NFT Update + Our Global Community! 🪩
Voyage Voyage 🌎
It really felt like AthenaDAO was on a world tour. But in reality, it was our amazing global community that made it happen.
Thank you to all the amazing contributors who graciously helped host and organize our inaugural get-togethers around the world (even our bio.xyz fam got on board!). Researchers, startup founders, clinicians, advocates, web3 enthusiasts, and investors come together to discuss how we can advance women's health. We made new friends, signed-up new contributors, and converted new believers! The magic of in-person remains undefeated. Our gospel of the importance of women’s health is alive and well! 🤍🪩
Some quick observations from some of the latest conferences we were part of:
Zuzalu
Thank you to Vincent Weisser, one of the most serious thinkers in tech today for the invitation to attend. You can read more about the pop-up city experiment, the brainchild of Ethereum’s co-founder and inventor Vitalik Buterin. We realized there AI is hot and longevity needs more focus on women. Max Unfried, of VitaDAO, made sure to make some room during their conference to have AthenaDAO’s panel on Reproductive Longevity. Many wanted more and most were impressed by the speakers we curated, Dr. Lynae Brayboy and Dr. Julija Jurić. A longevity MD in attendance made a point of saying she wanted to introduce the speakers and their startups to her business partners. That’s what we are here for, presenting amazing opportunities in women’s health. 💁♀️
MedFemtech
It was painful to hear industry veterans - women themselves - say they do not know how they can make the case for the numbers on women’s R&D to their pharma clients. Noted: we need “the selling ice to penguins” training when it comes to women’s health. 💎
SynBioBeta Conference
You can tell where industries are by the size of their conferences - and synthetic biology is clearly a well-established space. One hopes that women’s health is one day truly at the intersection of incredible R&D and capital and feels as sexy as synbio! On our goals list. ✅
NFT Update! - How do we Milady this?
Oh the art of NFTs and memes...it ranges from the absurd to the truly creative.
The coin and NFT memes picked up and while an anonymous group of developers recently created a billion-dollar market cap trading PEPE, the rest of us are stuck with the high gas prices as the Ethereum mainnet blockchain went off the hook due to congestion. It was one of the reasons the recent Gitcoin grant donations were difficult to make. Paying $90 on gas prices to donate $2 dollars, is a hard sale. BTW, we want to thank everyone again for your contributions!
So to put it plainly the frog memes PEPE made it expensive for all of us to transact, and we realized this would make our NFT more expensive for everyone, and out of reach for some. As everything we do is focused on incentives that benefit women, we decided we need to explore Layer 2 options which can reduce the price to down-to-earth levels.
This will also give us a chance to grow our community as we will now do our Genesis NFT shortly after publishing Volume II of our Reproductive Health Report this month!!
We want to make sure we deliver something as creative, valuable, and fun as Milady Maker!
Stay tuned!
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AthenaDAO Summer is ON! 🧬🪩
WEB 3 101
What is mainnet? What is Layer 2?
Mainnet is the original Ethereum blockchain
Layer 2 is a separate blockchain that extends Ethereum, but it batches transactions which makes them more scalable (and affordable).
Source: ethereum.org
Upcoming! 📅
We are joining the Decoding the Future of Women conference on June 12th for a day of thought-provoking discussions on the latest innovations in women's health and wellness. See you in London!
AthenaDAO Bonus Breakfast! ☕️
Over the month of May, we hosted incredible breakfasts with our amazing contributors. We have a BONUS edition on June 14th in NYC. Come learn about our milestones and our roadmap. 🚀
AthenaDAO Book Club 📚
We have launched a book club! Happening every last Wednesday of the month, we are focused on exploring insightful books on women's health.
🗓️ Remaining Book List & Dates:
1️⃣ The Menopause Manifesto (June 28th)
2️⃣ Inferior (July 26th)
3️⃣ The Female Factor (September 27th)
4️⃣ Sex Matters (October 25th)
5️⃣ Invisible Women (November 29th)
This book club is hosted by Hannah Kiely-Collins. Hannah is a Chemical biologist/medicinal chemist at the University of Cambridge and is interested in developing chemical tools to modulate biological function and address global health challenges.
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