Using distributed ledger technologies for reviewing
Science is a catalyst for human progress. But a publishing monopoly and funding monopsony have inhibited research.
We intend to improve incentives in science by developing smart research contracts mediated by peer-to-peer review networks. These will collectively reward scientific contributions, including proposals, papers, replications, datasets, analyses, annotations, editorials, and more.
Long term, these smart contracts help accelerate research by minimizing science friction, ensuring science quality, and maximizing science variance.
And build the reviewers reputation through the work of their reviews. This proposal could be modified and applied to foundation grant proposals as well.