Nearly everybody in the world would love to be smarter, sharper, and more

charismatic with a steel-trap memory to boot. And yet, the research budgets of

centralized institutions have virtually ignored mankind's burning desire to

achieve cognitive enhancement. The chase for the "Limitless" pill is real, and

it's not going away any time soon.

With the scientific literature around chemical cognitive enhancers largely fragmented and struggling to keep pace with increasing market demand, an ever-growing number of nootropics users have been forced to self-organize into a fragmented array of online communities. Often centered around a culture of self-experimentation, these communities of citizen scientists generate reams of ancedotal, yet highly valuable, data points that suggest promising areas of further study and potential commercialization.

However, without the agile, resilient infrastructure necessary to translate the N=1 observations and experiences of nootropics users around the world into a well-funded, efficient research and productization pipeline, many promising ideas in this multi-billion dollar industry are simply left to "die on the vine."

By providing a novel, decentralized, BioDAO-style architecture that can supply these pipelines to responsible citizen scientists and professional researchers alike, Nootropics DAO aims to take a "bottom-up" approach in capturing these commercial opportunities to become the dominant player in the nootropics industry. Together, we will use community-directed R&D to open the doors for the world's largest cognitive enhancement communities, professional research bodies, and citizen science collectives to coalesce under one roof and blaze new trails at the edge of humankind's cognitive frontiers.