- SciWard or just Meritocracy. A web app that automatically (using AI users’ worth assessments) distributes money between science or open source authors.
- Coveries. Scientific discoveries that are underrepresented, slowing down the global development.
- Scientific publication crisis. When good research works receive little publicity: underpublication or overpublication.
- Science marketers. People or entities that market (especially underrepresented) science, paid from SciWard – a new, emerging occupation.
- Onchain. Something happening (securely) inside a blockchain.
- DAO. Decentralized Autonomous Organization. An onchain organization controlled by blockchain voting.
- the science-funding initiative. The (planned) DAO, that will govern SciWard and other projects.
- Victor Porton’s Foundation. A charity nonprofit that hosts this site and takes donations for the science-funding initiative.
- SciWard Treaty. A (draft) international organization treaty for usage of SciWard, welcoming all the governments to join. Joining the treaty is not a requirement for using SciWard by a government.
- Global fund. The crypto wallets from which any registered user from any country (with exceptions like North Korea) can receive salary.
- National fund or country-specific fund. The crypto wallets from which salaries can be paid only to citizens of a certain country.
Help Turn SciWard’s Beta into Evidence
SciWard remains experimental. The next proposed milestone is a five-month public adversarial test, with $1,000 planned for distribution to eligible funding recipients. Donations support the work required to run and evaluate that test.
Fund the public test → Test proposal → Independent review →
AI-generated evaluations can contain factual errors or biases. Public testing, auditability, and external criticism remain part of the project.