Prediction market platform for scientific experiments
Event-contract app that crowdsources forecasts on scientific experiment outcomes to accelerate research.
Summary
A web app where researchers post experiment hypotheses as tradable contracts and a community trades to reveal consensus probabilities, incentivizing accurate forecasting and helping prioritize promising experiments.
Problem
Inefficient allocation of experimental effort and limited incentives for external evaluation of experiment likelihoods and utility.
Target customer
Academic labs, research institutions, citizen science platforms, funders, and science-focused communities.
Solution
Create a platform to post experiment-related event contracts, enable trading, provide reputation systems to surface expert predictors, offer analytics to researchers and funders, and integrate outcome reporting.