🤝 Open-access journals are our natural partners.

We're not here to replace journals, we're here to give them a trust layer.

What journals gain with CiteChain:
🔗 Verifiable citations for every paper
🏆 Recognition & rewards for authors and reviewers
🛡 A tamper-proof record that strengthens integrity
🌍 Built especially for Diamond & open-access journals

And we want to design the integration layer WITH journals, not for them. Pilot partners welcome.

Editors & publishers, let's talk 👇
📧 contact@citechain.org
🌐 citechain.org

📺 CiteChain is on YouTube!

Come watch, learn, and follow the build. What you'll find:

🎓 CiteChain Academy: science, explained simply
🎬 The vision: where science is heading
🛠 Building in public: our real journey
🔬 Deep-dives into how CiteChain works

New videos regularly.

▶️ Subscribe: youtube.com/@citechain
🌐 citechain.org

🌐 CiteChain isn't a product you buy. It's a network that grows stronger as it grows.

Its value comes from usefulness, not price:

🔬 More researchers → more verified work
🔗 More citations → a richer web of trust
🤝 More journals → wider reach
🛡 More validators → stronger integrity

Every honest contribution makes the whole network more useful, for everyone in it.

This is how real infrastructure grows: through adoption and trust, not hype. Value that's built, not bought.

🌐 citechain.org

📄 How to read a scientific paper (the secret nobody teaches)

Don't read it top to bottom. Do this instead:

1️⃣ Abstract, is it worth your time?
2️⃣ Intro + conclusion, why + what
3️⃣ Figures, the data tells the story
4️⃣ Methods + results, only if it matters

And always ask: could this be reproduced? 🔍

Reading critically is what makes a real researcher.

More on CiteChain Academy
🌐 citechain.org

🌍 There are around 9 million researchers in the world.

Every one of them publishes, reviews, and replicates. Every one does honest work the system rarely rewards.

Our vision is simple: a home for all of them. A fairer system for science that welcomes every researcher, everywhere.

Not all at once. One researcher, one honest contribution, at a time.

Are you one of them? You're welcome here.
🌐 citechain.org
💬 discord.gg/citechain

⏳ Two timelines. Same researcher.

TODAY:
❌ You review papers for free
❌ Your replication is ignored
❌ Your metrics can be gamed
❌ Publishers profit from your work

WITH CITECHAIN:
✅ Your review is recognized
✅ Your replication counts
✅ Your merit can't be gamed
✅ Value flows back to you

Same work. Same researcher. A completely different outcome, decided by the system.

The second timeline isn't here yet. But it's buildable, and we're building it, one honest contribution at a time.

Which timeline do you want?
🌐 citechain.org
💬 discord.gg/citechain

💡 The journey of a single citation.

Every citation begins as someone's hard work. It waits through peer review, through years, hoping to matter. Then one day, someone builds on it, its moment. ✨

But today? No one verifies it. No one is rewarded. It's forgotten.

What if every citation was verified, and its people finally rewarded?

Every citation is someone's work. It deserves to count. We're building a world where it does.

🌐 citechain.org

🤫 Science has a secret problem: the replication crisis.

A study finds something exciting. Other scientists try to repeat it... and can't get the same result. Across many fields, a huge share of studies can't be reliably reproduced.

Replication is how science checks itself, the backbone of trust. So why is it in crisis? Because it's boring, unfunded, and unrewarded. Nobody gets credit for checking, so barely anyone does.

What if replication finally counted, and was rewarded?

Reward replication. Rebuild trust in science.
🌐 citechain.org

🌱 Look how far we've come.

No hype, just real progress:

✅ Vision & whitepaper published
✅ Development of v1.0 underway
✅ Community launched (Discord + socials)
✅ CiteChain Academy educational series live
✅ Ambassador program open across universities
✅ First journal & advisor conversations underway

We're an early project with a big mission. Every step is real, and every one was built in the open. And we're just getting started.

Thank you to everyone who's been part of it.
🌐 citechain.org

🎓 For universities & higher education institutions.

Every institution's reputation rests on the trustworthiness of its research. CiteChain is building the trust layer to help protect it.

Why it matters to institutions:
🛡 Strengthen research integrity with verifiable citations
🏆 Recognize your researchers' honest contributions
🔍 Add transparency & provenance to scholarly work
🌍 Signal leadership in open science

Built to support institutions, not replace them. This is on our roadmap, and it's still early, but the conversations shaping it are happening now. Early partners welcome.

Research offices & leaders, let's talk 👇
📧 contact@citechain.org
🌐 citechain.org

🛠 $CITE isn't for speculation. It's a token with a job to do.

What $CITE is actually for:

🛡 Stake for trust, validators back their honest judgments
🔍 Reward review, finally compensate peer reviewers
🔁 Fund replication, reward the work that confirms truth
🏆 Earn by contributing, eligibility for honest work
🗳 Govern the protocol, a voice in decisions
🤝 Power integration for journals & institutions

⚠️ Honest note: several of these are on our roadmap, not live today. Token mechanics like staking come after our audit. We're showing how $CITE is designed to work.

