Cross-Chain Collaboration
Background
Why is this Challenge needed?
- Tribalism & maximalism are harmful.
- We are in the multi-chain future.
- Interoperability is the key.
- We need initiatives to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains.
- We have common challenges. Let’s solve those together.
Common challenges for all blockchain communities You could buddy up with someone from outside Cardano ecosystem and address one or more of these common challenges:
- Awareness & Understanding
- Organisation & Governance
- Culture, Diversity & Inclusion
- Innovation & Decision-making
- Collaboration Tools & Platforms
- Incentivized Participation
- Cost & Efficiency
- Regulation & Compliance
- Security & Privacy
Examples of proposals you can submit to this challenge
This is an open-ended challenge that welcomes any proposal geared for cross-chain collaboration, co-innovation and interoperability. These can be any community-led projects, initiatives, solutions, tools or services. These could be, for instance:
- New technical implementations connecting Cardano to other blockchains and vice versa (SDKs, APIs, bridges etc)
- Governance ideas from other chains implemented as part of the Voltaire road map
- Already successful projects expanding from other chains to Cardano
- Expansion of Cardano-based projects into other chains
- Oracles and other tools to interpret and interact with cross-chain data
- Catalyst-created solutions adopted by other chains and communities
- Common research, education, outreach and innovation projects with other chains and communities (e.g. podcasts, hackathons, webinars, communication hubs, educational resources)
Who to collaborate with?
Any chains and their communities are welcome but here are some ideas:
- Algorand https://www.algorand.com/
- Avalanche https://www.avax.network/
- Arweave https://www.arweave.org/
- Casper https://casper.network/en/network
- Celo https://celo.org/
- Cosmos https://cosmos.network/
- Dfinity https://dfinity.org/
- Elrond https://elrond.com/
- Ergo https://ergoplatform.org/
- Fantom https://fantom.foundation/
- Harmony https://www.harmony.one/
- Holochain https://www.holochain.org/
- ICON https://iconrepublic.org/
- IOTA https://www.iota.org/
- IoTeX https://iotex.io/
- NEAR https://near.org/
- Nervos https://www.nervos.org/
- Polkadot https://polkadot.network/
- Polygon https://polygon.technology/
- SingularityNET https://singularitynet.io/
- Zilliqa https://www.zilliqa.com/
The Challenge Team welcomes fresh eyes both from inside and outside Catalyst. If you wish to join, comment below or contact one of the originators:
Filip Blagojević
- Email: [email protected]
- Discord: #Filip2852
- Telegram: @filip_blagojevic
Tomi Astikainen
- Email: [email protected]
- Discord: #TomiAstikainen6249
- Telegram: @T0MPPELI
Felix Weber
- Email: [email protected]
- Discord: #Felix [SWARM]#9839
- Telegram: @FelixfromSwarm
The end goal
Let’s create an enriching, open and safe environment, where people from different communities can find common ground and share knowledge, resources, skills, ideas and visions with one another.
Alignment with strategic goals for Fund9
- Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem.
- Opening the doors to other communities can increase the number of Catalyst members and broaden their perspectives and knowhow.
- Turn Cardano into an open source project.
- Learning from other open source communities can help Cardano become an open source project, too.
- Accelerate the growth and evolution of developer & app ecosystem.
- The biggest contribution of this Challenge is exactly in the developer and app ecosystem, increasing the number of interoperable dApps and bringing in curious developers from outside of the Cardano community.
Accompanying slides
To present the Challenge outside of Catalyst, you can use these helpful slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bhQAEwUay1743G7ZEur6DRuuWKOjep6-HeDro8GGH2A/edit?usp=sharing
Why is it important?
We can be a catalyst for multi-chain awareness and interoperability of blockchains which guarantees shared success in the cryptoeconomy.
How does success looks like?
Collaborative value creation between Project Catalyst and other communities, through both technical and non-technical initiatives alike.
Key Metrics to measure
To evaluate the success of the challenge, we can track:
- On-chain activity growth due to new cross-chain implementations
- Number of proposals including participants from other blockchain communities
- Number of technical implementations connecting Cardano to other blockchains
- Ideas from other chains implemented by Catalyst
- Projects and dApps from other chains implemented on Cardano
- Catalyst-created solutions adopted by other chains/communities
- Number of events / workshops / sessions arranged with other communities
- Number of permanent initiatives with cross-chain teams (members from different blockchain communities together)
Stand out with complete, well-rounded and focused proposals
In your proposal, make sure you consider the aspects of impact, feasibility and clarity/auditability.
IMPACT: How well does the proposal contribute to increasing collaboration, coordination and communication between various blockchain ecosystems?
- The proposal identifies a problem within the challenge which needs to be solved.
- The proposal clearly articulates how it will add value to the Cardano ecosystem.
- The key metrics and goals of the proposal align with the outlined challenge settings.
- The proposal is able to scale to address future challenges.
FEASIBILITY: How likely is it that the team is able to successfully implement the proposal?
