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We do not have a token nor have raised VC capital.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when (VC, grants, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "0", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "13", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are building an open source stack that combines the Holonym zk identity protocol and hypercerts to create a decentralized science registry. We believe this will allow others to fork the code to create their own DeSci Web3 Social networks to fund research.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Major updates include:\n* web3auth + particle network integration\n* updated hypercert metadata (using attestation station)\n* on-chain data spec for metadata\n* new UX flow and refinements", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The impact of the project is:\n* number of scientists using the platform\n* number of research projects registered on the platform\n* number of forks of the project", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are one of the earliest DeSci projects. Note that not all github activity for this development is noted on the link provided. Please also take a look at related work: https://github.com/holonym-foundation/medical-credentials-issuer and https://github.com/holonym-foundation/id-hub-contracts and https://github.com/holonym-foundation/zk-frontend\n\nNote: much work in verse-build was done on local versions before being pushed as one big update", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Modern digital science tools are designed to enhance productivity and the efficiency of research but are inaccessible to individual researchers or the knowledge-seeking public. \n\n**Knowledge is Power, and Power is for the People**\nKnowledge will be gated as long as we rely on centralized service providers and institutions.  Digital science's (as a service) primary goal is to monetize human labor, scientific insight, and creativity into revenue streams for entrenched institutions.\n\n**The Current System is Broken**\nCurrently, scientists conflate their identity and self-worth with that of the gate-keepers, keeping them locked into a outdated and ineffective system.  \n\n**Self Sovereign Science is the Future**\nOur team believes that self-sovereignty through cryptography is one of the best way researchers can assert intellectual ownership of their digital works. \n\n**Cryptography is the way**\nWeb3 technology is a path forward for plural communities of self-sovereign researchers that own their intellectual output, are free to associate and collaborate on their own terms, and take ownership of their reputation. \n\n# How does this work?\n1. Researchers seeking to join a DeSci Society navigate to verse.opsci.io to create an account with their email address.\n\n2. New users verify their credentials and import their academic activity from services such as ORCID, Figshare, or OSF. \n\n3. Next, users create a digital identity. This can be completely public, or pseudonymous using ZK proofs to verify their credentials. Each verified digital identity is minted as a \"hypercertificate\" that tracks the impact of their research based on their imported activity. Once minted, the user will be assigned a <username>.desci.eth subdomain.\n\n4. Verified accounts can apply to join listed societies in the registry. Researchers aren't defined by their affiliation and are encouraged to be interdisciplinary to maximize their impact metrics.\n\n5. Gitcoin donors, grant makers, and philanthropists can directly fund impactful researchers by donating to receive a fraction of their hypercertificate. Society membership also unlocks custom hypercertificates that users can mint by completing tasks, or challenges. \n\n# How will we do this? \nWe've developed a novel software architecture with the Holonym team that allows a researcher to **create a truly non-custodial web3 wallet using just an email address** and interact with DeSci protocols without worrying about gas, crypto tokens, nonce's, or seed phrases. \n\n# Phase I (2023-2024)\nWe will release the alpha version of the application with a group of early testers selected from DeSci DAOs. 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Hypercertificate NFTs will be used for governance to decide on the future of the project such as:\n\n* Verse Protocol Fees\n* Support for Select Academic Web Services\n* Community Rules for Listing\n* Structure and Composition of Funding Rounds\n* Community Coda on IP ownership\n\n## Ok great, but can the team pull it off? \nOur team is an all-star cast of researchers with experience working in non-profits, open source engineering, and have been involved in the DeSci space since 2020. \n\n# How can I learn more?\nCheck out https://verse.opsci.io\n\nYou can also track our progress on our blogs:\n\nhttps://pulse.opsci.io/provable-and-computable-identity-for-future-proof-scientific-workflows-b020cdea11e3\n\nhttps://medium.com/holonym/from-public-web-account-linking-to-general-use-zero-knowledge-proofs-47b1fd9ad55c\n\n**Underlying Technology**\n* Holonym (Zero Knowledge Proofs, SSO)\n* ENS Subdomains Under DeSci.eth\n* Deployed on Optimism\n* Hypercertificates\n* Gitcoin Protocol", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "opscientia", "projectTwitter": "opscientia"}, "recipient": "0x33359285F30E7B3386dE70ca500F4fe27853765B"}}