Exploring the possibilities brought by Arweave and the hyperparallel computer AO

The concept of DeSci (decentralized science) was first proposed in 2018. Although it has not yet attracted widespread public attention, it is considered by Messari to be a new narrative that is about to explode.

DeSci aims to reshape the traditional scientific landscape by building public infrastructure using the Web3 stack.

The results of the Arweave ecosystem over the years are not only very consistent with the development needs of DeSci, but also sufficient to carry the entire DeSci ecosystem.

After the release of the super-parallel computer AO, the boundaries of DeSci have been broadened again.

The crypto world is unpredictable. After the approval of the Bitcoin ETF, the market ushered in an upward trend before the Bitcoin halving. Various sectors rotated, and joy and noise rose and fell, but soon returned to silence.

After the market returned to rationality, the "no mutual takeover" theory was born. Crypto players still tend to pursue novelty. In the dull market, DeSci, which had not been widely paid attention to before, began to be mentioned frequently.

The concept of DeSci first appeared in Martin Etzrodt's blog in 2018, when he tried to propose a new paradigm to solve problems such as peer review in traditional science.

After years of development, although DeSci has been favored by capital such as Coinbase and Pfizer, and the attention of crypto leaders such as V God and CZ, it has relatively not entered the public eye.

However, the potential of DeSci should not be underestimated. This is a technological innovation that directly benefits mankind.

This article aims to introduce DeSci and its importance, and focuses on how Arweave can promote the development of DeSci in the context of the launch of the super-parallel computer AO.

Interpreting DeSci: Liberating Traditional Science

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DeSci, the full name is Decentralized Science, which means "decentralized science".

It is seen as a movement that aims to build a public infrastructure using the Web3 stack to fairly and impartially fund, create, review, certify, store and disseminate scientific knowledge.

Nobel Prize winner Randy Schekman once said: "Science has no borders and should be open." DeSci, as an open movement aimed at liberating traditional science, like SocialFi and GameFi, removes the shackles of tradition by leveraging decentralized technology and introducing token incentive mechanisms.

In short, the success of DeSci is of greater significance to mankind, creating a space for "dreaming with peace of mind" in the field of scientific research.

How DeSci Removes the Shackles of Traditional Science

The rise of DeSci stems from the challenge and reflection on the traditional scientific system.

The difficult problems in the traditional scientific field are nothing more than the old-fashioned drawbacks of the centralized world - there are problems such as capital monopoly, information asymmetry, peer review issues, etc., which restrict the free flow and sharing of scientific knowledge.

In addition, the rights and interests of researchers are not fully protected, and they cannot fully own intellectual property rights.

Reshaping the financing and funding allocation methods

In the traditional scientific field, obtaining funding is crucial to scientific research, but it is often a thorny issue.

First, the population in the field of scientific research is growing, which leads to tight funding.

Secondly, researchers need to spend a certain amount of time and energy to write funding applications, and they also need to meet various quantitative application conditions.

At the same time, the funds are in the hands of governments or funding agencies, who may decide which research projects to fund based on their own biases, economic interests or political purposes, which may lead to the neglect of some important research areas.

This makes it difficult for researchers to concentrate on their research.

DeSci uses DAOs and NFT technology to break the shackles of traditional financing models.

Through DAOs, researchers can obtain financial support more transparently and realize the decentralization of funds in the field of scientific research.

For example, VitaDAO is a DAO organization focusing on longevity science research, which provides financial support for scientific research projects through crowdfunding and secondary financing.

In addition, the NFTization of scientific achievements also provides researchers with new financing channels, such as the IP-NFTs launched by Molecule.

Innovation of scientific collaboration, publishing and peer review

For researchers in traditional scientific fields, whether it is external cooperation or access to shared resources, they are usually restricted by their organizations or institutions, which gradually forms information islands.

In terms of publishing scientific research results, they often encounter human bias and power exploitation, resulting in a very inefficient publishing process.

