Dapps, Products & Integrations
Why this category is important
Cardano needs a thriving ecosystem of different Dapps, products and integrations for the community to use that increasingly become the better alternatives over current centralized providers.
The more interesting and useful the products and integrations are that can be built in the ecosystem the more reasons people have to interact with the Cardano blockchain that can help further drive more adoption, feedback, growth and even more innovations.
Types of proposals to include
DeFi - Stable coins, DEXs, borrow & lending, synthetic assets, etc.
Marketplaces
Gaming - Open world games, card games, RPG, etc.
Transport & logistics
Hardware - Hardware wallets, Local ATMs for interacting with the blockchain, etc.
Physical products - Tokenised housing as a Cardano native asset, International crypto headquarters and liason office on every continent, etc.
Social media
Nation governance systems - New governance systems for nation-states
Environment - Solutions that help to solve environmental issues
Many others - Any other idea, product or integration that someone thinks should be built in the Cardano ecosystem!
Potential success metrics for proposal types
This list is not exhaustive but does provide some ideas for proposers to consider.
DeFi - Total value locked, the total number of users, number of active daily/weekly/monthly users
Marketplaces - Total number of users, number of transactions performed
Gaming - Number of players, player income generated (if play to earn), qualitative feedback on game experience, etc.
Transport & logistics - Total number of packages tracked, Number of counterfeit items prevented
Hardware - Number of items sold, number of total users, number of interactions with hardware solution
Physical products - Number of products tokenised as a native asset, Number of people using physical solutions
Nation governance systems - Amount of population onboarded, amount of costs saved due to new solution, security difficulty improvements over previous approach
Social media - Total number of users, number of meaningful interactions
Environment - Total number of users, total CO2 sequestered, amount of awareness being produced, number of people changing an environmentally damaging habit
Many others - Proposers can add in whatever metrics or success criteria make sense for their own project!
Considerations for proposers
Existing products or integrations - What products or integrations already exist in the ecosystem? What are the core differences between the proposal being presented and those existing ones and why will that provide impact to the ecosystem?
Technical requirements - Does the Cardano ecosystem have the right tools, libraries and SDKs for the idea to be feasible? What needs to be introduced or improved for the proposal to fully reach its potential?
Ecosystem maturity requirements - Why is this product or integration suitable for execution right now? Are there enough pieces of infrastructure, applications or other integrations available that would be needed for this suggested proposal to have a strong chance of gaining adoption? For instance, if you were making a professional social network DApp, do the right identity tools and wallets exist to make a professional network feasible?
FUNDING CATEGORIES BACKGROUND
Funding Categories is an approach to doing funding categorisation that will welcome all ideas, maximize the amount of ideas submitted and reduce the effort for all stakeholders in the Catalyst process.
Funding categories also help remove the existing issues with challenge settings. They help to prevent duplicate challenge settings, remove challenges created by self interest, reduce the need for deep knowledge of the ecosystem from challenge proposal teams and also removes an easy entry point for malicious actors.
The full documentation for Catalyst Funding Categories can be found here: https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/
7 funding categories have been documented to cover all forms of ideas and proposals. All proposals can be found here - https://linktr.ee/cardanopace
The budget weighting for the 7 categories has been determined using a community governance process. The voting results for this process can be found here - https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/community-votes/fund-8-categories-budget-weighting/voting-results-fund-8
In closing:
The potential opportunities that Catalyst can provide to genuine dapp and product developers have increased substantially. A 32x increase in the span of a year.
At the same time, it’s now up to the Catalyst community to drive the direction of the experiment by setting the challenges that provide funding opportunities for developers.
We, in the Catalyst community, need to change our perspective on the nascent experiment and enable it to grow up.
It’s time for the Catalyst community to step up and provide developers with the challenges that will unlock the funds they need to be able to develop for, and on Cardano with confidence.
It’s time to think big!
Why is it important?
Quality Dapps, products and integrations will increase the utility & adoption of Cardano.
How does success looks like?
Novel and viable applications and products get built on top of Cardano attracting users. Integrations manage to pull in more adoption.
Key Metrics to measure
Tracking success for this category will mean:
Increasing the number of dapps and products available for the community to use that help to enrich the ecosystem with new use cases.
Increase the number of integrations that bring existing solutions together for a more seamless and connected experience between different products.
Increased quality of existing products & integrations through suggested improvements that is supported by customer feedback or increased usage by the community.
For individual success metrics for the different types of proposal that can be included please refer to the suggested challenge brief success metrics ideas (see more below).
Overview
Dapps, Products & Integrations is focused on the following areas:
Creation or improvement of different Dapps, products, and integrations that provide value to the Cardano community and wider ecosystem.
Integrations with other existing services, products, and protocols that improve the end-user experience whether that's giving the user more options or making something easier to use that benefits the wider ecosystem.
