Atom: Fundamentally changing how science is funded
Atom is revamping scientific research funding with a blockchain-based platform for transparent, efficient, and community-supported grants allocation.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:29 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.
Atom is building a platform with innovative funding mechanisms using quadratic funding and blockchain models, aimed at addressing the current inefficient and biased system, which aligns well with the mission of innovating 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.
The project Atom is developing new technological infrastructure, such as an AI-driven grant matching system for academics and a web3 grants stack, which supports the mission by building, deploying, and testing new technologies in the realm of DeSci.
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.
Atom addresses several DeSci mission issues by proposing a solution to the misaligned incentives in scientific funding and inefficiencies in the grant application process, which can contribute to improving data sharing practices and research reproducibility.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The information provided does not include details on the project's compliance with Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy; thus, it is not possible to determine whether Atom meets this requirement without further information.