Projects like ResearchHub and Molecule/VitaDAO also offer ways to revive thousands of shelved patents and forgotten data across academia and industry. Samo Burja refers to this knowledge as intellectual dark matter. Transferring IP or creating open-source frameworks, with early patient community involvement, could lead to breakthroughs in screening... See more

The IP-NFT enables new fundraising and collaboration strategies for researchers by combining legal and technical frameworks with NFT technology. Early-stage research can be financed without endless grant applications, creating a startup and raising VC or needing to file a patent.