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Bio Protocol Telegram and the BIO holders room

Where BIO holders talk: the official Bio Protocol Telegram, Discord and site, plus a Cherry room gated on-chain by the real BIO mint on Solana.

Cherry Team Published Updated 6 min read

The Bio Protocol Telegram group is where BIO holders gather, alongside a Discord server and an X account, and none of the three can tell a holder from a visitor with a copied avatar. BIO is the token of Bio Protocol, a curation and liquidity protocol for decentralized science, and it trades on Ethereum, Solana, Base and BNB Smart Chain. Cherry (cherry.fun) is a wallet-to-wallet messenger and community app for crypto: you sign in with a wallet, DM any address, and join group chats that read the chain themselves. Cherry runs a BIO Holders room at chat.cherry.fun/@bio , gated by a BIO balance on Solana, and is not affiliated with the Bio Protocol team.

What BIO is

Bio Protocol funds biotech research through community-owned organizations it calls BioDAOs, each raising money for one field and holding the intellectual property that comes out of it. Ten sit in its directory in September 2026: VitaDAO (longevity), AthenaDAO (women’s health), CryoDAO (cryopreservation), HairDAO (hair loss), PsyDAO (psychedelic science), ValleyDAO (synthetic biology), Cerebrum DAO (neurodegeneration), Curetopia (rare diseases), Long COVID Labs and Quantum Biology DAO. BIO curates which of them gets funded and supplies liquidity to the ones that do. The token was issued by the Bio.xyz Association, a not-for-profit that acts as legal steward of the protocol’s infrastructure and treasury. Binance Labs made its first decentralized-science investment in Bio Protocol in November 2024.

As of 13 September 2026:

  • Chain and standard on Solana: a Token-2022 token with nine decimals, mint bioJ9JTqW62MLz7UKHU69gtKhPpGi1BQhccj2kmSvUJ, freeze authority disabled.
  • Other deployments: Ethereum at 0xcb1592591996765ec0efc1f92599a19767ee5ffa, plus Base and BNB Smart Chain.
  • Launch: live on 3 January 2025 on Binance and Ethereum mainnet, with 39.05% of a 3.32 billion supply circulating and 15% of that circulating amount held in the protocol treasury behind a governance vote. Solana followed on 9 January 2025 through Wormhole’s NTT framework.
  • Supply: 2.145 billion BIO circulating of a 3.32 billion maximum, 183,665,618 of it on the Solana mint.
  • Market cap: about $54.6 million; fully diluted, $84.4 million.
  • Holders on Solana: 8,992 wallets.

BIO set its high of $0.8890 on the day it launched and has traded far below that since, reaching $0.0158 on 29 March 2026. Bio Protocol aims the token at patients, scientists and biotech professionals alongside traders: the audience a fake-grant or fake-airdrop message goes looking for.

The Bio Protocol Telegram group and the other official channels

As of September 2026, Bio Protocol points holders to bio.xyz , its documentation at docs.bio.xyz , the Bio Protocol Telegram group at t.me/bio_protocol , a Discord server and the @bioprotocol account on X.

Every one of those admits anyone. A Telegram group needs a phone number and nothing else, so a wallet holding six figures of BIO and someone impersonating a BioDAO lead appear the same way in the member list. Discord’s usual fix is a verify bot: leave the server, sign a message on a third-party site, come back with a role. That loop has the shape of the phishing these communities already get. And with BIO on four chains, “I hold” says nothing about where or how much.

BIO holders on Cherry

Cherry opened a BIO Holders room at chat.cherry.fun/@bio on 12 September 2026. Cherry created it and runs it: this is Cherry’s holders room, not the Bio Protocol team’s channel, and Cherry is not affiliated with the BIO team. Entry is one token balance rule against the Solana mint above, minimum 1 BIO. On 13 September 2026 it was public, with 27 members and no reviews.

Every name in that member list passed an on-chain check the app runs. Nobody sends a verify link, and members are re-checked in the background, so a wallet that sells out is paywalled: it stays a member with message content withheld until a later check passes. A holder can DM any wallet address from the room, including wallets that never opened Cherry. Type $BIO in the composer and the message renders a token card with price and market cap, with swaps powered by Jupiter. Bigger positions go through OTC escrow in the Cherry mobile app, where a program settles both legs at once. A BioDAO running an airdrop campaign can check the same balance before it pays.

One room per BioDAO works the same way: a balance rule on that DAO’s own token for the working group, a BIO minimum for the wider crowd. The same gating covers ERC-20 holders on Ethereum, Base and BNB Smart Chain .

How to create a BIO-gated room

  1. Open chat.cherry.fun and sign in with a Solana wallet. The wallet signs a message: no gas, nothing on-chain.
  2. Create a group with a name, description and handle, and set it public so it gets a storefront page.
  3. Add an access requirement of the token balance type and paste the mint bioJ9JTqW62MLz7UKHU69gtKhPpGi1BQhccj2kmSvUJ. Confirm the symbol resolves to BIO before you save.
  4. Set the minimum. At about $0.025 a token on 13 September 2026, 1 BIO lets in almost any wallet, so pick a number that matches the position you want in the room. A group takes up to five rules under all or any logic.
  5. Share the link. Visitors see the requirement, and whether their wallet passes it, before they join.

The longer walkthrough is how to create a token-gated group chat , and moving a community off Telegram covers the migration.

Risks and disclaimers

A balance gate proves a wallet held the minimum when the check ran, and nothing about the person behind it, so scam links and impersonation still need moderators who can mute and ban. Supply on the Solana mint rises and falls as holders bridge, so the figures above move with it, and BIO’s price sets what any minimum is worth in dollars. Group chats on Cherry are not end-to-end encrypted, by design, so moderation and bots can work; DMs are end-to-end encrypted with keys derived from your wallet. Nothing here is financial advice. Tokens can lose value.

FAQ

Is the BIO Holders room on Cherry run by the Bio Protocol team?

No. Cherry created and runs the room at chat.cherry.fun/@bio, and Cherry is not affiliated with the Bio Protocol team. It is a room for holders whose wallets pass the balance check, and it does not speak for the project.

Which BIO does the gate check?

The Solana mint bioJ9JTqW62MLz7UKHU69gtKhPpGi1BQhccj2kmSvUJ. BIO also trades on Ethereum, Base and BNB Smart Chain, and a room built on one contract admits only the holders on that chain.

How much BIO do I need to join the Cherry room?

At least 1 BIO in the wallet you sign in with. An owner running their own BIO room can set any minimum, and a higher one is worth setting: BIO traded near $0.025 on 13 September 2026.

What happens if I sell my BIO?

Membership in a gated public group is re-checked on-chain in the background, about every three days per wallet. A wallet that drops below 1 BIO is paywalled: it stays a member with the room in its chat list, message content is withheld, and a later passing check or the Re-check button restores it.

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