1. Intro
2. Problem
3. Solution
4. Market
5. Demo
6. Timeline

🚀 Reviu

🧠 Inspiration

Who usually gets to review a paper?
Traditionally, it's a small group of academics handpicked by journals — a process that’s slow, opaque, and often biased. Reviews can be based off of reviewers personal interests and affiliations instead of based off quality of work. Reviu asks: What if peer review were open, decentralized, and built on reputation?

💡 What It Does

Reviu is a decentralized peer-review and voting system. Submitters get feedback from qualified anonymous reviewers that are verified using zero knowledge proofs — no gatekeepers required.
Reviewers choose fields of expertise, review relevant papers anonymously, and earn reputation based on the quality of their reviews.

⚙️ How We Built It

React frontend interface for scholars to review and submit papers annonymously
Ether.js backend for submission management and voting logic
Solidity for smart contracts for tracking user reputation and reviews
Dapp frontend with MetaMask integration and review dashboard
DeFi-inspired logic for future token rewards via $PER

🧩 Challenges We Ran Into

Understanding the peer review lifecycle and how bias is introduced
Designing a transparent, field-matched reputation system
Connecting the react front-end to the Ether.js back-endpoints
Making the platform anonymous yet credible (zero knowledge proof) and easy to use for real researchers

🏆 Accomplishments We're Proud Of

It works: researchers can submit papers and receive structured, anonymous reviews
Early testers saw the utility and wanted to try it with real research
We built a full-stack decentralized prototype in just a few days