CrunchDeSci is CrunchDAO’s decentralized science platform: a community-led, Open Science research framework that allows users to build knowledge incrementally through the scientific research papers proposed on its platform.

By leveraging DeSci paired with blockchain and Web3 technology, we believe we can tackle the inefficiencies in the current academic and scientific system directly impacting our scientific process and research capabilities. This mission is expanded in [our recent article on CoinTelegraph](https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentralized-science-is-key-to-fixing-academic-research), “DeSci paired with blockchain technology has the potential to upend existing funding schemes and enhance collaboration between stakeholders in scientific endeavors.” Through the use of the DeSci platform, CrunchDAO leverages Web3 tools, enabling our research team to build knowledge incrementally and collaboratively on a single Unit of Knowledge. We have integrated metamask with git, enabling anonymous contributions.

Our motivations for this platform are to tackle the reproducibility crisis, incentivise for replication and overcome the limitations of traditional peer-review. This will enable our research team to collaborate on a single Unit of Knowledge, avoiding the so-called ‘tragedy of anticommons,’  misaligned incentives and culture of ‘publish or perish.’

Bounties are established to tackle these problems, incentivising members of the scientific community to contribute incrementally to the DAO’s overarching mission, based on previous work. To CrunchDAO, DeSci is about the integration of the blockchain technology underlying the DAO with the scientific method. DeSci is enabling us to work collaboratively, aligning our interests and knowledge to achieve efficient collaboration without limits, and targeting low hanging fruit otherwise inaccessible to others.