gm and welcome to the April edition of the LabDAO newsletter. A lot has been going on, from working on the openlab exchange, to ETHAmsterdam, and new teams forming. Let's get right into it!
LabDAO is a decentralized organization made up of individuals from across the world working to accelerate life science innovation and collaboration. We are building an open-source and community-owned protocol where users can exchange research services, and find collaborators.
If you’re interested in learning more about LabDAO, check out our latest article on LabDAO here.
We are pleased to report that on April 11, 2022, we were able to run our first ever transaction on OpenLab. We deployed our smart contracts on the Mumbai-Polygon Testnet. We hope this is the first of many, and gives the backbone for researchers to start deploying their tools on OpenLab. Check out the tweet with the announcement here
We have a basic version of the exchange client running on the "cli-subgraph-a" branch, which you can find here. You can install the package, and run a few commands to see the additions. Check out the issues labeled on the github to see where you can get involved!
Our compound engineering team is working on a variety of tools to be available for when we launch our open beta in May. Our team has been making progress on a pipeline for represting learing methods for proteins.
We have also started an Image Analysis team. If you have tools that you'd like to deploy on OpenLab hop into our discord, and introduce us to your tool. We have meetings every Sunday at 5pm EST on the Hangout voice chat in discord. Feel free to hop on and listen in if you can!
We've integrated intros.ai into our community, which allows us to have 1-on-1 calls between members of LabDAO, so we can get to know each other, and grow our own personal network. Check out the pinned message in the general channel on Discord to learn how to get inovlved
We're working closely with the DAO Quest team to build out our own custom onboarding workflow, to make it easier for people to get involved with LabDAO. We are also creating a custom Disocord bot to have LabDAO specific commands, and better engage with our community.
Our launch team went to ETH Amsterdam for the first ever DeSci day! We spoke about our plans for LabDAO, where we've been what we're doing. Wasn't able to attend? Don't worry! We've got the whole of DeSci day recorded here
We had the first Crypto x Longevity Symposium, run by VitaDAO and Molecule, with features by members from LabDAO. This featured talks from longevity researchers, as well core members explaining what the future of research is going to look like. We had over 300 attendees for the Symposium, and we hope to do this again in the future! Watch a recording of the symposium, here.
DeSci day at ETHAmsterdam was a massive success, so we're making a DeSci Conference along with our frens at Molecule and VitaDAO. We are planning for a DeSci conference in Berlin for May 23-24th. We are currently planning our speaker schedule, but expect a lot of talk on IP-NFTs, DeSci DAOs, research funding, and DeSci execution. Register or apply to be a speaker!
This month's had a bunch of LabDAO Features.
CoinTelegraph wrote an article about DeSci, featuring LabDAO!
Jocelynn Pearl also wrote an article for a16z covering an overview of DeSci, of course, featuring LabDAO!
Owokci from Gitcoin also featured us on a graphic.
Before you leave, make sure to join our discord and introduce yourself! We love getting to know people who are interested in DeSci, and want to work to bringing LabDAO to the world, together!
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And now, we leave you with a quote
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge ~ Carl Sagan