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(Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## **Description**\n\nAtom aims to accelerate scientific research by **revolutionizing todays funding mechanisms for basic research**. The current system of funding research is often biased, opaque, and inefficient with regards to allocating funds. Atom is building a platform utilizing quadratic funding and other blockchain powered models to identify and fund the most impactful early stage research projects.\n\n## **Problem**\n\nNearly $800 billion dollars was allocated to R&D in the US last year. With innovation per dollar falling across many fields in science, researchers spending up to 50% of their time on grants applications, and decisions being made by small, biased and opaque groups **the scientific funding landscape is seriously broken.** Funding is inefficiently allocated in favour of established risk-averse researchers instead of young innovative scientists leading to stifled innovation in early stage research and beyond.\n\nCurrent DeSci funding solutions rely heavily on the promise of commercialising IP to incentivise participation but this can leave essential explorative research with unclear outcomes under-funded. Furthermore there is a large negative sentiment toward crypto amongst academic communities so leading with a web3 first approach is an uphill battle. Lastly, as evidenced by the Gitcoin DeSci round criteria rightly restricting purely academic projects from applying due to limited ability to qualify valid projects there is a need and demand for a ***Gitcoin for Science***.\n\n\n## **Solution**\n\nAtom is building a space for our DeSci community to begin engaging with TradSci through funding.\n\nWe have begun work to develop a single hub for all academic grants. Atom is building an AI-driven grant matching system, used to onboard and connect researchers with relevant traditional funding opportunities, **streamlining the grant application process** and allowing researchers to focus on their work. This is used to validate researchers and projects for our DeSci grants.\n\nThe **web3 grants stack will utilise quadratic funding** to ensure that research projects with widespread support receive the necessary resources, free from bias and red tape typically associated with traditional funding sources. We have a pipeline of NFT drops planned, in collaboration with leading scientific figures, to help generate funds for matching pools while raising awareness for crucial research projects.\n\n## **Roadmap**\n\n1. Secure key partnerships (completed)\n2. Prototyping TradSci grant discovery and management platform (In progress)\n3.  Build TradSci platform v0\n4.  Closed beta launch\n5.  Onboard first academic institutions\n6.  Integrate with Gitcoin\u2019s Allo Protocol\n7.  NFT drop with leading public scientist to raise initial matching pool funds\n8.  Finish raising funds for Atoms alpha round\n9.  Launch alpha QF round\n10.  Open launch\n\n\n10 step roadmap aiming to be completed by September with more to come thereafter", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are building the financial infrastructure for the DeSci movement to engage with TradSci.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The proceeds from this grant will go toward **accelerating the web3 efforts on our roadmap**. With extra funding we will be able to bring forward the development of our initial funding drops, protocol integration and bring on support to help source matching pool funding and grant validation.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "GmJT+s49HeZAVmo5IvYIP25nRchX7XhlUGp5yOycS8I=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "160bd3bb79b95892806735434847ee36f3fc5fde0e8b2a528d3629c5245b647ca4267ec629b5f5655a4d07235795dc10fec55a7162ad229b784d546178ffd182cde0e570d02621ad1db6341c54dd553ff4f0fa355e4d2e04f675a794ef394cb0836c7d82b5054546ee1d379bbf2f7297d57570f1b9c8cef965f865703034f32b00000000000000208024cbfa9346e03f51abd1a321d95ef8a68d985eee6f0459ddab60588d8fcedcad74d64df23699cad87e192efa9c858f"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? (or anything not covered elsewhere in this application that you feel is relevant to share)", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 14, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "WvbTJHBVQgubDD424YJ1DsyLdCDks0oe11CyMe4BTYk=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "2ff8e522d78b6ca6bd64c8da5c58683d71f27737743729ad1958cfaa10a54f591bd7d86aff24696ed181b3f322b6cf0b4029233af9127d46e530cf89bc18e7878a7e68c4d0b8028e39d6cdfdc4590c5132947e095b7e6a24d0a23cf122c8d99969d871de5d0582739919add6527733a230c54ce18900e99f652c2e4ae41580390000000000000020dc8340f8409dbea568a7f7e19520517fb683138bf84f9d4d9d4fda1a168fb08e926b3de8ac70f627fd08ee4f56e50cb9"}}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:155", "title": "Atom: Fundamentally changing how science is funded", "logoImg": "bafkreid3mqm2mivdgt5xnhnwceng6c3stkb6uiudmemvzwvfidkmetyja4", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiadotcchps3u4zuk7zwxetqha3q2hxh7ea4zcaanqng5hdxktilju", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://atomprotocol.xyz", "bannerImg": "bafkreidrasdi5x5kbitrv6s7xhyssavybhvvm445wtbd6q5xf3vhakelzy", "createdAt": 1681855856620, "userGithub": "tomerds", "credentials": {}, "description": "\n\n\n![The future with Atom](https://atomxyz.