This episode of the Desci Podcast explores decentralized science with Balaji Srinivasan. Balaji discusses the Network State, an era of decentralized academia, decentralized media, and decentralized science, and the difference between "science" and actual science.

The future of research is collaborative, digital, and highly autonomous. Patents today are not. We are building the intellectual property system that will help usher in this new era.

In 2021, our team at Molecule published the first implementation of intellectual property NFTs (IP-NFTs). A solution that wraps intellectual property rights such as patents, datasets, or contractual agreements inside a non-fungible token, enabling easy transfer and collective ownership over such assets. Together with VitaDAO, we managed to demonstrate that this new asset class can be a viable investment instrument for biotech research.