Cerebrum DAO stands at the forefront of a groundbreaking initiative in the field of brain health by orchestrating a worldwide network organization, commonly referred to as a “DAO”, that brings together a global community committed to collectively address neurodegeneration and advance neuroscience solutions. With an initial focus on preventing Alzheimer’s disease, our overarching mission is to prevent neurodegeneration, extend healthy brain years, and cultivate an engaged community with diverse expertise and backgrounds all motivated by the same cause. Our streamlined funding process ensures expediency, equity, and transparency, guiding researchers seamlessly from project qualification to execution, incubation, and ultimately translation to impact outcomes.

Within this collaborative community, we prioritize funding for ambitious projects with translational potential, extending an open invitation to both early-career researchers and established labs to contribute to our shared objectives. Departing from traditional research approaches, Cerebrum DAO explores alternative evidence-based hypotheses linked to aging and neurodegeneration, with primary research areas including neuroinflammation, metabolic stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and vascular changes, that latter of which places particular emphasis on Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) dysfunction.

Anchored in decentralized principles, our governance structure leverages the NEURON token for effective curation and community-driven decision making, fostering a diverse and collaborative environment. Our use of the pioneering Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens (IP-NFTs) facilitates the tokenization of intellectual property ownership / commercialization rights, bridging the gap between legal and smart contracts and unlocking new translational use cases. Our rigorous research evaluation process, involving screening, peer review, community presentations and on-chain community votes, underscores our commitment to propelling groundbreaking solutions and shaping the future of brain health and longevity research in a manner accessible to a broad audience.

Upon funding research via IP-NFTs, clear milestones are set for the next funding event for each project. Upon achieving initial milestones, each IP-NFT can be fractionalized into IP Tokens (IPTs), whereby capital can be contributed exclusively to the project and the IPTs govern the project directly. By leveraging IPTs and liquid token markets, IP-NFT projects can advance through translation, securing funding, compensating researchers and replication studies, and rewarding contributors. Cerebrum DAO will continue to hold the IP-NFT and retain substantial ownership of the IPTs, enabling the construction of a diverse portfolio of liquid assets. We view this use of IP-NFTs and IPTs as a major disruptive funding model for translating research into therapeutic impact outcomes in the world.

The human brain has 86 billion neurons, and Cerebrum DAO will have 86 billion NEURON tokens
available. In addition to governance over Cerebrum DAO, the NEURON token provides its holders with other valuable utility, including (a) the potential early access to brain health consumer and successful therapeutics sourced or developed by Cerebrum DAO and (b) the opportunity to participate in determining purchase rights for IPTs offered from Cerebrum DAO’s IP-NFT projects.