DeSci DAO Curation: How BIO Curates the Best Onchain Biotech & Science

We recently published a summary of the BIO protocol vision and how we’re building a new financial layer for DeSci to increase the flow of capital and talent into onchain science. In the post, we outlined the protocol’s goals and core operations, starting with curation.

Curation is how the BIO community selects biotech DAOs (bioDAOs) to be accepted into the BIO network. BioDAOs voted into the network receive funding via the BIO Launchpad, as well as token liquidity support, token incentives and other acceleration services from the community.

BIO token holders curate which bioDAOs are accepted into the BIO network by staking BIO tokens on bioDAOs they want accepted. If a DAO you've staked to is ultimately voted in by the community, you stand to earn BIO token rewards as well as early access to the DAO's token funding round and subsequent IP asset funding rounds conducted by the DAO.

Let’s take a deeper look:

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A Y Combinator for DeSci

BIO was built with DNA from Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley-based technology startup accelerator responsible for the early growth of game-changing companies like Coinbase, Reddit, Airbnb, and Twitch.

The key difference is that we bring the accelerator model specifically to biotech and onchain, where decentralized governance, funding, and liquidity can happen with more transparency and less friction compared to traditional biotech funding and development models.

For biotech, these innovative open frameworks de-risk traditional science funding, especially in the early stages of new and emerging scientific fields, resulting in progress .