What is Scienceroot Project?

Scienceroot is a blockchain based platform that seeks to improve the scientific and research community by creating an ecosystem whereby scientific community members all around the world can gather funds, interact with one another, share and discuss their research ideas, collaborate with one another and eventually publish their research work on the efficient, intuitive and transparent platform.

Scienceroot aims to improve the scientific and research community using blockchain technology. The goal is to create an ecosystem where anyone in the scientific community around the globe will have the ability to gather funding, interact, discuss research ideas, collaborate and in the end, publish their work through a more efficient, open and transparent platform. Our scientific ecosystem will be powered by its own unique currency called Science Token (ST), which will be used to exchange funds, store articles on the blockchain, crowdfund scientific ideas, exchange services through our scientific marketplace and reward parties involved. Scienceroot will integrate all the critical functionalities needed by researchers, scientists and academics, making their day to day lives easier and allowing them to focus on maximizing their impact in the scientific world.

Scienceroot Platforms:
Scienceroot Collaboration

The first part of the ecosystem will be the blockchain-based collaboration platform where scientists, researchers and academics will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with colleagues, peers, co-authors and specialists in their field. Furthermore, it will offer the possibility to ask questions, get answers and find solutions to research problems. By integrating the blockchain and the IPFS (Interplanetary File System) 1 as the underlying technology we are creating a decentralized open access collaboration platform with a unique currency to be used by users worldwide. For example, users will have the possibility to post a research problem or tip a helping colleague; by enforcing them with smart contracts we can guarantee that everyone keeps up at their end.

Scienceroot Funding and Jobs:

The second part will be the blockchain-based funding and job platform. Our target is to create a centralized portal that offers a wide list of grants from all around the world. The portal will be open to all registered users searching for national or international funding opportunities and organizations looking to recruit or market their grants to a national and international audience. This will enable scientists, researchers, and academics to more effeciently find a suitable funding option thus allowing them to focus on the scientific application itself rather than on funding details. The offered funds will be in fiat currency and our currency Science Token, while the decision on awarding them will remain with the offering organization.

Scienceroot publishing framework and journal:

While nowadays access to scientific information is being restricted due to the policy of the publishers, be it the price for accessing an article, or the rejection of papers obtaining null hypotheses, we are aiming to create a decentralized publishing framework, where scientific information may be freely shared among all beneficiaries. We believe that the liberalization of science through a decentralized publishing framework approach will boost the advancement in science in an unprecedented way. Managing to overcome the current paradigm will not only allow people to access scientific articles, allowing them to take more informed decisions based on scientific discoveries, but it will also enable scientists to have a more comprehensive overview on studies related to their work (i.e. published replication studies; published papers where the null hypothesis is not rejected). In our opinion, the first step in generating such a paradigm shift, will be through the creation of a decentralized scientific journal, where scientists may publish their results in an open access manner. We will welcome new companies which want to adopt blockchain into their platforms and will have the possibility to do this within the ecosystem. Already existing journals will have the possibility to integrate our decentralized publishing framework into their existing business models.

How does Scienceroot Work?
Through the Scientific Collaboration Network, users can connect with fellow peers and share their research work. They can also team up with other users and share ideas that can help them create their own science repository. Besides collaboration, users can join the incentivized Q&A forum and decentralized scientific marketplace where they can use their expertise to benefit other users and earn rewards in form of ST tokens.

The platform is equipped with a research portal that enables graduate students who might need a PhD position or a job and users who require funds for the research work to access international research grants, jobs in the world of science and funding opportunities. There is also a blockchain funding mechanism where the users could submit their proposals to the power of the crowd.

Scienceroot has a publishing platform that records all submission on the decentralized blockchain network. The platform will enable members of both the scientific and non-scientific community to publish their failed hypothesis or negative results. In doing so, other researchers can work on the hypothesis from a different perspective which will save a lot of time and resources.

The Science Token powers the whole ecosystem. The token is exchangeable at anytime and anywhere in the world. This simplifies the process investing in science in order to promote it. The tokens will has various use cases such as: accepted payment method for exchange of scientific services, contributing to projects and storing content on the blockchain network.

Scienceroot Benefits:
The target of current journals is to publish only successful and interesting papers that drive scientific discoveries forward. This leads to the scenario where wrong hypotheses and negative results are not being published even though failure is part of scientific research. Keeping away valuable information from other researchers, leads to work duplication and waste of resources and time. In many cases, the results published can not be reproduced and concern over the reliability of the scientific reports has been growing for some time.

Scienceroot propose a new way of scientific conduct. Results should be made available if the method pursued is a novelty, regardless of the outcome. Every author should 12 carefully document their progress so it can be traced and reproduced by other peers. However, the decision to make it publicly available should stay with the author until the time of publication. Researchers could be able to “blockchainify” their data and timestamp their progress. This way they would create a transparent repository of their work, which can be shared with other peers and made public in the event of publishing a scientific report. The functionalities will be similar to those of Github but for scientific discoveries. You can contribute, comment and fork a repository. The scientific repository will complement the material submitted to a journal. Fellow peers will be able to track, reproduce and confirm the experiments if need be. Having the data timestamped on an immutable ledger will also rule out the possibility of information theft.

Scienceroot will encourage scientists to publish negative results so other involved parties can pick off where they left off or maybe just start over from a different angle. It will improve the collaboration between researchers, remove the waste of resources and time, and create a transparent and efficient scientific community.

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Token Sales Detail:
Within the Scienceroot ecosystem, Science Tokens (ST) will be used by our members to gather funding, exchange tokens for services, publish articles, tip authors and store content. There will be a limited supply of 500.000.000 Science Tokens. No further tokens will ever be created after the initial token offering. During the Token Generation Event 300.000.000 ST will be sold, yet 400.000.000 are destined for public use.

Science Tokens are based on the Waves blockchain platform. Waves uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. This means that the Tokens you own (or that have been leased to you) reflect your mining power. The more you own, the higher the chances of processing transaction blocks, and receiving transaction fees as a reward. Essentially it’s a form of interest on your balance. In comparison to the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm, which requires mining with expensive hardware, the PoS consensus is more energy efficient and only requires masternodes6 to validate transactions.

Token: ST

Price: 1 ST = 0.04 EUR

Bonus: Available

Bounty: Available

MVP/Prototype: Available

Platform: Waves

Accepting: ETH, BTC, LTC, ZEC

Minimum: investment 100 EUR

Hard cap: 500,000 EUR

Country: Romania

Whitelist/KYC: KYC

Restricted areas: USA, Ecuador, China, Bangladesh, India