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Name DermaLabs (DermaDAO) Typ…alized-science (DeSci) BioDAO —– consumer-product-led dermatol…itlist and marked coming soon —– nothing on a first-party surf…yz/daos/dermalabs) (bio.xyz) —– $SKIN Ignition Sale (Gnosis b…ember 2026) Status 🟢 Active —– site and product pages publis…aunch (read 10 September 2026)

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Name DermaLabs (DermaDAO) Typ…no equity or revenue rights); as of 12 Augustre-read 10 September 2026, the live route to it is still an airdrop for early data contributors who fill in a survey, not a running rewards progra…evening antioxidant serum) & Solun Drops (daytime mineral serum) shipping; SkinScan AI-imaging app listed coming soon behind a waitlist as of 12 August 2026UV filter; the launchpad's February 2026 write-up still calls it Sol Drops). Read 10 September 2026, dermadao.xyz lists the pair, the SkinScan AI-imaging app and Skin Science Labs together under “Projects in development”, each behind a waitlist and marked coming soon — nothing on a first-party surface says the serums are shipping Launchpad BIO Protocol (htt…In development – dermadao.xyz still states it "is currently in dev… and will be launching soon" (checked 12 August 2026) Status 🟢 Activestring re-verified 10 September 2026) Status 🟢 Active — site and product pages publishing, but every named product still pre-launch (read 10 September 2026)

Products and SkinScan DermaLabs shipintends evidence-first consumer skin…e on-ramp to its research loop, and the line is not on general sale yet. Its first products are Moon …pherol, and ferulic acid, and Sol Drops, a daytime mineral serum with zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, niacinamide, and panthenol ( bio.xyz (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) ). Each purchase credits the buyer BioXP toward the wider Bio ecosystemits daytime companion, a UV filter built on Korean sunscreen chemistry. Each purchase credits the buyer BioXP toward the wider Bio ecosystem. The companion product goes by two names, and the split is worth flagging because it decides which one a reader should search for. Bio Protocol's February 2026 write-up (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) calls it Sol Drops and describes a mineral serum with zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, niacinamide and panthenol. DermaDAO's own surfaces no longer use that name at all: the product page (https://dermadao.xyz/moon-sun-drops) is headed “Moon Drops & Sun Drops” and calls it “The Sun Drops Day UV Filter”, and the roadmap (https://dermadao.xyz/roadmap) writes the pair as “Moon x Sun Drops” (all read 10 September 2026). The vendor's own name is the one this page treats as current. The measurement layer is Sk…tps://dermadao.xyz/science) , checked 12 Augustre-read 10 September 2026, it is listed as coming … rather than as a shipped tool — and so are the serums themselves and the research arm, Skin Science Labs: all three sit in one strip headed “Projects in development”, each carrying the same “Join the waitlist” control. The design intent is unchang… as of this check it does not.

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Reading the roadmap against the record DermaDAO publishes a four-phase roadmap (https://dermadao.xyz/roadmap) , and it should be read as a plan rather than a record, because the page has not moved with the project. Phase 1, dated Q3 2025, is to “Launch CE Ferulic ‘Moon x Sun Drops’”, “Open a DTC storefront” and launch two IPTs. Phase 2, Q4 2025, would “Enroll the first SkinScan-tracked community trial for CE Ferulic (pre-registered)”. Phase 3, Q1–Q3 2026, would “Run dozens of simultaneous, statistically-powered community trials”. Read on 10 September 2026 — the last month of that third window — the storefront is a waitlist, SkinScan is “coming soon”, and the trials programme “is currently in development”. The phase that dates the page hardest is the last one. Phase 4, 2027+, promises to “Issue $SKIN and seed the DAO treasury” and to “Activate community voting for R&D funding and prioritization” — yet the $SKIN Ignition Sale ran in December 2025, more than a year before the phase that plans it. A roadmap whose closing phase schedules something already done has stopped tracking its own project, which is a useful reminder for any reader of this wiki's Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) pages: a published roadmap dates the moment it was written, not the state of the thing it describes.

