{"signature": "0xa5085093cb4923599ccfd326a001b76efec0d3fe5d57d587213246b93d4b9c8044f98ee069b627f254eb8a9bedf1b37129211c5ae0d400a980ebbd6a3e0a49001b", "application": {"round": "0x0c0412ddb846096ea1e37de717921ebf4fef9a39", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "l5OGj4yQL57galRoIe/NWHBuR+pmhU0FSYVTZ2tTbkfsV9FEPsFx9Sm+VZ3U84kp", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "18959f6c9cdb53699923829b9e07e8560e16d6bf3d22f3b2bf90058ea63faa037a76c462809ce14043d5e588a5f21b12d93fe2780988114436b30a0f1da3c634a4fa8d420d1caab69e79e92763d819b88cb42e8921e019fbab0e132672f63ead20fc168258443442d79a6af422449d00069f2577c77b3433fb2db9b331809225000000000000002085bb1afcb6800faa53ee5cd17f893090204e4a1d3fbf738b50c7ae4372ea0360f377f0ce9291aa9acfacbda5fda4d4a6"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Gitcoin GR15 4k, Beta Round 2k, GG20 2.8k, AuraSci Nexus Grant 1.5k", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "2", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@Maria_Goreti_Freitas", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram username", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "10.3k", "hidden": true, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Maria Goreti Freitas https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-goreti-freitas-phd-68a27738/\nDanilo Melo  https://www.linkedin.com/in/danilo-melo-bb8586202/", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "22 months", "hidden": true, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Problem\nIn the scientific publication industry, authors (scientists, professionals and, scholars), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for science journals. Authors: 1) pay for publishing, 2) pay for open access and moreover, 3) have their copyright expropriated. Universities and Research Institutions pay shockingly high annual subscription fees so that alumni and staff have access to journals.\nScientific publishing houses and science journals have outrageously high publication fees. These fees range from 2 to 6k USD for 1 paper, some charge 10k-15 USD/ paper. Open access is another 2-4k USD. Currently, it is right to say that the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. \nPaying attention only to their profits, legacy scientific journals: \n•\tact as filters to what they believe is high quality research worth publishing, \n•\tuse high rejection rates which are uncoupled from merit, significance, and quality, \n•\ttake a long time from submission to publishing, \n•\tundermine the expectations of the scientific community and the development of the human society. \n## Solution \n**A decentralized scientific publishing platform**\nBy creating a scientific publications platform called The DeSci Journals which will empower collaborative creation of scientific publications, leveraging web3 principles and technologies, through their platform's digital cooperative model. These communities and their peer-reviewed publications will maintain 100% of their copyrights, share gains and monetize the work of their highly skilled content creators, such as scientists, and technical professionals. \n## Roadmap \n1.\t**Login with wallet** and social login besides email login in version 3 (v3).\n1.\t**NFT paper Minting (v3)**. Develop and mint scientific papers as NFTs for the Journals within The DeSci Journals platform, creating a dynamic and market-ready repository.\n1.\t**Marketing efforts** (v3). Events, talks, in-person visits, paid and boosted content for onboarding individuals and communities.\n1.\t**Smart Contracts Development (v4)**. Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate percentage royalties into the submission and peer-review workflow (payment for editors, reviewers, designers). \n1.\tValidate the **peer-review distribution payment** process (v4).\n1.\tIntegrate **digital currencies payments** (v4).\n1.\tStudy and implement **tokenomics for the $desci tokens** (v5).\n1.\tAnalyze and check on the possibility for the acceptance of **other communities’ tokens** and insert this analysis in the deScier tokenomics (v5).\n1.\t**Smart Contracts Audit** (v6). Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs.\n1.\t**Marketplace Development (v6) –** Develop a NFT paper marketplace as secondary market.\n1.\t**App for Online Manuscript Submission (v7) –** Implement a mobile application for online manuscript submission, streamlining the publication process.\n\n## Timeline\nWe expect funding to be able to cover expenses for v3 and v4. This is the expected timeline coupled with successful funding:\n1.\tSeptember 2024 - November 2024 (Month 1 to 3 after receiving funds). **Login** with wallet or social login (v3).\n1.\tDecember 2024 - February 2024. **NFT paper Minting** (v3) – Develop and mint scientific papers as NFTs for the Journals within The DeSci Journals platform, creating a dynamic and market-ready repository.\n1.\tSeptember 2024 – July 2025. **Marketing efforts** - Events, talks, in-person visits, paid and boosted content for onboarding individuals and communities (v3).