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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.
Medusa Wallet
Solution: The Medusa 2.0 platform has an unique deep-researched security model. More in description.
Matrix Development Integrations
Solution: Matrix is capable of integrations for developers into the Cardano ecosystem and catapulting of old project to current tooling standards.
MADAO: Mutual Aid DAO User Client
Solution: Through decentralized goods-and-services sharing, MADAO brings needed liquidity to under-utilized talent in the open global community.
LOOZR
Solution: It allows musicians and their music to be tokenized, and anybody can buy, sell, and trade these tokens on the blockchain.
Live streaming Music NFTMarketplace
Solution: Creating adoption & community around music with live streaming, digital music sales/streaming, physical merch sales and a CNFT marketplace.
Littlefish - Coordinating Action
Solution: A platform that coordinates decentralized collaboration by incentivizing execution and rewarding action
Liquidity Aggregator for Cardano
Solution: Smartdex aggregates liquidity across DEXs to offer users efficient transactions along with an off-chain trading onchain settlement solution.
Layer 2 Advanced Architecture
Solution: A Decentralized AI System as a not-for-profit that will serve the community and charity.
Keyword Coin Price Widget for Sites
Solution: Powerful widget inserted into keywords in news content of cryptocurrency websites, displaying real-time price & info about coin or token.
JobFair platform on Cardano
Solution: Establish a platform to connect employers and talent, 0% service fees. Built on Cardano blockchain with SmartContract, crypto for payments.
Integrations and utilities
Solution: Building a business infrastructure for small businesses to model in order to succeed. Giving back to patrons by providing rewards.
Integrating Python & NFT usability
Solution: UX/UI web 3 interfaces have not been a great visual experience. My team is integrating a supreme codeless verification for users into web 2
Integrate Assets & Debt into ADA
Solution: A new system that operates as circle instead of a pyramid. Each country has different laws we have to follow, but the core will be the same.
Innovatio Web-App Investigation
Solution: Develop a Web-App where the Innovatio community can develop more professional profiles and have crowdsourcing tools.
Impact Creating NFTs for Causes
Solution: Create a system for creators to designate their favorite social, enviro causes to receive an amount of their revenue on a transaction.
HYDRA for mashup, co-authors and ©️
Solution: POCRE solves the authorship acknowledgement of materials made by multiple authors, via a novel identification process based on Cardano HYDRA
How often can a brand contact you?
Solution: By capturing your contact and cadence preferences (and the ability to enforce them), you can control the flow of comms from brands you like.
Fundraising platform for NGO's
Solution: We introduce a transparent fundraising platform where contributors receive audited proof through an app of how their donation is spent.
FreeLoaderz Token & NFT Distributor
Solution: Develop the FreeDropz Reward Distribution platform to provide a dedicated service to projects using FreeLoaderz submit-api Load Balancers
Fiverr Clone on Cardano
Solution: Build a fair marketplace with fair fees to benefit both sides of the marketplace.
Finance DAO dApp + Stakepool Web3
Solution: Finclout DAO+stakepool is a simple way to earn by sourcing, curating, and moderating financial context. Everybody is a mod in the DAO.
Fiat Payments for NFTs - Revelar
Solution: Create a simple checkout page connected to existing fiat payments (Credit/Debit card, Bank account, etc) to purchase NFTs.
Ferrum's Staking as a Service MS3&4
Solution: Ferrum will bring its battle tested staking solutions to Cardano. W/ 1/2 billion in lifetime TVL & over 150 clients, they're best in class.
Ferrum's Staking as a Service MS1&2
Solution: Ferrum will bring its battle tested staking solutions to Cardano. W/ 1/2 billion in lifetime TVL & over 150 clients, they're best in class.