OpenDeSci Founders Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 & Forbes 40 Under 40: A Signal Moment for Decentralized Science
- Johnston Chen
- Jul 27
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 27
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Berlin, Germany/ New York, USA –27th July 2025
In less than twelve months, the still-nascent field of decentralized science has seen two of its champions appear in separate editions of Forbes México. On 6 March 2025 the magazine published “Los próximos crypto revolucionarios: 30 Under 30”, a panoramic portrait of young blockchain talent that included David Wang, founder of OpenDeSci Foundation. Four and a half months later, on 21 July 2025, Forbes returned to the theme of visionary builders with “40 Under 40 Líderes Tech” and singled out Neil Desh, OpenDeSci’s chief technology officer, as one of the architects “rewriting the rules” of the digital era. Together, these citations do more than flatter two individuals; they mark a watershed for the entire DeSci movement.
David Wang, Forbes30u30 LATAM Blockchain 2025
David Wang is not simply the founder of OpenDeSci—he is rapidly becoming the architect of a new scientific economy. A Forbes 30-Under-30 laureate, Wang is described as “el fundador de la OpenDeSci Foundation, una plataforma descentralizada que utiliza blockchain e IA para transformar la colaboración científica global.” That barely captures the scope of his ambition.
Wang’s background combines deep technological insight with elite corporate strategy. Before founding OpenDeSci, he advised Fortune 500 companies on transformation, M&A, and value creation—learning firsthand how incentive engineering drives systems change. His core insight: the same composable smart contracts that redefined finance can be weaponized to repair the broken incentives of global science.
Neil Desh, Forbes40u40 Líderes Tech 2025
Neil Desh is the architect coding its backbone. As CTO of OpenDeSci, Desh is building more than software—he’s building the protocol stack for a new scientific economy.
“Neil Desh es el CTO detrás de OpenDeSci, una plataforma que está redefiniendo la forma en que se crea, comparte y financia la ciencia.” His path reflects a deep, methodical commitment to the future of information systems. He began in academia, launching QiWord, a semantic engine powered by proprietary NLP models to help researchers navigate millions of scientific papers. Later, at StellaConnect, Desh engineered the data infrastructure that underpinned a $100M acquisition by Medallia.
Why These Dual Accolades Matter
Recognition from Forbes México amplifies OpenDeSci’s story beyond crypto-native echo chambers and into boardrooms, ministries and research councils across Latin America. The region is fast becoming a hotbed for Web3 experimentation, and corporate R&D chiefs in São Paulo or Mexico City are now more likely to view DeSci as a strategic channel rather than an academic hobby. For investors, the twin listings reduce perceived execution risk: governance tokens priced largely on future utility now come with third-party validation of the founders’ track records. And for scientists, the headlines dispel the lingering notion that blockchain is peripheral to rigorous inquiry; when a condoned financial magazine profiles a lab notebook tool on equal footing with AI unicorns, the credibility gap narrows.
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