Astrochain - Decentralized Science
Astrochain offers a decentralized app bridging astronomy and blockchain, allowing users to capture celestial data, mint NFTs, engage in an online community, and access educational content.User Review
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Reviewed on 28 Apr 2024 07:03 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.
Astrochain aims to increase accessibility to decentralized science, allowing for open publication of research, captures, and the use of NFTs for data authenticity and ownership, which aligns with the DeSci mission.
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.
Astrochain is developing a decentralized app, the AstroFeed dApp, and other components that build on necessary technological infrastructure. It is also engaging in educational efforts via the AstroChain Central Hub (ACC), meeting this criterion.
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 addresses issues such as archaic data sharing practices and provides an infrastructure for improved data dissemination and verification (through NFTs and a decentralized anomaly database), which are in line with issues DeSci aims to address.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The response does not provide enough information to fully assess whether Astrochain meets all the aspects of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. A review of the policy and further information about the project would be needed for a complete evaluation.