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I am pleased to announce my support and my new role as a Scientific Advisor to, the community-led @CLabs_DAO initiative aiming to fund scientific and technological projects leveraging CL1 and Cortical Cloud. I’m a scientist with a PhD in Molecular Biology and 40 years of research experience. From a scientific perspective, this model is particularly compelling. Early-stage and exploratory research, the source of our most transformative discoveries, remains systematically underfunded. Scientists frequently face structural limitations in accessing resources, where visibility itself becomes a bottleneck for promising ideas. A community-driven funding mechanism offers a vital complementary pathway. It expands access to capital, supports high-risk/ high-reward experimentation, and accelerates the exploration of unconventional hypotheses that often fall outside traditional grant frameworks. While initiatives like @spark_sciences Fund have been showing that these models work, what is being proposed here, at the intersection of advanced biological systems and programmable funding, has the potential to go much further. That’s why I am stepping in as a Scientific Advisor for the $CL1 DAO. My role will be to rigorously evaluate biotechnology-oriented proposals, ensuring that funded projects meet high scientific standards while remaining ambitious. Additionally, I intend to onboard other experienced scientists to form a specialized advisory group capable of supporting credible research selection. My background includes over four decades at one of Latin America's leading research institutes. Following my institutional career, I have dedicated myself to the Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement, contributing to research evaluation and grant allocation frameworks within ecosystems like Gitcoin. I believe this represents a valuable opportunity to bridge frontier science with emerging funding infrastructures, and I look forward to contributing to its development.