đš Big news: Curetopia & MIRA partner to accelerate rare disease cures
@eperlste x @blader is the DeSci dream team we've been waiting for
Here's how a new generation of biotech builders is bootstrapping the Internet of Science in the face of trad bio failing patients đ§”đ
Our story begins on Christmas Day last year, when @blader received a mysterious memecoin in his crypto wallet called "MIRA", named after his daughter who has a rare brain tumor with no known treatments.
Moved by her story, anons had launched $MIRA to raise research funds.
Despite volatility, $MIRA drove $1M+ to one of the few labs studying Mira's condition đ€Ż
Crypto opens up new channels of funding for emerging and overlooked areas of biomedicine:
> Peer-to-peer networks where patients pool resources
> No middlemen â Money flows directly to Researchers
> Tokenized communities â holders allocate funding and can see upside
Meanwhile, 2024 marked biotech's deepest bear market in 40 years đ„¶
The data isn't pretty:
â New drug approvals have fallen 50% in the past decade
â R&D costs have skyrocketed â $2.3B per new drug
â NIH funding has barely budged in real dollars
Eroom's Law hits different, leaving rare diseases like Miraâs completely behind.
Rare disease research is stuck in limbo:
> 10,000+ rare diseases
> 90% have no FDA-approved treatment
> Patient communities don't reach Big Pharma's required TAM
Enter @eperlste - Harvard PhD, @ycombinator alum & new breed of startup scientist with a chip on his shoulder đŽââ ïž
DeSci flips the model:
đč Decentralized trials â Cut costs & move fast
đč Onchain research funding â No middlemen, no gatekeepers
đč Direct-to-patient drug development â No waiting for Big Pharma
And Ethan is proving it works.
Siqi himself is a startup veteran:
đč Founder of Runway â finance platform backed by a16z
đč Scaled consumer apps to millions of users at Zynga
đč Brings startup execution to biotech
Big Pharma is slow, Siqi is here to move fast - a mission-driven warrior like the millions of rare families.
Siqi & Ethan are going all-in on Curetopia
Architect of the $1M Christmas Miracle + the biotech rebel who hacked drug development are doubling down:
đč Siqi joins Curetopia as a core contributor & advisor
đč Siqi pledges his $MIRA holdings (13.8% of supply) to Curetopia's DAO
đč MiraDAO gets 1% of Curetopia supply, vested over 4 years
đč Curetopia airdrops 1% of the $CURES token supply to MIRA holders, vested linearly over 2 years (snapshot taken Feb 24 2025)
MIRA holders get direct skin in the game to fund and participate in rare disease research.
From memecoin madness â medical movement.
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