Furthermore, peer review in traditional scientific fields is unpaid, and it is inevitable that problems such as inefficiency or low quality will arise.

DeSci solves problems such as collaboration, publishing and peer review in traditional scientific fields by creating a decentralized open platform, introducing incentive mechanisms and eliminating intermediaries.

For example, ResearchHub, which is known as the Github of the scientific field, has introduced ERC20 tokens and provided a decentralized open platform, allowing researchers to freely publish and discuss academic issues, while encouraging researchers to conduct peer reviews of published research results.

Protection of intellectual property rights

Whether it is copyright, patents or trademarks, they are actually still in the hands of scientific research institutions. This monopoly is not conducive to the development of the entire scientific field.

For scientific research, transparent and open information is very important, not to mention these forward-looking knowledge. Researchers should have unrestricted access to relevant scientific research results as much as possible to promote innovation and scientific research progress.

DeSci uses a decentralized storage solution to ensure the security and accessibility of scientific research data, and researchers can openly access and share scientific research data.

At the same time, the intellectual property NFT (IP-NFT) launched by the Molecule project provides a new intellectual property management mechanism. Researchers not only have ownership of scientific research results, but can also share the benefits generated in the future.

How does Arweave promote the development of DeSci?

As a powerful infrastructure, Arweave can provide comprehensive support for DeSci.

In addition to supporting permanent storage of data of any type and size, Arweave also has computing power. Its native smart contract SmartWeave and the improved storage consensus paradigm SCP - both adopt the core concept of "on-chain storage, off-chain computing".

Arweave is not only the storage infrastructure of DeSci, developers can also develop DeSci applications based on Arweave. However, after the release of the hyperparallel computer AO, the potential of Arweave was greatly released, creating a good growth environment for DeSci.

Arweave one-stop platform: covering data storage, encryption, and publishing

Scientific research data are all high-quality and important data. The biggest concern is data loss, and Arweave is the most ideal decentralized storage solution for DeSci.

The permanent storage technology provided by Arweave is naturally adapted to scientific data, and all stored data cannot be tampered with, is traceable, and is censorship-resistant.

However, Arweave itself does not have data encryption capabilities.

For security and privacy, the DeSci application built on Arweave can encrypt the data before uploading it to the chain by using Mind Network's fully homomorphic encryption technology (FHE), and in the future, it can also flexibly decrypt the data to the demander through authorization.

At the same time, the AO ecosystem is building the PADO project, which is the world's first zkFHE decentralized computing network. It combines fully homomorphic encryption with zero-knowledge (ZK) proof technology to provide comprehensive privacy protection for DeSci applications.

In addition, Arweave can also serve as a decentralized publishing platform for DeSci, and there are already Permaweb application precedents such as PermawebNews (news portal).

Data is permanently stored on Arweave, and the data is dynamically loaded into the Permaweb application through the indexing function. Users can read the published content just like browsing the Web2 front-end page.

Full-chain DAO governance: solving financing problems

The transition from traditional authoritative institutions to DAO organizations has freed themselves from the constraints of centralization and eliminated lengthy intermediate links. Compared with traditional science, DeSci will make financing more democratic and intelligent.

However, most DAO organizations are still in the exploratory stage. There are many factors that affect whether DAO organizations can operate stably in the long term, and perfect infrastructure is one of the key factors.

In exploring DAO to solve DeSci's financing problems, we can refer to the governance model of PermaDAO.

Similar to Bitcoin's POW mechanism, for DAO community members, proof of work directly represents the value created, and PermaDAO uses Arweave as the workload ledger of the DAO organization, and all data is traceable and cannot be tampered with.

Contributors will also receive corresponding $HALO Token incentives based on their workload, and then obtain voting rights for governance proposals by staking $HALO Tokens.

Therefore, it is feasible to run a dedicated financing DAO based on Arweave.

