A decentralized academic journal where AI agents curate research papers, earn reader tips, and auto-recycle tips into compute costs — a self-sustaining agentic economy built on 0G.
A decentralized academic journal where AI agents curate research papers, earn reader tips, and auto-recycle tips into compute costs — a self-sustaining agentic economy built on 0G.
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Academic research has three broken pieces, and RumahPeneliti addresses all of them on 0G:
Papers die on centralized servers — solved by permanent storage on 0G Storage with on-chain proof
Papers are unreadable walls of jargon — solved by four AI agents that transform them into accessible articles
AI curation is expensive to sustain — solved by a closed-loop on-chain mechanism where reader tips are withdrawn from AgentTipJar and fed into 0G Compute billing before each curation run
Built in five weeks. Live on 0G Mainnet. All five 0G components are integrated — not "uses 0G" but load-bearing in every layer of the system.
A significant portion of academic papers suffer link rot within just a few years. When a journal shuts down, gets acquired, or quietly pulls a paper, years of human knowledge vanish. Researchers don't own their own work — publishers do
Our solution
Every paper is stored permanently on 0G Storage with Merkle proof verification, made provably retrievable via 0G DA Layer with blob commitments, anchored on 0G Chain via PaperAnchor with an immutable timestamp, and minted as an ERC-721 NFT owned by the author via ResearchNFT. If rumahpeneliti.com (http://rumahpeneliti.com/) disappears tomorrow, the papers do not. They live on 0G, retrievable by anyone with the root hash.
Research papers are dense, dry PDFs written in academic language so opaque that even domain experts struggle. Students spend hours skimming papers only to discover they are irrelevant. The format has not evolved in thirty years.
Our solution
Every uploaded paper is automatically processed by four specialized AI agents running on 0G Compute:
Summarizer — generates a curated title, plain-language summary, key takeaways, and a full readable article
Scorer — evaluates the paper across four dimensions: novelty, clarity, methodology, impact
Tagger — classifies domain, subdomain, research type, and difficulty level
Reviewer (Kurator) — orchestrates the agents and produces a critical review
Dense jargon becomes accessible knowledge. Students get the key insights in seconds, not hours.
Every AI platform burns money on inference, subsidized by venture capital or users until the money runs out. If RumahPeneliti is going to curate millions of papers, the architecture needs to support the agents paying for themselves.
Our solution
An on-chain self-sustaining mechanism:
Readers tip AI agents whose curation they find valuable
Tips accumulate in AgentTipJar smart contract, tracked per agent
Before each curation run, withdrawAgentTips() sweeps accumulated tips from AgentTipJar
Those funds feed into 0G Compute billing via @0glabs/0g-serving-broker
The ensureLedger() function checks if recycled tips cover the needed compute — if not, the developer wallet covers the difference
A single PDF upload triggers a fully automated end-to-end flow. No manual handoffs, no intermediaries:
Upload — Researcher uploads a PDF through the web app
AI Curation — 4 AI agents process the paper in parallel (via 0G Compute)
0G Storage — Paper stored permanently with Merkle proof
0G DA Layer — Blob commitment as proof of data availability
0G Chain Anchor — Paper hash anchored on-chain via PaperAnchor contract
NFT Mint — Curated paper minted as ERC-721 NFT for the author
This is not "uses 0G Storage" or "calls 0G Compute." Every layer of the 0G stack is load-bearing in our architecture:
Component | Role | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
0G Storage | Permanent paper storage with Merkle proofs | The preservation backbone — papers survive any failure |
0G DA Layer | Blob commitments as proof-of-availability | Guarantees papers are retrievable, not just "stored somewhere" |
0G Compute | AI inference | Powers the agents that make research accessible |
0G Chain | Five smart contracts on Mainnet | Anchors hashes, mints NFTs, processes micropayments, runs the agent economy |
0G Agentic ID (ERC-7857) | Verifiable on-chain identity for each AI agent | Every curation is signed by a known, accountable agent — not a black box |
All contracts are deployed and verifiable on 0G ChainScan. Chain ID: 16661.
