FunDeSci (NFT-Fundraising for DeSci)
FunDeSci is a blockchain-based platform revolutionizing scientific funding by connecting researchers with investors through NFTs, enabling direct contributions, and creating a marketplace for research assets.User Review
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Reviewed on 30 Apr 2024 11:01 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.
FunDeSci aims to provide a decentralized platform for NFT-based scientific funding, which aligns with the mission of DeSci to innovate by exploring new funding mechanisms. This could support open and inclusive research funding.
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.
FunDeSci is building a technological infrastructure—the decentralized NFT-fundraising marketplace—aimed at scientific research funding. It also supports the DeSci mission by fostering a network of researchers and investors and potentially recruiting more members to the scientific community.
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 financial barriers and potentially misaligned incentives in scientific funding by enabling direct access to funds through an NFT marketplace, which can contribute to alleviating the issues of traditional funding, publishing, and intellectual property practices.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Based on the information provided, it is not clear whether FunDeSci meets all of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policies, as the complete list of these policies is not specified. Further review of the project against these policies would be required.