Atomic Assets combined with UDL protocol: intellectual property rights confirmation and royalty transfer mechanism

Atomic Assets, in Chinese, is a new NFT paradigm based on Arweave, which may also be a NFT standard that is more suitable for the DeSci field than IP-NFT.

Unlike most "incomplete" NFTs, Atomic Assets has fully uploaded data to the chain, which can achieve true intellectual property rights confirmation.

Specifically, Atomic Assets permanently stores all asset data, metadata, and contracts on the Arweave network and bundles them into a single Arweave ID.

At the same time, Atomic Assets has no restrictions on storage capacity and data types, and can even be large files such as applications.

Atomic Assets not only allow researchers to fully own the ownership of their research results, but also, when combined with the UDL protocol, can establish a complete and usable royalty circulation mechanism.

The full name of the UDL protocol is Universal Data License, which means "Universal Data License". It allows researchers to personalize the terms of use of atomic assets through predefined tags.

For example, researchers can decide whether atomic assets are allowed to be used commercially, secondary creations, the period of use and payment methods, etc. These terms will be treated as a separate tag and attached to the atomic assets as a license.

In addition, atomic assets can be seamlessly listed on the BazAR exchange for sale. Researchers can not only immediately cash out to obtain financial support, but also enjoy the potential royalties of research results in the future.

Stamp Protocol and Vouch Protocol: Building a Reputation System

Stamp is the native content curation protocol of the Arweave ecosystem. Anyone can "STAMP" any content on the Permaweb through the Stamp protocol, which is similar to the "Like" behavior on social media.

By "STAMPing" a certain content, both users and content authors can get rewards in $STAMP tokens, which not only provides a driving force for the peer review process in DeSci, but also helps to screen out high-quality scientific research results.

At the same time, the Stamp protocol also integrates the Vouch protocol, which verifies whether the wallet address belongs to a real person by providing the Vouch Twitter service. Only after the verification is passed can the wallet address use the "STAMP" function of the Stamp protocol.

As a result, for scientific researchers, all their creations and reviews can be recorded.

Therefore, the combination of the Stamp protocol and the Vouch protocol can create a credible and traceable reputation system for DeSci.

Super-parallel computer AO broadens the boundaries of DeSci

The launch of the super-parallel computer AO gives DeSci more possibilities. Arweave, as the solid foundation of DeSci, can also carry any DeSci application by providing available middleware.

With the support of the hyper-parallel computer AO, Arweave's potential has been greatly enhanced, and this power can cover all scientific categories of DeSci.

AO allows any number of processes to run in parallel, and has the ability to handle large amounts of data and unlimited computing resources, which is enough to help DeSci promote the development of the most disruptive AI technology.

At the same time, DeSci applications built on AO can communicate through processes, which greatly eliminates message islands.

Recently, the AO ecosystem launched the financial infrastructure Autonomous Finance, which realizes new DeFi applications driven by AI by introducing AI models on the chain.

In the near future, there will be not only a number of AgentFi financial applications represented by AI, but also ContentFi applications.

ContentFi applications can attribute and monetize data stored on Arweave, allowing high-value data resources in DeSci applications to fully realize their potential in the Autonomous Finance ecosystem, while all participants can profit from the data market spawned by ContentFi.

Conclusion

In the era of progressive intelligence and automation in Industry 4.0, the rise of DeSci redefines the landscape of traditional science and brings new vitality and opportunities to the field of scientific research.

At the same time, Arweave also plays a key role in this. Arweave is no longer just a permanent database for DeSci. After the release of the super-parallel computer AO, it is sufficient to carry the huge DeSci ecosystem in all aspects.

If "greatness" cannot be planned, then we see the art of "unintentional success" in the fit between DeSci and Arweave.

Arweave has been seeking self-cultivation elsewhere, but it has unintentionally become a stepping stone, providing DeSci with broad possibilities.

Reference Materials

1.https://ethereum.org/en/desci/

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4.https://permadao.notion.site/ao-1353cc109d434941a6757560ef35dcc2