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May 27, 2021

Bloomberg
NFT for Nobel Prize-Winning Data to Be Auctioned by UC Berkeley

Digital data related to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for gene editing and cancer immunotherapy will be sold connected to non-fungible tokens next week, a novel way for the University of California at Berkeley to raise money for research.

Berkeley News
UC Berkeley will auction NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning inventions to fund research

Most of us will never win a Nobel Prize, but the University of California, Berkeley, is offering everyone the opportunity to purchase the next best thing: nonfungible tokens (NFTs) for the patent disclosures at the heart of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions from the university’s research labs.

The New York Times
NFTs Linked to Nobel Prizes Are Being Auctioned by Berkeley

How much will someone be willing to pay for a few pages of quarter-century-old bureaucratic university paperwork that have been turned into a blockchain-encoded piece of digital art?

The University of California, Berkeley, hopes quite a bit, and it is about to find out.