\n1.\tMarch 2025 – June 2025. **Smart Contracts Development (v4)**- Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate **percentage royalties** into the submission and peer-review workflow.\n1.\tMarch 2025 – June 2025. **Integrate digital currencies payments (v4)**.\n1.\tMay 2025 – July 2025. **Study and implement tokenomics for the $desci tokens (v5)**.\n1.\tMay 2025 – July 2025 - Analyze and check on the possibility for the **acceptance of other communities’ tokens** and insert this analysis in the deScier tokenomics (v5)**.\n1.\tAugust 2025 - Smart Contracts Audit (v5) – Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs. ", "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 DeSci Journals are directly contributing to the advancement of the DeSci movement, by challenging the scientific publishing status quo and current industry by providing a solution which empowers scientists and scholars to retain copyright, share knowledge, and benefit financially. \nThe DeSci Journals is open to communities worldwide. We embrace diversity in inclusivity by the very permissionless nature of our submission process for both papers and journals. Underserved communities and new areas of scientific knowledge will have a home in our platform.\nThe DeSci Journals is grounded in its advanced development stage, currently transitioning from version 1 to v2. The DeSci Journals have strong goals aligned with the DeSci movement, and their founders and advisers are world-class experts on publishing, business development, community and crypto economy. By choosing The DeSci Journals as a publishing platform communities will be positioned at the intersection of cutting-edge features (e.g. % of authorship for their DAOs, 100% maintenance of author’s copyright, papers as NFTs, secondary market formation) and formal scientific discourse. By collaborating with The DeSci Journals, communities will not only capitalize on its technical merits but also tap into a flourishing ecosystem that aligns with a broader vision for the future of scientific communication.\n*We seek to revolutionize scientific publishing, bridging technology, knowledge sharing, and financial incentives for a transformative impact.*\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Expenses will be disbursed through the auditable platform deWork.\nDevelopment ~70%\nOperational and travel expenses ~20%\nCommunications and marketing ~10%", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "GR15 payout wallet address 0xBcF043c725e02c4B7211DB8878A1Fb0ff1b1349F\nBeta round ETH wallet was eth:0x51b3d4E44193573Ca62bC793c411e5D743AF053d", "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": "1.\tDeveloped and deployed The DeSci Journals (plural) v2 https://platform.desci.reviews for submission of papers and new journals. This platform has onboarded communities in new areas of knowledge (such as Legal Engineering) and communities struggling to locate suitable venues for publishing their work (such as biohackers, capstone works and frontier biotech research communities in Latin America).\n1.\tThe DeSci Journals v2 with 4 articles published by July 10th, 2024.\n1.\tProject selected and onboarded on AuraSci web3 accelerator June 19th 2024 https://x.com/aura_sci/status/1803511997012779141?s=12 and https://aurasci.notion.site/Nexus-Grant-Program-Winners-Project-4297321ca4274080ba9007a070f9fac1 \n1.\tCreated and launched the TCC Journal during our participation in the Tech Girls stage at the Campus Party Brazil 2024 July 10th, 2024 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9P4wdTRllL/?igsh=MTNiZmo1Nmhod3p3dw==\n1.\tOrganized and executed the event Decentralized Arts & Science | DeSci Americas 2024 Venue: Meta Gallery, Rua da Assembleia 40, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: July 23, 2024 Time: 15:00h. LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-goreti-freitas-phd-68a27738_desci-activity-7221576911456509952-a5Od? Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qkEomJrGf/?igsh=dTQ3MGpzd2F2eHM=", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "I am an Operator, part of the DeSci Round Ops Team for GG21.", "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? 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Industry standard is zero %.\n\n1.\tUse a 1-page with simple and straightforward submission flow for both articles (https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-document) and journals (recently developed and deployed in version 2, https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-journal) which is a new much simpler feature when compared to pages long used in traditional scientific journals. We made adding wallets optional.\n\n1.\tHave introduced features such as the percentage of authorship, which can include, not only individual authors, but also laboratories, institutions and DAOs.\n\n1.\tGive the choice to Authors to choose whether open access or paid access with funds going directly to the Author’s wallet.\n\n1. 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