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The Science Commons Initiative

The Science Commons Initiative is a nonprofit collaboration focused on increasing public access to and participation in science. It identifies, highlights, and funds technological and strategic infrastructure supporting scientists and researchers, with an emphasis on open and democratic science.
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Gridcoin Development Fund


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The Gridcoin Development Fund is a named initiative of The Science Commons Initiative focused on supporting the technological development and economic protocol behind Gridcoin, an open-source, permissionless blockchain that distributes cryptocurrency based partly on scientific computing contributions through BOINC. The fund currently supports a development bounty board.

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DeSci Ecosystem Fund


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The DeSci Ecosystem Fund supports the decentralized science movement by developing free, permissionless, project-agnostic infrastructure. Its stated activities include supporting DeSci events and freelance development, providing outreach and education for people new to web3 and DeSci, and supporting DeSci community resources, weekly roundups, and news aggregation and curation.

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BOINC Development Fund


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The BOINC Development Fund directs contributions toward bug bounties, bug fixes, features, and continuous development of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), with goals including improved usability, functionality, user experience, and hardware utilization. It also supports BOINC promotional materials and online promotion of BOINC projects.

Category: Grants Platform