We are thrilled to share PsyDAO’s Open Psychedelic Science ecosYstem Whitepaper, authored by Balazs Szigeti, Warren, and Chris Byrnes. The OPSY Whitepaper outlines the primary focus of PsyDAO’s scientific working group: building OPSY and demonstrating the platform's benefits by executing pilot studies.Whitepaper SummaryOPSY is a privacy-preserving middleware layer designed to accelerate psychedelic citizen science through distributed ledger technology. OPSY is designed to unblock bottlen...

We are thrilled to share PsyDAO’s Open Psychedelic Science ecosYstem Whitepaper, authored by Balazs Szigeti, Warren, and Chris Byrnes. The OPSY Whitepaper outlines the primary focus of PsyDAO’s scientific working group: building OPSY and demonstrating the platform's benefits by executing pilot studies.Whitepaper SummaryOPSY is a privacy-preserving middleware layer designed to accelerate psychedelic citizen science through distributed ledger technology. OPSY is designed to unblock bottlen...

A 26-year-old man in New York City who works in sales and goes by Aqueous has a deep relationship with psychedelics. "I've had great experiences, horrific experiences, profound experiences, and mundane ones," he writes. "The whole spectrum." His trips eventually brought him to PsyDAO, which is promoting decentralized psychedelic science and culture through the democratizing force of tokenization. We are building AI agents and research tools. This month, Aqueous "farmed" tokens for the fi...

A 26-year-old man in New York City who works in sales and goes by Aqueous has a deep relationship with psychedelics. "I've had great experiences, horrific experiences, profound experiences, and mundane ones," he writes. "The whole spectrum." His trips eventually brought him to PsyDAO, which is promoting decentralized psychedelic science and culture through the democratizing force of tokenization. We are building AI agents and research tools. This month, Aqueous "farmed" tokens for the fi...

[Written by Steven Fülle] Before Bitcoin powered trillion dollar financial markets, it powered the psychedelic renaissance. The Silk Road marketplace, launched in 2011, became cryptocurrency's first major use case. By anonymously connecting buyers and sellers through Bitcoin, the Silk Road became the Amazon for all things taboo - including psychedelics. Before its dramatic shutdown in 2013 and the incarceration of its founder Ross Ulbricht, the notorious marketplace processed $1.2 billio...

[Written by Steven Fülle] Before Bitcoin powered trillion dollar financial markets, it powered the psychedelic renaissance. The Silk Road marketplace, launched in 2011, became cryptocurrency's first major use case. By anonymously connecting buyers and sellers through Bitcoin, the Silk Road became the Amazon for all things taboo - including psychedelics. Before its dramatic shutdown in 2013 and the incarceration of its founder Ross Ulbricht, the notorious marketplace processed $1.2 billio...

This story contains content many readers will find disturbing, including harm to a child. Our psychedelic research and culture organization is fortunate to be able to fund artists and storytellers at the heart of psychedelics with our Alchemist grants. With a grant from PsyDAO, artist and facilitator La Curandera Morgana Sin has created an installation called The Cosmic Womb. It's a stunning, physical embodiment of a psychological process—and it's a prototype for a new form of psych...

This story contains content many readers will find disturbing, including harm to a child. Our psychedelic research and culture organization is fortunate to be able to fund artists and storytellers at the heart of psychedelics with our Alchemist grants. With a grant from PsyDAO, artist and facilitator La Curandera Morgana Sin has created an installation called The Cosmic Womb. It's a stunning, physical embodiment of a psychological process—and it's a prototype for a new form of psych...

We are excited to announce the PSYC token sale, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of PsyDAO and the intersection of decentralized technology with Indigenous art and knowledge. The PSYC token brings together the cultural heritage of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe, renowned for their deep cultural heritage and sacred relationship with ayahuasca and plant medicine, with the cutting-edge world of NFTs and decentralized governance.PSYC Token OverviewPSYC tokens are soulbound tokens (SBTs)...

We are excited to announce the PSYC token sale, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of PsyDAO and the intersection of decentralized technology with Indigenous art and knowledge. The PSYC token brings together the cultural heritage of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe, renowned for their deep cultural heritage and sacred relationship with ayahuasca and plant medicine, with the cutting-edge world of NFTs and decentralized governance.PSYC Token OverviewPSYC tokens are soulbound tokens (SBTs)...

Psychedelic Science (Nauka Psychodeliczna) returns for its second edition, building on the success of Poland's first-ever conference dedicated to the study of psychedelic science. The objectives of the organizers remain closely aligned with the mission of PsyDAO. For more details, visit https://naukapsychodeliczna.org/ (for now the website is only in Polish). This edition is once again brought by the Polish Psychedelic Society and the Polish Drug Policy Network, in partnership with the F...

Psychedelic Science (Nauka Psychodeliczna) returns for its second edition, building on the success of Poland's first-ever conference dedicated to the study of psychedelic science. The objectives of the organizers remain closely aligned with the mission of PsyDAO. For more details, visit https://naukapsychodeliczna.org/ (for now the website is only in Polish). This edition is once again brought by the Polish Psychedelic Society and the Polish Drug Policy Network, in partnership with the F...

PsyDAO's first batch of PSY tokens has now been completely sold. The sale netted the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) about $2 million to deploy towards its mission of progressing psychedelic science and art.What HappenedThe token sale started on Bicycle Day, anniversary of a great psychedelic science achievement. This weekend, the DAO sold out its initial mint of 20% of all the PSY tokens. In total, the sale brought in 661 ETH. That much ETH is worth, as of this writing, abou...