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/bg.png)\n\n# **TLDR:** Atom is building the financial infrastructure for DeSci \u26d3\ufe0f\ud83e\uddea\n\n## **Description**\n\nAtom aims to accelerate scientific research by **revolutionizing todays funding mechanisms for basic research**. The current system of funding research is often biased, opaque, and inefficient with regards to allocating funds. Atom is building a platform utilizing quadratic funding and other blockchain powered models to identify and fund the most impactful early stage research projects.\n\n## **Vision**\n\nNew funding models can align incentives around open, collaborative science. Atom is building the **financial infrastructure for the DeSci movement** to reignite the pursuit for knowledge, which has dwindled in the last 50 years.\n\n## **Problem**\n![The problem](https://atomxyz.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/problem.png)\n\nNearly $800 billion dollars was allocated to R&D in the US last year. With innovation per dollar falling across many fields in science, researchers spending up to 50% of their time on grants applications, and decisions being made by small, biased and opaque groups **the scientific funding landscape is seriously broken.** Funding is inefficiently allocated in favour of established risk-averse researchers instead of young innovative scientists leading to stifled innovation in early stage research and beyond.\n\nCurrent DeSci funding solutions rely heavily on the promise of commercialising IP to incentivise participation but this can leave essential explorative research with unclear outcomes under-funded. Furthermore there is a large negative sentiment toward crypto amongst academic communities so leading with a web3 first approach is an uphill battle. Lastly, as evidenced by the Gitcoin DeSci round criteria rightly restricting purely academic projects from applying due to limited ability to qualify valid projects there is a need and demand for a ***Gitcoin for Science***.\n\n\n## **Solution**\n\nAtom is building a space for our DeSci community to begin engaging with TradSci through funding.\n\nWe have begun work to develop a single hub for all academic grants. Atom is building an AI-driven grant matching system, used to onboard and connect researchers with relevant traditional funding opportunities, **streamlining the grant application process** and allowing researchers to focus on their work. This is used to validate researchers and projects for our DeSci grants.\n\n![Atoms solution](https://atomxyz.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/atom.png)\n\nThe **web3 grants stack will utilise quadratic funding** to ensure that research projects with widespread support receive the necessary resources, free from bias and red tape typically associated with traditional funding sources. We have a pipeline of NFT drops planned, in collaboration with leading scientific figures, to help generate funds for matching pools while raising awareness for crucial research projects.\n\n## **Team**\n![Team photo](https://atomxyz.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/team+photo.png)\n\nAs **former scientists who transitioned from research into web3**, DeSci falls the intersection of our passions.\n\n**[Tomer du Sautoy](https://twitter.com/tomerdusautoy) (CEO)**: Tomer obtained a Masters in physics, going on to lead the blockchain team at an early-stage web3 startup, helping to scale their revenue by 100x in a year while onboarding traditional artists into web3.\n\n**[Hamilton Evans](https://twitter.com/hamevs) (CTO)**: After launching a sellout NFT project while pursuing his chemistry PhD at Caltech, Hamilton dropped out with a Masters to join a web3 startup. There he lead the development team, writing smart contracts responsible for over 50 thousand unique mints.\n\n\n## **Roadmap**\n\n1. Secure key partnerships (completed)\n2. Prototyping TradSci grant discovery and management platform (In progress)\n3.  Build TradSci platform v0\n4.  Closed beta launch\n5.  Onboard first academic institutions\n6.  Integrate with Gitcoin\u2019s Allo Protocol\n7.  NFT drop with leading public scientist to raise initial matching pool funds\n8.  Finish raising funds for Atoms alpha round\n9.  Launch alpha QF round\n10.  Open launch\n\n\u2026 and so much more to come!\n\n## **Funds**\n\nThe proceeds from this grant will go toward **accelerating the web3 efforts on our roadmap**. With extra funding we will be able to bring forward the development of our initial funding drops, protocol integration and bring on support to help source matching pool funding and grant validation.\n\n\n![Fund PG](https://atomxyz.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/meme.jpg)\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "atomxyz", "projectTwitter": "atomprotocol_"}, "recipient": "0xAc57700dF06F5F0F68f76cF391daf1d0898142A4"}}