We have found crypto to be incredibly effective at incentivizing quantity AND quality with the right incentive design.
For example in only 2 weeks running our nanobody design competition we saw:
• Binding confidence: up ~3x from first to last submission
• Structural fit: uncertainty at the interface dropped by nearly half
• Hydrogen bonds: grow steadily across all designs.
As well as in our chemical search algorithm competition, where a miner introduced an optimization strategy never applied to drug discovery before (not just quality but novelty).
This strategy has continued to be improved across challenges and consistently outperforms a published benchmark across different targets.
You can see our progress live on our dashboard: