## Roadmap
1.	**Smart Contracts Development (v3) -** Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate percentage royalties into the submission and peer-review workflow. 
1.	**Validate the peer-review distribution payment process**.
1.	**Integrate digital currencies payments**.
1.	**Study and implement tokenomics for the $desci tokens**.
1.	**Analyze and check on the possibility for the acceptance of other communities’ tokens and insert this analysis in the deScier tokenomics**.

1.	**Smart Contracts Audit (v3) –** Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs.
1.	**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.
1.	**Marketplace Development (v4) –** Develop a NFT paper marketplace as secondary market.
1.	**Automate Online Manuscript Submission (v4) –** Implement an automated system for online manuscript submission, streamlining the publication process.

## Timeline
Finances permitting, coupled with successful funding, this is the expected timeline. Utilizing the grant funds, we will strategically allocate resources to achieve the following objectives:
1.	May 2024 -June 2024 (Month 1 to 2 after receiving funds) - Smart Contracts Development (v3) - Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate percentage royalties into the submission and peer-review workflow.
1.	July 2024 (Month 3 after receiving funds) - Smart Contracts Audit (v3) – Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs.
1.	June 2024 - July 2024 (Month 2 to 3 after receiving funds) - 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.
1.	August 2024 – November 2024 (Month 4 to 7 after receiving funds) - Marketplace Development (v4) – Develop a NFT paper marketplace as secondary market.
1.	November 2024 – April 2025 (Month 7 to 12 after receiving funds) - Automate Online Manuscript Submission (v4)- Implement an automated system for online manuscript submission, streamlining the publication process.

1.	December 2024 – April 2025 (Month 8 to 12 after receiving funds) - Explore privacy ID options, including for instance, the utilization of technologies such as ZPK and POAPs (v5).

1.	November 2024 – April 2025 (Month 7 to 12 after receiving funds) - Establish mechanisms for building author reputation within the decentralized framework (v5).