Digital Science Award Special Blockchain Technology Catalyst Grants

Research industry technology incubator Digital Science has announced the recipients of its Blockchain Catalyst Grant. This one-off grant was made available to any project implementing Blockchain in a scholarly or scientific context, especially those that addressed the dissemination of research. Blockchain technology has disrupted the financial sector with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum; the technology has also proved to be valuable in logistics as well as supporting the Internet of Things and other domains. Scholarly communication and open science can benefit from transparency, distributed consensus, accountability, proof of existence, evidence of change, and other features of Blockchain technology. This special grant was created to recognise the potential of Blockchain to create innovative new tools and platforms to improve scholarly communication. “Blockchain has fantastic potential for scientific research, and we were keen to explore what early-stage, innovative ideas were out there,” said Steve Scott, Director of Portfolio Development, Digital Science. “We were genuinely surprised at both the number of entries for this specialist area and the high quality of all the applications. It was a difficult final decision, and we’ve chosen to award grants to two projects with really interesting potential.’ The team at Datax in Hong Kong are developing a data ecosystem that will improve the quantity, quality and diversity of datasets available for machine l...
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