ScieNFT is an open-access preprint server that helps researchers share scientific assets on the blockchain. The ScieNFT marketplace allows science enthusiasts to trade these assets as digital collectibles through the use of NFT technology, providing a new source of research funding for institutions.

ScieNFT welcomes a diverse variety of published and unpublished science content including original research articles, grant proposals, research methods, ideas, essays, opinion, and artifacts like experimental apparatus or science related artwork.

Sharing your work as a preprint on ScieNFT does not preempt you from publishing your work elsewhere.

ScieNFT is an open-access preprint server. All of the scientific assets shared on ScieNFT can be viewed online without creating a ScieNFT account. However you must create an account to create or trade NFTs, and to discuss or review research.

ScieNFT encourages users to use their real world identity to create and discuss research on our platform. You should accurately describe your research, interests, and professional credentials in your profile. We also strongly recommend that you use your institutional email to facilitate transparency.

Users who wish to collect and trade NFTs anonymously are welcome to create an additional account for this purpose in the interest of protecting their privacy.

Create an account, fill out your user profile, and start creating science NFTs! Help us improve the platform by sharing feedback on our social media channels and help build community by encouraging your peers to create accounts too.

ScieNFT is interested in developing partnerships with laboratories, institutions, and funding agencies. Our goal is to speed up and democratize how science is shared online while creating real world value for researchers and their institutions. If you are interested in partnering with us, please send us an email at contact@scienft.com

Yes. We hope that researchers will find innovative ways to use ScieNFT to fund projects as a way to supplement grant funding. For example, you could create and sell NFTs based on a research proposal for this purpose.

Diverse scientific assets can be shared on ScieNFT. We welcome your original research, opinion pieces, pedagogical content, grants and patent applications, conference presentations, slides, posters, and artifacts like experimental apparatus or science related artwork.

We encourage you to share work-in-progress like preliminary data and figures, negative results, or even new ideas scribbled on a napkin. We hope you will use ScieNFT to share new findings as quickly as possible to accelerate progress in the global scientific community. The faster and more we share, the better!

ScieNFT provides an intuitive interface for creating an NFT that works like submitting a manuscript to a preprint server or journal. You will be asked to provide a title and abstract, a list of creators ordered by their contribution, and the files you want your NFT to include. Finally, you will be asked to upload an image that we will use to represent your NFT in search results within the ScieNFT marketplace.

Your NFT can be saved as a draft until it is ready to share on the blockchain. After your NFT is created, you will not be to make further changes to its content, so be sure that everything is correct before moving an NFT out of the draft state.

Yes. You are welcome to create NFTs based on work that you have published elsewhere, provided that doing so does not violate any copyrights that you may have assigned to others. Our editorial team can assist you with uploading your past research. Contact us at contact@scienft.com for assistance.

No. Publishing data to a public blockchain requires a network payment, commonly referred to as a "gas fee". In order to make it easy for scientists to share their work on the blockchain, ScieNFT manages these network payments on behalf of our users. We do not currently charge for this service but may introduce fees in the future.

Yes. ScieNFT is an open-access preprint server. You, your collaborators, and your institution retain copyrights for any work you share and can submit the same content to journals or other publishers after it appears on ScieNFT.

Not yet. To allow research to disseminate as quickly as possible, ScieNFT does not require advance review of work that appears online. However, we are actively working to add new tools to the platform to facilitate content moderation, peer-to-peer discussion, and peer review.

We are actively working on tools to foster dialogue and center transparency in scientific review. We expect that comments and reviews will be permanently attached to the NFT within the ScieNFT marketplace, within a forum where users can critique both the original work and the reviews. Participating users will be rewarded for their efforts from a pool of tokens that are staked when the NFT is created. We would welcome your participation on our social media channels as we finalize these plans!

Not yet. We are actively working to provide metrics for the visibility of your work that take into account research engagement, peer review scores, and NFT marketplace activity. Our hope is to develop new methods for recognizing important work according to quality and importance that will complement existing metrics like the Impact Factor or the h-index. In the meantime, you might consider the last sale price of an NFT as one simple metric that reflects the perceived value of the work within the ScieNFT community.

You can save an editable draft of an NFT and make changes before creating the NFT on the public blockchain. When an NFT is moved out of the draft state, its content can no longer be modified. You can invite other ScieNFT users to help you edit your NFT by inviting them to edit your draft.

