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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**Problem Statement**\n\nWe all want Decentralized Science adoption \u2013 to liberate Science from misaligned incentives and proliferate beyond the confines of institutional laboratories - but the question is: **how do we effect such outcomes**, ***mechanistically***? \n\n***How does the Scientific Process, Discovery of Truth, and the Application of Insights come to align itself with the Public Good?*** \n\nNavigating in this direction, one may arrive at the Science of Economics which invites debates around Money, Philosophy, or the Organization of Society/Civilization. *Who should govern the issuance of Money? How should it enter circulation? How should it be allocated? What should it finance?* Confronting fundamental premises of this ilk, it is likely that computer scientists & Cypherpunks were driven to congregate behind the identity of a Satoshi Nakamoto to deliver an answer: Bitcoin\n\nBitcoin was followed by Ethereum, then came ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), then Decentralized Finance, and now we have a Cambrian explosion in Decentralized ___________ (enter sector in need of decentralization).\n\nIt\u2019s important we recount this sequence of events because ***\u201cuntil we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life and we will call it fate,\u201d*** wrote Carl Jung (paraphrased).\n\nThat is to say despite groundbreaking developments, **Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash remained elusive.** \n\nNo doubt, Bitcoin & Ethereum are core web3 primitives - they introduced Peer-to-Peer Exchange of Value and Peer-to-Peer Settlement of Agreements (Smart Contract Execution), respectively. However, Bitcoin has been widely adopted as a ***Store of Value*** commodity, while Ethereum is ubiquitously deployed as a ***Medium of Exchange*** for Value (e.g., Liquidity Pools, Liquid Staking Derivatives, etc.). Sure, they are commodity monies \u2013 BUT, **they are not Money in the strictest sense.** They do not store or retain value over the short-term, and neither do stablecoins as they are susceptible to de-pegs and relentless erosion of Purchasing Power through monetary debasement + inflation.\n\nThis is crucial because Money cannot be a ***\u201cWheel that makes the World go around\u201d*** if it is vulnerable in this way, nor can it break due to de-pegs (e.g., UST-LUNA cascading liquidations precipitating widespread defaults). We need Money to reliably stabilize value in a peer-to-peer manner with high fidelity, especially now that we have scaling solutions to onboard the next wave of users. \n\nIn order to promote adoption of Decentralized Science, mechanistically, we require P2P Electronic Cash. ***This will enable us to denominate stable contracts; and fundamentally, to restore the scarcest resource in our world today*** \u2013 **Trust.**\n\nFor Decentralized Science to serve the Public Good, **Trust is prerequisite.**\n\n\n**Solution**\n\nFortunately, Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash is no longer elusive. And the protocol that outputs this innovative monetary instrument is at the Heart of the Archimedes\u2019 Lever:\n\nThis is the **AMPL-SPOT Protocol.**\n\nWe intend to foster its growth by driving utility through integrations with DeSci & Healthcare (DePsi; Decentralized Psychiatry) related hybrid applications that bridge Onchain & Offchain worlds. Such a bridge can be forged if, for example, scientific data acquisition were to become \u201cmine-able\u201d or \u201cstake-able\u201d similar to how Ethereum staking is reimbursed in exchange for security provision. Moreover, this can be coupled with mental healthcare encounters that facilitate the generation of such valuable data so that Patient-Physician interactions can be \u201cmined\u201d or \u201cstaked;\u201d e.g., administration of Neuromodulation therapies in outpatient settings.\n\nNecessarily, this will come to fruition in a stepwise fashion as other components of the web3 stack mature in tandem (e.g., data availability layers; cross-chain anti-fragmentation of liquidity; sufficient decentralization of layer 2 sequencers, to name a few). ***One such component is DeFi/web3\u2019s 3rd Primitive:***\n\n**Unit of Account \u2013 AMPL.**\n\n***We believe this demands our collective attention at this time.***\n\nAn important insight gleaned from the Neuroscience of Ethereum is that the decentralized network appears to be modelling itself after the Nervous System, and so the behavior of Digital Assets is optimized by modelling Neurotransmitters (either that, or this is one monumental co-incidence). Neurotransmitters are Supply-Elastic by design, because this configuration enables the Nervous System to minimize its Free Energy (Entropy) within the Active Inference framework. Consequently, Elastic Decentralized Finance innovations (e.g., AMPL-SPOT Protocol) are poised to upgrade Ethereum & web3 towards a more optimal steady state.\n\nInstead of *\u201cif you don\u2019t believe me or don\u2019t get it, I don\u2019t have the time to try to convince you, sorry\u201d* (to quote Satoshi; an understandable response in July 2010), actively raising awareness helps us all to minimize valuable time required for Consensus to emerge around this inevitability. Subsequently, with sound accounting & unbreakable contracts finally available at scale, DeSci projects can be adequately financed and responsibly governed. \n\nBy leveraging Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash as a coordination tool, Archimedes\u2019 Lever will seamlessly facilitate the clinical applications & scientific research of Neuromodulation therapies.