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We have received well over 100 individual contributions, which allowed us to raise almost $10,000 thanks to the magic \ud83d\udd2e of quadratic funding \ud83d\udca1\ud83d\udcb0\ud83d\udcc8! As a result of your generosity, we have been able to put your contributions to good use, including:\n\nGR Alpha\n\ud83c\udfc1 Bring us across the finish line to complete alpha for our MVP of SciFi, our science funding dapp. \n\nGR15\n\u2696\ufe0f Raise grant funds for legal and regulatory due diligence with our newly-retained attorney, Carlos Garcia-Aguilar of Web3 Lawyers.\n\n\ud83d\udcbb Continuing development of our MVP for launch, scientist/investor onboarding, and an intensive go-to-market campaign.\n\nGR14\n\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Continued full stack engineering efforts on the SciFi dapp.\n\n\ud83c\udfa8 Professional design of various parts of our decentralized crowdfunding dapp for the sciences, \"SciFi\".\n\nGR13 \n\ud83d\udce3 Evangelizing decentralized science as the only \"DeSci\" featured startup as an Alpha and Impact Startup at Collision 2022 in Toronto. Collision has been described as \"The Olympics of Tech\" (Politico), and is the largest, and arguably most important, tech conference in North America. We had an important opportunity to educate the media, other entrepreneurs, and investors on the importance of decentralized science, DLT, and Web3.\n \n\nProgress\n\n\ud83d\ude80 We will launch the alpha version of SciFi in May 2023 (hopefully, ha). Check out our prototype below and join our waitlist if you\u2019re interested in funding or raising for life sciences research (https://forms.gle/Ubq3Dvp4LcWVdi4YA). \n\nDesktop Prototype \ud83d\udee0\ufe0f\ud83e\uddea: https://www.figma.com/proto/Xp0VTnhQTyfgvXGi72kFhm/SciFi-MVP?page-id=565%3A16513&node-id=1751-35986&viewport=-5641%2C-2079%2C0.29&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=1751%3A35986\n\n\nNext Steps\n\n\ud83d\udcdc\ud83d\udd17 \ud83d\udd10 SCINET will soon launch the first IP NFT on the Internet Computer and store all IP-related files in a secure, decentralized manner, on-chain.\n\ud83d\udecd\ufe0f\ud83c\udfaf G2M to build our user base for SciFi \ud83d\udd2c\ud83d\udcb0, including funders and life sciences researchers. \n\ud83d\udda5\ufe0f\ud83e\uddea Continue product research, market validation, and design of RnDNA, our digital R&D lab. \n\n\nVision \n\nImagine a world where groundbreaking medical discoveries happen in months instead of decades, where biotech innovations improve the quality of life for everyone in our lifetime, and where science unlocks the potential to solve the planet's problems. At SCINET, we believe that world is not only possible but critical for our survival and growth. However, outdated systems continue to hinder scientific progress, causing decades of delays. That's why we're building a revolutionary ecosystem for life sciences research.\n\n\nIntroduction\n\nWe are on a mission to redefine what's possible in scientific discovery and drive innovations that will change the world for the better. We address the long-standing challenge of slow and inefficient research by creating a holistic, decentralized system that empowers scientists to fund, conduct, publish, and commercialize groundbreaking research with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and embracing decentralization, we bring transparency and accountability to life sciences research, making scientific progress faster, more accessible, and more innovative than ever before.\n\n\nThe Problem\n\nDespite the life-changing potential of scientific research, it takes an average of 17 years for discoveries to transition from the lab to real-world applications. This staggering delay holds back life-saving medical treatments, climate solutions, and innovative advances in various fields. The complexities of the problem include funding constraints (https://medium.com/@scinetCEO/the-high-cost-of-obligate-grant-reliance-in-life-sciences-research-c57478508419), trust erosion, the reproducibility crisis, inefficiency in IP protection, outdated publishing practices, and perverse incentives in publishing.\n\n\nSolution\n\nTo overcome these challenges, is building a suite of dapps to enhance scientific research in many ways. Our first, SciFi, is a science-focused crowdfunding platform that enables researchers to access decentralized funding and offers funders the opportunity to support promising scientific projects. By leveraging blockchain technology, SciFi provides tokenized assets like royalties and equity in exchange for support, enhancing transparency and accountability in the funding process. Please join the waitlist to raise for or fund life sciences research here: https://forms.gle/Ubq3Dvp4LcWVdi4YA. \n\n\nWhy We Need You\n\nSCINET's ambitious vision requires resources and support. We have received grant funding from the Dfinity Foundation, enabling us to achieve engineering milestones on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain. To continue advancing our mission, we need the support of a community (join our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/5uH6vpJjeB) that believes in our vision. Your contributions will enable us to continue to pay skilled engineers and designers, and bring our cutting-edge ecosystem to life.\n\n\nWhat's Next\n\nSCINET is expanding our DeSci research ecosystem by developing an advanced R&D platform and electronic lab notebook that promotes best practices and ensures data integrity. After that, we\u2019ll also introduce a blockchain-based publishing, peer review, and social media platform to modernize scientific publishing, collaboration, and interdisciplinary research. Finally, we will update SciFi to allow scientists to create more unique science-based assets to bridge the gap between research and commercialization.\n\n\nTeam\n\nOur co-founders, Jordan Smith, Hank Brigham, and Amir Eskafyan, bring a wealth of expertise to SCINET. Jordan is a future-focused social innovator and technologist with a passion for finding novel solutions to existing and future challenges. He completed an executive MBA specializing in startup entrepreneurship, blockchain technology, strategic thinking, and US business law. As a former investment advisor, he has unique insight into investor preferences, and as a professional legal investigator, he understands the comparable process of scientific investigation. Jordan has overseen large-scale digital transformations for Fortune 250 companies and is dedicated to onboarding scientists to SCINET's platform effectively.\n\nHank Brigham is a serial entrepreneur and CTO with a successful track record in software development and blockchain technology. Hank served as the former CTO for a successful cannabis production and compliance data management software platform, where he helped raise $350,000 in early funding and delivered the company\u2019s minimum viable product. He is the lead software engineer at Nameless, a Web3 quality assurance software company, and has obtained developer grants from the Dfinity Foundation to build SCINET\u2019s platform on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain. Hank holds a solutions architect certification with AWS.\n\nAmir Eskafyan is a powerhouse in sales and business development, with experience across seed stage to series C startups. Amir led local partnerships for Pacaso, the fastest startup in history to reach a $1+ billion valuation. He expanded GroupRaise.com, the philanthropic version of OpenTable, from 500 restaurants to 12,000+, hosting millions of guests for local charities. As a pioneer, he founded the first reverse auction for deregulated electricity markets.\n\nTogether, the we possess the experience, vision, and drive to revolutionize life sciences research and create a better future for everyone. We have worked closely on SCINET for two years and are equity stakeholders with a three-year vesting schedule, demonstrating our long-term commitment to the project.\n\nWe envision a world where researchers are free to explore, experiment, and make groundbreaking discoveries, unhindered by outdated systems. Join us in creating a better future for everyone.\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "scinet-inc", "projectTwitter": "scinet_inc"}
SCINET: A Decentralized Life Sciences Ecosystem
A huge thank you 🙏🙏 to everyone who generously contributed to our mission in GR13, GR14, GR15, and GR Alpha. We have received well over 100 individual contributions, which allowed us to raise almost $10,000 thanks to the magic 🔮 of quadratic funding 💡💰📈! As a result of your generosity, we have been able to put your contributions to good use, including:

