ResearchHub, the startup co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to accelerate the gait of technological probe utilizing cryptocurrency, has raised $5 cardinal successful a backing round.
The Series A fundraising was led by Open Source Software Capital with information from Boost VC, RedHat's Bob Young, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch, Replit's Amjad Masad and others.
Funders of subject projects trust connected citation-based metrics to justice the prime of an world researcher, truthful galore scientists optimize their probe to make the astir citations possible. That, accidental Armstrong and co-founder Patrick Joyce, is simply a broken, wasteful model. Science should run much similar open-source software, they argue.
ResearchHub is gathering a level that allows anyone to gain crypto rewards for contributing caller cognition to the planetary technological community. Users gain ResearchCoin (RSC) for publishing contented to ResearchHub, and the magnitude of RSC received is successful proportionality to however invaluable different members of the assemblage comprehend contented to be.
“Our web exertion hosts a suite of publishing and collaboration tools that assistance researchers draught caller manuscripts and stock them with the world,” a ResearchHub blog station said. “Over time, we anticipation to iterate towards a ResearchCoin reward operation that channels resources to the champion and the brightest minds connected ResearchHub successful a reliable, evidence-based fashion.”
Edited by Sheldon Reback.