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v2.3.1 · currentSweep #501: vote.cryodao.eth re-read 2 Oct 2026 via hub.snapshot.org/graphql: 30 proposals, 115 followers, CRYO-26 (7 votes, 275,737 CRYO, quorum 0) still the latest, CRYO-24/25 single-voter figures unchanged. cryodao.org, /projects, /the-cryo-token and news.cryodao.org 200. How Caper section checked against contracts/logic/src/lib.rs at 95c5d63 (1.5/option_count of cast weight).–
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    Governance and the CRYO token … CRYO-26 and has 115 followers (re-read 2 October 2026, with no proposal since CRYO-26 closed on 31 July). This is a distinct body from…unds are two different things.

v2.3.0Sweep #408 (desci): trading stopped minting vote tokens with the 11 September 2026 redeploy. A ranked ballot is the only member-facing source of v (VOTE_FEE/VOTE_MINT, contracts/logic/src/lib.rs), so exit requires having voted; rewrote the exit-gate and capture arguments that rested on trade-minted v.–
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    How Caper approaches this Cry…he soulbound vote tokens that trading and votingonly casting a ballot mints, and redeeming a share of the…ld otherwise assemble by hand.

v2.2.2Sweep #372: window/baseline/verdict prose settled against the 7 Sep 2026 redeploy – exact price-time integral with minute checkpoints, trailing baseline as a logic constant, market window as drill tuning; no durations in prose–
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    How Caper approaches this Cry…ch locks the caper's trailing seven-day average token price as a baseline and opens a forty-eight-hourthe market window, and the payout goes t…ld otherwise assemble by hand.

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    How Caper approaches this Cry…ound vote tokens that trading and voting mints, and redeeming a share of the…ld otherwise assemble by hand.

v2.2.0Caper section still asserted no vote, no ranking, no tally and live-spot settlement, and that an apathetic caper passes proposals. All four falsified by the 29 Aug reinstatement — a proposal with zero cast weight now fails outright. Rewritten to the deployed two-phase flow.–
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    How Caper approaches this Cry… What a caper does not do is putsettle that grant to aon the ballot. There is no vote – no ranking, no tally, no quorum, and no vote entry point alone. Holders rank the proposal's options, and a Borda fold passes the leader only if its share onf the deployed weight actually cast clears 1.5 / option_countract at all. A proposal – but that pass executes nothing. It earns a trigger, which locks the caper's trailing seven-day average token price as a baseline, stays and open fors a forty-eight-hours window, and then anyone can settle it: it passes if the live curve price i payout goes through only if the time-weighted price over that window closes at or above thate baseline. HoldingThe ballot legislates and the market ratifies: holding through the window is consent, and sustained selling is the objection. The … which half is which. A caper has nodoes have a participation floor either. A, and it bites in the first phase. A proposal nobody votes on has zero total cast weight, so its leading option's share is zero and it fails outright – an apathetic caper passes proposals, because snothing at all. Silence resolves as consent by construction rather than because a quorum fonly in the second phase, once a proposal has already carrield was left at zero –a ballot: there the burden sits on whoever objects, which is the standing objection to eve…ld otherwise assemble by hand.

