UniCoin is a decentralized, smart contract based non-custodial research marketplace which empowers academics to benefit from commercially viable work. Companies can buy direct access to ideas they want to implement and are issued an NFT based licence which represents their access to the papers content. Papers are free for non-commercial usage. Research is always free for open-source and other research projects.
Unicoin began as a group project for the Mphil in Financial Technology at the University of Cape Town for the courses Fintech and Crypto Currencies and Financial Software Engineering and later formed the basis for a number of masters dissertations. The original repo can be found here.
The masters thesis accompanying this repository and all associated documentation can be found here. The other thesis, created by Luke Meiklejohn, can be found here.
This repo also contains a series of useful documents from the original unicoin project which are equally relevant for Unicoin2.0, including:
This monorepo contains all code for the UniCoin ecosystem.
Front end application can be run as outlined below:
yarn install
yarn run serve
yarn run build
This repo also contains smart contracts to facilitate auction listing, licence minting and account management.
truffle compile
truffle compile
truffle test
truffle migrate --network rinkeby
Unicoin's smart contracts were written to be upgradable using the Openzeppelin SDK. To deploy an upgradable version of the dapp run and then follow the consol prompts.
zos push
For more details on using ZOS and all associated functionality please see here.