\n\n\n**Tentative Roadmap, Timeline, and Implementation**\n\nPresent \u2013 Q3 \u201924: \n-\tAMPL-SPOT Protocol & Elastic DeFi mature, as does our collective understanding\n-\tArchimedes\u2019 Lever grows to become better capitalized, feasibly facilitating acquisition of EEG equipment at qualifying outpatient mental health clinics\n-\tDeSci/web3 community building with scientists & physicians\n\nQ4 \u2013 Q1 \u201925: \n-\tDeSci is to TradSci, as Psych3 is to web3 --> **Psych3 whitepaper** \n-\tSmart Contract engineering & Hybrid Application development to interface with web3 (through Ethereum Attestation Service, for instance)\n\nQ2 \u2013 Q3 \u201925:\n-\tHybrid Applications facilitate peer-to-peer verification, tokenization, & monetization (\u201cmining\u201d & \u201cstaking\u201d) of mental healthcare encounters with high fidelity\n\nQ4 \u201925 or sooner:\n-\t\u201cProof-of-Stimulation/Neuromodulation\u201d is validated\n-\tScale\n", "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": "The most viewed video on Models of the World YouTube channel is \u201cNature of Money\u201d (https://youtu.be/V_5HDFMUH4A?si=iotSiKbAREZYdrnG). This video outlines the characteristics that make a good Money. \n\nActive Inference & Neuroscience of Ethereum helped us to see how systems attain stability by minimizing free energy. Particularly, we see how free energy (uncertainty & price volatility) can be reshuffled systemically so that risk is priced transparently for market participants.\n\nIn other words, we go from Nature (or Philosophy) of Money to Science of Money. This aligns with Open Science and encourages DeSci projects to adopt novel engineering & design principles.\n\nPerhaps most directly, this project grants our DeSci community participation in the governance of this protocol to promote growth and advancement of the DeSci sector.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Funds will be deployed to accomplish everything mentioned above. We emphasize the urgency of these directives because translation of scientific findings into practice is thoroughly compromised, and access to + quality of mental health interventions generally is dismal.\n\nHow this drives paradigmatic change for science is best left open to discourse, and we wholeheartedly welcome.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "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": "Groundwork has been laid Onchain. A longer term roadmap has been conceptualized.", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past DeSci grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "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? (or anything not covered elsewhere in this application that you feel is relevant to share)", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "dropdown", "hidden": false, "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": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Please read the following exclusion criteria that are not permitted and will result in rejection or removal from the round.", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "0xfaacde07d8d67485edc29340d6cc8195d838ced25e17b33642dd1b63cafcb4b4", "title": "Archimedes' Lever", "logoImg": "bafkreigd5llnfwtulb6ozpc4gsq4myksau33dzhplulhvbtdt274sajyfy", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreibzwn6numfs4yp3rpt4v43totamt6fy44axx6tpnhbe44udmuxm3q", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://bhau.gitbook.io/archimedes-lever-1/", "bannerImg": "bafybeiecttzs5xziza2ag6xqcp36ussb2y7isuelwslyqjtncubadiiaci", "createdAt": 1680462703307, "userGithub": "jagtapper", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..fltzC9u1ByEf4NtBH-rxuOGdeIzd_HuVJDnCMtm1D2mAk5TxcXuHTl7o3tv0ozWqfAMcGaOsca6Wt2Fx-HhKDw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-08T20:39:07.177Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-08T20:39:07.177Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-06T20:39:07.177Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xa29FDDEc9C36BDD680D3f5867735ff8949a7F15D", "hash": "v0.0.0:G/pke0GavXIgoWMPyyXCXiRJ2JouJdhCa0ZHiIzDUyo=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#Bhau_jagmd"}}}, "description": "The Archimedes\u2019 Lever is a living image & roadmap designed to create value for End Users (off-chain citizens) by leveraging the web3 stack. This project intends to revive the Spirit of Science by directing it towards the intended purpose of the Scientific Process: \n\nDiscovery of Truth and Advancement of Humanity.\n\nSpecifically, the Archimedes\u2019 Lever streamlines operations across various web3 sectors (DeFi, DeSci, DeID, so forth) to incentivize well-being and good health for End Users. In pursuit of this aim, the Archimedes\u2019 Lever will also integrate Neuromodulation therapies (e.g., Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/TMS) onto web3.\n\nIn summary then, the Archimedes\u2019 Lever is a system being designed to convert life-transforming (mental) health services into Public Good.\n\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Archimedes' Lever developed from the Neuroscience of Ethereum (https://tinyurl.com/8m5jhmjc) during the inaugural Gitcoin Grants Decentralized Science #DeSci Round. Within the Free Energy Principle/Active Inference framework, the Archimedes\u2019 Lever is a cybernetic Model of the World - a metaphor to help us make sense of web3. From a psychological perspective, the Archimedes\u2019 Lever is a vision - a projection - for a prosperous future. When the Individual & Collective Psyche encounter something that appeals viscerally to a diverse audience, the unifying common denominator lies deep under the surface and beyond the apparent. Therefore, each Element symbolizes key financial primitives in addition to the various layers of meaning that are associated with them. The themes are so far ranging that they touch upon Mythology and also the Archetypes of Order itself (motivated through Anime, this is the origin story that began to write itself when VB shared his thoughts on the 5 Ethereum dapps that need development): https://tinyurl.com/bdebdy6a\n\nGuild: https://guild.xyz/archimedes-lever\nLens: https://hey.xyz/u/archimedeslever\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/Arch1med3sl3v3r\nSubstack: https://arch1med3sl3v3r.substack.com/\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "Arch1med3sl3v3r"}, "recipient": "0xc4450c8d1009160883e44f24d66d92436ae4B4C5"}}