# What is Verse?
Verse is a decentralized science society registry with the goal to onboard 1,000 open science researchers to web3 within 1 year after launch.

Verse is a unified researcher account service that syncs academic web services, tracks research impact, and empowers researchers with direct funding

# What problem does it solve?
Verse empowers researchers with a portable identity that they can take with them to any academic journal, DeSci dApp, or grant platform. The technology solves the following problems:

* **Security** Identity verification on digital platforms to combat fraud
* **Reputation** Portable reputation and tracking of academic impact
* **Simple UX** Unified UX for account management using just email and password to access web3 features
* **Access Control** Provides account management tools to access gate data DAOs and even web2 organizations
* **Synced Web Services** Allows for tracking impact of individual projects/scientists across different academic journals, repositories, and digital services
* **Funding for Researchers** Empowers researchers directly with impact based funding
* **Flexible IP Rights** Allows for collaborative splitting of intellectual property ownership
* **Talent Aggregation** Provides a vast global pool of verified academic researchers for scientific societies to recruit

There are multiple phases to this project:

Phase I: Alpha Pilot (2023-2024)
We will release the alpha version of the application with a group of early testers selected from DeSci DAOs. 

Phase II: Select Mainstream Partners (2024-2025)
We plan to partner with a goal of 10 professional scientific societies such as Society for Neuroscience, INCF, AAAS, SBB etc.

Phase III: Progressive Decentralization (2025-on)
We will open up Verse for open registration; first for new societies that request to be listed, second for all users. This will coincide with the progressive decentralization of the project. 