F8: DApps and Integrations gravatar F8: DApps and Integrations

What applications will provide the most value for end users in 2022?

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.

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136
Total Proposals
37
Funded Proposals
0
Completed Proposals
$ 2.5M
Available
$11.5M
Requested
$2.5M
Awarded

Rarety.io : Multi-Sig NFT Launchpad

$30,000 Requested

Solution: We are building a NFT Launchpad for projects that uses multi-sig minting which is far more efficient than any available solutions.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 1.2% of the fund.
4.33 (12)

PubWeave: An academic ecosystem

$128,800 Requested

Solution: A full-stack peer-review academic ecosystem where funding is secured by a treasury optimized for long-term sustainability.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 5.152% of the fund.
4.5 (18)

Proposer-tool on chain - AIM

$34,000 Received
$34,000 Requested

Solution: Build a prototype proposal submission tool and draft a community effort for protocol level proposal submission.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1.36% of the fund.
4.67 (18)

Private Gated NFTs - Revelar

$105,250 Requested

Solution: Enter the Revelar Gate, it’s a managed private IPFS cluster to control access to your NFT media content, allowing for gated content.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 4.21% of the fund.
4.33 (15)

Phygital Market for Spiritual Art

$150,000 Requested

Solution: Marketplace for spiritual verified artists allowing them to mint the physical art to NFT producing a phygital asset, with a digital gallery.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 6% of the fund.
1.58 (12)

Perma-music rmNFT Marketplace

$41,000 Requested

Solution: Our platform Rythmeet will allow musicians to network, mint and sell their creations through NFTs and permanently lock their original files

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 1.64% of the fund.
4.25 (12)

PeakChain Carsharing Platform

$39,300 Requested

Solution: To build connected car platforms and DApps on Cardano. First Step towards establishing Cardano as a standard for the automobile industry.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 1.572% of the fund.
4.67 (15)

P2P Fiat Exchange [cardway.finance]

$38,152 Requested

Solution: Development of a dApp for merchants to receive payment in ADA, allowing automatic conversion to stablecoin or fiat currency.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 1.526% of the fund.
3.27 (15)

Oracle Developer Portal

$195,000 Received
$195,000 Requested

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.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 7.8% of the fund.
4.83 (18)

OpenScience Marketplace Scale-up

$80,000 Requested

Solution: With osNFTs, researchers can publish, retain ownership of their work and distribute it to the general population in a marketable fashion.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 3.2% of the fund.
4.33 (9)

Online Makerspace

$22,500 Requested

<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>

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 0.9% of the fund.
3.58 (12)

One Vote

$58,500 Requested

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.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 2.34% of the fund.
1.67 (18)

Okos: Monetizing your Intellect

$45,000 Requested

Solution: We argue that people should be financially rewarded for sharing their specific knowledge specially in forums and Q&A websites.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 1.8% of the fund.
3.93 (15)

NFT Platform for business cases

$120,000 Requested

Solution: All-in-one web application to build, sell, track, verify and provide real case NFTs utilities for different business cases.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 4.8% of the fund.
4.53 (15)

NFT Multiverse Marketplace

$180,000 Requested

Solution: Utlising an already existing content solution to drive uptaking in meaningful digital assets, including NFTs

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 7.2% of the fund.
3.17 (18)

NFT marketplace enabling P2P DeFI

$650,000 Requested

Solution: Incentivize lending w/out bearing interest. Allow borrowing without collaterals or paying interest and build credibility profile over time.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 26% of the fund.
1.75 (12)

NFT exhibition space in Cardano

$146,000 Requested

Solution: Create exhibition space in Cardano Galaxyof.art NFT marketplace to increase users’ interactivity through rooms and social media features

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 5.84% of the fund.
3.44 (9)

NFT Bids - Powered by Balou

$20,000 Requested

Solution: An iOS and Android application allowing users to buy/sell NFTs in an auction format with an escrow service protecting the transaction.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 0.8% of the fund.
3.33 (15)

Neuro tools for teams & growth

$123,760 Received
$123,760 Requested

Solution: AI-assisted cognitive assessment, skills mapping, and insight for teams

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 4.95% of the fund.
4.78 (9)

Music live NFT platform

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

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.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 4% of the fund.
2.08 (12)

MUSEVERSE: Music into the Metaverse

$57,000 Requested

Solution: System based on Cardano and SingularityNET blockchains that distribute rewards in form of tokens for artists performing in the metaverse.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
over budget Requested 2.28% of the fund.
3.67 (24)

Milkomeda Mobile

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

Solution: We want to allow users to use Milkomeda smart contracts from their mobile device

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1% of the fund.
3.42 (12)

Milkomeda Game

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Game will be a simple casual game that uses blockchain concepts. It will bring adoption and usage to Cardano through Milkomeda.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1.6% of the fund.
1.39 (18)

Metaverse Builder with NFT Boosting

$254,510 Requested

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

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
not approved Requested 10.18% of the fund.
4.33 (9)