help carve the canon.
Bucket Foundation is a nonprofit, open-research project — no equity, no investors, no exit. Everything is free to read and priced-once to cite, the code is MIT, the datasets are CC-BY-4.0, and the protocol spec is CC0 in intent. That only works if people build it. There are five concrete ways to help, below.
If you only do one thing: publish a piece of primary research to the canon. If you write code, the open-source repos are wide open to PRs.
Add an axiom, derivation, law, or first principle to the canon. Upload a PDF, it's pinned + minted, and every downstream citation pays you forever.
The site, the atlas, the gateway, feed402, and the MCP server are all MIT-licensed on GitHub. Good-first-issues and PRs are welcome.
Add or improve one of the 20 free research instruments, or propose a new one through the tool framework. Real logic, real input, citeable output.
Pick the branch you know cold — math, physics, chemistry, information, biophysics, cosmology, mind — and tighten what's there.
Use the open datasets in your own work and cite them. Real DOI, CC-BY-4.0 — the simplest contribution is to make the canon load-bearing.
Grants, partnerships, a research lead, or just questions — email us. We answer.
01 · contribute primary research
The canon holds only foundations — axioms, real math, laws, principles, primary derivations. Upload a PDF; it’s pinned to Walrus and minted as a Story Protocol IP NFT, and every downstream citation routes a payment to you, the author, over the x402 rail — forever. Reading is always free; only paid re-publication pays.
02 · contribute code
Everything Bucket runs on is open source under github.com/bucket-foundation. MIT-licensed. Good-first-issues are labelled; PRs welcome.
The site, the canon renderer, the 20 research tools, the academy, and the publish/cite flow. Next.js + TypeScript. Where most front-of-house contributions land.
The reconciled research-economy graph — 73 funders, ~958k grants, ~$658B, ~8.1M rows — and the pipeline that builds it. Open datasets, born citeable.
Paid research gateway on Base — PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, ClinicalTrials, PubChem, and a feed402-compliant insight tier. The live merchant on the rail.
The open standard for free-to-read, citeable research endpoints over x402. MIT code, CC0-in-intent spec. The protocol every Bucket endpoint speaks.
The Model Context Protocol server that exposes the canon, the atlas, and the tools to AI agents. Bring Bucket into Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client.
03 · add or improve a research tool
Twenty free instruments already run on bucket.foundation — protein stability, ADMET, RNA folding, ephys, cryo-EM triage, and literature/agent tools over live OpenAlex. Each is a small, self-contained module behind a common tool framework. Improve an existing one, or propose a new tool: a server runner, a typed I/O contract, and a stone-bone UI shell is all it takes.
04 · improve the canon
The canon is organized into seven branches. Pick the one you know cold and tighten what’s there — a missing derivation, a clearer statement of a law, a better primary source.
05 · cite & use
The single simplest contribution is to use the open datasets in your own work and cite them — that is what makes the canon load-bearing. The research-atlas corpus is CC-BY-4.0 and born with a real DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20774322.
Dichio, G. (Bucket Foundation). research-atlas: the global research-economy graph. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2077432206 · get in touch
Grants, partnerships, a research lead, or just questions — email gianyrox@gmail.com. If you’d rather fund always-on hosting than write code, that’s its own kind of contribution — see support.
Bucket Foundation is held in the founder’s personal capacity pending formal 501(c)(3) reinstatement (see governance). Contributions of code and research are CC-BY / MIT; nothing here gives anyone equity, because there is no equity.