Login with Cardano Wallet - cAuth
Solution: Develop a decentralized, open-source authentication system that uses open standards and provides a way to login with just the Cardano blockchain.
littlefish - Shaping Action
Solution: A complete platform that enables decentralized communities, starting with specifying, testing, and implementing the basic building block of decentralized work: the Action NFT.
LitterWeek Competition for schools
Solution: We are turning cleaning the planet into a game with Littercoin rewards. Our next campaign is the LitterWeek challenge, which will encourage societal adoption of our open source citizen science tools.
Littercoin: Mass Adoption
Solution: We are turning cleaning the planet into a game! By doing the work, users earn Littercoin which will become a carbon sink for Cardano. Every day, 100s of data points are uploaded to openlittermap.
Liquid staking for Milkomeda / L2s
Solution: We will design & implement a standard for Milkomeda to allow its users to keep earning staking rewards. We will share the approach publicly so other L2s / sidechains can implement their own variation
Liquidity-less peer to peer DEX
Solution: We have built a tool that allows any user to trade any token in any amount peer-to-peer (OTC), without slippage and without requiring DEX liquidity. We want to port this trustless DEX to Cardano.
Liquidity Efficient DEX models
Solution: We will research and propose novel liquidity provision models in order to address problems like inefficient use of liquidity and impermanent loss. The solution will use the unique Cardano EUTXO model.
linkslist - decentralised bio site
Solution: linkslist is a web3 cardano powered bio links website. The solution will utilise cardano nfts and decentralised data storage to provide a bio links website for all.
Like Kahoot - Quiz and bet with ADA Quick Pitch
Solution: A Kahoot-style mass adoption tool. Easy, nice & fun.
User-generated multiple-choice quizzes to win/lose ADA on betting.
As part of e-Learning DAO it will redistribute revenue across content editors.
Licensing Remixed Music On-Chain
Solution: Allow artist to sell the rights to remix and sample their music via NFT's. Allow creators to remix commercially | monetize | pay royalties
Leveraging Cardano Assets
Solution: Imagine being able to receive liquidity for an asset without ever having to sell it. Our Dapp, Lending Pond, will allow users to leverage their NFTs and tokens through peer to peer SC loans.
LetsWork platform on Cardano
Solution: Build a platform to connect employers and talent. Built on Cardano blockchain with SmartContract, crypto for payments.
let's make it professional
Solution: A chat app for the projects that will connect to the blockchain and read the address of the user and make sure is a real holder of the project and not just a fudder from a different community
Ledger Live Integration #2
Solution: Continuing the Ledger Live integration with Ledger, Strica, VacuumLabs & the Cardano Ambassadors to unlock & develop next steps for the ledger live - cardano integration
Ledger Developer Onboarding Course
Solution: Create a Project-based Learning (PBL) course to take developers through a hands-on project to learn how to create Ledger Live integrations and enable Ledger devices on their products.
Learn to Earn Cardano Ecosystem
Solution: We will create a platform to provide documents, information, knowledge about the Cardano ecosystems&Cardano knowledge, multi-language at a reasonable cost by the Win-Win collaboration of the community
Learning Dynamic Models
Solution: Photrek will upgrade the Coupled VAE (CVAE) algorithm it is developing for the SingularityNETs (SNET) AI Marketplace to incorporate a dynamic model. CVAE is a risk-aware learning method.
L-Earning Bazaar: Web3 Integration
Solution: We will establish a web3 learning platform and marketplace with DID, where anyone can open a classroom in any field. This will empower people to simultaneously share and earn through their knowledge.
L-Earning Bazaar: Platform Building
Solution: We will establish a web3 learning platform and marketplace with DID, where anyone can open a classroom in any field. This will empower people to simultaneously share and earn through their knowledge.
LearnerShape SkillsGraph v2 Quick Pitch
Solution: LearnerShape built a proof of concept for open-source, decentralized SkillsGraph in Catalyst F6, is piloting / evolving it in F7 and F8, and will deploy a fully-functional v2 through this project
Layer 2 Advanced Architecture Quick Pitch
Solution: A Decentralized AI System as a not-for-profit that will serve the community and charity.
Launch Social Design Academy [SDA]
Solution: We co-design UX 3.0 with Communities & Brands. We are evolving software designers into change makers by building Digital Story-based Chat Assistants for personal and collective development goals.
Launching Landano on Mainnet
Solution: 1. Mint land right NFTs on Cardano Mainnet 2. Transition from username/password to wallet-based authentication & credentials 3. Refactor client/server MVP to use decentralized storage & WASM-based processing
LAMO-DecentralizedEducationPlatform
Solution: We'll release Lamo DApp - a platform with mechanisms to encourage learners & content contributors to participate actively. Together, they'll build a transparent, attractive, win-win benefit ecosystem