F8: DApps and Integrations
Campaign Brief
Cardano is an ecosystem that sets itself apart through its rigorous research and strives to do things correctly. We expect all dApp projects applying for funding to aspire to the highest possible levels of certification. To understand what this refers to and practically means, please watch Charles Hoskinson's video on this topic: "DApp certification and Community Curation", https://youtu.be/Y7zcYSQarI0.
This challenge is suitable for incorporated technology or blockchain companies and larger projects with competent teams that already have deployed MVPs. Ideally, these are projects that have a proven user base. Projects that satisfy such criteria are welcome to apply for more than $100,000 if that can be justified and clearly budgeted for.
For smaller teams (4-5 people) with proven competence, relevant experience and technical skills with sketches/whitepaper detailing how they would go about to launch their proposal, the budgets would typically be in the range $40,000-$80,000.
For people with the relevant background but without a full team or completed whitepaper detailing the solution, the project ought to be considered as a research stage project and budgets should less than $10,000.
Guiding questions
- What are the key applications that underpin the application ecosystem on other platforms?
- What are the most profitable or most used applications on other ecosystems?
- What needs do users of Cardano have that could be solved by new applications?
- What applications deliver the highest amount of value with the least amount of technical sophistication?
Potential directions
- Swaps, both simple and fancy variants (multi-party etc.)
- Escrow, both simple and fancy variants
- Integrations with existing products
- NFT marketplace or facilitator
- Solutions utilising the power of smart contracts
Why is it important?
Quality Dapps and integrations will increase utility & adoption of Cardano. A broad funding challenge like this encourages more proposals.
What does success look like?
Novel and viable applications get built of top of Cardano attracting users. Integrations manage to pull in more adoption.
Key Metrics to measure
To assess the challenge we will be asking ourselves: Did our efforts manage to attract users to the platform? Did our efforts result in new, viable applications built on top of Cardano?
Let an "application output" and an "application transaction" be an output and transactions that use the applications' script addresses, and an "application token" be a token that's issued by the application.
Rarety.io : Multi-Sig NFT Launchpad
Solution: We are building a NFT Launchpad for projects that uses multi-sig minting which is far more efficient than any available solutions.
PubWeave: An academic ecosystem
Solution: A full-stack peer-review academic ecosystem where funding is secured by a treasury optimized for long-term sustainability.
Proposer-tool on chain - AIM
Solution: Build a prototype proposal submission tool and draft a community effort for protocol level proposal submission.
Private Gated NFTs - Revelar
Solution: Enter the Revelar Gate, it’s a managed private IPFS cluster to control access to your NFT media content, allowing for gated content.
Phygital Market for Spiritual Art
Solution: Marketplace for spiritual verified artists allowing them to mint the physical art to NFT producing a phygital asset, with a digital gallery.
Perma-music rmNFT Marketplace
Solution: Our platform Rythmeet will allow musicians to network, mint and sell their creations through NFTs and permanently lock their original files
PeakChain Carsharing Platform
Solution: To build connected car platforms and DApps on Cardano. First Step towards establishing Cardano as a standard for the automobile industry.
P2P Fiat Exchange [cardway.finance]
Solution: Development of a dApp for merchants to receive payment in ADA, allowing automatic conversion to stablecoin or fiat currency.
Oracle Developer Portal
Solution: Create a website with both a dev portal and a node/feed portal to easily access information, test, and integrate off-chain data feeds.
OpenScience Marketplace Scale-up
Solution: With osNFTs, researchers can publish, retain ownership of their work and distribute it to the general population in a marketable fashion.
Online Makerspace
<p>There are no platform that puts the Maker in the front seat around their ideas, or what a product have been used for after it is sold.</p>
One Vote
Solution: One vote is a new way of presenting ideas, topics, and voting. By utilizing Cardano and Prism we can change the world as we know it.
Okos: Monetizing your Intellect
Solution: We argue that people should be financially rewarded for sharing their specific knowledge specially in forums and Q&A websites.
NFT Platform for business cases
Solution: All-in-one web application to build, sell, track, verify and provide real case NFTs utilities for different business cases.
NFT Multiverse Marketplace
Solution: Utlising an already existing content solution to drive uptaking in meaningful digital assets, including NFTs
NFT marketplace enabling P2P DeFI
Solution: Incentivize lending w/out bearing interest. Allow borrowing without collaterals or paying interest and build credibility profile over time.
NFT exhibition space in Cardano
Solution: Create exhibition space in Cardano Galaxyof.art NFT marketplace to increase users’ interactivity through rooms and social media features
NFT Bids - Powered by Balou
Solution: An iOS and Android application allowing users to buy/sell NFTs in an auction format with an escrow service protecting the transaction.
Neuro tools for teams & growth
Solution: AI-assisted cognitive assessment, skills mapping, and insight for teams
Music live NFT platform
Solution: Tool that allows owner to cut out portions of an artist's live & sell it as NFT during the show in Cardano would be a good recruitment tool.
MUSEVERSE: Music into the Metaverse
Solution: System based on Cardano and SingularityNET blockchains that distribute rewards in form of tokens for artists performing in the metaverse.
Milkomeda Mobile
Solution: We want to allow users to use Milkomeda smart contracts from their mobile device
Milkomeda Game
Solution: Milkomeda Game will be a simple casual game that uses blockchain concepts. It will bring adoption and usage to Cardano through Milkomeda.
Metaverse Builder with NFT Boosting
Solution: A metaverse Builder DApp for creating new NFT based economies and a new kind of NFT marketplace that will boost the value of NFTs