EUREKA - The Next-generation Open Science Platform – Powered by Blockchain

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Academia is facing well-documented serious challenges from current models for scholarly publishing including:

Long delays in publishing research
Over-reliance of trust in researchers, peer reviewers and publishers that creates irreproducibility and unreliability in science
Absence of fair credit for contribution

EUREKA revolutionizes the scientific publishing and reviewing process by making it more efficient and fair using the EUREKA token to compensate all parties involved. Scientific discoveries can now be openly rated and rewarded based on the quality of the research. EUREKA is a scientific review and rating platform fueled by the EUREKA token from EKA Blockchain Solutions GmbH. Blockchain has the capacity to open science and make research findings immutable, transparent and decentralised.

EUREKA exploits blockchain technology and smart contracts to enable a more efficient and trustworthy publishing process by introducing time stamping for discoveries, rewarding reviewers, editors and referenced authors and decentralising publishing.

ScienceMatters is a scientific online publishing platform. The team behind ScienceMatters is also behind the EUREKA platform. After launching in 2016, ScienceMatters has operated multiple journals and covers all aspects of science publishing. In the same year the company was endorsed by the European Commission. It has 24 scientific advisory board members chaired by the Nobel laureate Prof. Tom Südhof and around 600 editorial board members from some of the best institutes around the world, such as Harvard University, Stanford University, ETH and the Max-Planck Institute.

Why choose Eureka?

Publishing in real-time: From the moment of their conception, scientific observations are recorded on the EUREKA platform as single observations or preprints giving the author or inventor:

Immediate ownership rights and instantaneous credit and recognition.
Instantaneous feedback from peers.
Instantaneous and open sharing with the scientific community.

Crowdsourced and paid peer-reviewing: By using a blockchain based platform we:

Make use of both crowdsourced wisdom and time zones to get a faster and more accurate evaluation of the work.
Ensure the review process is bias-free and based on merit alone.
Enable smart-contract based payments to compensate authors, reviewers, as well as anyone who contributes to the advancement (development) of the work for their efforts.

Immutable, transparent and decentralised publishing: Publishing on the EUREKA platform ensures that archived data is immutable, timestamped; version controlled, and securely distributed thus providing an ideal system for research data management that does not put trust on either the publishers or authors.

EUREKA Token

The EUREKA Token (EKA) is a utility token and is a ERC20 combined with ERC667 token, thus it will follow token standards provided by the Ethereum protocol, meaning it can be sent and received in transactions on the Ethereum ecosystem.

Eureka's Token Sale Details

Token Ticker Symbol: EKA
Public Sale Price per Token ($): 0.10
Accepted currencies: BTC, ETH
Total supply (#): 298,607,040
Tokens for ICO Sale (#): 149,303,520
Hard Cap ($): 14,930,3521
Soft Cap ($): 2,000,000

Token Allocation

Utilization of EUREKA Token (EKA)

EUREKA tokens and platform are used for:

Submitting articles for review
Proving ownership of observations and research output with time-stamping
Upvoting and down voting articles with EKA micropayments
Voting for awards and prizes
Paying the submission fee, which includes a fee for operating costs and a variable fee to reward two or more peer reviewers?
Automatically connecting peer reviewers with manuscript submissions
REWARD ratings from peer reviewers can be used anywhere
Rewarding peer reviewers, authors for citations and for having exceptional REWARD ratings
Research funding using smart contracts: Releasing funds for studies, peer review once conditions have been met
Token pledges, awards and prizes contributed by organisations for scientists and researchers to reach set milestones and help solve society’s problems
Decentralised, peer-to-peer crowdfunding from the general public to directly pay scientists around the world to conduct research studies on the EUREKA Platform into under researched diseases and ailments
In the EUREKA Marketplace as a quality measure for research proposals