Decentralised Research Fund

Cryptography, Tokenomics, Dapps, Distributed systems; these are all difficult topics that need proper research, without reinventing wheels.

Research projects are started with a goal to write peer reviewed papers relevant to this field and to create insightfull models open source

- number of papers submitted for peer review
- number of cites of papers resulting from the challenge
- number of independent researchers invloved (each organisation counted as one, for sake of decentralisation)
- number of proposals (in other challenges) referencing these papers

- number of models produced and made available

This challenge is here for researchers to seek funding.

Research should relate to fields relevant to the cardano community and the proposal should contain a clear argument to make this case. The proposal should contain a clear research question and an indication of the expected methodologies.

The challenge promotes independent research and the work resulting from these proposals should be made publicly avaible for anyone to review and re-use.

In line with Catalyst approach to start new Challenges with a small fund, this challenge setting can be seen as a trial. Each individual proposal can ask for max 2500 of the total funds. Proposers can only be involved in 1 proposal within this challenge. This is to encourage diversity and ensure that at least 4 research projects can be funded in this challenge round.