$CITE is earned, never bought. Utility, not speculation.

🌐 citechain.org

💡 How does CiteChain actually work? Simpler than you'd think.

1️⃣ CONNECT, sign in with your ORCID researcher identity
2️⃣ RETRIEVE, CiteChain gathers your publications & citations
3️⃣ VERIFY, each citation is checked against clear rules, verified or not
4️⃣ RECOGNIZE, verified work earns estimated $CITE eligibility

Identity → verification → recognition. Honest work, made to count.

That's the foundation. Everything else we're building grows from this simple, trustworthy core.

🌐 citechain.org

🎬 CiteChain Academy is LIVE on YouTube!

Episode 01: "What is scientific research?"

The first lesson in our free series explaining how science really works, simply, clearly, for everyone. No jargon, no gatekeeping.

We start at the very beginning: what research actually is, and how careful curiosity becomes trusted knowledge.

▶️ Watch now: youtube.com/@citechain
🔔 New episodes regularly. Subscribe & follow the journey.

The journey begins.
🌐 citechain.org

🌐 Wherever you are, we're there.

Follow CiteChain on the platform you already love:

🐦 X: @CiteChain
💼 LinkedIn: /company/citechain
📸 Instagram: @citechain
👥 Facebook: @citechain
▶️ YouTube: @citechain
💬 Discord: discord.gg/citechain
📢 Telegram: @citechain (you're here! 👋)
🎵 TikTok: @citechain

One mission, everywhere.

🌐 Everything starts at citechain.org

🎭 Explaining CiteChain to different people (same project, four very different pitches):

🎓 To a professor: a verifiable, tamper-proof citation record that rewards peer review & replication.
☕️ To a PhD student: your unpaid reviewing finally counts 😭
👵 To your grandma: scientists get credit for their hard work.
😎 To a crypto bro: it's on-chain, but no, you can't ape in. $CITE is earned, not bought 😅

Same mission every time: science that rewards the people who make it.

🌐 citechain.org

📊 Rate my citation: a tier list.

🟢 S: A verified citation, real, confirmed, honest
🟢 A: Citing work that genuinely shaped your research
🟡 B: Citing yourself, when it's actually relevant
🟠 C: Padding your reference list to look thorough
🔴 F: Citation cartels & self-citation farming

Here's the thing: today all of these look the SAME in a citation count. A gold-standard citation and a gamed one both just add "+1" to a number that decides careers.

The difference between S and F? Whether it can be verified. That's the whole point of CiteChain.

🌐 citechain.org

🧊 The iceberg of a single paper.

ABOVE the surface (all the world sees & rewards):
📄 The published paper

BELOW the surface (invisible & unrewarded):
▪️ Years of research
▪️ Failed experiments & dead ends
▪️ Peer review, done for free
▪️ Replication & verification
▪️ Data cleaning, mentorship, honest labor

We reward the tip. We ignore the enormous mass beneath it, even though that hidden work is what makes research trustworthy.

CiteChain is built to recognize the whole iceberg.

🌐 citechain.org

🧾 You keep receipts for everything. Why not for science?

🛒 Groceries? Receipt.
✈️ Flight? Receipt.
💳 Anything that matters? Receipt.

But a citation, the foundation of human knowledge? No receipt. Just an unchecked claim.

We demand proof for a $5 purchase. But for the knowledge humanity relies on, we take it on faith.

A citation is a claim. A verified citation is a receipt. 🧾✅

That's CiteChain: proof for the knowledge we all rely on.

🌐 citechain.org

🧊 A published paper is just the tip of the iceberg.

Above the water: the published paper. All the world sees.

Below the surface:
🔬 Months of research
❌ Failed experiments
☕️ Peer review, done for free
🔁 Replication & verification
📊 Data cleaning
🤝 Mentorship & collaboration

The world rewards the tip. All of that goes unseen.

What if we recognized the whole iceberg?

🌐 citechain.org

🎬 CiteChain Academy Episode 02 is LIVE on YouTube!

"The Scientific Method"

How do scientists actually know if an idea is true? We walk through the step-by-step recipe behind every discovery, simply and clearly.

Observe → Question → Hypothesize → Experiment → Analyze → Conclude → Replicate

That last step, replication, is the real backbone of trustworthy science.

▶️ Watch now: youtube.com/@citechain
🔔 New episodes regularly. Subscribe & follow along.

New here? Start with Episode 01: What Is Scientific Research?
🌐 citechain.org

🇲🇦 For Moroccan researchers, honest clarity about CiteChain:

Heard about us but felt unsure because crypto feels foggy here? You deserve honesty.

Who we are: three Moroccan university professors. Academics, like you.

The clarity:
✅ Join with just your ORCID, the ID you already use
✅ No crypto, no wallet, no money needed to take part
✅ It's about recognition for your honest work, not speculation
✅ Built openly, by Moroccan professors
✅ Rewards peer review, replication & real contribution

Yes, there's a technology layer that makes recognition verifiable, but that's the engine under the hood, never the point.

CiteChain is a mission to make science fairer. The technology just makes it possible.

Questions or doubts? Ask us anything.
🌐 citechain.org