PsyDAO's first batch of PSY tokens has now been completely sold. The sale netted the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) about $2 million to deploy towards its mission of progressing psychedelic science and art.What HappenedThe token sale started on Bicycle Day, anniversary of a great psychedelic science achievement. This weekend, the DAO sold out its initial mint of 20% of all the PSY tokens. In total, the sale brought in 661 ETH. That much ETH is worth, as of this writing, abou...

The PsyDAO TokenSale smart contract is live on Ethereum mainnet and the PsyDAO website. You can buy PSY from it beginning on or about 4:20pm Basel time on Bicycle Day. TokenSale is owned by the PsyDAO PSY Multisig. TokenSale:will sell 20%* of the PSY supply (20,466,831 PSY) first-come-first serveprice PSY at $0.1 per PSY using a Chainlink price oracleaccept only ETHlock transfer for purchased PSY until the PSY Multisig calls unlockToken at the end of the saleAll PSY purchased from TokenSale w...

The PsyDAO TokenSale smart contract is live on Ethereum mainnet and the PsyDAO website. You can buy PSY from it beginning on or about 4:20pm Basel time on Bicycle Day. TokenSale is owned by the PsyDAO PSY Multisig. TokenSale:will sell 20%* of the PSY supply (20,466,831 PSY) first-come-first serveprice PSY at $0.1 per PSY using a Chainlink price oracleaccept only ETHlock transfer for purchased PSY until the PSY Multisig calls unlockToken at the end of the saleAll PSY purchased from TokenSale w...

PSYC = membership PSYC look like this:PSYC are at this smart contract PSY = money PSY looks like this:PSY are at this smart contract PSYC are membership NFTs (ERC721 with an ERC1155 extension). PSYC supply increases along the fibonacci scale. 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55… and today there are 13 PSYC. When we mint the next batch, 8 tokens, there will be 21 PSYC. PSYC control psydao. They can:Call smart contract functions with a vote like:enableRageQuit a.k.a. egoDeath, turning on the switch that en...

PSYC = membership PSYC look like this:PSYC are at this smart contract PSY = money PSY looks like this:PSY are at this smart contract PSYC are membership NFTs (ERC721 with an ERC1155 extension). PSYC supply increases along the fibonacci scale. 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55… and today there are 13 PSYC. When we mint the next batch, 8 tokens, there will be 21 PSYC. PSYC control psydao. They can:Call smart contract functions with a vote like:enableRageQuit a.k.a. egoDeath, turning on the switch that en...

The data doesn’t always come in, and the science suffers. Balázs Szigeti is a researcher at the University of California San Francisco, studying some tricky subjects, such as the effects of psychedelics for chronic pain, eating disorders, and depression. He conducted one of the largest real-world, placebo-controlled studies on psychedelics, along with Robin Carhart-Harris, Amanda Feilding and David Nutt. In it, psychedelic microdosers were sent surveys and asked to self-report on cognitive ta...

The data doesn’t always come in, and the science suffers. Balázs Szigeti is a researcher at the University of California San Francisco, studying some tricky subjects, such as the effects of psychedelics for chronic pain, eating disorders, and depression. He conducted one of the largest real-world, placebo-controlled studies on psychedelics, along with Robin Carhart-Harris, Amanda Feilding and David Nutt. In it, psychedelic microdosers were sent surveys and asked to self-report on cognitive ta...

Our previous post, PsyDAO Tokens and Governance, detailed our new governance model for BioDAOs: a two-token system that follows the design principles of Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel-Prize winning work on governance to build the PsyDAO Commons. This post details one of the two, PSYC, which unlike PSY is not going on sale on Bicycle Day. PSYC are soulbound tokens (SBTs, a.k.a. transfer-restricted NFTs) derived from Puja Ohlaver, Vitalik Buterin, and Glen Weyl’s seminal work on decentralized society. P...

Our previous post, PsyDAO Tokens and Governance, detailed our new governance model for BioDAOs: a two-token system that follows the design principles of Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel-Prize winning work on governance to build the PsyDAO Commons. This post details one of the two, PSYC, which unlike PSY is not going on sale on Bicycle Day. PSYC are soulbound tokens (SBTs, a.k.a. transfer-restricted NFTs) derived from Puja Ohlaver, Vitalik Buterin, and Glen Weyl’s seminal work on decentralized society. P...

With a democratic vote of $PSYC token holders, the PsyDAO community funded the creation of BeeARD, a multi-agent system focused on accelerating research in under-funded scientific domains. PsyDAO minted an IP-NFT for the project, $BeeARD. Learn more about IP-NFTs. BeeARD was designed by Jay, a member of PsyDAO and an AI researcher. We chatted with Jay about his creation. Could you start by telling us how BeeARD originated and evolved? BeeARD began at PsyDAO, originally as PsyBEE, an initiativ...

With a democratic vote of $PSYC token holders, the PsyDAO community funded the creation of BeeARD, a multi-agent system focused on accelerating research in under-funded scientific domains. PsyDAO minted an IP-NFT for the project, $BeeARD. Learn more about IP-NFTs. BeeARD was designed by Jay, a member of PsyDAO and an AI researcher. We chatted with Jay about his creation. Could you start by telling us how BeeARD originated and evolved? BeeARD began at PsyDAO, originally as PsyBEE, an initiativ...