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The NFT-based subscription can be configured to automatically send a commission in % of all facilitated deals to our, or the owner of other domains where we deploy the solution. We will seek funding from Oct/Nov 2024 depending on progress, and are looking for feedback, clients and new requirements, mainly about UI/UX and features or security testing. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "LukkiinsightBTC", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram username", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Bootstrapped, around 50k$ invested by the team so far", "hidden": true, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our tech team consists of 3 Co-Founders and 1 Part-time developer.\nLukas Meilhammer https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-meilhammer-04739b99/ has been specializing in AI and Blockchain since 2017 and is a serial entrepreneur, business developer, data strategy consultant, and market analyst. Since then Lukas has become an advocate of activism and enabling technology, as well as decentralization and privacy. Lukas founded Eagle AI in 2017, grew and maintained a cross-industry network, and has built several AI prototypes, companies, and Open-source projects from the ground up meanwhile, and was managing human resources, capital, client negotiations, business strategy, and operations.\nVelitchko Filipov, https://www.linkedin.com/in/velitchko-filipov/ the CTO of the project, is a data scientist, and researcher, and holds a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology. He is a Full-Stack developer specializing in Data Analytics, Visualization, AI, and UI/UX. He has extensive experience in the integration of graph databases, application development, deployment & testing. Velitchko has an academic track record and has published several research papers in highly prestigious journals about data science and visualization with a focus on dynamic network visualization and analysis. Over the past 8 years, he has gained experience with database security, decentralization, and cryptography as well.\nMaury Jesus Teixeira https://www.linkedin.com/in/xdmaury/ is a Full-stack developer and seasoned Front-end dev, building complex and robust prototypes on decentralized clouds like Akash Network. He has an entrepreneurial, strategic, and pragmatic mindset, and knows how to maintain, deploy and fix code. His experience across Python, Javascript, Typescript, and Linux systems as well as his passion for tech, laid the foundations for iPal. He has a master's in Data science and experience in AI and crypto trading and has been working on this subject with Lukas since July 2022.", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "18", "hidden": true, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Open-source developers, researchers, and scientists with high demand for data face several challenges related to their work, like limited access to high-quality Data, models, and computing resources due to high demand, costs, or time to find it. \n\nNew solutions are required because data is often not shared because there is literally no reason for and none against sharing it, Open Access publications cost around 2-3k$, Open-source development is badly incentivized, and open DeSci platforms like [Researchhub.io](http://Researchhub.io) / $RSC could aggregate and develop more collaborative tools, and are relatively dependant on donors, and RFP processes.  \n\nBy focusing on the data & the features to curate and moderate, rather than dictate and manipulate the data, and by making On- and Off-Chain data more accessible or better filterable, we are trying to break up data silos. The platform supports ** collaboration and partnerships in general **, data engineering processes from discovery to aggregation, and structured discussions.\n\nThis way, private-public partnerships can be improved, by rewarding public data submissions, and proceeds can be used to acquire paid datasets.\n\n# Accessibility, Collaboration, UX & Testing\n\nWe are planning to reduce **entry barriers** with accreditation of users to provide more features via NFT or a role on the platform, much higher usage limits than web2 SaaS platforms or a role on the platform to provide easy mechanisms of incentives for participants to join. \n\nThe latest version of the platform we are building can be found here:\n\n- https://ipal.network\n\nThe following goals shall be translated into new features, and tasks we performed earlier within the next 8-12 weeks, thanks to the ARB Grant:\n\n- Support collaboration, sharing and listing free resources, free publications of research, and summaries of existing insights (~2-3 weeks)\n- Make users familiar with the No-code DB solution, kick off a new narrative, and paradigm shift, by allowing users to decide whether to make information public, or restrict access\n- By facilitating new access and monetization mechanisms, and establishing best practices for incentives and potential rewards, while also blocking users from accessing (especially when misconduct was observed), we are positioning ourselves as a new SocialFi and DeSci subscription hosting platform and marketplace within the next 2 months\n- Finally, we can incentivize users to share test data or subsets of the datasets they can provide with the grant", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our Decentralized Science platform is global and accessible, decisions are more structured and transparent, and publishing is free. \n\nOur protected database, where publishing the data schemas openly is required, and standards are recommended, makes storing or discovering datasets more synergetic, and disseminating scientific knowledge across working groups can be improved. \n\nThis leads to the generation of on-chain and off-chain data that need to be packaged into E2E workflows and processes. \n\nWe believe, DeSci needs platforms to automate processes and facilitate many use cases as well as a reputation system similar to SocialFi applications. \n\n# Processes and Use Cases\n\nDeSci Processes could be supported by public tools and datasets. For instance, typical FAQs, Docs, Blogs or VLOGs, or a web3 Tech stack could just be better labeled and filtered easily. Finally, all documents could be better labeled, shorter, and easier to discover and consume to increase awareness thanks to more criteria to filter, a more trustworthy initial creation or the final peer review process, or a better communication strategy. \n\n# Reputations\n\nFor instance, by ranking a group of reputable and unknown actors on the market, and adding on-chain proofs, a unique train of thought, or other related statements from social media platforms, a conclusion could be more widely accepted or reached faster. \n\nIn science, this could lead to faster adoption, more public support, and edge cases finding traction due to long-term consensus about what is going to happen, because it just became predictable. \n\nTo keep the scope more open, and the work packages flexible, we propose the following roadmap: \n\n- Deploy the smart contract, from where it is open-source, and create documentation how it can be utilized, incl. use cases and examples\n- Provide a template for collaborative research operations and the initial datasets to support the web3 Grant ecosystem, DeSci grants, or other types of application processes\n- Look for proposals in the GG21, \u201cWeb3 Grant ecosystem advancements\u201d, and OpenCollab track to find synergies\n- Release a use case list and more educational material to attract more users, interest and data to the platform", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "During the grant, our platform will be made publically available, which requires resources to host, maintain, test, and improve the UX. By moderating, and P2P reviewing analyses, theories, or data we identified we are hoping to contribute to the challenges of other grantees. \n\nFor instance, data related to scientific funding, gaps, advantages or improvement potential Web3 Grant ecosystem, specifically though after scientific knowledge or opinions about AI, and proposals in the GG21, that inspire us to develop templates, standard data schemas would represent interesting challenges to work on an gather data. \n\nAs explained above, the grant will be used to deploy, create and provide templates, find synergies, and release educational material.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "N/A", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "N/A", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are going to keep working on the platform anyhow, and there is no specific amount of funds needed for completion, but they would speed up development progress. Hereby, we are mainly aiming to propose our tool to potential donors & clients, as well as the Arbitrum community", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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