DeSci: How Blockchains are Powering Science 3.0 | Zuzalu #7
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we delve into the world of DeSci, or Decentralized Science, which serves as a bridge between technologies like Synthetic Biology, Longevity, and Ethereum. DeSci aims to revolutionize the current scientific system, highlighting its flaws such as friction, corruption, and outdated practices. By utilizing blockchain technology, DeSci seeks to improve scientific institutions and processes.
The conversation with pioneers Boris Dyakov and Mikey Fischer sheds light on the vast potential of DeSci and its ability to transform scientific progress. It goes beyond mere improvement, presenting a paradigm shift in the way science is conducted. The second conversation with Alok Tayi of VibeBio illustrates a fascinating use case for using DeSci to solve diseases that are underserved in TradSci.
DeSci envisions open and modular scientific data, akin to the accessibility of financial tools in the blockchain world. Additionally, the emergence of DAOs in DeSci brings opportunities for capital allocation and funding clinical trials. Join us on this exploration of the frontier of Scientific Progress, where traditional and decentralized science collide.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:30 Scientific Progress
5:30 BORIS & MIKEY
8:50 Overcoming TradSci
13:00 Open Science
16:25 VitaDAO
19:00 What is DeSci?
23:23 Bullish on Science
28:30 Onboarding Scientists
34:00 The New Infrastructure
35:00 AI and Science
43:00 ALOK TAYI
44:10 Vibe Bio
47:00 The Long Tail of Disease
52:00 Inflection Points
54:00 Solving Disease
59:45 The Power of DAOs
1:07:45 Governance and Structure
1:11:30 The Crypto Value Add
1:14:00 Regulation
1:19:00 A New Primitive
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Resources
Boris Dyakov
https://twitter.com/BJ_Dyakov?s=20
Mikey Fischer
https://twitter.com/0xMikeyF?s=20
Alok Tayi
https://twitter.com/aloktayi?s=20
DeSci Ethereum Foundation
https://ethereum.org/en/desci/
Gitcoin DeSci Fund
https://bounties.gitcoin.co/grants/5105/the-decentralized-science-community-fund
Vibe Bio
https://www.vibebio.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:08.8 | And today, on this episode of our Zalut series, we are exploring some new frontiers. |
| 0:12.9 | New frontiers and new technologies, all of which, are poised to completely revolutionize |
| 0:17.4 | the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running |
| 0:21.1 | on. |
| 0:22.1 | Bankless Station, today we are exploring the frontier of DSI or decentralized science. |
| 0:27.4 | What is DSI? |
| 0:28.4 | Is a really good question because I legitimately had no idea going into Zuzalo, but it became |
| 0:33.3 | clear that DSI is a great connector of many of the technologies presented here at Zuzalo. |
| 0:39.0 | DSI is how synthetic biology and longevity have to do with Ethereum. |
| 0:43.9 | DSI is what is putting Ethereum at the center of these things. |
| 0:47.4 | The fundamental argument for DSI is that the old ways of doing science is bad. |
| 0:52.6 | And for the same reasons why the old way of doing money and doing finance is bad. |
| 0:56.8 | And DSI looks at the incumbent system of producing science and sees friction and corruption |
| 1:02.8 | and antiquation and toxic tradition. |
| 1:05.7 | DSI wants to use blockchain technology to improve the systems and institutions of science. |
| 1:11.3 | The mechanisms of how science can use a blockchain is a very big conversation, and the answers |
| 1:16.6 | are more than a few. |
| 1:18.0 | But the conversation that you are about to hear with Boris and Mikey will download you |
| 1:21.4 | on the DSI landscape here. |
| 1:23.1 | But this isn't just about improving the ways that we do science. |
| 1:25.7 | This isn't just about, hey, we found a new way to do science better and faster. |
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