No, this isn't "$300 for hardware". It's a lifetime Pioneers-Alpha membership in Molecular Streaming Corps. The MR series hardware and the steady stream of consumables (flow cells, reagents) are simply the provisions we'll issue to members so they can embark on the quest.

Your membership fee covers those provisions indefinitely, up to and including a lifetime of the advanced molecular sensing installations we will engineer together in the 2030s.

Don't think of your membership fee as buying 'stuff'. You're really supporting something intangible—you're helping create a vital utility for the world that may otherwise be stalled by decades. We are on an Epic Quest!

Yes. We understand that not everyone has the time to pipette buffers or calibrate sensors right now. If you want to support the mission and secure your place in the future utility infrastructure, you can join as a Pioneer and gift your hardware provisions to a dedicated "Player Scientist" who needs resources.

By fueling an active experimenter, you help the network grow and you will share in a portion of the XP (Experience Points) they generate, keeping you invested in our collective success via advisory shares.

Technically, no. We want to be radically open, our schematics and protocols will all become public domain. If you are a hardware hacker capable of building your own compatible rig, you are welcome to join the data stream.

But we want you to get a membership if you can. It includes standardized reagents, accessorites, pores, and other consumables, which along with standardized hardware lets us do better science. Your membership fees also support the core team of scientists and engineers dedicated to organizing this complex global effort.

Because solving solid-state nanopore sensing is incredibly hard. No single individual, lab, or DIY hacker can solve it in isolation. It's going to take a vast effort with low-ego-friction to solve this.

Molecular Reality Corp exists to accelerate this timeline by coordinating thousands of experiments simultaneously. We need a full-time, centralized team to synthesize the data, refine the algorithms, and engineer the breakthroughs that the collective uncovers. Your contribution funds both that essential coordination, and the actual cost of the hardware and other materials we'll send you.

Selling Pioneer memberships is strictly a bootstrapping mechanism. It is not our endgame. We keep margins thin because we need maximum participation to drive the R&D curve.

Our true business model aims for the mid-2030s: we intend to become the provider of support, analytics, and infrastructure for utility-scale installations. Imagine paying a predictable installation fee and a monthly bill for "Biological Peace of Mind" the same way you currently pay for electricity or water. We are building the company that will enable and service that future utility.

We view this as a movement first, and a corporation second. Our resilience strategy includes:

1. Inevitable Tech: Universal Molecular Streaming is the single most important levelling-up technologically for civilization. We want to make sure it happens (possibly decades) sooner and much more equitably.
2. Open Source Safety Net: Because our tech stack is public domain, the tools you possess and the knowledge the community gains cannot be liquidated.
3. Community Transcendence: This will be a social movement committed to the eradication of disease. The network persists even if the corporate entity evolves or dissolves.

This utilizes the legal framework of "Advisory Shares." In the startup ecosystem, subject-matter experts are frequently compensated with equity for their guidance, but often just based on calendar time—not always a fair or strategic way to reward effort.

At the very least, by collecting calibrated data, running protocols, and identifying molecular signals, YOU will contribute valuable advisory services. (Epic Quest Bio will also let a subset of the most ambitious players to earn larger rewards for more complex and ambitious contributions, especially in the early pioneer phase.)

Your in-game progress (XP) is a quantification of that value, which we map to a pool of real corporate stock options. If you help build the future, you should obviously own a piece of it, and the more you help the bigger piece you should get.

NO. All of the R&D phase MR molecular streaming devices serve strictly as research instruments for education, exploration, and gamified data collection.

They are NOT designed or intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent any disease or health condition in humans or animals.

This will remain the case for all of our devices in the next three to five years. When the technology is ready to enable Universal Molecular Streaming, we will build the most powerful diagnostic devices the world has ever seen. That's the whole point of our Epic Quest!