Nature magazine introduces DeSci protocol ResearchHub, and its token RSC rises by more than 20% in 24 hours

Nature, one of the world’s most cited scientific journals, introduced the DeSci Protocol ResearchHub in a Dec. 11 article, which pays peer reviewers the equivalent of $150 in cryptocurrency for independent reviews of new research papers. Nature noted in its article that this is also a money-making opportunity for some, noting that Pedro Paulo Gattai Gomes, a molecular biology consultant in São Paulo, said he now earns more reviewing papers for ResearchHub than he did as a professor at an academic institution. Gomes said he reviews an average of 15 papers a month and earns $150 worth of ResearchHub ResearchCoin tokens (RSC) for each paper he reviews. He told the magazine: "It is fair to be paid to review, because it seems to me that it is very unfair to work voluntarily without a word of thanks." DeSci Protocol ResearchHub was launched in 2020 and is supported by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who spoke at the ResearchHub Journal launch event in San Francisco, California last month: "It is a strange anomaly in history that peer reviewers are not paid. What they do is a valuable thing, and we should recognize and reward them." CoinGecko data shows that RSC is currently at $0.9955, with a 24H increase of 20.1%. (Cointelegraph)