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.
Copper Seed Safe Token Plugin Quick Pitch
Solution: Expand the Copper Seed Safe token program with new open-source plugin: Stake pool operators reward delegators with tokens; tokens are exchanged for Copper Seed Safe kits; kits are mailed worldwide.
Control your data - PRISM (extra)
Solution: Consent-based data vault (D)app with integrated DID (PRISM), that record which companies access your data, allows you to permission it, and compensates you for your data & attention
Connecting Tabletop Games & Cardano
Solution: Start by integrating tabletop gamers with the idea of Cardano through themed physical games, digital assets, information, and pop culture.
Conkis ~ Multiplayer strategy game
Solution: We will integrate Cardano in a way that the average user does not have to know that we are using blockchain technologies. The usage of CNFTs, tokens and wallets must be a feature, not a requirement.
Community validation Dapp
Solution: A dapp enabling a skilled global crowdsourced community validating and certifying smallholder farmers carbon removal projects for free and at scale - providing a revenue model for small farmholders.
Community Endorsement formalized Quick Pitch
Solution: Using Cardano’s blockchain Goodwall will empower community endorsement and ensure that it is immutable and traceable, solving the issue of fake accounts and information.
Community Cyber Security Support
Solution: Awareness, knowledge, and having an easy place to find this information will help community members. I want to do to things. 1) Help the individual, 2) Help new teams. At no cost to them.
Coaching Transforms your Life App
Solution: Build an app to record coaching hours indisputably. This can be used for all consulting service providers like coaches, mentors, doctors
Coaching for Catalyst Members
Solution: As an ICF Coach in Training, I am qualified to provide coaching services to improve effectiveness of proposers and community members
CNFT Marketplace for 3D materials
Solution: I would develop a CNFT platform to handle game materials (3D models, etc.).
This platform will allow game materials by ordinary people.
The works of them will appear in games created by corporations.
CNFT CON KickOff Party
Solution: Our solution is to make the CNFT Con KickOff Party on Friday a BLAST in Las Vegas by using Catalyst to help us fund the audio and visual production to a professional level.
Citizen Assemblies for Democracy
Solution: A web3 platform inspired by citizen assemblies that empowers and incentivises citizens to have facilitated democratic deliberations at scale, and reach consensus on potentially polarising issues.
CIP - Education Financing
Solution: We will draft a CIP based on findings from preliminary use case testing and a PoC around the tokenization of the Income Share Agreements (ISA) in emerging markets.
Chatbot AI for Project Catalyst Quick Pitch
Solution: Building an AI chatbot that could promptly answer most of the Project Catalyst-related questions when users ask.
Examples:
• "How many DAO proposals are there?"
• "When are proposal drafts due?"
CH2O Africa - ADA NFT Charity 🌎 Quick Pitch
Solution: We are going to build a non-profit that digs wells and creates NFTs. Hardware oracles in the wells transmit a token to these NFT holders. Donors/Holders get instant validation of their contributions.
Catalyst Research & Voter Tool
Solution: Dedicate more time to the LIDO Catalyst Research tool to bring in more data, help proposer owners tell richer stories, & help the entire community make sense of Catalyst Data & the humans behind them.
Catalyst Proposal Assistant [SDA]
Solution: A proposal assistant that uses game-like proposal writing & assessing experience, resulting in a proposal collaboration space that focuses on ‘quality’ over ‘quantity’.
Catalyst Governance Tooling Quick Pitch
Solution: We build a modular environment based on the Done Collectively platform, where the community can try and test objective setting, proposal prioritization and co-development, and other novel approaches.
CarPool Onboard & Learning Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: Launch web-based learning platform that delivers LIVE in-person & virtual interactive classes & courses emphasizing the fundamentals of blockchain, crypto, & security; all the things we wished WE knew
Cardopoly Game Expansion
Solution: We have created a functioning large scale game, which uses NFT's as game pieces. All data is live streamed in a unique visual experience, in real time. Think 500+ player board game, using CNFT's.
Cardax DEX Plutarch Code Audit
Solution: We want to perform a full review of our Plutarch code and a security audit of our smart contracts. Cardax DEX is currently the only DEX written on Plutarch (not PlutusTx).
Cardano Virtual Experiences Toolbox
Solution: We aim to build an easy to use, open-source toolkit that enables individual users or communities to create virtual experiences that are captured in 3D spaces.
Cardano Virtual Convention
Solution: We will build and host a week-long virtual conference highlighting projects in the Cardano ecosystem. Projects can customize their area to showcase their brand for conference attendees.
CARDANO TV (24hs Live) Corporate TV
Solution: Provide the Cardano community, a powerful Corporate Digital TV project, with all the equipment, tools, programming schedule, real-time news and personalized content for a 24-hour ONLINE TV on Youtube.