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Name DermaLabs (DermaDAO) Typ… trials Token $SKIN (utility & contribution rewards —– governs research direction an…, no equity or revenue rights); as of 12 August 2026 the live route to it is an airdrop for early data contributors, not a running rewards programme Products Moon Drops (evening… Drops (daytime mineral serum) shipping; SkinScan AI-imaging app listed coming soon behind a waitlist as of 12 August 2026 Launchpad BIO Protocol (htt…rtified Korean dermatologist Trials programme In development – dermadao.xyz states it "is currently in development and will be launching soon" (checked 12 August 2026) Status 🟢 Active

Products and SkinScan DermaLa…cience-from-the-ground-up) ). Both launched at $49.99 and, per Bio Protocol's ecosystem reporting, sold out their first batch within 24 hours (https://www.bio.xyz/blog) , with eEach purchase creditings the buyer BioXP toward the wi…measurement layer is SkinScan, described as an AI-imaging tool thatapp that turns a phone into a clinically relevant skin lab, quantifiesying wrinkles, spots, and redness from user photos. On( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ). S, checked 12 August 2026, it is listed as coming soon behind a waitlist rather than as a shipped tool. The design intent is unchanged and worth stating on its own terms: standardized capture would turns a selfie into a comparable da…taset rather than an anecdote. Whether that measurement layer exists yet is a separate question from whether the idea is sound, and as of this check it does not.

Decentralized trials and IP DermaDAO's stated research arm, Skin Science Labs, runmodel is blinded, pre-registered A/B protocols run on-chain: participants follow …e-stamped photo journals, and earn $SKINe rewarded for validated contributions (https://dermadao.xyz/science) . Because the design is registered up front and data stays user-owned, the DAO can run stratified analyses — by diagnosis, skin tone, and age — that a single-panel study cannot. Its flagship, with AI-assisted analysis quantifying changes in measurable skin attributes. Its illustrative study, is the LUNAR Ttrial ("Longevity Using Novel Actives for Rejuvenation"), testsin which Moon Drops variants side by side with longitudinal tracking over weeksserves as the baseline formulation and enhanced variants are tested side by side under standardized protocols, tracked longitudinally rather than at a single endpoint ( bio.xyz (h…science-from-the-ground-up) ). Research outputs are captured a Because a design registered up front and data that stays user-owned permit stratified analysis – by diagnosis, skin tone, and age – the model could answer questions a single-panel study cannot. None of it is running yet. Checked 12 August 2026, dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) states plainly that "the decentralized trials program is currently in development and will be launching soon", and invites people to fill in a survey form to become an early contributor and "stand to earn a $SKIN Airdrop". The words "pre-registered" and "IP-NFT" do not appear on that page. So the honest present-tense description is a shipped consumer product line and a research programme that has been designed and announced but not yet opened – a distinction the DAO's own site draws, and one worth preserving here rather than reading the roadmap as the record. If and when the programme opens, the intended output layer is IP tokens (IP-NFTs) (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) —– the same Molecule (/wiki/des…olecule) -pioneered primitive VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) uses —– so a validated finding would becomes a transparent, community-owned, and fundable asset instead ofrather than a corporate trade secret ( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ). That is the model DermaLabs sits inside by virtue of being a Bio Protocol (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) BioDAO, not a step it has been observed taking.

Name DermaLabs (DermaDAO) Type Decentralized-science (DeSci) BioDAO — consumer-product-led dermatology research Focus Skin health & longevity: turning everyday skincare use into standardized, real-world observational trials Token $SKIN (utility & contribution rewards — governs research direction and funding, no equity or revenue rights) Products Moon Drops (evening antioxidant serum) & Sol Drops (daytime mineral serum); SkinScan AI-imaging app Launchpad BIO Protocol (https://app.bio.xyz/daos/dermalabs) (bio.xyz) — $SKIN Ignition Sale (Gnosis batch auction), December 2025 Science lead Dr. DTS (Hongseok Kim), board-certified Korean dermatologist Status 🟢 Active

Overview DermaLabs (governed as DermaDAO) is a decentralized-science BioDAO on the Bio Protocol launchpad (https://app.bio.xyz/daos/dermalabs) that reorganizes skincare research around real-world data instead of small, one-off clinical panels. It pairs dermatologist-led formulation with a community that opts into standardized, pre-registered trials, capturing measurable skin changes through an AI-imaging app and rewarding validated data contributions with tokens ( bio.xyz (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) ). It sits in the same DeSci (/wiki/desci/what-is-desci) lineage as VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) and HairDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/hairdao) , but occupies a distinct niche: the consumer product is the experiment.

The thesis: every bathroom mirror is a laboratory Skincare is a $190 billion-plus global industry (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) that still validates products on small, short, industry-funded panels — methodologically closer to marketing than to science. DermaLabs' bet is that the largest untapped dataset in dermatology is the one billions of people already generate every morning and night. By standardizing how ordinary users apply a product and photograph the result, it converts routine consumer behavior into a continuously growing longitudinal study across real climates, routines, skin tones, and adherence levels ( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ). The product is the data-generation flywheel: buying and using the serum is how a member enters the trial.