v2.1.0How Caper approaches this: rewritten against the deployed optimistic-proposal contract - no ballot, no quorum, 48h window settled on a 7-day TWAP baseline; exit priced by traded vote tokens. Removes the retired ranked-vote and participation-weighted-voting claims.–
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    How Caper approaches this Cry…se a community treasury, then let token holders votmove research grants out of it – …t-is-a-caper) runs natively. On Caper tThe raise happens on a bonding…pital accrues to the treasury itself rather than to a free-floating… detaches from the work – the exact token-versus-value gap a grants DAO usually has to manage by handtreasury gap described above. Each grant is then a governance-approved PAYOUT proposal (/wiki/governance/proposals) that moves a chosen: one typed action naming a currency, and amount from the treasury to a lab once members vote it through (/wiki/governance/voting) . The turnout problem above is the onand a recipient account, frozen at creation and paid out of the treasury if it passes. What a caper does not do is put that grant to a ballot. There is no vote – no ranking, no tally, no quorum, and no vote entry point on the deployed contract at all. A proposal locks the Ccaper's weighting is aimed at. Voting weight is stake weighted by earned participation – the canonical (t·v)/(V·T), where held tokens are one multiplicative factor alongside a non-transferable record of how you have voted – so a member who keeps showing up carries more of the decision than a comparable balance that does not, and a balance that has never voted carries none of itseven-day average token price as a baseline, stays open for forty-eight hours, and then anyone can settle it: it passes if the live curve price is at or above that baseline. Holding is consent, and selling is the objection. The mechanism is set out in proposals (/wiki/governance/proposals) , and what became of the vote token in voting (/wiki/governance/voting) . Read against CryoDAO's record, that trade is sharper than it first looks, and it is worth being plain about which half is which. A caper has no participation floor either. An apathetic caper passes proposals, because silence resolves as consent by construction rather than because a quorum field was left at zero – the standing objection to every optimistic system (/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/voting/optimistic-governance) , and one Caper wears rather than patches. TWhat does not manufacture turnout, and nothing changes is what an objection is. On Snapshot, objecting to CRYO-24 or CRYO-25 was already free – a signature costs nothing, and nobody signed. Caper does not make objecting cheaper. It makes it something a protocol can. What it changes is who a thin vote belongs to: the weight sits with the members who hholder does for their own reasons: selling because you dislike where a treasury is heading is a decision people take anyway, and on a caper that decision is the veto, available to every holder whether or not they follow governance. The exit is the other half, and it is the same act. A member leaves been participating rather than with whoever happens to hold the most tokensy calling exit directly – surrendering governance tokens together with the soulbound vote tokens that trading mints, and redeeming a share onf the day. Members also keep a participation-weighteundeployed treasury sized by both, with no proposal and nobody's permission (see rage-quit and exit claimrights (/wiki/dao-governance/concept…ip/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) on the undeployed treasury, computed from that same weight – a built-in accountability lever f). Because leaving moves the same price a proposal is settled against, a member who would have walked over a funding decision blocks it on the way out. For capital fundbacking long-horizon, high-uncertainty science, andthat is the recourse a holder has when a decision goes through on one ballot. Caper does not supplygrant clears on an unopposed window. Caper supplies none of the cryobiology itself, which is the hard domain-specific part; what it supplies is the treasury, spending, and exit rails a research DAO would otherwise assemble from scratchby hand.

v2.0.0CORRECTS the governance section: the page said funding decisions run through Bio Protocol's shared bioxyz.eth Snapshot space, a repoint made in July 2026 when vote.cryodao.org went offline. CryoDAO has its own space, vote.cryodao.eth, carrying all 30 CRYO-1..CRYO-26 proposals; bioxyz.eth carries BIOPSY proposals about BIO's own treasury and has never held a CryoDAO funding vote. Adds the vote record read end to end: no space-level quorum and quorum 0 on all 30 proposals; median voters 6 (2023, n=3), 13 (2024, n=21), 3 (2025, n=3), 1 (2026, n=3); peak 79 on the Jan-2024 Liquidity and Treasury proposal; CRYO-24 and CRYO-25 each passed on a single ballot; CRYO-26 (28-31 Jul 2026) elected Dr Emil Kendziorra Research Steward on 7 votes. Funded-research entries now cite the proposal that authorised each.–
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    Type DeSci DAO — cryopreservation & biostasis R&D Focus Cryopreservation, biostasis, cryobiology research funding Founding member Kai Micah Mills (Thiel Fellow; also Cryopets, American Biostasis Foundation) Governance Token-holder voting on funding proposals ( VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) model) Token CRYO (Ethereum) Ecosystem Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) BioDAO IP framework Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) IP-NFTs (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) Treasury ~$5M+ (self-reported) Website cryodao.org (https://www.cryodao.org)

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    Overview CryoDAO is a decentralized science (DeSci) (/wiki/desci/what-is-desci) organization that funds research in cryopreservation, biostasis, and cryobiology (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) — the science of preserving cells, tissues, organs, and whole organisms at very low temperatures so they can be revived, or restored, once the medicine to treat them exists. It operates as a BioDAO within the Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) ecosystem, and states its objective plainly: to contribute to cryopreservation research projects that have a high potential to increase the quality and capabilities of cryopreservation (https://www.cryodao.org) . Cryopreservation is chronically under-funded — the field sits between clinical medicine, longevity, and cryonics, and rarely fits a conventional grant or venture mandate. CryoDAO pools community capital to back the high-risk, high-upside experiments that de-risk the underlying technology, a bet organised through a founding cohort that includes Kai Micah Mills (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaimicahmills/) , a Thiel Fellow who also founded Cryopets and the American Biostasis Foundation.

