Lennard Jones Token: a blockchain solution to scientific data curation

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.00902
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Brian H. Lee; Alejandro Strachan
• Keywords: Data Sharing

Data science and artificial intelligence have become an indispensable part of scientific research. While such methods rely on high-quality large quantities machine-readable data, the current data infrastructure faces significant challenges that limit effective curation sharing. These include insufficient return investment for researchers to share quality logistical difficulties in maintaining long-term repositories, absence standardized evaluating relative importance various datasets. To address these issues, this paper presents Lennard Jones Token, a blockchain-based proof-of-concept solution implemented Ethereum network. The token system incentivizes users submit optimized structures particles by offering rewards, while also charging access valuable structures. Utilizing smart contracts, automates evaluation submitted ensuring only with energies lower than those existing database given cluster size are rewarded. explores details Token as proof concept proposes future tokens aimed at enhancing sharing data.