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Announcing LEVITY × pump.science: A new way to follow longevity research
Hey everyone – I’m THRILLED to announce that LEVITY is partnering with the great team at DeSci platform pump.science! Going forward you’ll be able to find all DeSci content here.
This post is about what this partnership means - and a few words about what is happening with LEVITY elsewhere. And oh, before we move on: the very first - and great! - piece from pump.science will land in your inbox tomorrow.
Here's today's agenda
Why we care so much about DeSci
As you know, LEVITY has been been circling around decentralized science (DeSci) for a while now.
Why? Well, our core obsession is simple: getting to longevity escape velocity and solving aging as fast as possible.
To do that we can’t just depend on traditional funding channels and the old pace of academic science. If we want faster progress, we need new coordination tools, new capital flows, and new ways to test ideas outside the bottlenecks of the conventional system.
DeSci in longevity isn’t a side quest – it’s already put multi-million-dollar treasuries and dozens of projects into motion (VitaDAO, CryoDAO, HydraDAO, Aubrai, pump.science), while people like Vitalik Buterin and Brian Armstrong are personally invested in aging research and companies like NewLimit.
LEVITY is also fundamentally tech-optimistic and not afraid of new frontiers. DeSci fits that worldview very well.
Who – and what – is pump.science?
Short version: pump.science turns longevity experiments into a game anyone can play.
They use crypto rails to fund experiments in aging – starting in worms, flies, mice, and soon humans. Each experiment is treated almost like a “team”: there’s a clear hypothesis, real wet-lab work, experiment streams, and a community following along.
If you’ve seen the pump.science site, you’ll notice it looks more like a retro video game forum* or an old-school trading board than a scientific journal. That’s not an accident. The point is to make real experiments feel like matches you can watch and care about – with leaderboards, tickers and a constant sense that “something is happening right now” – instead of a PDF that appears three years after the fact. It’s stadium science on purpose.
* Pro tip: Check out our upcoming LEVITY episode with founder Benji Leibowitz on December 2 to learn what classic video game inspired the design. The podcast is available on Youtube or where you listen to podcasts.
Under the hood, they’re part of the wider DeSci ecosystem that’s trying to make research more open, faster, and less dependent on a handful of grant committees and VCs.
You don’t need a background in crypto or DeSci to follow any of this. A big part of this collaboration is about connecting worlds: helping people in longevity and biotech make sense of a new research model, and helping the DeSci community expand beyond its current circle. Our aim is to bring more people into the process - following the experiments, understanding the ideas, and, if it resonates, contributing to the effort to accelerate progress. Who knows - maybe the next great experiment on pump.science comes from you!
What pump.science will bring to LEVITY
Most LEVITY readers are not full-time DeSci people. Some of you are scientists, some work in biotech or investing, some are just longevity-curious. Very few live and breathe bonding curves, DAOs, and on-chain governance.
Together with the pump.science team, we’re going to:
Make sense of DeSci for non-insiders
Clear explainers on what’s actually new here: ownership of data and IP, new funding models, prediction-market-style experiments – and where the possibilities and limitations are.
Show real use cases
Concrete case studies: experiments in worms, flies and mice, how funding flowed, what the data showed, and what happened next. When does this model work, and when does it fail?
Guide both scientists and investors through the maze
If you’re a researcher wondering “should I try this route?” or a technology/biotech enthusiast asking “is this just another crypto fad?”, we’ll give you frameworks for how to approach this nascent field.
You can expect guides, deep dives, and recurring updates that treat DeSci as part of the real longevity toolkit, not as a separate crypto arena.
A word from founder Benji Leibowitz
On Tuesday December 2 we’ll air a new LEVITY episode with pump.science founder Benji Leibowitz, where he’ll explain the pump.science platform in detail, make sure to check that out! In the meantime, here’s what Benji says about the partnership with LEVITY:
“pump.science is excited to partner with LEVITY because Decentralized Science needs more longevity scientists and enthusiasts at the table. Our mission is simple: connect longevity fans and researchers directly so more real research actually happens.
LEVITY’s readers already care about living longer, healthier lives. We want to show them how crypto can accelerate that by being an engine that funds and tracks experiments in real time.
We know many are skeptical of crypto, and that’s exactly who we want to reach. Our plan is to let the data do the talking: transparent results, open methods, and a clear link between on-chain activity and longevity science. If LEVITY’s community is willing to push past the fear of the unknown and take a step into the cryptoverse, we’ll show them just how much more we can achieve for life extension together.”
In addition to this, LEVITY and pump.science are exploring a new Youtube format. We’ll share more info about that soon.
The future of LEVITY
LEVITY has, for the most part, settled into a twice-weekly rhythm: new issues every Thursday and Sunday. I recently stopped doing the longevity news round-ups. Two reasons: the field moves too fast for one person to capture everything, and it wasn’t the strongest format for growing the newsletter.
Our partnership with pump.science means you’ll see additional DeSci-focused pieces each month. Most of this content will remain free.
Over the autumn I’ve spent less time producing Premium-only material. Premium subscribers will still receive posts before anyone else, and their version will always be ad-free. But there will be fewer fully exclusive pieces for a little while.
There are several reasons for that:
First, I’m building new LEVITY newsletter products that will launch in the first half of 2026 - an effort aimed squarely at growing our subscriber base. Right now the newsletter lags behind the podcast in audience size, even though the engagement is fantastic once people find it.
Second, on Youtube we’re transforming the podcast into a proper channel. As I mentioned above, we’re developing a unique new format together with pump.science. In parallel, Patrick and I are working on something else we’re genuinely excited about. We expect to reveal that in the first quarter of 2026.
We crossed 1,000 Youtube subscribers in our first year. Less than six months later we’re already on track toward our next milestone: 10,000 subscribers. After that, the target is 100,000. That will be hard - and to get there, we need content built for how Youtube actually works.
I may also start a completely new, second, newsletter. It will be longevity-adjacent but ultimately quite different from LEVITY. If and when that happens, you’ll be the first to know.
And it’s been a while since I last said it: thank you for being a member of the LEVITY family! ❤️
/Peter