GR Alpha
🏁 Bring us across the finish line to complete alpha for our MVP of SciFi, our science funding dapp. 

GR15
⚖️ Raise grant funds for legal and regulatory due diligence with our newly-retained attorney, Carlos Garcia-Aguilar of Web3 Lawyers.

💻 Continuing development of our MVP for launch, scientist/investor onboarding, and an intensive go-to-market campaign.

GR14
🛠️ Continued full stack engineering efforts on the SciFi dapp.

🎨 Professional design of various parts of our decentralized crowdfunding dapp for the sciences, "SciFi".

GR13 
📣 Evangelizing decentralized science as the only "DeSci" featured startup as an Alpha and Impact Startup at Collision 2022 in Toronto. Collision has been described as "The Olympics of Tech" (Politico), and is the largest, and arguably most important, tech conference in North America. We had an important opportunity to educate the media, other entrepreneurs, and investors on the importance of decentralized science, DLT, and Web3.
 

Progress

🚀 We will launch the alpha version of SciFi in May 2023 (hopefully, ha). Check out our prototype below and join our waitlist if you’re interested in funding or raising for life sciences research (https://forms.gle/Ubq3Dvp4LcWVdi4YA). 

Desktop Prototype 🛠️🧪: https://www.figma.com/proto/Xp0VTnhQTyfgvXGi72kFhm/SciFi-MVP?page-id=565%3A16513&node-id=1751-35986&viewport=-5641%2C-2079%2C0.29&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=1751%3A35986


Next Steps

📜🔗 🔐 SCINET will soon launch the first IP NFT on the Internet Computer and store all IP-related files in a secure, decentralized manner, on-chain.
🛍️🎯 G2M to build our user base for SciFi 🔬💰, including funders and life sciences researchers. 
🖥️🧪 Continue product research, market validation, and design of RnDNA, our digital R&D lab. 


