VitaDAO: Funding science with DAOs
summary
VitaDAO funds early-stage longevity research by minting an IP-NFT ownership that legally ties future IP to the DAO while using agents like Molecule to sign university contracts, remaining unregistered on-chain. Governance is token-weighted (Monarch v3) with working groups; two proposals are live and an upcoming project with University of Copenhagen is queued. Launch uses a Gnosis auction fair launch, attracting ~635 bidders and creating a roughly $7M treasury for 10–50k grant tickets to seed many small, high-risk studies.
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- 0:00Start
- 13:45Reputation systems in academia vs. blockchain
- 15:16Budget limits for proposals?
- 17:11Does the DAO have legal jurisdiction?
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