Powering Up Longevity Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing With Blockchain Technology

Launched in 2015: Lifespan.io has become the most-trafficked news, advocacy, and crowdfunding platform dedicated to longevity research in the world - producing thousands of articles, reaching tens of millions with top-tier video projects, and raising > $800,000 for carefully selected, high-impact research projects.

Thus far this has all been done on Web2 architecture, but transforming Lifespan.io to use Web3 architecture will allow us to go so much further — implementing new models of matched crowdfunding and decentralized games specifically designed to engage millions, run first-in-kind DeSci crowdsourced clinical trials, and create machine-learning based biomarkers of aging which can both accelerate the entire field of aging research and also pave the way for exciting applications in the coming future of metaverses.

New For Gitcoin Round 15!
Thanks to your contributions in GR14 we already have aging research-focused NFT projects ready to launch, prototypes for matched crowdfunding and decentralized clinical trials in development, and allies ready to help us - such as VitaDAO, LongevityDAO, CureDAO, and the team right here at Gitcoin — all we need is the financial activation energy to launch the cascade - and that is where you come in!

How Your Support Can Help Us Drive Forward Healthy Human Longevity
Your support will allow us to bring on the team we need to implement a new form of blockchain-facilitated crowdfunding - similar in nature to the quadratic funding used here on Gitcoin, but which is geared to raising a large-scale level of support for a single targeted project, both in terms of funding and number of individuals supporting it.

Once implemented, this mechanism will couple perfectly with Lifespan.io’s existing social media reach and massive YouTube channels to simultaneously raise funds for important research projects and build the architecture we will need to facilitate first-in-kind crowdsourced clinical trials which make use of physiological biomarkers. In this video Lifespan.io president Keith Comito explains the value of this:

The demonstration of a decentralized clinical trial which yields any positive result, such as remediation of dementia, for example, would be an earthquake to the existing clinical trials system, catalyzing a much-needed transformation towards properly leveraging modern technology. Together we can make it happen.

Web3 technologies we are creating, such as "BioAvatars" can also mobilize the users of decentralized games, as described in the following videos:

Cryptocurrency and Life Extension Have Always Been United
Ever since the birth of blockchain technology, there has been an indelible connection between it and the desire for life extension — all the way back to the early cypherpunks and cryptocurrency founders such as Hal Finney, forward to the pioneers of the present such as Vitalik Buterin. You can be part of this grand tradition of transcending boundaries - be they financial or biological - in the service of all humankind.

Every second someone dies of age-related disease. This means if your support moves the timetable of curing these diseases up by even one second, you will have saved someone's life. We appreciate your reading this, and for considering contributing to such an important cause as this. Thank You!