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    Governance & the CRYO token CryoDAO follows the VitaDAO model (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) : the community votes on which research proposals to fund using the CRYO token (https://www.cryodao.org/the-cryo-token) , and intellectual property emerging from the work it backs is funded, governed, and developed through Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) 's IP-NFT (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) framework rather than assigned to a single lab or company. Funding decisions run on-chain (/wiki/governance/voting) through Bio Protocol's shared BIO governance on Snapshot (https://snapshot.org/#/bioxyz.eth) , so treasury allocation is a matter of member votes, not a closed committee. CRYO trades as a listed token on Ethereum (https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cryodao) ; as with any freely-traded governance token, its market price moves independently of the DAO's on-chain treasury, which the project reports at roughly $5M+. This is the same token-versus-treasury tension that runs through DAO tokenomics (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-tokenomics) generally — the traded price of a governance chip and the value of the work it funds are two different things.

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    Funded research CryoDAO's funded portfolio (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) spans the concrete engineering problems that stand between today's cryobiology and reversible whole-organ or whole-organism preservation. Representative projects include: - Multi-organ cryopreservation with HIFU rewarming — cooling and then reviving organs in a pig model using high-intensity focused ultrasound to rewarm tissue evenly and avoid the cracking and ice damage that fast rewarming causes. - CRYORAT — high sub-zero preservation and revival of a small mammal, a milestone experiment toward reversible whole-body biostasis. - Cryoprotective Agent (CPA) Repository — an open reference of cryoprotectants for researchers and medicinal chemists, aimed at developing new agents that reduce the toxicity current protocols impose. - American Biostasis Foundation (STASIS) — a purpose-built long-term cryopreservation facility and research lab. - Space-mouse embryo cryopreservation and a neuroscience of learning and memory study paired with a survey of doctors on biostasis. Each is chosen and paid out by member vote, and the results — protocols, data, and reference material like the CPA repository — are pushed toward an open commons rather than enclosed behind a single owner.

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    How Caper approaches this CryoDAO's loop — raise a community treasury, then let token holders vote research grants out of it — is the shape a caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) runs natively. On Caper the raise happens on a bonding curve (/wiki/markets/bonding-curve) into the caper's own treasury, so contributed capital accrues to the treasury itself rather than to a free-floating token whose price detaches from the work — the exact token-versus-value gap a grants DAO usually has to manage by hand. Each grant is then a governance-approved PAYOUT proposal (/wiki/governance/proposals) that moves a chosen currency and amount from the treasury to a lab once members vote it through (/wiki/governance/voting) , and voting weight is stake weighted by earned participation — the canonical (t·v)/(V·T), where held tokens are one multiplicative factor alongside a non-transferable record of how you have voted. Members also keep a participation-weighted exit claim (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) on the undeployed treasury, computed from that same weight — a built-in accountability lever for capital funding long-horizon, high-uncertainty science. Caper does not supply the cryobiology itself, which is the hard domain-specific part; what it supplies is the treasury, spending, and exit rails a research DAO would otherwise assemble from scratch.

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    External links - CryoDAO — official website (https://www.cryodao.org) - CryoDAO — funded projects (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) - Cryopreservation and the Future of Life — Bio Protocol on CryoDAO (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) - CryoDAO newsletter (https://news.cryodao.org)

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    Type DeSci DAO – cryopreservation & biostasis R&D Focus Cryopreservation, biostasis, cryobiology research funding First proposal CRYO-1, 27 November 2023 Founding member Kai Micah Mills (Thiel Fellow; also Cryopets, American Biostasis Foundation) Governance vote.cryodao.eth (https://snapshot.box/#/s:vote.cryodao.eth) on Snapshot – 30 proposals, 115 followers, no quorum on any of them Token CRYO (Ethereum); voting weight is raw balance across three CRYO contracts plus vCRYO, with no delegation Latest vote CRYO-26, 28–31 July 2026 – elected Dr Emil Kendziorra Research Steward, 7 voters Ecosystem Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) BioDAO IP framework Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) IP-NFTs (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) Treasury ~$5M+ (self-reported) Website cryodao.org (https://www.cryodao.org)

