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[RokitG @1rokitg]

Wouldn't wanna fade a token run by @durov tbh

[Pavel Durov @durov]

@anndylian Inevitable.

[زنبور 🇺🇸🇮🇷 @Aliferous1df]

اگه امریکا و اسراییل زیرساختای اینترنت رو زده بودن همه اکتیویستای دنیا خودشونو جر میدادن!
ولی چون جمهوری اسهالی قطع کرده اشکالی نداره و همه خفه‌خون مرگ گرفتن!

[˚₊‧꒰ა yumie ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ @yumiebb]

the $BIO chart rn tbh

[Ole @DerCheapi]

https://t.co/tnSCl2m0uH

[spyzer @spyzer]

Thesis on solana:bioJ9JTqW62MLz7UKHU69gtKhPpGi1BQhccj2kmSvUJ

Bio Protocol is basically what happens when you take the YC model, strip out the gatekeeping, and rebuild it on-chain for biotech. No big pharma gatekeepers. No opaque R&D pipelines but a community of patients, scientists, and researchers co-owning early-stage medicine from day one.

So what is it actually?

A token-governed launchpad for BioDAOs — community-owned research networks each targeting a specific disease or scientific frontier.

Longevity, neurodegeneration, psychedelics, cryonics, women's health, synthetic biology. The protocol curates which DAOs get admitted, funds their initial raise, manages their secondary market liquidity, and takes a stake in every project it launches. BIO is the connective tissue holding all of it together.

The business model in plain English:

>6.9% equity stake in every BioDAO launched through the protocol
>30% cut of a 1% fee on every secondary market trade of any launched token
>BIO is the mandatory liquidity pair for all project tokens — you need BIO to trade them
>Fees from BioAgent services
>Every sale by any BioDAO is denominated in BIO

One licensing deal, one pharma acquisition, one clinical milestone across any of 60+ pipeline projects flows value back to the protocol = structural bet.

Proof of product

Eli Lilly (American multinational pharmaceutical company-- one of the most conservative, credibility-heavy buyers in pharma) paid 300M for Crossbridge Bio — a drug candidate that originated inside the VitaDAO ecosystem. VitaDAO is one of the original BioDAOs running on Bio Protocol. This was the first nine-figure pharma acquisition of IP developed through tokenized, community-governed research.

Pfizer is already running their BixBench benchmarking tool — 59 AI agents, 1,100+ hypotheses generated.

The AI angle

Bio Protocol's PeptAI agent designed a novel ADHD drug candidate targeting the OX2R receptor in roughly 24 hours. Validation cost: $1,500. Traditional pharma spends millions and takes years to reach an equivalent decision point. The agent runs a 9-gate pipeline — 8 computational gates, 1 wet lab gate — autonomously, publishes every decision on-chain via Molecule Labs, and pays for wet lab experiments directly from its own wallet.

This isn't the interesting part on its own. The interesting part is what it means structurally: when discovery costs collapse from millions to thousands, a DAO treasury can now fund a candidate all the way to real lab data. That puts entire categories of neglected research within reach that pharma was never going to touch commercially. The biology behind ADHD's orexin system has been documented for years. No institution with the capital chose to develop a drug around it. A BioAgent did.

The pipeline

Eight BioDAOs are currently live.
>VitaDAO ($8M+ funded, backed by Pfizer Ventures), >CerebrumDAO (struck a deal with Fission Pharma on neurodegeneration),
>CryoDAO ($3M raised, partnered with Oxford >Cryotechnology),
>ValleyDAO ($2M+, partnered with Imperial College London),
>AthenaDAO (14 IP deals pending),
>PsyDAO,
>HairDAO,
>Quantum Biology DAO.

PeptAI's ignition sale on Bio Protocol is currently 10.9x oversubscribed — 546K committed against a 50K raise, with 11 days still remaining and 340M+ BioXP pledged by stakers.

Three new research tokens launched recently — all oversubscribed, 40% demand increase in participation.
Each one of these is a separate pipeline. Each one of these is an additional chance at a pharma exit that reprices the whole protocol. (the structural bet)

The structural problems that still exist

Bio Protocol has been honest about this — the two-engine thesis (community funding + agentic AI science) still leaves three unsolved problems.

1) First, data inaccessibility. The training data AI needs to reliably model drug behavior in the body sits locked inside pharmaceutical companies that spent decades collecting it and treat it as a competitive weapon. Molecule is building an open on-chain data layer to address this long-term, but it's not solved.

2) Second, wet labs. Physical validation still requires weeks of contracting and coordination. No amount of AI removes this step. PeptAI routes through Adaptyv Bio for synthesis and SPR validation — that dependency exists and adds friction.

3) Third, clinical trials. Everything DeSci has built reaches the start of the drug development path with something real in hand — a characterized compound, published binding data, permanent on-chain record of every decision. That's a fundamentally different starting point for a pharma conversation. But the clinical stage — three phases, tens to hundreds of millions in cost — is not something the current DeSci stack touches. That gap is real and acknowledged.

The chart context

Token is down -95%+ from the highs, up ~5X from the lowest point about a month ago.
The Lilly exit happened after most of the price damage. Token is sitting near historical lows relative to what the protocol has actually demonstrated.

Things to keep an eye on right now

>Any licensing deal or pharma acquisition involving a BioDAO project
>PeptAI candidates advancing to wet lab validation and publishing results on-chain
>New BioDAO cohort launches and whether oversubscription trend continues
>Molecule's Science Beach commons gaining traction as an open data layer
>Whether the clinical trial gap starts getting addressed structurally

TLDR (The thesis in one sentence) : a protocol that takes equity in every project it launches, mandates BIO in every trade, and has already produced one nine-figure pharma exit — sitting near all-time lows while the desci/peptide narrative is growing exponentially.

Not financial advice. Do your own research. Follow for more content like this 🫡

[Bio Protocol @BioProtocol]

In less than 30 minutes, the PEPTAI sale is now over 5.9x oversubscribed!

The sale concludes on Thursday, May 14, at 1 PM UTC.

20% of the total supply is allocated to BIO stakers, while 5% is available through the Ignition Sale.

You can stake your BIO to become eligible for the airdrop. You'll also earn BioXP during the 13-day Ignition Sale period, which increases your allocation in the sale.

Stake BIO now and join the sale ↓

[Market Watcher @watchingmarkets]

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