FiatLux is a collective of UC Berkeley alumni that came together over ~48 hours to pool together funds to bid on the first of two Nobel NFTs that UC Berkeley plans to mint, and grew into something much larger: A DAO with the mission of highlighting the importance of science and technology to society, while leveraging the power of crypto to fund breakthrough academic research in novel & more accessible ways. As the dust settles following the close of UC Berkeley's historic Nobel NFT auction and the excitement surrounding FiatLux's win, we wanted to take this opportunity to explain how and why FiatLux came together.