See the Future: How PsyDAO's Token-Based Voting System Works
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June 23rd, 2025

Psychedelics are rarely studied.

When they are, most people have no real say. Governments, big pharma, and universities make the choices.

PsyDAO breaks that mold. Every holder of $PSY tokens votes on research. Transparently. On the Ethereum blockchain.

See, we’re a bioDAO. We’re incubated by Bio.XYZ–a group of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations which are democratic. Bio DAO’s are researching brain health, hair loss, women’s health, and more. The BioDAOs have deployed $15 million into research.

We do psychedelics. We’ve already funded AI, drug development, and a real-life plant medicine cafe.

What comes next will be decided by vote.

Read our blog about us as a BioDAO.

The basic principle: One token, one vote

At its core, PsyDAO's governance structure is simple. Each $PSY token represents one vote in community decisions. Hold 100 tokens? You get 100 votes. Hold 10,000? You get 10,000 votes. Those with the most at stake have the biggest voice.

Our Creative Director, Brittney Scott, left, and Science Lead Tyler Quigley explain PsyDAO at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver 2025.
Our Creative Director, Brittney Scott, left, and Science Lead Tyler Quigley explain PsyDAO at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver 2025.

How proposals make it to a vote

Not every research idea can be put up for a community vote. PsyDAO has a process.

Our process starts in the Working Groups. For science, the Science Working Group takes the lead. Tyler Quigley, PhD, is advised by scientists from America and Europe. We look for projects that fit PsyDAO’s mission of Promoting Progress in Psychedelic Science and Culture. These projects benefit PsyDAO as a whole.

Read about the difference between $PSY and $PSYC

Quorum sensing: A core team of PsyDAO members weighs in first. These 34 members are psychedelic scientists, lawyers, writers, artists and researchers with deep knowledge of the field. Each of these 34 members holds a $PSYC token. $PSYC token holders are like an advisory board.

(Note that $PSY and $PSYC tokens, though with similar names, are quite different. $PSY=money. $PSYC=membership. Read more here.)

The Science Working Group presents proposed deals to the 34 $PSYC holders, who vote on which should move forward. In our last round, $PSYC voted on about 12 proposals. Three deals got support from $PSYC holders. One is on drug development and two are on basic research.

These move toward a wider vote of $PSY holders.

A key PsyDAO member in our hololens glasses.
A key PsyDAO member in our hololens glasses.

The mechanics of on-chain voting

When a vote opens, $PSY holders connect their cryptocurrency wallets to a site called Snapshot. (Here’s an example of a past vote.) Voting is usually open for a few days.

Again–one $PSY, one vote.

The vote is simple: should we fund these projects … or not.

Proposals with 50.1 percent support win. They will get funded.

Our AI agent, BeeARD, finds promising research.
Our AI agent, BeeARD, finds promising research.

What happens next?

We send money to the researchers.

After that? It depends. Our deals are often tokenized, creating governance tokens of for the projects. For example–our drug research project, $DMXE, has a token. Also our AI agent system, $BeeARD.

If these projects succeed, the success accrues to the token holders.

An image created by artist Bastiaan Woudt, after taking the drug we are researching, DMXE.
An image created by artist Bastiaan Woudt, after taking the drug we are researching, DMXE.

Psychedelics are so powerful. It’s time everyone had a say in how they are researched.

One More Thing

Reminder: PsyDAO is a mission-driven organization and we rely on a lot of help.

Thank you to all our token holders; your purchase funds our art and science.

DAOs are powered by regular people working toward their passions. If you believe in the power of psychedelics and Web3 and want to contribute to PsyDAO, please:

  • Join our Discord. Discord is the main way DAO members coordinate.

  • Follow PsyDAO on X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn, and engage.

  • Follow our AI research bot, BeeARD, on X.

  • Use psychedelics responsibly, and tell us how it went.

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