LoveDAO allows users to vote on what pharmaceutical research they want to see, focusing on holistic, non-traditional medicines and practices. In addition, LoveDAO hosts a marketplace of such products.
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Flipkart - one of India’s leading digital commerce entities - is launching a Blockchain-eCommerce Centre of Excellence that will focus on research and development for e-commerce in Web3 and the metaverse, exploring the next iteration of shopping and being online.
Disney chose Polygon Labs as one of six companies to join its Disney 2022 Accelerator program, a business and development program designed to spur the growth of innovative companies around the world. Disney seeks to develop new technologies within augmented reality (AR), non-fungible tokens (NFT) and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) launched the LIFT Challenge to evaluate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency. Polygon Labs, Aave, and Fireblocks developed a liquidity pool - gathering resources from savers - and to offer loans while ensuring that these operations comply with the rules of the Brazilian national financial system.
Opscientia aims to democratize access to scientific research and data. In 2021, Opscientia collaborated with MIT and Dartmouth on neuroimaging datasets, which led to the creation of OpSci Commons, a way to archive large datasets. As one of its initiatives, the Opscientia team has been focused on developing Holonym, a wallet.
ScieNFT allows researchers and scientists to bring transparency and permanence to their publications, data, and other assets they generate in their work.