BIO & ResearchHub: A Symbiotic DeSci Relationship

Co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, ResearchHub is a “modern-day preprint server that incentivizes the open publication of transparent research” through its ‘rewards for reviews’ model.

Instead of peer reviews getting stalled behind paywalls and the ivory towers of academia, ResearchHub offers researchers an accessible, no-cost environment to collaborate on scientific research more efficiently.

ResearchHub serves as an important de-risking engine for BioDAOs, community-owned R&D networks that develop tokenized biotech assets in specific areas of scientific research. BioDAOs can use ResearchHub to request and provide peer reviews, run micro-experiments and ultimately to de-risk and improve their deal flow.

Read on to learn more about what this collaboration looks like in action and how BioDAOs and their members (patients, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs) leverage ResearchHub to turn early-stage research into valuable scientific intellectual property.

Incentivizing Breakthrough Research

At its core, BIO is engineered to accelerate the R&D of BioDAOs through decentralized funding, liquidity, and incentives.

ResearchHub builds on this focus through its incentivized peer review model, which does just that: rewards researchers who submit peer reviews (grouped in ‘Hubs’ per the area of research so that it's easy to find what you’re interested in) with ResearchCoin tokens. Besides getting rewarded with tokens when performing a peer review, users can earn additional tokens depending on how many upvotes their peer reviews get. More upvotes = more tokens.

Participants can also request services on ResearchHub by creating “grants” to further incentivize other users to engage with their posts.

The success of this incentivized research approach has led to a recent spike in the number of ResearchHub-powered peer reviews across the DeSci ecosystem in recent months.