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The technology solves the following problems:\n\n* **Security** Identity verification on digital platforms to combat fraud\n* **Reputation** Portable reputation and tracking of academic impact\n* **Simple UX** Unified UX for account management using just email and password to access web3 features\n* **Access Control** Provides account management tools to access gate data DAOs and even web2 organizations\n* **Synced Web Services** Allows for tracking impact of individual projects/scientists across different academic journals, repositories, and digital services\n* **Funding for Researchers** Empowers researchers directly with impact based funding\n* **Flexible IP Rights** Allows for collaborative splitting of intellectual property ownership\n* **Talent Aggregation** Provides a vast global pool of verified academic researchers for scientific societies to recruit\n\nThere are multiple phases to this project:\n\nPhase I: Alpha Pilot (2023-2024)\nWe will release the alpha version of the application with a group of early testers selected from DeSci DAOs. \n\nPhase II: Select Mainstream Partners (2024-2025)\nWe plan to partner with a goal of 10 professional scientific societies such as Society for Neuroscience, INCF, AAAS, SBB etc.\n\nPhase III: Progressive Decentralization (2025-on)\nWe will open up Verse for open registration; first for new societies that request to be listed, second for all users. 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This is great for productivity and the efficiency of research systems but not for 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scientists conflate their identity and self-worth with that of the gate-keepers, keeping them locked into a outdated and ineffective system.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 the only way researchers can assert intellectual ownership of their digital works. \n\n**Cryptography is the way**\nWeb3 technology is a path forward to self-sovereign researchers that own their intellectual output, are free to associate and collaborate on their own terms, and are not defined by out-dated status signaling such as ivy-league or R1 affiliation. \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.\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. We will test a pilot with the following features:\n\n* Non-custodial Account with Web3 Wallet\n* Gasless Transactions\n* Identity Linking + Verification\n* Identity Hypercertificate Minting\n* Society Creation\n* Custom Hypercertificate Minting + Management\n* Gitcoin Grant Protocol for Verified Hypercerts\n\n# Phase II (2024-2025)\nWe plan to partner with 10 professional scientific societies to offer them the following services:\n* **SSO for enterprise account management** This includes single sign on scoped within the organization domain running on a web3 backend. \n* **Digital Identity Verification** We will provide KYC services to verify academic credentials of applicants, preventing fraud and abuse and increasing the reach of the society to a global talent pool. \n* **Data linking services** Societies can more easily track and represent the academic accomplishment of their members. 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