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!
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4 comments:
Cryptic pockets created in silico <3
It was a long wait for me this year (I'm in Seoul), Dan, and compared to some of what's happening these days, this doesn't look too crazy. Some commentators have even suugested that April Fool's Day should have been cancelled thi9s year.
Thanks Pete - I wish this whole year had turned out to be an April Fool's prank, rather than rampaging fools.
But on a happier note, I love the idea of cryptic pockets created by crypto :-)
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