maniecool: EUREKA

EUREKA is a scientific review and rating platform fuelled by the EUREKA token from EKA Blockchain Solutions GmbH. Blockchain has the capacity to open science and make research findings immutable, transparent and decentralised. EUREKA revolutionises the scientific publishing and reviewing process by making it more efficient and fair using the EUREKA token to compensate all parties involved. Scientific discoveries can now be openly rated and rewarded based on the quality of the research.

What is ScienceMatters?

ScienceMatters is a scientific online publishing platform. The team behind ScienceMatters is also behind the EUREKA platform. After launching in 2016, ScienceMatters has operated multiple journals and covers all aspects of science publishing. In the same year the company was endorsed by the European Commission. It has 24 scientific advisory board members chaired by the Nobel laureate Prof. Tom Südhof and around 600 editorial board members from some of the best institutes around the world, such as Harvard University, Stanford University, ETH and the Max-Planck Institute.

How It Work

The REWARD system

Revelation – Timestamping of scientific data

Scientific observations are timestamped, hashed and recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. This gives the author or inventor immediate ownership rights, and ensures scientists’ and researchers’ discoveries are tamper-proof.

Evaluation – Peer-to-peer evaluation

Scientific observations undergo crowdsourced, peer-to-peer reviews which are transmitted and recorded on the EUREKA platform. The EUREKA platform will make use of crowdsourced wisdom and reviewers to get fast, accurate evaluations of the work, instead of being restricted to one or two reviewers, as is common practice.

Worth assignment – Rating

The EUREKA platform’s crowdsourced scoring of scientific work will provide researchers as well as publishers with a new metric that can be used to evaluate submissions more swiftly. Preprints or observations with ratings and reviews will be archived through the EUREKA decentralised and distributed system. In cases where the author wants to publish in a traditional journal, the scores can be transferred to the journals. The test scores are also available to funders, universities and prize or awards committees.

Award – Funding research, career, awards and prizes

EUREKA will have the first blockchain-based scientific rating system, preprint server and single observation platform that provides reliable, immutable scores and data that can be transferred on the blockchain to funders, institutions and directly to journals. Sources of funding could make decisions based on ratings and reviews on the EUREKA platform.

Replication – Incentivisation of replication research

EUREKA tokens are allocated to pay for replication studies to either confirm or contradict existing studies. Researchers confirm the study, and both the original author and the replicating author are automatically compensated with EUREKA tokens. This ensures the reproducibility of findings, and minimises wasteful time and financial spending.

Data analytics – AI-based prediction e.g. drug discovery

An artificial intelligence-based prediction tool will make use of ScienceMatters’ algorithm which identifies related studies and observations by cross referencing annotations and links them to form a narrative. This technology could be leveraged to predict targets for drug development.

Token Sale

Total supply: 298,607,040

Hard caphelp_outline: $14,930,352*

Soft cap: $2,000,000

Available for sale: 50%

Accepted currencies: BTC, ETH

Token symbol: EKA

For sale: 149,303,520 EKA

KYC is mandatory

Certain jurisdictions (e.g. US) are excluded

Token Allocation

Use of funds

ROADMAP

Current operations

Start with the implementation of the EUREKA platform and finalization of the ICO investment platform. Legal preparations to ensure compliance with Swiss regulations. API integration and testing of KYC/AML, selected after discussions with bank.

September 2018

Private Sale and Pre-ICO Sale

Beginning of private and pre-ICO sale. EUREKA Team expansion.

Q1 – 2019

Public ICO

Public sale of EUREKA tokens. The minting and distribution of the EUREKA tokens will be started right after the public sale has finished.

Q1 – 2019

EUREKA Token listing

Applications to token exchanges will commence post ICO. Finalization of the first version of the EUREKA platform and beta testing.

Q2 – 2019

Launch of mainnet EUREKA platform

The first rating-journal smart-contract built on the EUREKA platform launches on the Ethereum mainnet. Alpha testing.