Reaching out to potential users
Actively reaching out to potential users, conducting interviews, and gathering feedback to refine platform features and better address community needs.
Blockchain-Based Registration Integration
Ongoing development focused on seamlessly integrating of a blockchain-based registration system into the publishing platform, enhancing decentralization, and user experience.
Main Objective
To build a journal-as-a-service decentralized publishing platform.
Decentralized Art & Science | DeSci Americas 2024
Organize and execute the event Decentralized Arts & Science | DeSci Americas 2024 Venue: Meta Gallery, Rua da Assembleia 40, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: July 23, 2024 Time: 15:00h Panel 1 Is it possible to accelerate the advancement of science? Panelists Maria Goreti…
Launch of TCC Journal with the publlication of its firs article
Announcement of the launch of the TCC Journal (at Campus Party 2024), one of the journals belonging to the platform The DeSci Journals. The lauch happened during a panel on the Tech Girls stage at Campus Party 2024, Expo Center Norte, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The panel was on Decentral…
Allow users to create their own journals | The DeSci Journals v2
This milestone deals with the development of The DeSci Journal version 1 (currently deployed at https://platform.desci.reviews ) towards The DeSci Journals (in plural) as version 2. The DeSci Journals is a pioneering decentralized scientific platform which will allow users to cre…
Create new journals from onboarded communities | The DeSci Journals v2
The DeSci Journals version 2 will onboard communities in new areas of knowledge and frontier science communities for publishing their work.
Co-host meetups on X spaces
Co-host regular meetups on X spaces to engage with the community, fostering collaboration and attracting individuals and communities to submit projects in The DeSci Journals and AuraSci.
Utilization of AuraSci Points
Leverage AuraSci points systems to reward work for community contributors, early adopters of new products, offer exclusive discounts and fund customer acquisition strategies.
AuraSci-deScier product co-development
Identify and develop a pilot project that leverages The DeSci Journals solution for AuraSci by integrating a feature into an existing product or creating a new solution, such as a new journal.
Participation as an Invited Speaker at the DeSci Day during Crecimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Attend and deliver a presentation as an invited speaker at the DeSci Day during Crecimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina, scheduled for August, 13th, 2024. This event is a key gathering of industry experts and thought leaders in pop-up crypto cities and decentralization. The presenta…
@desciers account followers on X (Twitter)
Grown our X account to 1640 followers (@desciers with only 4 followers on June 2022)
Attending and participating in EthDenver 2025
We attended EthDenver 2025, along with key events hosted by Story Protocol on intellectual property, multiple DeSci-focused gatherings, and discussions on advancing regenerative business models. Beyond panels and presentations, in-person engagement provided unparalleled opportuni…
Infrastructure Optimization
Transitioning from AWS to Railway to improve cost efficiency and ensure a more scalable infrastructure for The DeSci Journals platform operations.
Make The DeSci Journal platform to accept new manuscripts and new journals | The DeSci Journals v2
Development of The DeSci Journal version 1 (currently deployed at https://platform.desci.reviews ) towards The DeSci Journals (in plural) as version 2. The DeSci Journals is a pioneering decentralized scientific platform which will allow users to create their own journals showcas…
Create new decentralized journals | The DeSci Journals v2
Allow the use of the upgraded platform not only to accept new manuscripts for publication in The DeSci Journal but also to support the creation of new journals.
Launch of TCC Journal with the publlication of its first article
Announcement of the launch of the TCC Journal (at Campus Party 2024), one of the journals belonging to the platform The DeSci Journals.
Event: Decentralized Art & Science | DeSci Americas 2024
Organized and executed the event Decentralized Arts & Science | DeSci Americas 2024 Venue: Meta Gallery, Rua da Assembleia 40, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: July 23, 2024 Time: 15:00h **Panel 1 ** Is it possible to accelerate the advancement of science? Panelists Maria…
Web3 login
This milestone involves the development and integration of a secure digital wallet login system, along with Web3Auth using email, for our Web3 project. The key activities include designing a user-friendly interface for wallet connection, ensuring compatibility with popular digita…
Minting PDF Papers into NFTs
This milestone focuses on the development of a feature to convert PDF documents into NFTs and store them on a distributed storage platform within our Web3 project. Key activities include designing an interface for users to upload and convert PDFs to NFTs, implementing smart contr…
Marketing efforts
Initiate a digital marketing campaign to increase The DeSci Journals brand awareness and drive user acquisition in events, talks, in-person visits, paid and boosted content for onboarding individuals and communities.
