational research, with 14 intellectual property transactions pending.
CryoDAO: Promoting the development of cryobiology, raising over $3 million for the field, and establishing projects with Oxford's cryogenics and advanced neurobiology.
PsyDAO: Focusing on psychedelic drugs, launched a new platform OPSY using psychedelic drug experiments and data.
First Batch of Launchpad DAOs
BIO Protocol recently announced the first batch of Launchpad DAOs after launch, which are launched through the auction mechanism of the BIO platform's Launchpad. Among them, the first DAO to conduct a token auction is Quantum Biology DAO, with the auction having ended on December 17, during which bidding was very intense, with starting prices exceeding the original price by more than 10 times at one point.
Long COVID Labs: Accelerating the Cure for Over 100 Million Long COVID Patients. The founder is Rohan Dixit, a former Stanford neuroscientist, healthcare entrepreneur, and Long COVID survivor.
Quantum Biology DAO: Creating quantum microscopes to advance biological research. The founders are Clarice D. Aiello (MIT PhD, a world-leading quantum biologist) and Geoff Anders (Executive Director of Leverage Research).
Curetopia (Rare Diseases): Addressing the rare disease field valued at over $10,000 by uniting families and patient communities. The founder is Ethan Perlstein, a Harvard PhD, entrepreneur, and Y-Combinator alumnus.
BIO System Meme AI DAO
In addition to serious scientific research DAO organizations, the BIO team and community have also engaged in interesting DeSci experiments outside of DeSci DAO, successfully bringing a lot of attention to the DeSci field.
RIF/URO
Pump.Science is a meme token platform launched by BIO Protocol at this year's Token 2049 Solana Breakpoint conference, where players can purchase meme tokens representing drugs to participate in drug effect predictions and trading of experimental data. The surge of RIF/URO after DEVCON Bangkok also directly ignited the DeSci field, which had been regarded as a speculative leader in the DeSci area for a long time.
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DRUGS
DRUGS (Big Pharma) is also known as 'Little BIO', and is the 'favorite child' of the BIO Protocol ecosystem. DRUGS aims to disrupt the monopolistic business model of traditional large pharmaceutical companies, and the project has received broad support from the BIO ecosystem since its inception, including Pump Science, other BIO-related DeSci DAOs, and BIO co-founder Paul himself.
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GIRLE/BABY
GIRLE and BABY are AI DAOs and meme tokens issued by AthenaDAO on the Solana DAOs.fun platform and Base chain, respectively, both supporting scientific research in the field of women's fertility.
Among them, GIRLE aims to empower the future of fertility through AI and Web3 with tokens, and the team is currently conducting relevant experiments on peptide cell repair, testing the effects of peptides on cells, and will soon launch related experimental tokens. Additionally, their official website also shows other token holdings in the DAO treasury.
BIO Ecosystem IPT
IPT is an intellectual property token pioneered by the Molecule Catalyst platform, representing a portion of governance rights over generated scientific IP. These tokens provide holders the opportunity to directly participate in the development, decision-making, and future direction of research. Each BioDAO typically holds a portfolio of IP tokens representing intellectual property related to specific scientific research fields of the BioDAO. Currently, the most recognized IPTs are VitaDAO's developed and owned IPTs VitaRNA and VITA-FAST.
IPT VitaRNA VITA-FAST
VitaRNA is the IPT of Artan Bio, a gene therapy project that has raised over $300,000. Artan Bio is exploring promising gene therapy areas that help address genetic factors related to aging. The company's approach aims to develop therapeutic candidates that may suppress mutations that lead to aging. Artan Bio is led by two entrepreneurs who previously advanced their drug development platform to human clinical trials.
VITA-FAST is the IPT of Viktor Korolchuk's lab, also successfully raising over $300,000. VITA-FAST focuses on researching drugs that enhance autophagy, a natural 'garbage disposal' built into our body cells that can eliminate unnecessary protein accumulation.
OVARIA
OVARIA is an IPT launched by AthenaDAO in collaboration with Gero. Gero is a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence for target and drug discovery. AthenaDAO and Gero aim to revolutionize the treatment landscape of ovarian aging, providing therapeutic potential in currently limited fields. AthenaDAO will use their platform to identify up to 10 new targets related to ovarian aging, with trial results expected to delay menopause and reduce its health-related consequences.
Competitive Related Meme
In addition to BIO-related targets, the ecological heat has also expanded to other areas of DeSci.
RSC
Research Hub is a DeSci project founded by Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong, with the mission to accelerate the pace of scientific research. By creating modern mobile and web applications, it enables people to conduct scientific research in a more efficient manner.
On the ResearchHub platform, research papers are stored and grouped by research field in 'centers'. Personal centers will essentially act as live journals within key fields, with highly voted posts (i.e., papers and their related abstracts and discussions) moving to the top of each center.
Scihub
Scihub is inspired by the world's largest free paper download center Sci-hub, which faces legal issues due to open-source and is maintained solely by donations. 0x AA(@0x AA_Science) is the TOP 1 holder of this token, currently holding 22% of the total tokens, and he has stated that he will donate 20% of the tokens to the operators of SciHub, showing support for their cause and platform development.
Currently, BIO Protocol has announced its roadmap for 2025, which includes:
BIO token will undergo TGE on January 3 on the Ethereum mainnet;
BIO token will go live on Solana and Base networks;
New BioDAO Launched;
BIO/BioDAO Liquidity Pool;
The new BIO Launchpad is officially online.
With the launch of the BIO token on Binance, the DeSci field may usher in a new wave of excitement.
