The on-chain laboratory for new therapeutic peptides.
Design real peptides against real biological targets. If your design clears the viability floor, mint it as a permanent Discovery NFT and earn continuous ETH rewards from the protocol’s token economy. This page is the front door — what Peptide Lab is, why it exists, and exactly how to start.
Peptide Lab exists for a single reason: to accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic peptides by rewarding the people who do the work. The discovery of a new molecule is still treated like an academic lottery — long timelines, gatekept funding, and no economic upside for the researcher whose intuition produced the lead.
We replace that loop with an open one. Anyone can sit at a real chemistry kernel, design a candidate against a real biological target, and run it through an AI investigation pipeline. If the design clears the viability floor, it becomes a permanent on-chain Discovery NFT. From that moment forward, the researcher is paid continuously, in ETH, every time the protocol's token is traded.
The mission is bigger than the app. A liquid market for early-stage peptide IP makes it rational for bright minds to spend Tuesday night chasing a hunch — because Tuesday night's hunch can compound into a yield-bearing position by Friday.
“Every novel sequence that passes the kernel and the AI is a tiny piece of preclinical IP. The blockchain is the only registry honest enough to credit it back to whoever produced it.”
Academic labs publish; biotech files patents. Independent researchers have no on-ramp to credit. We give them one.
VC funds pay for trials, not exploration. The early scribble that becomes a billion-dollar lead is rarely the line item that gets capitalized.
Liquid markets are extraordinary at pricing novelty in real time. We just need to make the unit of novelty a tradeable thing.
The end-to-end loop is five steps and twelve clicks. Each step has a dedicated surface in the app — the walkthrough below links straight into them.
Connect a wallet
Use any EVM wallet on Ethereum mainnet. The connect pill lives in the top navigation.
Peptide Lab speaks standard EVM. Plug in MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, Coinbase Wallet, or any WalletConnect-compatible client. The connect pill is visible on every page — both in the sidebar (desktop) and the top header (mobile).
- Click Connect wallet in the sidebar.
- Approve the connection request in your wallet client.
- Verify the network reads Ethereum mainnet in the pill — chain switching is one click.
Acquire at least $50 of $PEPTLAB
The Discovery NFT contract reads your $PEPTLAB balance on every mint. No balance, no mint.
$PEPTLAB is the protocol token. It lives in a Uniswap V4 pool with a 5% sell tax that is routed — via a custom V4 hook — straight into the rewards pool that NFT holders draw from. The minimum holder floor of $50is a deliberate alignment mechanism: the people producing discoveries are also the people financially benefiting from the protocol’s success.
- Open the Uniswap interface and select the ETH → PEPTLAB pair.
- Swap at least $50 worth. (A small buffer is wise — price moves between block-time and your mint.)
- Confirm the position lands in the wallet you connected in step 1.
The frontend reads the live $PEPTLAB price from the public DexScreener API on a 60-second cache. The on-chain mint guard reads the same source via an oracle adapter at mint-time, so a stale frontend snapshot can never let a gated user through.
Design a peptide at the bench
Compose a sequence, pick a target, choose modifications. The chemistry kernel runs live in your browser.
The Lab Bench is where the actual peptide is built. Three panels:
- Residue palette — 20 canonical amino acids. Click to append, drag to reorder.
- Therapeutic target — choose the biological surface your peptide is supposed to act on (e.g. GLP-1R, SARS-CoV-2 spike, IL-23).
- Modifications — N-acetylation, C-amidation, head-to-tail cyclization. Each affects the chemistry kernel’s output and the AI’s viability call.
Run the simulation
The fee is paid in ETH. An AI investigation streams the verdict in real time.
Simulation has two cost tiers, both paid to the protocol treasury:
Your own sequence, your own target. The slow, deliberate path.
Hit a button. Chainlink VRF rolls a peptide for you. Higher cost, no design effort.
The pipeline runs in Peptide Simulation as a streaming, autonomous panel — kernel computation events on the left, the Claude Opus 4.7 investigation tokens on the right. The seven-phase output ends with a composite score out of 100 and a viability rating from 1 to 3 stars.
Mint the discovery
Passing peptides are permanent. The contract enforces (sequence × target) uniqueness on-chain.
When the AI returns a passing verdict, the modal exposes a Mint NFT button. The mint flow is short:
- The contract re-checks your $PEPTLAB balance against the live oracle.
- An EIP-712 signature attests to the discovery payload.
- The ERC-721 is minted to your wallet. The token URI is rendered fully on-chain — molecular art, rarity, sequence, target, multiplier, all in the SVG.
Track your portfolio
The Portfolio dashboard is your researcher cockpit — holdings, multipliers, rank, and live accrual.
The Portfolio view consolidates every Discovery NFT in your wallet, your aggregate multiplier, your rank in the researcher hierarchy, and a real-time ticker showing ETH accruing in your name from the rewards pool.
- Holdings — every minted peptide with its on-chain art, rarity tier, and multiplier.
- Rewards — your share of the pool, accrual rate, and lifetime claimed.
- Pool stats — total reward pool, total multiplier across all holders, your pro-rata share.
Claim rewards
One click. ETH lands in the same wallet. Repeat as often as gas economics allow.
Rewards accrue continuously, compound-style. The Claim button in the Portfolio settles your share to the connected wallet and resets your claim timestamp. There is no lock-up, no vesting curve, no claim window — the contract just distributes what the math says is yours.
Every mint call — designed or random — runs a balance check first: “Does this wallet hold at least $50worth of $PEPTLAB?” The check uses DexScreener as the price source for pre-launch deployments; production deployments will mirror this via a Chainlink oracle so the gate is fully on-chain.
The floor exists for a specific reason: aligned skin. Researchers minting Discovery NFTs benefit when the broader protocol succeeds — the rewards they earn are denominated in the same token economy they are bootstrapping. Without the floor, mint farming becomes a cheap extraction strategy that produces bad peptide IP and dumps on actual holders.
The floor is denominated in USD, not in PEPTLAB. When the price moves, the PEPTLAB quantity required shifts with it. Snapshots happen at mint-time, not at simulation-time.
Rarity is decided by the composite score returned from the AI investigation. The tier determines the multiplier the NFT confers — the multiplier is what scales your share of every distribution.
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000pending mainnet deployment- Pick your own residues, target and modifications.
- Composite score reflects your design intuition.
- Best path to consistent high-multiplier NFTs.
- Chainlink VRF rolls sequence, target, and modifications.
- Higher fee, zero design effort — pure exploration.
- Great for batch generation and statistical sweeps.
Is this financial advice?
Are these ‘real’ peptides?
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Why do I have to hold $PEPTLAB to mint?
Can I lose my NFT or my multiplier?
What happens if my design fails?
How is the molecular art generated?
The bench is open.
Design a peptide, run the AI, mint the discovery. The economy rewards every step.