The problem Scientia DAO solves

The platform allows researchers & scientists to become a DAO member by submitting a request, the entry proposal is then sent to DAO dashboard where all the members can see it and approve the entry through voting.

Once the request is approved, a DAO member NFT is minted, and now any member can publish their research to IPFS through the /publish page.

After a research is published, anyone on the internet can visit the /explore page and read it along with other published researches.

In the DAO dashboard section, members also have an option to request for grants by submitting a grant proposal which can be approved by other members through voting.

The platform also offers the general audience to contribute to research by paying any amount of their choice, after someone contributes they are minted a contributor NFT. The amount collected by the means of contributors is used to pay for the grants that are requested by members to start a new research.

NOTE Website is compatible with all kind of devices and is flexible to use on any device , even Smart Phones . The wallet can be connected too with help of Mobile wallet.

Challenges I ran into

We enjoyed every minute building this project, apart from the times we faced errors. 😅

Some issues that we ran into while building this platform:

• Deciding how to take new member entry. Since this platform is research and scientific community focused, we wanted to keep the membership to only genuine people. To avoid any type of spams, we decided to go with the voting option.
• Keeping the UX simple. The project idea was quite new, and we couldn't find many resources regarding how we should be implementing the whole idea. We decided to keep navigation flow simple so that anyone can easily navigate through the application.
• Managing multiple contracts (5) for a single platform together at the same time and integrating them in frontend.
• We faced issues in retrieving data from IPFS & contracts in the proper format , but later it was resolved.
• Integrating the contracts and creating components for each task was really a big task for us. We made over 15 components to add the actually functionality, handled well by all the team members.