Vision 

Imagine a world where groundbreaking medical discoveries happen in months instead of decades, where biotech innovations improve the quality of life for everyone in our lifetime, and where science unlocks the potential to solve the planet's problems. At SCINET, we believe that world is not only possible but critical for our survival and growth. However, outdated systems continue to hinder scientific progress, causing decades of delays. That's why we're building a revolutionary ecosystem for life sciences research.


Introduction

We are on a mission to redefine what's possible in scientific discovery and drive innovations that will change the world for the better. We address the long-standing challenge of slow and inefficient research by creating a holistic, decentralized system that empowers scientists to fund, conduct, publish, and commercialize groundbreaking research with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and embracing decentralization, we bring transparency and accountability to life sciences research, making scientific progress faster, more accessible, and more innovative than ever before.


The Problem

Despite the life-changing potential of scientific research, it takes an average of 17 years for discoveries to transition from the lab to real-world applications. This staggering delay holds back life-saving medical treatments, climate solutions, and innovative advances in various fields. The complexities of the problem include funding constraints (https://medium.com/@scinetCEO/the-high-cost-of-obligate-grant-reliance-in-life-sciences-research-c57478508419), trust erosion, the reproducibility crisis, inefficiency in IP protection, outdated publishing practices, and perverse incentives in publishing.


Solution

To overcome these challenges, is building a suite of dapps to enhance scientific research in many ways. Our first, SciFi, is a science-focused crowdfunding platform that enables researchers to access decentralized funding and offers funders the opportunity to support promising scientific projects. By leveraging blockchain technology, SciFi provides tokenized assets like royalties and equity in exchange for support, enhancing transparency and accountability in the funding process. Please join the waitlist to raise for or fund life sciences research here: https://forms.gle/Ubq3Dvp4LcWVdi4YA. 


Why We Need You

SCINET's ambitious vision requires resources and support. We have received grant funding from the Dfinity Foundation, enabling us to achieve engineering milestones on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain. To continue advancing our mission, we need the support of a community (join our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/5uH6vpJjeB) that believes in our vision. Your contributions will enable us to continue to pay skilled engineers and designers, and bring our cutting-edge ecosystem to life.


What's Next

SCINET is expanding our DeSci research ecosystem by developing an advanced R&D platform and electronic lab notebook that promotes best practices and ensures data integrity. After that, we’ll also introduce a blockchain-based publishing, peer review, and social media platform to modernize scientific publishing, collaboration, and interdisciplinary research. Finally, we will update SciFi to allow scientists to create more unique science-based assets to bridge the gap between research and commercialization.


Team

Our co-founders, Jordan Smith, Hank Brigham, and Amir Eskafyan, bring a wealth of expertise to SCINET. Jordan is a future-focused social innovator and technologist with a passion for finding novel solutions to existing and future challenges. He completed an executive MBA specializing in startup entrepreneurship, blockchain technology, strategic thinking, and US business law. As a former investment advisor, he has unique insight into investor preferences, and as a professional legal investigator, he understands the comparable process of scientific investigation. Jordan has overseen large-scale digital transformations for Fortune 250 companies and is dedicated to onboarding scientists to SCINET's platform effectively.

Hank Brigham is a serial entrepreneur and CTO with a successful track record in software development and blockchain technology. Hank served as the former CTO for a successful cannabis production and compliance data management software platform, where he helped raise $350,000 in early funding and delivered the company’s minimum viable product. He is the lead software engineer at Nameless, a Web3 quality assurance software company, and has obtained developer grants from the Dfinity Foundation to build SCINET’s platform on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain. Hank holds a solutions architect certification with AWS.

Amir Eskafyan is a powerhouse in sales and business development, with experience across seed stage to series C startups. Amir led local partnerships for Pacaso, the fastest startup in history to reach a $1+ billion valuation. He expanded GroupRaise.com, the philanthropic version of OpenTable, from 500 restaurants to 12,000+, hosting millions of guests for local charities. As a pioneer, he founded the first reverse auction for deregulated electricity markets.

Together, the we possess the experience, vision, and drive to revolutionize life sciences research and create a better future for everyone. We have worked closely on SCINET for two years and are equity stakeholders with a three-year vesting schedule, demonstrating our long-term commitment to the project.

We envision a world where researchers are free to explore, experiment, and make groundbreaking discoveries, unhindered by outdated systems. Join us in creating a better future for everyone.

SCINET: A Decentralized Life Sciences Ecosystem