Ethereum · Open strand · 11 Nov 2026
Fig. 01 · Ethereum · Unofficial
Vaccine science, reviewed in the open.
An unofficial community token on Ethereum. The design itself lives at RNA Foundry.
CA: Coming Soon
Buy opens on Uniswap after a real contract address is published.
Decorative codon stream · not a patient sequence
Fig. 02 · The story
On 11 November 2026 a personalized cancer-vaccine design was offered for public review, with the patient’s consent. This page is a companion signal. The record lives with RNA Foundry.
On 11 November 2026, Soham Sankaran, founder of PopVax and RNA Foundry, wrote that a personalized cancer vaccine for Yash — a young man with pancreatic cancer — was being designed in the open, with his consent. He asked external experts to review the design and contribute before any manufacture at the RNA Foundry.
The note points to the official page, A Vaccine for Yash, and the original post includes a short video. Both posts are embedded below.
In January 2025, Yashdeep Bindal was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. PopVax is developing a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine and publishing the design materials so other researchers can inspect and refine them. This site does not host that data.
@jajoosam, who built the vaccine design pipeline, invited scientists to look and to open a pull request. Contributions go to github.com/popvax/yash or to yash@rnafoundry.com.
RNA Foundry is the manufacturing bench behind PopVax’s mRNA work. The group has said its first infectious-disease mRNA-LNP candidate from the Foundry has entered a Phase 1 trial. That trial is a separate program from this token.
The posts ask for review before manufacture of Yash’s design at the Foundry. The official account of the work is rnafoundry.com/yash, and the files are on GitHub.
Fig. 03 · The announcement
Soham Sankaran published these notes on X. They load here as official embeds. If the widget is blocked, the same wording stays on the page.
Fig. 04 · Why $POPVAX
$POPVAX is a community meme token. It gathers around the idea of open vaccine science. It is not the science, and it does not stand in for it.
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The idea worth signaling is a vaccine design that people outside the room can read, question, and improve.
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$POPVAX does not speak for PopVax, RNA Foundry, Soham Sankaran, or Yash and his family. Holding it is not a role in the project.
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Fork the repository. Review the design. Send a pull request. That is the contribution the posts actually asked for.
Fig. 05 · Token
Supply is TBA. This page will not invent a figure for it.
The contract is read from js/config.js. Until that value is a real Ethereum address, the line above stays on Coming Soon and both controls stay off.
A published address is copied from here. It is the only contract this page will send to Uniswap.
Fig. 06 · Later
When a real contract is set, the path is an ordinary Ethereum swap. Until then, every buy control on this page stays on Coming Soon.
01 · Wallet
Use a self-custody wallet that can hold ETH on Ethereum.
02 · ETH
Keep enough for the swap and for the network fee.
03 · Uniswap
Buy will open Uniswap on Ethereum, with ETH in and this token out.
04 · The CA
If you swap by hand, use only the address published on this page. It is Coming Soon.
Fig. 07 · Spin the strand
Drag the strand. Choose a base pair to log an open review. The bases are decorative fiction — they are not Yash’s design and not a clinical sequence.
Reviews spun: 0
Drag to spin. Click a base pair, or press Enter, to log an open review. Arrow keys rotate the strand.
rna-foundry:~$ open design.draft label: FICTIONAL decorative codons note: not a patient sequence AUG GCU UUC GGA CCU AAG UAG CGU AAA CCG GCA UUC GGU AAC UUC GGG CUA AAA CCG UAG GCA next: fork · review · pull request src: github.com/popvax/yash
Fig. 08 · Questions
No. $POPVAX is an unofficial meme token. It is not affiliated with PopVax, RNA Foundry, Soham Sankaran, or Yash and his family.
No. A purchase does not fund Yash’s care, the vaccine, or RNA Foundry. The official project is A Vaccine for Yash.
The design page is rnafoundry.com/yash. The repository is github.com/popvax/yash. Notes can also go to yash@rnafoundry.com.
When a real contract address is placed in js/config.js, Buy points at Uniswap on Ethereum. Until then the control stays on Coming Soon.
Ethereum. Supply is TBA.
Fig. 09 · Join
A pull request can reach the design. This token cannot take its place.