With the funds gathered from Gitcoin Round GR15 (Oct 2022) and Gitcoin Beta round (May 2023), we have:

1.	💡Tested the MVP. February-April 2023. We have been understanding needs and adjusting pitch language; deciding for niches to Alpha tests; 
1.	🔈Opened a “Call for papers” for the 1st issue of the DeSci Journal. Started March 2023 to present. So far, 10 submissions were received. 
1.	📝Sought for Editors and Reviewers actively searching with other DeSci platforms and DAOs. April 2023 to present. 
1.	💪Formally partnered with 5 Partners: a) https://gosh.sh, b) https://www.ifia.com/startups-department/, c) https://maxi.science, d) https://mushroomprotocol.io & e) icoLab https://icolab.org.br (see https://descier.science/partnerships/). 
1.	💻Developed and worked on the new v2 publication platform. 
1.	🎙Organized 3 DeSci presential events at 2 major Brazilian universities (Unicamp & USP) and at 2 main Blockchain events (in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) for promoting awareness about DeSci and blockchain technologies by engaging in outreach at various venues: The Open Science - DeSci at Universidade de Campinas-[Unicamp](https://eduplay.rnp.br/portal/video/183448) in May 2023, Blockchain São Paulo 2023 at Universidade de São Paulo-USP with the [DeSci Americas](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blockchain-rio_blockchain-sp-desci-são-paulo-e-desci-americas-activity-7056368973268795392-ZO0r/?originalSubdomain=es) in June 2023 and Blockchain Rio 2023 with the [DeSci Summit](https://descier.science/summit/) in September 2023. Videos of the DeSci Summit 2023 in Brazil are available [here](https://www.youtube.com/@desciers).
1.	Grown our Twitter account to 1494 followers (@desciers with only 4 followers on June 2022)  [channel](https://x.com/desciers?t=vJU08EoHrxFp8sS0I27dCw&s=09).
1.	🕹Grown our Discord account to 217 members (created ~Sept 2022 [deScier Discord](https://discord.gg/Z6U9P28YtV). We have been using Dework integrated to Discord to announce tasks & pay bounties to our members.
1.	✈Attended the DeSci, Longevity and Biotech 2023 meeting in Roátan, Honduras in November 2023.
1.	🚀Officially launched on December 12th, 2023 at the American Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo, Brazil, The DeSci Journal v1 at https://platform.desci.reviews.
1.	Joined Vitalia in Roatán, Honduras during January 2024.
1.	Attended as Invited Speaker in the Publishing Panel at DeSci London, March 24-25th 2024.
1.	Developed The DeSci Journals (plural) v2. Recently, we have developed and deployed at https://platform.desci.reviews  a pioneering decentralized scientific platform showcasing all onboarded communities as part of a decentralized science library (please see attached pitch). This platform has onboard communities such as new areas of knowledge (such as Legal Engineering) and communities struggling to locate suitable venues for publishing their work (such as Biohackers, Cannabis and Mushroom research communities).