Roles associated with NFTs on ScieNFT include three agents that control blockchain permissions (the Beneficiary, Administrator, and Owner), an ordered list of researchers who contributed to the scientific content of the NFT (the Creators), and a list of ScieNFT users who have permission to make changes to the NFT while it is in the draft state (the Editors).

The Beneficiary is the entity that receives the proceeds of the first sale of the NFT and royalties on any subsequent sales. For example, you can appoint your laboratory, your consortium, or your institution as the Beneficiary.

The Administrator can mark the NFT as retracted or add a link to files serving as errata or a revision of the work. The Administrator can also update the Beneficiary or Administrator for the NFT. Finally, the Administrator approves the first sale of the NFT with the proceeds of the sale going to the Beneficiary. Your administrative assistant or lab manager can create an NFT on your behalf and designate you as the Administrator.

The Owner of an NFT sets the price of the NFT in the marketplace and approves its sale.

The Creators of an NFT are the individuals who have contributed to the science represented by the NFT. As in the author list provided for a traditional published paper, the list of Creators is ordered according to contribution, with the principle investigator listed last.

The Editors of a draft NFT are ScieNFT users who have permission to modify the content of an NFT before it is created on the public blockchain.

When an NFT is moved out of the draft state and created on the public blockchain, its content can no longer be modified. However, some of the data stored for the NFT on the blockchain can be updated. For example, the Owner of the NFT can transfer the NFT to a buyer. The Administrator of the NFT is able to formally retract the work, set a link to additional files as errata, or update the wallet assigned to the NFT as its Beneficiary or Administrator.

No. NFTs that are created on the public blockchain become a permanent part of the scientific record. However, the Administrator of the NFT is able to mark the work as retracted, or add a link to additional files that can serve as errata or a revision.

Yes. All research is welcome as long as its content is appropriate for our platform.

The ScieNFT team is currently exploring blockchain options in order to select a system that offers our members the best experience possible. During the Beta phase, the authoritative copy of all NFT data will be stored on a private chain. All data will transfer to the public blockchain we select at product launch.

ScieNFT is an open-access preprint server where research can be shared without the transfer of any intellectual property rights. An NFT represents only the notional ownership of science content as a digital collectible.

Science content shared on ScieNFT is referenced in a data record stored on a public blockchain. This data record includes a cryptographic signature controlled by a unique secret key. When an NFT is sold, the seller updates this cryptographic signature to match the secret key of the buyer. From a technology perspective, owning an NFT simply means that you control the secret key required to update the blockchain data entry. The buyer of an NFT acquires only the right to transfer ownership of the NFT.

While the regulations that control patent rights vary between countries, sharing your work as an NFT is likely to constitute a public disclosure. We suggest that you consult with your attorney or your institutional technology transfer office before creating an NFT from work that you may want to use in a patent application.

ScieNFT is developing a platform utility token for use in our NFT creation process, marketplace, and peer review tools. A fixed supply of utility tokens will be created and distributed after the final product has been completed.

During the ScieNFT product Beta phase, users will interact with the platform using mock tokens, called "SCI tokens", that do not exist on any external blockchain. We will refine our plans for the platform utility token based on observations made during the Beta phase. We welcome your participation in our utility token planning process on our social media channels.

You can earn SCI tokens today by creating a ScieNFT account and from the sale of NFTs. We are also actively experimenting with our token reward system so you may receive additional tokens as you participate in the ScieNFT community.

You can use SCI tokens to purchase NFTs in the ScieNFT marketplace, or transfer them to other ScieNFT users.

The price of an NFT is set by its current owner. When an NFT is purchased, SCI tokens are automatically transferred from buyer to seller and the buyer becomes the new owner of the NFT. The nature of blockchain technology makes these actions irreversible, so please be careful when considering your purchases.

You can list any NFT you own in the ScieNFT marketplace for a fixed sale price. We are actively working to add functionality to allow you to sell your NFTs to the highest bidder after a fixed auction period. We welcome your ideas on how we should implement NFT auctions on our social media channels.

Not yet. During the Beta stage, ScieNFT will maintain custodial wallets for all users. When the project moves to a public chain, we will offer additional guidance on how to connect ScieNFT to hardware or browser-based cryptocurrency wallets.