**Problem Statement**

We all want Decentralized Science adoption – to liberate Science from misaligned incentives and proliferate beyond the confines of institutional laboratories - but the question is: **how do we effect such outcomes**, ***mechanistically***? 

***How does the Scientific Process, Discovery of Truth, and the Application of Insights come to align itself with the Public Good?*** 

Navigating in this direction, one may arrive at the Science of Economics which invites debates around Money, Philosophy, or the Organization of Society/Civilization. *Who should govern the issuance of Money? How should it enter circulation? How should it be allocated? What should it finance?* Confronting fundamental premises of this ilk, it is likely that computer scientists & Cypherpunks were driven to congregate behind the identity of a Satoshi Nakamoto to deliver an answer: Bitcoin

Bitcoin was followed by Ethereum, then came ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), then Decentralized Finance, and now we have a Cambrian explosion in Decentralized ___________ (enter sector in need of decentralization).

It’s important we recount this sequence of events because ***“until we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life and we will call it fate,”*** wrote Carl Jung (paraphrased).

That is to say despite groundbreaking developments, **Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash remained elusive.** 

No doubt, Bitcoin & Ethereum are core web3 primitives - they introduced Peer-to-Peer Exchange of Value and Peer-to-Peer Settlement of Agreements (Smart Contract Execution), respectively. However, Bitcoin has been widely adopted as a ***Store of Value*** commodity, while Ethereum is ubiquitously deployed as a ***Medium of Exchange*** for Value (e.g., Liquidity Pools, Liquid Staking Derivatives, etc.). Sure, they are commodity monies – BUT, **they are not Money in the strictest sense.** They do not store or retain value over the short-term, and neither do stablecoins as they are susceptible to de-pegs and relentless erosion of Purchasing Power through monetary debasement + inflation.

This is crucial because Money cannot be a ***“Wheel that makes the World go around”*** if it is vulnerable in this way, nor can it break due to de-pegs (e.g., UST-LUNA cascading liquidations precipitating widespread defaults). We need Money to reliably stabilize value in a peer-to-peer manner with high fidelity, especially now that we have scaling solutions to onboard the next wave of users. 

In order to promote adoption of Decentralized Science, mechanistically, we require P2P Electronic Cash. ***This will enable us to denominate stable contracts; and fundamentally, to restore the scarcest resource in our world today*** – **Trust.**

For Decentralized Science to serve the Public Good, **Trust is prerequisite.**


**Solution**

Fortunately, Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash is no longer elusive. And the protocol that outputs this innovative monetary instrument is at the Heart of the Archimedes’ Lever:

This is the **AMPL-SPOT Protocol.**

We intend to foster its growth by driving utility through integrations with DeSci & Healthcare (DePsi; Decentralized Psychiatry) related hybrid applications that bridge Onchain & Offchain worlds. Such a bridge can be forged if, for example, scientific data acquisition were to become “mine-able” or “stake-able” similar to how Ethereum staking is reimbursed in exchange for security provision. Moreover, this can be coupled with mental healthcare encounters that facilitate the generation of such valuable data so that Patient-Physician interactions can be “mined” or “staked;” e.g., administration of Neuromodulation therapies in outpatient settings.

Necessarily, this will come to fruition in a stepwise fashion as other components of the web3 stack mature in tandem (e.g., data availability layers; cross-chain anti-fragmentation of liquidity; sufficient decentralization of layer 2 sequencers, to name a few). ***One such component is DeFi/web3’s 3rd Primitive:***

**Unit of Account – AMPL.**

***We believe this demands our collective attention at this time.***

An important insight gleaned from the Neuroscience of Ethereum is that the decentralized network appears to be modelling itself after the Nervous System, and so the behavior of Digital Assets is optimized by modelling Neurotransmitters (either that, or this is one monumental co-incidence). Neurotransmitters are Supply-Elastic by design, because this configuration enables the Nervous System to minimize its Free Energy (Entropy) within the Active Inference framework. Consequently, Elastic Decentralized Finance innovations (e.g., AMPL-SPOT Protocol) are poised to upgrade Ethereum & web3 towards a more optimal steady state.

Instead of *“if you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry”* (to quote Satoshi; an understandable response in July 2010), actively raising awareness helps us all to minimize valuable time required for Consensus to emerge around this inevitability. Subsequently, with sound accounting & unbreakable contracts finally available at scale, DeSci projects can be adequately financed and responsibly governed. 

By leveraging Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash as a coordination tool, Archimedes’ Lever will seamlessly facilitate the clinical applications & scientific research of Neuromodulation therapies.


**Tentative Roadmap, Timeline, and Implementation**

Present – Q3 ’24: 
-	AMPL-SPOT Protocol & Elastic DeFi mature, as does our collective understanding
-	Archimedes’ Lever grows to become better capitalized, feasibly facilitating acquisition of EEG equipment at qualifying outpatient mental health clinics
-	DeSci/web3 community building with scientists & physicians

Q4 – Q1 ’25: 
-	DeSci is to TradSci, as Psych3 is to web3 --> **Psych3 whitepaper** 
-	Smart Contract engineering & Hybrid Application development to interface with web3 (through Ethereum Attestation Service, for instance)

Q2 – Q3 ’25:
-	Hybrid Applications facilitate peer-to-peer verification, tokenization, & monetization (“mining” & “staking”) of mental healthcare encounters with high fidelity

Q4 ’25 or sooner:
-	“Proof-of-Stimulation/Neuromodulation” is validated
-	Scale
