Science DAO Provides Pre-IPO Investing Access

Whether it’s due to geographical location, trading limits, or a lack of access, investing is far from a level playing field. This is especially the case in centralized investing, which has notoriously used sanctioning to bar whole geographical regions from investing in certain locations or stocks. While DeFi (decentralized finance) has allowed for many of […]

On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously voted to expand computer science education to all grade levels. This new initiative will be funded by the Salesforce Foundation, the non-profit wing of Salesforce, a cloud computing company. Presently, computer science is not a widely-taught subject in the San Francisco Unified School District. In the Spring 2014 semester, only a few hundred students took the AP computer science exam. The school district wants to increase these numbers, and expand computer science across all grade levels, because the subject is....

To democratize science through decentralized science would allow for a new kind of interface layer for a modern Scientific Revolution. Scientists can leverage blockchain tools, such as smart contracts and tokens, to improve collaboration in scientific endeavors between different stakeholders. This so-called decentralized science movement, or DeSci for short, combines blockchain and Web3 technologies to improve scientific research.A primary goal of DeSci is wider participation and funding when approaching scientific challenges, as well as democratizing the peer-to-peer review process, which....

The blockchain is enabling us to rethink the basic infrastructure of how certain assets can be tokenized, tracked and accounted for across multiple parties. One particular platform that could benefit from better asset tracking is the enterprise of scientific research. My goal here is to outline an approach to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research through increased transparency using the blockchain and highlight a new use case for distributed ledger technology. Venture capitalists and commercial partners often shy away from investing in early life-science ideas because a lot of....

The National Science Foundation has awarded research grants on the science and applications of crypto-currency, with approximately $1 million awarded to date. The NSF initiative is part of the "Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace" program for cybersecurity research and development to minimize the dangers of cyber technology, promote education and training in cybersecurity, establish a science of cybersecurity and convert promising cybersecurity research into practice. The NSF grant has been awarded to Emin Sirer at Cornell University (grant information here), Elaine Shi, Michael Hicks,....