Owl papers

Inspiration

We wanted to make peer review of academic papers a decentralized process, with more incentives. Right now, scientists do reviewing of academic papers for free and we thought that it would be of their interest to be paid for it.

What it does

It contains a smart contract that handles the review process of a paper and gives a reward for each review submmited.

How we built it

We built it using hardhat. There is also an attempt to make a front-end.

Challenges we ran into

We didn't have much time to implement a lot of the things. First, we started it wanting to make a process to enable private data for nfts, But we pivoted and made it into a project to incentive peer reviews of papers.

What we learned

We learned how to use chainlink VRF and Moralis. Moralis specifically was used to facilitate minting of papers a NFTs and listing them. The Chainlink VRF we used to select only a few reviewers randomly to review a paper.

What's next for Owl papers

Owl papers would better work as a DAO. Right now, even if reviewers submit a bad review they could get paid for it. Some form of validation of a review before payment would be required. Despite being possible to deploy a reviewHandler and ask for a review in the front-end, we didn't manage to make further interactions to the reviewHandler in the front-end. There is still much to be done to make this project friendly and useful to researchers.

Built With

• chainlink
• hardhat
• moralis
• nextjs