DeSciWorld

Originally named "DeSciDAO", DeSciWorld began as an idea to bring research funding onchain through Peer-to-Peer (P2P) infrastructure. The core product design was to connect researchers and funders permissionlessly, even anonymously, to facilitate science that might disagree with official narratives.

However, it soon became clear that:

a) the DeSci ecosystem was not large or influential enough to facilitate meaningful capital inflows for research;

b) the nascient DeSci ecosystem was actually quite deep, yet was not doing a good job of advertising itself to the rest of the crypto ecosystem (we had never heard of "DeSci" until a few days after launching this protocol).

As such, DeSciDAO pivoted to become DeSciWorld.

The objective shifted from creating a P2P funding platform to something much larger and more ambitious in scope: to become the global hub of DeSci, to use our platform to improve participation in this ecosystem, to provide outreach and web3 mechanism design assistance to other projects and generally to become a cultural vehicle for change within academia.

Together, these initiatives present an innovative platform to reshape the landscape of scientific research and how it is funded.