Modern science is structurally dependent on centralized funding bodies—primarily governments, large foundations, and corporate R&D divisions. While this model enabled 20th-century breakthroughs, it is increasingly misaligned with the incentives, speed, […]
How Are DAOs Used to Fund Research?
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are emerging as alternative funding rails for scientific research. By leveraging blockchain infrastructure, tokenized governance, and smart contracts, DAOs enable distributed communities to allocate capital without […]
What Is a Science DAO? A Precise Introduction to Decentralized Research Governance
A Science DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization for science) is a blockchain-native coordination structure designed to fund, govern, and advance scientific research without relying on traditional centralized institutions such as universities, […]
What Is Decentralized Science (DeSci)?
Decentralized Science (DeSci) is a movement that applies blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and decentralized governance to the research lifecycle. Its objective is structural: reduce gatekeeping, increase transparency, and realign incentives […]
How has a sophism in the definition of egalitarianism broken world morality?
The traditional definition of egalitarianism has a sophism in it. It blurs understanding of legal crime vs moral crime, making people unable to understand: God judges not only action but […]
Scientific Publication Crisis: Overpublication or Underpublication?
The modern scientific publishing system is widely described as being in crisis. However, this crisis is often mischaracterized as a single problem when in reality it consists of two structurally […]
Science DAO vs Traditional Funding
Science DAO, unlike traditional research funding, provides flexible, transparent, and quick funding, not limited to science degree holders. Traditional funding Science DAO opaque review process: Universities, grant committees, science ministries […]
Why does blockchain improve research funding?
Science DAO uses blockchain for decentralized, transparent funding for anyone who published some research or software.
How does World Science DAO fund research on-chain?
World Science DAO’s AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) project works in the following way: See for more detail:
About AI Internet-Meritocracy in 2026
AI Internet-Meritocracy is our flagship project to fund science and free and open source software by measurable merit, not gatekeeping. We build software that evaluates a researcher or developer’s contributions […]
