Incentives shape outcomes. Science is shaped by hidden economic and political forces that distort what seems to be true. Decentralized Science may alleviate problems around funding, conducting, and sharing research. The resulting swell in knowledge — if we make DeSci happen — would be nothing less than a second scientific revolution. This three part series describes systems to augment existing scientific practices. These incentives structures are made practical by distributed networks, more c...

Incentives shape outcomes. Science is shaped by hidden economic and political forces that distort what seems to be true. Decentralized Science may alleviate problems around funding, conducting, and sharing research. The resulting swell in knowledge — if we make DeSci happen — would be nothing less than a second scientific revolution. This three part series describes systems to augment existing scientific practices. These incentives structures are made practical by distributed networks, more c...