We are revolutionizing science funding and publishing through decentralized governance, ensuring critical basic research is supported and made accessible.
We are revolutionizing science funding and publishing through decentralized governance, ensuring critical basic research is supported and made accessible.
DeSci, short for Decentralized Science, is a movement that applies blockchain and Web3 technologies to scientific research and publishing. Its goal is to make science more open, transparent, and collaborative by reducing the control of traditional institutions over funding, peer review, and access to data.
Blockchain ensures transparency, security, and decentralization by recording data on an immutable public ledger. It enables trust without intermediaries, automates transactions through smart contracts, and provides global, tamper-proof access—making systems more efficient and fair.
The article argues that blockchain is more than a financial tool: it is an ethical invention that makes promises visible and verifiable by encoding agreements into immutable, transparent processes. This shifts trust from individuals to trustworthy processes and enables new forms of structural virtue. Read more.
Blockchain records commitments and data on a transparent ledger where the code enforces fidelity, reducing reliance on personal reputation or virtue and instead making honesty programmable through process. Learn more.
Blockchain can act as a universal, immutable library of verified research and experimental records so discoveries are not lost, hidden, or falsified, improving reproducibility and long-term knowledge preservation. More details.
‘Code = Covenant’ means that blockchain contracts are modern covenants: mathematical, immutable promises recorded in code rather than fragile paper, making justice a property of structure rather than only aspiration. Learn more.
Structural virtue refers to fairness and ethical behavior enforced by system design (rules, code, transparent ledgers) rather than relying solely on individual moral character. Blockchain enables structural virtue by embedding norms into processes. More info.
Blockchains can monitor and verify carbon commitments in real time, track emissions or offsets, and automatically reward verified environmental actions rather than just declarations. See the article for context.
By contributing to blockchain projects focused on science, ethics, and education; joining decentralized communities that prioritize transparency; and supporting organizations like Science DAO through donations. Get involved.
Yes—by automating power distribution and encoding rules into smart contracts, blockchain can make dishonest manipulation more difficult and reduce opportunities for corruption by design. Further explanation.
You can donate to Science DAO to help build moral and scientific infrastructure, join their projects or communities, and contribute expertise to blockchain initiatives that prioritize openness and cooperation.
“Fully on-chain” means that all data, logic, and assets of a project or application are stored and executed directly on the blockchain—not on external servers. This ensures maximum transparency, permanence, and decentralization, since everything runs under blockchain rules without relying on third-party systems.
It is planned to use fully on-chain for our money distribution projects.