Products and SkinScan DermaLabs ships evidence-first consumer skincare as the on-ramp to its research loop. Its first products are Moon Drops, an evening antioxidant serum combining L-ascorbic acid, alpha-tocopherol, and ferulic acid, and Sol Drops, a daytime mineral serum with zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, niacinamide, and panthenol ( bio.xyz (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) ). Both launched at $49.99 and, per Bio Protocol's ecosystem reporting, sold out their first batch within 24 hours (https://www.bio.xyz/blog) , with each purchase crediting the buyer BioXP toward the wider Bio ecosystem. The measurement layer is SkinScan, an AI-imaging tool that quantifies wrinkles, spots, and redness from user photos ( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ). Standardized capture turns a selfie into a comparable data point, so a member's own before/after becomes a row in a shared, auditable dataset rather than an anecdote.

Decentralized trials and IP DermaDAO's research arm, Skin Science Labs, runs blinded, pre-registered A/B protocols on-chain: participants follow a defined regimen, keep time-stamped photo journals, and earn $SKIN for validated contributions (https://dermadao.xyz/science) . Because the design is registered up front and data stays user-owned, the DAO can run stratified analyses — by diagnosis, skin tone, and age — that a single-panel study cannot. Its flagship study, the LUNAR Trial ("Longevity Using Novel Actives for Rejuvenation"), tests Moon Drops variants side by side with longitudinal tracking over weeks rather than a single endpoint ( bio.xyz (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) ). Research outputs are captured as IP tokens (IP-NFTs) (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) — the same Molecule (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/molecule) -pioneered primitive VitaDAO uses — so a validated finding becomes a transparent, community-owned, and fundable asset instead of a corporate trade secret ( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ).

The science team DermaLabs is fronted by a working dermatology and cosmetic-chemistry bench rather than a purely crypto-native team ( bio.xyz (https://www.bio.xyz/blog-posts/every-bathroom-mirror-is-a-laboratory-how-dermalabs-is-rebuilding-skincare-science-from-the-ground-up) ): - Dr. DTS (Hongseok Kim) — board-certified Korean dermatologist focused on evidence-based K-beauty, and the public face of the launch. - Jez Marston — physician-scientist with a PhD in immunology and computational biology (Cornell). - Hyeon Pyo Jhun — cosmetic chemist with 40-plus years in skincare R&D. - Dongsinne Sohn — health and Web3 operator focused on chronic skin conditions.

The $SKIN token and place in the Bio ecosystem $SKIN is DermaDAO's utility token: it rewards validated data and product contributions and lets holders govern research direction and funding, with no equity or revenue claim ( dermadao.xyz (https://dermadao.xyz/science) ). It launched through Bio Protocol's Ignition Sale mechanism (https://docs.molecule.to/bio.xyz/launchpad/faqs) — a Gnosis batch-auction (https://docs.molecule.to/bio.xyz/launchpad/faqs) where participants bid stablecoins for a fixed token allocation — in December 2025. DermaLabs is one of Bio Protocol's (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/bio-xyz) incubated BioDAOs, alongside longevity ( VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) ), hair loss ( HairDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/hairdao) ), cryopreservation ( CryoDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/cryodao) ), and quantum biology ( Quantum Biology DAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/quantum-biology-dao) ). What sets it apart is going to a shipped, revenue-generating consumer product first and treating that product line as the recruitment funnel for its science — the clearest example in the BioDAO (/wiki/desci/desci-daos) set of the "real-world DeSci product" model.

How Caper approaches this DermaLabs and Caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) answer different questions, but they meet on one: who should steer a community-funded effort, and how is that steering earned? DermaDAO rewards contribution with a freely tradeable $SKIN (https://dermadao.xyz/science) token — data and purchases mint governance power that can then be bought or sold on the open market. Caper takes the opposite stance on the decisive slice of control: voting on a caper mints a soulbound, non-transferable proof-of-vote token (indivisible, and locked to its holder — its deposit authority is the component itself, with updates permanently denied, per contracts/core/src/caper_dao.rs). A member's on-chain influence is compute_vote_weight = (t·v)/(V·T) in contracts/logic/src/lib.rs — their token holdings times their earned votes, over the totals — so a big bag alone can't capture control, and participation can't be purchased after the fact. The same weight sets a member's exit (/wiki/governance/proposals) redemption before the vote tokens are burned. For a research DAO, the honest read is that each model optimizes for something real: $SKIN maximizes liquid, tradeable incentives to contribute data at scale, while Caper's earned, un-sellable weight is built for the case where you specifically do not want steering to be for sale.