01 April 2025

Fragments meet crypto!

Two years ago today, Practical Fragment$ launched a line of non-fungible tokens. Unfortunately, the NFT craze didn't last much longer than that for sea shanties. But another virtual confection, cryptocurrency, appears to be less ephemeral, and today SkyFragNet has announced the launch of FragCoin.
 
One of the problems with crypto is that it uses a huge amount of (arguably) wasted energy. What if the effort to mine crypto could be put to practical use?
 
As we noted six years ago today, SkyFragNet has automated the entire drug discovery pipeline. It is also building a powerful generative AI positronic brain, to be trained using in-house experimental data. But even though the prospective computational docking methods are best in class, they still need to be improved, and for this SkyFragNet is turning to everyone with a computer.
 
To mine new FragCoins, miners will dock fragments against various targets, and these results will be compared with ground truths at SkyFragNet: each successful docking event will initially result in one FragCoin. Think of it as Folding@home but for profit as well as fun.
 
As FragCoins are mined, the docking software will be continually improved. Over time the number of successful docking events required for a FragCoin will increase. 
 
Just like bitcoin, the number of FragCoins will be strictly limited, in this case to 977,468,314, the number of fragments in GDB-13. So don't delay: start docking today!