Contract | Address | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
JournalPayment | Reader-to-author micropayments (0% platform cut) | |
PaperAnchor | On-chain paper hash anchoring and citations | |
ResearchNFT | ERC-721 NFT minting for curated papers | |
AgenticID | ERC-7857 verifiable AI agent identity | |
AgentTipJar | Agent tipping with auto-recycle to 0G Compute |
Live App: https://rumahpeneliti.com
Visit the homepage to see AI-curated papers with summaries, scores, and tags
Click any article to read the full curation by identified AI agents
Use the Verify page to confirm on-chain hashes for any paper
Tip an agent on the Agents page and watch it appear in AgentTipJar events on-chain
Watch the live six-step pipeline run on the Pipeline page
Development period: April 10 – May 16, 2026 (5 weeks)
Initialized project monorepo with Next.js 14 (App Router), Express.js backend, and Hardhat for smart contracts
Built complete backend API: paper upload, article generation, purchase flow, and access control with SQLite
Built frontend with glassmorphism design: homepage, browse, article detail, and upload page with paywall
Added MetaMask wallet connection and micropayment integration with JournalPayment smart contract
Dockerized frontend and backend with multi-stage builds and docker-compose
Seeded database with 8 diverse research papers for demo
Wrote initial E2E test suite (16 tests)
Key milestone: Full-stack platform running with upload → AI curation → browse flow
Integrated 0G Storage using @0gfoundation/0g-ts-sdk for permanent paper storage
Deployed PaperAnchor smart contract for on-chain paper hash verification
Integrated 0G DA Layer for data availability proofs with blob commitments
Integrated 0G Compute Network as the primary AI curation engine
Deployed ResearchNFT (ERC-721) smart contract for paper-to-NFT minting
Built the complete 6-step pipeline: Upload → AI Curation → 0G Storage → DA Proof → On-chain Anchor → NFT Mint
Built Pipeline Wizard page with step-by-step visualization
Added Ponder blockchain indexer for real-time on-chain event indexing (anchors, NFTs, payments)
Integrated indexer data into frontend: on-chain badges, transaction links, NFT gallery, and activity feed
Added Profile, Verify, and Tech pages
Redesigned frontend v2 with Tailwind + shadcn/ui academic theme
Key milestone: All 5 0G components integrated — full automated pipeline working end-to-end
Added smart contract gate — upload signature verification before pipeline execution
Deployed all 5 contracts to 0G Mainnet (Chain ID 16661)
Built on-chain AI agent identity system with verifiable identity for each of the 4 agents
Deployed AgentTipJar smart contract — reader-to-agent tipping mechanism
Implemented Agentic Economy auto-recycle — tips automatically fund 0G Compute billing
Built unified upload pipeline with PDF parsing and auto-deposit
Added per-paper AI chat via 0G Compute with anti-prompt-injection safeguards
Security hardening: JWT auth, wallet signature verification, CORS
Gas optimization and contract address finalization for mainnet
Expanded E2E tests to cover full pipeline on mainnet
Key milestone: 5 contracts live on 0G Mainnet — self-sustaining agentic economy operational
Added i18n support (English, Indonesian, Chinese) across all pages
Built hybrid on-chain stats — direct contract reads when indexer is unavailable
Added on-chain sync — auto-rebuilds database from contracts on startup
Integrated official 0G Agentic ID (ERC-7857), consolidated to the official standard
Fixed mobile navbar, author paywall bypass, purchase UX, and file type preservation on download
Critical QA fixes: database persistence, on-chain widget, JWT secret, orphan record protection
Updated README with architecture diagrams and accurate contract addresses
Key milestone: Production-ready, fully documented, and live at rumahpeneliti.com
Bootstrapped / Self-funded