Our project, "The DeSci Journals," is a decentralized scientific publishing platform and its is aligned with the criteria of the CollabTech grant, by: 
1.	**Collaborating with the decentralized science movement**.
1.	**Empowering authors and communities**. *The DeSci Journals* aim to leverage blockchain technology and the Web3 ethos to bring a new form of scientific publishing in a SaaS platform working as a digital cooperative using B2C, B2B and B2B2C models. *The DeSci Journals* introduced % of authorship, 100% maintenance of author’s copyright, papers as NFTs (secondary market formation in the roadmap) while preserving peer-review and formal scientific discourse.
1.	**Streamlining operational tools**. Easy manuscript submission, peer review, and publication processes through automated workflows.
1.	**Commercial Viability or Public Goods**. Developing a business model as a digital cooperative where editors, reviewers, designers are financially compensated for their editorial work while contributing to the platform’s revenue (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sa874gnFqVuGN5EAF1QWHT-iLZdRPrTU/view?usp=sharing).
1.	**Committing to a development timeline**. Development time of 12 weeks to deliver key features: a) web3 login and b) minting papers as NFTs to version 2 already deployed and running at https://platform.desci.reviews completing version 3 tasks.
1.	**Declaring a Threshold**. The minimum funding required to develop and launch the version 3 of *The DeSci Journals* is 1.5k (including donations + matching funds) . Funding will be used for development, testing, and initial deployment.
1.	**Feasibility**. *The DeSci Journals* is currently in version 2, with 4 journals and 4 published articles, and a clear path of milestone fulfillment. Submissions to other Gitcoin grants will ensure additional sources of funds for delivering ready outcomes within the 12-week timeframe.