The DeSci Guide: Is Decentralized Science the New Web 3.0 Trend?
Hacker Noon July 2, 2022
With the advent and development of blockchain, the world began to strive for openness, transparency, and decentralization in many industries. In just a few years, blockchain from Bitcoin and payment systems began to open up more and more facets of its usefulness to humanity, making finance decentralized and the world of art and creativity more open to talented people. In less than 10 years, concepts of NFT, DeFi, metauniverses, and web 3.0 have become widespread. So it is unsurprising that the subsequent discovery was DeSci – decentralized science.
Recent years have seen breakthroughs in many areas of science – such as the discovery of RNA vaccines, genetic engineering advances, and successful fusion experiments.
But I will examine whether science is...