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    Overview CryoDAO is a decentralized science (DeSci) (/wiki/desci/what-is-desci) organization that funds research in cryopreservation, biostasis, and cryobiology (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) – the science of preserving cells, tissues, organs, and whole organisms at very low temperatures so they can be revived, or restored, once the medicine to treat them exists. It operates as a BioDAO within the Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) ecosystem, and states its objective plainly: to contribute to cryopreservation research projects that have a high potential to increase the quality and capabilities of cryopreservation (https://www.cryodao.org) . Cryopreservation is chronically under-funded – the field sits between clinical medicine, longevity, and cryonics, and rarely fits a conventional grant or venture mandate. CryoDAO pools community capital to back the high-risk, high-upside experiments that de-risk the underlying technology, a bet organised through a founding cohort that includes Kai Micah Mills (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaimicahmills/) , a Thiel Fellow who also founded Cryopets and the American Biostasis Foundation. Its first governance proposal opened on 27 November 2023.

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    Governance and the CRYO token CryoDAO follows the VitaDAO model (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) : the community votes on which research proposals to fund using the CRYO token (https://www.cryodao.org/the-cryo-token) , and intellectual property emerging from the work it backs is funded, governed, and developed through Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) 's IP-NFT (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) framework rather than assigned to a single lab or company. Those votes run in CryoDAO's own Snapshot space, vote.cryodao.eth (https://snapshot.box/#/s:vote.cryodao.eth) , which has carried 30 proposals numbered CRYO-1 through CRYO-26 and has 115 followers. This is a distinct body from Bio Protocol's bioxyz.eth space (https://snapshot.box/#/s:bioxyz.eth) , which decides BIO's own treasury and ecosystem questions under a BIOPSY prefix and has never carried a CryoDAO funding vote. Weight is a plain token balance: four erc20-balance-of strategies summing CRYO across three contract addresses plus vCRYO, with no delegation strategy, so influence cannot be lent to an active voter by a passive holder. The space sets no quorum, no voting period, no delay and no default voting type, leaving each of those to the individual proposal – and every one of the 30 proposals has been posted with a quorum of zero. There is therefore no participation floor a funding decision has to clear, which matters because participation has collapsed. CRYO trades as a listed token on Ethereum (https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cryodao) ; as with any freely-traded governance token, its market price moves independently of the DAO's on-chain treasury, which the project reports at roughly $5M+. This is the same token-versus-treasury tension that runs through DAO tokenomics (/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/treasury/dao-tokenomics) generally – the traded price of a governance chip and the value of the work it funds are two different things.

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    Turnout, and what a zero quorum means in practice The full vote record (https://snapshot.box/#/s:vote.cryodao.eth) is public, and read end to end it describes a DAO that deliberates less each year: Year Proposals Median voters 2023 (from 27 Nov) 3 6 2024 21 13 2025 3 3 2026 (to date) 3 1 The high-water mark was the CryoDAO Liquidity and Treasury Proposal of 15 January 2024, which drew 79 voters. Nothing since has come close. Two of the three proposals put to the DAO in 2026 passed on a single voter: CRYO-24, which funded the rescue of NASA's Rodent Research-20 samples (https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/investigations/rr-20/) after the experiment was defunded, closed on 5 January 2026 with one ballot carrying 447 CRYO; and CRYO-25, the CryoPig study – a €50,000 grant for multi-organ cryopreservation with HIFU rewarming in a pig model, led by Diego Monzón Díaz MD at Hospital Gregorio Marañón with Prof. Ramon Risco of the University of Seville – closed on 20 February 2026 with one ballot carrying 256,608 CRYO. Both ran three-day voting windows. Both passed unanimously, because there was nobody to disagree. The most recent vote is the healthiest of the three. CRYO-26, open 28 to 31 July 2026, elected Dr Emil Kendziorra – CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow Bio – as a Research Steward to supply scientific review capacity for the proposal pipeline, and drew 7 voters casting 275,737 CRYO For, none Against and none abstaining. The proposal was submitted by CryoCore, the DAO's core team, which also authored the two single-voter proposals before it. That is the honest reading of this governance model: proposals are written by a core team and ratified by a handful of large holders, with no quorum that could stop a proposal nobody turns up for. It is the voter apathy (/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/analysis/voter-apathy) pattern in an unusually pure form – not a contested vote with low turnout, but an uncontested one, which is a weaker check than the mechanism looks like on paper. The science being funded is real and the reviewers being appointed are credible; what the ballot is doing is recording a decision, not testing it.

