Lifespan.io Meets Web3 - Crowdsourced Clinical Trials, Inverse Quadratic Funding, and You!
Developing a Web3-based longevity research crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform, utilizing blockchain for matched funding, DeSci crowdsourced clinical trials, and aging biomarkers.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:38 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.
The project 'Lifespan.io Meets Web3' aims to use Web3 to innovate in the funding and execution of clinical trials, ensuring scientific research is openly sourced and reaching a large audience. This directly aligns with the mission of DeSci as it fosters innovation in scientific research funding and distribution methods.
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 is focused on implementing new models of matched crowdfunding using blockchain, which is part of building necessary technological infrastructure. It also appears to be deploying this infrastructure in the context of aging research, which fits the criteria for deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a 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 addresses several issues resonant with DeSci's mission, especially the archaic funding practices for clinical research and potentially poor science literacy. By leveraging Web3 technologies for crowdfunding, the project could contribute to solving financial barriers and foster more inclusive research 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 possible to determine whether all of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policies are met without additional information on the project's compliance with those specific policies.