Open peer review, transparent funding, and real-time progress updates. The shortest path from dollars to discovery for funders who want to fund the work, not the overhead.

These are some of the features you'll find on ResearchHub — the hub for open science, where researchers, funders, and the public meet to share and discuss research.

The funding marketplace links funding agencies with a global pool of researchers. It operates through a simple pipeline designed to promote transparency and reproducibility.

ResearchCoin (RSC) is an ERC20 token that rewards the work that actually advances science — funding it, reviewing it, replicating it, discussing it.

ResearchHub’s users are rewarded with ResearchCoin (RSC) for publishing, reviewing, criticizing, and collaborating in the open. Once earned, RSC gives users the ability to fund scientific research, request services, tip other users, and gain voting rights within community decision making.

ResearchHub and ResearchCoin are maintained and improved through a partnership between the ResearchHub Foundation and Researchhub Technologies, Inc. - Together, we are a collection of skeptical, yet optimistic individuals who want to accelerate the pace of science.

We think the incentives of scientific funding and publishing are broken, and that blockchain can help.

ResearchCoin (RSC) is a reward token anyone can earn by sharing, curating, and discussing academic science within ResearchHub. The number of RSC earned for any given action is proportional to how valuable the community perceives that action to be. Within ResearchHub, RSC is used to properly recognize and reward users who help create value within our community, and in doing so, bring the scientific community together.

ResearchCoin empowers the people who dedicate their time & energy to building ResearchHub with additional influence over the type of content created within our community. People can use the RSC they earn to: Incentivize content creation with RSC bounties Tip the content they find valuable by supporting with RSC Vote on key decisions for the community

The ResearchHub Foundation has deployed ResearchCoin on Base to enable cheaper and faster transactions. Base is an Ethereum layer-2 network that benefits from the security of the Ethereum Mainnet, while offering significantly lower gas fees. ResearchCoin on Base is backed 1:1 by the main token on Ethereum.