Fractal Flows
Create a platform utilizing AI and blockchain to verify scientific claims, where contributions are tokenized as NFTs, ensuring IP rights and incentivizing participants with a unique cryptocurrency.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:14 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
Fractal Flows is designed to aggregate, curate, and generate content to support scientific claims, using a human-AI system interaction. This system, which incorporates blockchain technology for proof of contribution and IP rights management, appears to align well with the mission to innovate and decentralize scientific research.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
Fractal Flows' approach to minting scientific claims as NFTs and the use of its FFDST token for participation in validation processes suggest that it is both testing new technological infrastructure and deploying existing blockchain infrastructure within the scientific research context.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
The project's model addresses several DeSci issues, such as IP management and aligning financial incentives with the contributions of validators, which can mitigate the misaligned incentives in publishing and potentially improve data sharing practices.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The provided information does not state whether Fractal Flows meets all of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy criteria. Further review of the project against the Gitcoin policies will be required to provide a definitive answer.