Pump.science and Hedgehog Markets are working together to advance decentralized, science-focused betting contracts as the DeSci sector gains momentum.
According to a report from January 8 announcementPump.science and Hedgehog Markets will allow gamblers to speculate on laboratory mice undergoing experiments aimed at increasing human life expectancy.
Pump.science is a blockchain research project aimed at disrupting traditional academia by funding scientific initiatives and launching tokenized protocols. The project is supported by the Solana Foundation, which supports innovative ventures within the blockchain space.
A blog post from Pump.science revealed that Hedgehog Markets users can bet on mice every week, betting on how long each rodent can stay on a rotating bar. The endurance tests are carried out for two months, during which each mouse is given a unique name.
Every week, mice are treated with potentially life-extending substances and undergo durability tests. Participants will have access to video footage of the individual mice, preliminary data, and insights from previous experiments to make their predictions about which mouse will stay on the rotarod the longest.
Pump.science blog post
Benji Leibowitz, founder of Pump.science, noted that livestreams of mouse lifespan tests would introduce “a new and more attractive participation model for scientific discovery” through Hedgehog Markets.
Hedgehog Markets offers betting contracts to predict real-world events such as politics, sports and crypto prices, much like Polygon-based Polymarket.
Pump.science is a project related to the growing DeSci sector and is valued at over $2 billion. Teams like BIO Protocol boast backing from Binance, with leaders like Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin, and Maelstrom boss Arthur Hayes supporting DeSci as a major crypto story in 2025.
