Solana’s Polymarket to allow betting on Pump.science tests

Pump.science and Hedgehog Markets have partnered to foster decentralized science-focused betting contracts as the DeSci sector gains traction.

According to a January 8 announcementPump.science and Hedgehog Markets will allow punters to speculate on laboratory mice being subjected to experiments aimed at increasing human life expectancy.

Pump.science is a blockchain research project aiming to disrupt traditional academia by funding scientific initiatives and launching tokenized protocols. The project is supported by the Solana Foundation, which supports innovative companies in the field of blockchain.

A Pump.science blog post revealed that Hedgehog Markets users can bet on mice every week, betting on how long each rodent can stay on a spinning rod. The endurance tests will take place over two months, with each mouse given a unique name.

Each week, mice are treated with compounds that may extend life and undergo endurance tests. Participants can access video footage of each mouse, preliminary data, and information from past experiments to inform their predictions about which mouse will stay on the rotating rod the longest.

Pump.science blog post

Benji Leibowitz, founder of Pump.science, noted that live-streaming mouse longevity tests would introduce “a new, more engaging model of participation in 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 valued at over $2 billion. Teams like BIO Protocol boast support of Binance, with executives like Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin, and Maelstrom boss Arthur Hayes supporting DeSci as a major crypto narrative in 2025.