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How can we make Cardano the go-to choice for building DAOs? What tools can we provide to enable effective DAO's Creation & Operation

Currently if a DAO (even one that is aimed to build products and services around Cardano) wants to setup their DAO infrastructure, the current options are all based on, mostly, the Ethereum blockchain.

These dApps range from basic Treasury management, to Decision making in DAOs and even supporting services like Decentralized Justice. Some of them are:

https://aragon.org https://daostack.io https://colony.io https://www.molochdao.com https://abridged.io https://kleros.io

Cardano needs:

Similar tools that offer superior features to those offered on other chains. Effective Collaboration Management Platforms to Organize Community Intentions and Actions Additional not yet existing tools to give Cardano a distinct advantage Tools for prospective organizations to use in evaluating the features available in Cardano DAO's DAO community collaboration DAO creation DAO operation DAO governance.

Why is it important?

Blockchain applications have moved from Currency to DeFi, to NFT. DAOs are Next. Cardano needs to be ready for when that happens.

How does success looks like?

There are no better ways to manage your DAO than to use Cardano DAOs. From Small Business to Global Communities.. Cardano DAOs deliver.

Key Metrics to measure

Number of Communities engaged in collaboration using Cardano DAO creation tools.

Amount of ADA coming from DAOs transaction fees after the solutions on this challenge get implemented (> than the challenge's allocated fund amount)

Number of DAOs that use Cardano as governance/management chain in 6 months.

Number of DAO toolset/frameworks available for DAO Ops (>1).

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Total Proposals
17
Funded Proposals
0
Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$4.4M
Requested
$1M
Awarded

DAO DAO! (sing song, like: tä-ˈdä!)

$3,333 Requested

Solution: Focus on what you are going to do –> Starting with the 1st principle, I TAO/道 (daʊ) to justify a TRUE belief of the definition of D.A.O. I TAO, therefore I D.A.O…I only, truly know a DAO of One.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 0.333% of the fund.
1.72 (18)

Collab Platform for DAO Operations

$60,000 Requested

Solution: Install, connect, and customize, a world class data platform. Design it for continuous collaboration inside community DAOs. Use DAOs to coordinate our experience & skills for Catalyst projects.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 6% of the fund.
3.83 (18)

CNGO - DAOs & NGOs working together Quick Pitch

$30,000 Requested

Solution: Conducting research on operational procedures between donors & NGOs to configure the users journey for CNGO platform and how it can become a DAO ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 3% of the fund.
3.94 (18)

CNFT Alliance DAO & Launchpad

$35,000 Requested

Solution: The CNFT Alliance will build a DAO that brings the NFT and gaming sector of the ecosystem together, and, in phase 2, we plan to build a launchpad platform that would utilize this DAO.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 3.5% of the fund.
3.83 (12)

Clarity DAO Infrastructure Quick Pitch

$99,200 Received
$99,200 Requested

Solution: We are creating a hosted web platform to interact with the Agora governance module and extending Agora to provide premium features to DAOs.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed Awarded 9.92% of the fund.
4.61 (18)

Clarity DAO Incubator

$50,000 Requested

Solution: Provide an incubation program to equip early stage DAOs with the knowledge and tools they need to build their communities and projects.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 5% of the fund.
4.52 (27)

CAT_ID Catalyst SSI

$32,000 Requested

Solution: Create one time-locked minting script used to create an ID system that can be used for TX validation and account management. 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
vote pending Requested 3.2% of the fund.
3.2 (15)

Catalyst Swarm DAO Tools

$73,600 Received
$73,600 Requested

Solution: Creating a Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board system to explore & establish new possibilities to support & reward Community contributions & engagements

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed Awarded 7.36% of the fund.
4.58 (33)

Catalyst GPS and Blockchain4Good

$39,000 Requested

Solution: Catalyst GPS—Global Participation Solution—is a way to improve comprehension, communication, coordination and collaboration. It brings everyone on the same page and shows how our efforts are aligned.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 3.9% of the fund.
4.57 (21)

CardanoPress: Governance Plugin

$12,000 Received
$12,000 Requested

Solution: We can take out the technical aspects of creating a portal where users can discuss and vote on various proposals created by a community and vote on them directly on-chain. We have a BETA version ready

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed Awarded 1.2% of the fund.
4.5 (18)

Cardano/DAO for Brazilian Companies

$8,700 Requested

Solution: We aim to present Cardano technologies and the Catalyst platform to software engineering companies, enabling developers to create DAOs.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 0.87% of the fund.
2.72 (18)

Cardano DAO Dashboard

$4,688 Received
$12,500 Requested

Solution: Create a dashboard which displays informative KPIs involving how decentralized and autonomous an organization is through reading on chain data involving DAOs on Cardano.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
funded Awarded 1.25% of the fund.
4.67 (15)

Cardano Community Hubs DAO &cDDK Quick Pitch

$23,540 Requested

Solution: We're launching ourselves as a Cardano DAO, recording our journey & share it as an open-source guide for others to follow, we'll encourage & help our Cardano Hubs to become DAOs to self-fund projects

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 2.354% of the fund.
4.54 (39)

Cardano Commoner: SofiH

$20,000 Requested

Solution: Work with existing projects on defining problem spaces and different components that support decentralized communities

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 2% of the fund.
4.33 (15)

Brazilian Community DAO

$50,000 Requested

Solution: Structure a DAO to promote rewards to help our community get involved in simple tasks and develop small projects to improve governance, thus developing a vision for this DAO.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 5% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

BORA: Empower Tomorrow’s Leaders Quick Pitch

$44,000 Requested

Solution: Democratize access to student loans with BORA DAO, a DAO managed and operated by the community to approve student loans in a project catalyst inspired style.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 4.4% of the fund.
4.67 (27)

Blockchain Surveys for DAOs & More Quick Pitch

$25,344 Received
$34,560 Requested

Solution: We will make use of Cardano metadata & wallets to allow any ADA wallet to create or respond to a questionnaire on the blockchain. Poll creators can segment, filter, interpret, & display results.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
funded Awarded 3.456% of the fund.
4.76 (21)

anetaBTC, DAO Infrastructure

$65,000 Requested

Solution: anetaBTC is a decentralized, fully on-chain, wrapped BTC product that allows users to unlock their BTC value on Cardano and Ergo.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 6.5% of the fund.
3.5 (18)

Almagua Social DAO Project

$3,000 Requested

Solution: We want to implement a social DAo so that the cardano community votes for social and environmental projects, projects that will later be financed for their development.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 0.3% of the fund.
2.71 (24)

Ads Platform SSP & DSP with Cardano

$100,000 Requested

Solution: We are working on the Advertising Platform to connect with Offline Advertising such as Billboard, Newspaper, Social Media, etc. Solving ROI Tracking issues, we want to add ADA Network for traceability

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 10% of the fund.
1.93 (15)

ADAwell: Wellbeing DAO

$5,690 Received
$5,690 Requested

Solution: I am building ADAwell, a wellbeing curation platform and a community with a vision of becoming a DAO. It aims to promote health literacy, health optimization and collaboration of individuals. 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 0.569% of the fund.
4.54 (24)

ADAO Open Source Development

$76,000 Received
$76,000 Requested

Solution: Over the past 8 months ADAO has attracted a community of over 3,000 + members, committed to progressing open source development and decentralized coordination tooling and infrastructure on Cardano.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed Awarded 7.6% of the fund.
4.06 (18)

ADAO: Comprehensive DAO's Course

$9,423 Received
$12,160 Requested

Solution: Build a comprehensive course about DAOs and provide educational resources.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
funded impact proposal Awarded 1.216% of the fund.
4.43 (21)