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    Funded research CryoDAO's funded portfolio (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) spans the concrete engineering problems that stand between today's cryobiology and reversible whole-organ or whole-organism preservation. Representative projects, each traceable to the proposal that authorised it: - CryoPig – multi-organ cryopreservation with HIFU rewarming (CRYO-25, February 2026) – cooling and then reviving organs in a pig model using high-intensity focused ultrasound to rewarm tissue evenly and avoid the cracking and ice damage that fast rewarming causes. - CRYORAT (CRYO-21 and CRYO-21.1, November 2024; CRYO-23, April 2025) – high sub-zero preservation and revival of a small mammal, a milestone experiment toward reversible whole-body biostasis. - Cryoprotective Agent (CPA) Repository (CRYO-19, August 2024; expanded under CRYO-19.1, April 2025) – an open reference of cryoprotectants for researchers and medicinal chemists, aimed at developing new agents that reduce the toxicity current protocols impose. - American Biostasis Foundation (STASIS) (CRYO-22, May 2025) – a purpose-built long-term cryopreservation facility and research lab. - Saving NASA's Space Mice (CRYO-24, January 2026) – preserving the samples from NASA's Rodent Research-20 ISS experiment, which studied spaceflight's effect on ovarian function and bone loss, after budget cuts ended the programme. - Gaia Life (CRYO-20, August 2024) and the DAO's Molecule Catalyst and Fast Grants Fellowship funding routes (CRYO-16 and CRYO-14, June 2024). Each is chosen and paid out by member vote, and the results – protocols, data, and reference material like the CPA repository – are pushed toward an open commons rather than enclosed behind a single owner.

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    How Caper approaches this CryoDAO's loop – raise a community treasury, then let token holders vote research grants out of it – is the shape a caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) runs natively. On Caper the raise happens on a bonding curve (/wiki/markets/bonding-curve) into the caper's own treasury, so contributed capital accrues to the treasury itself rather than to a free-floating token whose price detaches from the work – the exact token-versus-value gap a grants DAO usually has to manage by hand. Each grant is then a governance-approved PAYOUT proposal (/wiki/governance/proposals) that moves a chosen currency and amount from the treasury to a lab once members vote it through (/wiki/governance/voting) . The turnout problem above is the one Caper's weighting is aimed at. Voting weight is stake weighted by earned participation – the canonical (t·v)/(V·T), where held tokens are one multiplicative factor alongside a non-transferable record of how you have voted – so a member who keeps showing up carries more of the decision than a comparable balance that does not, and a balance that has never voted carries none of it. That does not manufacture turnout, and nothing in a protocol can. What it changes is who a thin vote belongs to: the weight sits with the members who have been participating rather than with whoever happens to hold the most tokens on the day. Members also keep a participation-weighted exit claim (/wiki/dao-governance/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) on the undeployed treasury, computed from that same weight – a built-in accountability lever for capital funding long-horizon, high-uncertainty science, and the recourse a holder has when a decision goes through on one ballot. Caper does not supply the cryobiology itself, which is the hard domain-specific part; what it supplies is the treasury, spending, and exit rails a research DAO would otherwise assemble from scratch.

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    External links - CryoDAO – official website (https://www.cryodao.org) - CryoDAO on Snapshot (vote.cryodao.eth) (https://snapshot.box/#/s:vote.cryodao.eth) – the full CRYO-1 to CRYO-26 vote record - CryoDAO – funded projects (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) - Cryopreservation and the Future of Life – Bio Protocol on CryoDAO (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) - CryoDAO newsletter (https://news.cryodao.org)

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    Governance & the CRYO token Cr…ugh DAO tokenomics (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-tokenomics) generally — t…unds are two different things.

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    How Caper approaches this Cryo…weighted exit claim (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) on…herwise assemble from scratch.

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    Governance & the CRYO token Cr…i/governance/voting) through the DAO's governance portal (https://vote.cryodao.org Bio Protocol's shared BIO governance on Snapshot (https://snapshot.org/#/bioxyz.eth) , so treasury allocation is …unds are two different things.