Experiment with minimum donation + matching values
During the CollabTech round and thresholds experiment, we have declared that in order to receive donations plus matching pool there should be a threshold of $1.500. As donations plus matching pool made up a total of approximately $300, no funds were allocated to our project and t…
In-house creation: Created and launched The Capstone Collection (TCC) Journal for monographs, theses, and capstone projects. Manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, and English are accepted for peer-review. This journal aligns with the mission of The DeSci Journals platform, offering 100% copyright to authors and allowing them to choose between open or paid access.
Launched the TCC Journal during our participation in the Tech Girls stage at the Campus Party Brazil 2024. The launch was made with the first publication in the journal with the presence of two out of its 3 authors of the paper. The paper is entitled "ArvSat-A Nano-satellite…
Attended as Invited Speaker the Publishing Panel at DeSci London 2024
Being an invited speaker with a grant from DeSci London to be part of a Scientific Publishing Panel during the event DeSci London 2024 at Imperial College, London, UK, was a great honor. As a result, the DeSci Journals and deScier's professional reputation and visibility within t…
Organized the in-person event DeSci Summit 2023 during the Blockchain Rio 2023, as an event satellite.
Promoted and increased awareness for DeSci. Connected attendees with DeSci leaders. Showcased tools and new ways to fund science. The event was partially financially supported by DeSci World.
Organized the in-person event named **DeSci Americas 2023 | DeSci Summit** a satellite event of Blockchain São Paulo 2023 held at São Paulo University-USP.
Promoted the decentralized science- DeSci movement, helping attendees learn about opportunities and projects, connect with the people leading the DeSci movement, and stay up to date with tools and new ways to fund science in the Americas and around the world.
Organized and executed the event: **Open science and decentralization: paradigms for research, development, democratization and access to science** at Campinas University-UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil.
We organized and executed the first forum in the 20-year series of Permanent Forums at Unicamp. The forum was promoted by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Outreach and Culture (ProEC-Unicamp) and debated the theme “Open science and decentralization: paradigms for research, devel…
Formally partnered with 5 initiatives: a) https://gosh.sh b) https://www.ifia.com/startups-department/ c) https://maxi.science, d) https://mushroomprotocol.io e) https://icolab.org.br
Creating a partnership with these five partners who actively work in web3, inventions, and frontier science has enhanced our outreach, helped build our brand reputation, provided access to their networks, and strengthened further collaborative opportunities. It has also helped us…
Opened a “Call for papers” for the 1st issue of the DeSci Journal. Actively prospected for Editors and Reviewers for peer-reviewing.
Ten (10) submissions were received, first paper published in January 2024; 3 papers published in The DeSci Journal so far.
With the funds gathered from Gitcoin Round GR15 (Oct 2022) and Gitcoin Beta round (May 2023), we: **Tested the MVP for The DeSci Journal** Understanding needs and adjusting pitch language; deciding for niches to Alpha tests. *DeSci* stands for decentralized science.
We built a website providing an alternative for the traditional scientific publications industry. Our solution has 3 main features from the start: 1) 100% copyright for authors, 2) percentage of authorship , 3) authors can decide if they publish open access or paid access, with f…
AuraSci Nexus Grant | Project
deScier creates scientific assets from science-generated knowledge. The DeSci Journals are a platform for decentralized scientific journals. The DeSci Journals aim to simplify journal creation, enabling communities to operate as digital cooperatives for publishing scientific and…
GG20 - dApps & Apps
The DeSci Journals enables communities to operate as digital cooperatives for publishing scientific and technical content. The DeSci Journals v2 | A solution for decentralized scientific journals. The DeSci Journals simplifies scientific journal creation enabling communities to o…
DeSci Round - April 2024
In the scientific publication industry, authors (scientists, professionals and, scholars), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for science journals. Authors: 1) pay for publishing, 2) pay for open access…
GG21 DeSci Round
CollabTech Round and Thresholds Experiment
GG21 - DeSci Round