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(Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "CrunchDeSci is CrunchDAO\u2019s 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.\n\nBy 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), \u201cDeSci paired with blockchain technology has the potential to upend existing funding schemes and enhance collaboration between stakeholders in scientific endeavors.\u201d 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.\n\nOur 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 \u2018tragedy of anticommons,\u2019  misaligned incentives and culture of \u2018publish or perish.\u2019\n\nBounties are established to tackle these problems, incentivising members of the scientific community to contribute incrementally to the DAO\u2019s 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.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://desci.crunchdao.com/projects/crunchdao/desci-framework", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Further develop our desci platform:\nhttps://desci.crunchdao.com \n\nThis grant will enable us to define positions to develop this framework and to actively use it both inside the DAO and with our research group, working on Dynamical Systems Theory, Machine Learning and Quantitative Finance.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "XzG+khnvxaGJaW3QwrQJH1gJCM5gk4RItKBkw73cj8I=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "44b724002e2f87b1a41bb2fa7945303a1341d28fc8d9cfbbd3f5131b3f497772adffe6fafd3ed2ae63ba5a29f77429038ea40b3ab48b8fbe3c99d1f7a1ed755a664703f173d04d208cca4cb87e89195c544b658c200847e7a53e497ab8e59583328802bf3c7678ffba93d3f310f94b2fa0c3eb0e4acdbc6080436f2e7203754400000000000000205c5a3f990d144412dfa60fdedf5e25eb0074e1aec6d8511a6631ecf5aedb0b12276d517d4f833f5272de1400dddcf1b8"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Thanks to the previous grant we were able to develop this whole platform that any research team could use:\nhttps://desci.crunchdao.com", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We also took part of DeSci London and we are finalists of the Desci London Hackathon:\nhttps://desci.crunchdao.com/projects/crunchdao/desci-london", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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Our focus is on leveraging Web3 collective intelligence to identify patterns in data, particularly associated with complex systems, by crowdsourcing. It serves as a secure intermediary, enabling data scientists to keep control of their models while powering institutions.\n\nThe predictions submitted to the competition inform the ensemble output of the Decentralised Autonomous Organization (DAO). Members have access to an [encrypted, quantized datasets](https://docs.crunchdao.com/tournament/data), create their prediction model and submit predictions on the given test set (without sharing their Intellectual Property, i.e., their models).\n\n# ZK Technology in CrunchDAO\n\nWe plan the growth in the use of ZK Tech both to move towards homomorphic tournaments and to make private-data-based research reproducible. Part of the finalists of the DeSci London 2023 Hackathon, our Lead Quant, Matteo Manzi, presented [our work](https://desci.crunchdao.com/projects/crunchdao/desci-london) on the use of IPFS to foster the reproducibility of machine learning papers.\n\n# Synergies with DeSci\n\n[CrunchDeSci](https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentralized-science-is-key-to-fixing-academic-research) is CrunchDAO\u2019s 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.\n\nOur DeSci platform, through the use of ZK Tech, will allow users to access and contribute to our library of scientific papers and knowledge. Our technical roadmap lays out our plans for advancement with ZK Tech. We are actively performing R&D on [ZKML](https://github.com/zkml-community/awesome-zkml) throughout our work, and plan to integrate in our pipeline homomorphic encryption and ZKML tools. We are equally collaborating with [Zama](https://www.zama.ai/), also based in Paris, and in future we plan to integrate [concreteML](https://github.com/zama-ai/concrete-ml) into our work. This is relevant, not only for the field of finance, but many other potential applications, including [healthcare](https://www.molecule.to/).\n\nOur progress can be monitored through our [DeSci platform](https://desci.crunchdao.com/projects), our [Twitter](https://twitter.com/CrunchDAO) and our [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crunchdao-com/).\n\nThis grant will enable us to define positions to develop this framework and to actively use it both inside the DAO and with our research group, working on Dynamical Systems Theory, Machine Learning and Quantitative Finance.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "crunchdao", "projectTwitter": "crunchdao"}, "recipient": "0x6279e0BDdC76B8aDCa38585fEE25d763DA058b03"}}