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    Type DeSci DAO — cryopreservation & biostasis R&D Focus Cryopreservation, biostasis, cryobiology research funding Founding member Kai Micah Mills (Thiel Fellow; also Cryopets, American Biostasis Foundation) Governance Token-holder voting on funding proposals ( VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) model) Token CRYO (Ethereum) Ecosystem Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) BioDAO IP framework Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) IP-NFTs (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) Treasury ~$5M+ (self-reported) Website cryodao.org (https://www.cryodao.org)

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    Overview CryoDAO is a decentralized science (DeSci) (/wiki/desci/what-is-desci) organization that funds research in cryopreservation, biostasis, and cryobiology (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) — the science of preserving cells, tissues, organs, and whole organisms at very low temperatures so they can be revived, or restored, once the medicine to treat them exists. It operates as a BioDAO within the Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) ecosystem, and states its objective plainly: to contribute to cryopreservation research projects that have a high potential to increase the quality and capabilities of cryopreservation (https://www.cryodao.org) . Cryopreservation is chronically under-funded — the field sits between clinical medicine, longevity, and cryonics, and rarely fits a conventional grant or venture mandate. CryoDAO pools community capital to back the high-risk, high-upside experiments that de-risk the underlying technology, a bet organised through a founding cohort that includes Kai Micah Mills (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaimicahmills/) , a Thiel Fellow who also founded Cryopets and the American Biostasis Foundation.

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    Governance & the CRYO token CryoDAO follows the VitaDAO model (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) : the community votes on which research proposals to fund using the CRYO token (https://www.cryodao.org/the-cryo-token) , and intellectual property emerging from the work it backs is funded, governed, and developed through Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) 's IP-NFT (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) framework rather than assigned to a single lab or company. Funding decisions run on-chain (/wiki/governance/voting) through the DAO's governance portal (https://vote.cryodao.org) , so treasury allocation is a matter of member votes, not a closed committee. CRYO trades as a listed token on Ethereum (https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cryodao) ; as with any freely-traded governance token, its market price moves independently of the DAO's on-chain treasury, which the project reports at roughly $5M+. This is the same token-versus-treasury tension that runs through DAO tokenomics (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-tokenomics) generally — the traded price of a governance chip and the value of the work it funds are two different things.

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    Funded research CryoDAO's funded portfolio (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) spans the concrete engineering problems that stand between today's cryobiology and reversible whole-organ or whole-organism preservation. Representative projects include: - Multi-organ cryopreservation with HIFU rewarming — cooling and then reviving organs in a pig model using high-intensity focused ultrasound to rewarm tissue evenly and avoid the cracking and ice damage that fast rewarming causes. - CRYORAT — high sub-zero preservation and revival of a small mammal, a milestone experiment toward reversible whole-body biostasis. - Cryoprotective Agent (CPA) Repository — an open reference of cryoprotectants for researchers and medicinal chemists, aimed at developing new agents that reduce the toxicity current protocols impose. - American Biostasis Foundation (STASIS) — a purpose-built long-term cryopreservation facility and research lab. - Space-mouse embryo cryopreservation and a neuroscience of learning and memory study paired with a survey of doctors on biostasis. Each is chosen and paid out by member vote, and the results — protocols, data, and reference material like the CPA repository — are pushed toward an open commons rather than enclosed behind a single owner.

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    How Caper approaches this CryoDAO's loop — raise a community treasury, then let token holders vote research grants out of it — is the shape a caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) runs natively. On Caper the raise happens on a bonding curve (/wiki/markets/bonding-curve) into the caper's own treasury, so contributed capital accrues to the treasury itself rather than to a free-floating token whose price detaches from the work — the exact token-versus-value gap a grants DAO usually has to manage by hand. Each grant is then a governance-approved PAYOUT proposal (/wiki/governance/proposals) that moves a chosen currency and amount from the treasury to a lab once members vote it through (/wiki/governance/voting) , and voting weight is stake weighted by earned participation — the canonical (t·v)/(V·T), where held tokens are one multiplicative factor alongside a non-transferable record of how you have voted. Members also keep a participation-weighted exit claim (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) on the undeployed treasury, computed from that same weight — a built-in accountability lever for capital funding long-horizon, high-uncertainty science. Caper does not supply the cryobiology itself, which is the hard domain-specific part; what it supplies is the treasury, spending, and exit rails a research DAO would otherwise assemble from scratch.

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    External links - CryoDAO — official website (https://www.cryodao.org) - CryoDAO — funded projects (https://www.cryodao.org/projects) - Cryopreservation and the Future of Life — Bio Protocol on CryoDAO (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/cryopreservation-and-the-future-of-life-a-closer-look-at-cryodaos-vision) - CryoDAO newsletter (https://news.cryodao.org)