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June 7, 2021

The Foundation
Watch the NFT live auction!

https://foundation.app/@UCBerkeley

May 31, 2021

The Daily Californian
‘Own a part of history’: UC Berkeley to sell nonfungible tokens of scientific discoveries

UC Berkeley will auction two nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, relating to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for the funding of future research and innovation.

The NFTs being sold include digital art pieces consisting of the original patent disclosure forms behind former campus professor James Allison’s cancer immunotherapy research, for which he shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, for which campus biochemistry and molecular biology professor Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

May 27, 2021

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.