[Application] Braid Microgrant

[ufkhan97]

Project Name: Braid

Category

Dapp

Project Description

Braid is trying to fix science publishing by reducing gatekeeping and increasing open access.
We want to be a place where scientists can upload their papers (to IPFS), review the work of their peers, and be compensated for both.

Project Status

Brainstorming/Under Development

The seed for Braid was a hackathon project called Paperfax. Paperfax began at EthOnline 2021 where we quickly built a preliminary version of our dapp which enables file uploads to IPFS.
Our next steps include increasing community development and engagement, improvement of the UI, development of an incentive protocol, and considering need for product marketing.
We may join an accelerator program.

Previews

EthOnline Video Submission

Target Audience

Our project is primarily targeted towards scholars and/or scientists who are used to publishing their papers in traditional journals.
By leveraging IPFS, we provide scholars a permanent way to prove that they were first to an idea or breakthrough.
By leveraging cryptocurrency, we hope to create peer-to-peer incentive to review work.

Rough estimated user base (if applicable)

Currently just us!

Github repo

https://github.com/ufkhan97/paperfax

Website

https://paperfax.org/

Docs

Team Info

Ufkhan97 -- Co-Founder
HomicidalChicken -- Co-Founder

How the community can engage

GitHub Discussion: Comment below!
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Slack:
Twitter: @umar_eth, @homicidalchickn
Discord: https://discord.gg/4kdnHTZS
Telegram:
WeChat:

How to Contribute

Join our discord!

[ufkhan97]

@longfeiWan9 Thank you for your help in getting our application in the right order for this micro grant submission! We really appreciate your help. We were approved three weeks ago and are now wondering when we will receive the funding from the file coin team. We really need it to be able to continue working on our project. Please let me know who I can ask for this information, if someone else on the team. Thank you for your help!