#36 How crypto is sparking a longevity frenzy

About this episode

This episode explores how crypto trading is being used to fund longevity experiments and features insights from Benji Leibowitz and Linus Petersson.

Today we’re diving into one of the strangest and most ambitious ideas in longevity: using crypto trading to fund real-time lifespan experiments. Benji Leibowitz, founder of pump.science, joins us to explain how decentralized science works, why tokens can finance studies in worms, flies and mice, and what happens when a single post on X suddenly turns Metformin into a viral experiment. That intervention, by the way, is being spearheaded by LEVITY friend Linus Petersson, founder of the Swedish Longevity Cluster, who also joins the discussion. In this episode we announce our new collaboration with pump.science. For now, that means they’ll contribute written content to the LEVITY newsletter - and later we may explore a dedicated Youtube format together. More info here: https://reachlevity.com/p/desci-is-exploding-we-re-partnering-with-pump-science-to-help-you-follow-it And check out pump.science's first post here: https://reachlevity.com/p/the-most-radical-idea-in-longevity-right-now Key highlights in this episode: – How pump.science turns attention and trading volume into funding for worm, fly, and mouse experiments. – Why decentralized science emerged, and what problems in…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Ottsjö

Guest: Benji Leibowitz

Topics covered

• crypto
• longevity
• decentralized science
• funding experiments
• real-time data
• Metformin

Keywords

• crypto
• longevity
• pump.science
• Metformin
• decentralized science
• experiments
• funding
• real-time data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: pump.science, Swedish Longevity Cluster

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