INTRODUCING LABS
One home for commercializing your science
A Lab is where your research project lives. It holds your data, brings in your collaborators, opens up funding through tokens, and can carry you all the way through to equity ownership, with a confidential workspace on one side and a public reporting tool on the other.
THE STARTING POINT
Start with a Lab, then add the rest
Create a Lab in minutes and let everything else attach over time: a dataset to share confidentially, an asset to tokenize, a funding round, or a path to equity for your community. Sign in with your email, and we'll cover the cost of creating your first Lab.
From data to ownership in one pipeline
Once your Lab exists, it carries the project through every stage of commercializing your science.
01
Capture your research
Upload your data into an encrypted data room and bring in collaborators by email, each with the right level of access, so the work stays confidential while the team moves it forward.
02
Tokenize your intellectual property
Tokenize your research via the Molecule Protocol, turning research that was hard to value into something your community can fund and hold.
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Raise funding and report your progress
Open funding through tokens, while your public project page and activity feed connect the work and its data to the people backing it.
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Turn your community into owners
When the time is right, the Coin-to-Company model gives locked token holders a compliant path to real equity in the company behind the science.
THE DUALITY
A confidential workspace and a public reporting tool, together
Every Lab works on two sides at once: a private workspace for your team and a public reporting surface for your backers. You decide what stays internal and what becomes visible, so a single Lab can protect sensitive research while building the credible public record funders look for.
From funding to real ownership with Coin-to-Company
Molecule's Coin-to-Company model gives your community a documented, legally grounded path from holding tokens to holding genuine equity in the company behind the science.
Community Layer
A project's community can buy a project's tokens permissionlessly, unlock token-gated access to research data, and take part in onchain governance decisions.
Read the legal whitepaperCompany Layer
When it makes sense, token holders can apply to hold equity in the company behind the project. Equity issued through Coin-to-Company qualifies for significant U.S. tax advantages. Shareholders who hold long-term may exclude a substantial portion of capital gains under established rules for qualifying small business stock.
See projectsHow a token holder becomes a shareholder
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Lock tokens
Lock your tokens through the Molecule interface to signal commitment and become eligible to apply. Locking is reversible at any time before equity is received.
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Complete verification
Go through identity verification and accredited investor screening.
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Apply for equity
Apply through one of the company's approved pathways. The board reviews each application on its merits, with no fixed formula and no guaranteed outcome.
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Hold both
If approved, receive equity through a separate agreement and hold both roles at once, as a community member and as a company shareholder.
MIRA, your AI research assistant, built in
MIRA is Molecule's own AI assistant. Ask it for a full briefing on any project and it pulls together live data from the data rooms, market and price information, and recent team activity. It can give an overview of everything live across the ecosystem, summarize recent changes to a project, and answer questions about how the protocol works from vetted documentation. Because MIRA is built to be AI-native, it works alongside AI agents as well as people.
A Technology Readiness Score for your science
MIRA reviews the documents in your data room and offers a sense of how mature your project's science is, drawing on the Technology Readiness Levels originally developed by NASA. The score sits on your project page to help funders see where things stand at a glance, and it improves as the evidence grows.
What your Lab gives you
A single container you own
Your Lab holds datasets, intellectual property, funding and any other onchain assets under one identity, so nothing about the project ends up scattered across different places.
Confidential by default
Files you upload are encrypted, and you decide who is able to open each one.
Roles for your whole team
Invite people by email and set them as viewers or contributors, with no wallet needed to get started.
A track record that builds itself
Every meaningful action is timestamped onchain, which gives your project a verifiable history that funders and reviewers can rely on.
A path to real ownership
Coin-to-Company gives your community a compliant route from tokens to genuine equity, so funding can lead to ownership.
AI built in
MIRA works in sync with your Lab in real time, briefing your project, scoring its readiness, and working alongside AI agents.
“In essence, this model is a powerful tool for transforming ideas into tangible data, supporting future drug development, and creating valuable societal assets.”
Michael Torres
Founder & Lead Researcher at ArtanBio
FAQ
Answering your most common questions