- Evidence of relevant skills and experience.
- The type and number of team members required.
- Clear budget, enough to achieve the set goals.
- Verifiable plan for other funding (if needed).
- Realistic timetable to complete the work.
- Solid plan of action describing needed resources.
- Explanation of technical aspects (if needed).
- Challenges and risks considered.
AUDITABILITY: Is the information enough to audit progress and success of the proposal? What can the community expect?
- A roadmap with milestones and a time horizon for achievement.
- Metrics/KPIs that define the success of the proposal.
- Clear understandable description of the targeted problem.
- Clear understandable solution that addresses the problem.
Wolfram UTxO History&Collaboration
Solution: Research active and historical UTXO blockchains, research papers and developers. Build educational materials.
United Nations Blockchain4Impact
Solution: A knowledge sharing series within the UN ecosystem on using blockchain to solve the Grand Challenges and creating tangible cross-sector partnerships
United Media BlockChain Community
Solution: United Media is going to go out into the field to find builders of the blockchain. The business that wants to do business using crypto currency. We will make a schedule and contact list of those folks
United Caricature 2
Solution: A weekly caricature showing the importance of collaborations and dependency between chains for mass market adoption, and that also have educational purposes for other Blockchains
TosiDrop Cross-chain Development
Solution: TosiDrop is a token distribution platform on Cardano and Ergo that allows the wide distribution of project tokens to their supporters and community members in a seamless manner.
TIP For Collaboration Quick Pitch
Solution: We propose the build-out of an open source Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) for the Cardano community supplemented by portal access, a training module, and a YouTube video on why TIPs are important.
The ArtSuite Multi-Chain NFT Events Quick Pitch
Solution: The Art Suite events hosted globally, presenting Cardano NFTs to all artists, both from other blockchain platforms as well as those new to NFTs, for multi chain empowerment + sustainable impact.
Taxir | Bringing Blockchain to MENA
Solution: We are targeting this paradox with formal and informal research to better understand it, then we will develop public good communication, education and research projects to mitigate the paradox.
Students for Blockchain
Solution: Unite students from different Blockchains to discuss and to share projects and promote it to other students
Spectrum.Network | Layer 2 for DeFi
Solution: Build a platform for natively cross-chain dApps based on a decentralized consensus protocol.
Solve asset fractionalization
Solution: The creation of a canonical smart contract where whitelisted assets (and bridges) can exchange their bridged asset by a canonical version that will be used by the Cardano ecosystem.
SOIL: OriginTrail / Ontochain (DKG)
Solution: Implement a DKG backend on Cardano.
Cardano recently launched EVM on the test net, which should make this possible.
Sifchain Omni-EVM Quick Pitch
Solution: Omni-EVM is a bridge to Sifchain/Cosmos for any Blockchain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Scrutiny System in blockchain
Solution: Bring confidence and security to vote counting systems through Blockchain.
RootsWallet - Aries JS
Solution: RootsID will integrate Aries JavaScript framework into RootsWallet and pave the way to interoperate with most of the Self-Sovereign Identity systems in the blockchain community.
ProofOfHumanity KYC on Atala Prism
Solution: Cross-chain validation of Proton KYC identity with Atala Prism.
Minting non-transferable NFT/badges to affirm identity credentials, KYC ID with Atala
prism. Enables proof of humanity KYC solutions.
Promoting Cardano for Impact
Solution: “Building Bridges” is the largest Impact and Sustainable Finance conference in Switzerland with global visibility. We propose to join forces with Cardano and host a Blockchain for Impact event.
Positive Blockchain Database V2 Quick Pitch
Solution: Developing capabilities for new users and project owner functionality on the Positive Blockchain platform + inviting Cardano projects to claim their pages.
Oneiron: Cardano Sidechain SDK
Solution: A JVM-based Cardano Sidechain SDK will close this gap and open Cardano ecosystem to millions of enterprise software developers. Thousands public and private Cardano sidechains will be created.
One Crypto Pass
Solution: I have designed a solution to allow self-custodian wallet owners keep their seed phrase safe, off internet, not in plain sight, but still accessible at will via a simple QR code scan.
Onboard New Hispanic Ethereum Users
Solution: Create a series of educational videos in Spanish addressing the main misinformation and disinformation arguments that exist within the Ethereum community regarding the Cardano ecosystem.
NFT Game Marketplace Cross-Chain
Solution: We're connecting DarePlay (an NFT marketplace with over 50 games on Binance Smart Chain) to Cardano on Cardano's EVM.
We will also partner with NFT games on our marketplace to launch on Cardano.
NFT Bridge to & from Cardano
Solution: XP.Network connects > 16 chain mapping the contract logic, collection name & attributes.
We adapt the bridged assets to the standards of the target chain to be listed, displayed and traded like native
MultiSwap (X-Chain Swaps by Ferrum)
Solution: MultiSwap reimagines architectural & OpSec best practices, providing the fastest, most secure & feature complete solution on the market while encouraging TVL across Cardano native DeFi protocols.