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.
Advanced Cardano NFT Search Engine
Solution: Build a fast Cardano NFT search engine with faceted search functionality - enhanced by Argus’ image similarity (machine learning), and designed to accommodate future multi-chain support.
Adosia Spaceprinter Lite
Solution: Provide a lite version of Spaceprinter that is fully cloud based, driving wider adoption.
Adosia Marketplace Updates
Solution: Provide additional quality of life features to the Adosia Decentralized Manufacturing Marketplace that will enhance usability and increase adoption.
ADIUVAT: Find your place
Solution: We'll enroll bars, clubs, restaurants and places of different categories that'll call people to go out and have fun. Like a diary of possible activities to do. Every day events and things change
Add ADA to 1st NFT Marketplace-MENA
Solution: Expand and develop our existing NFT marketplace to the MENA region, exposing and enabling a new NFT community on Cardano.
ADATOMS Science & DeFi FREE Ed.
Solution: ADATOMS gives 100% Free TOP QUALITY Scientific and Financial education, securing all our educational content in the Cardano blockchain. This is done both in English and Spanish to maximize reach.
ADA to Mobile Money App
Solution: Design of a mobile application allowing the exchange of ADA cryptocurrency to a local currency via Mobile Money.
AdaStamp: signing, workflows
Solution: The dApp allows uploading any document, storing it in a distributed environment (decentralized IPFS storage of encrypted documents), and signing it with a digital signature by defined participants.
ADA SOLAR PLATFORM
Solution: The creation of the ADA SOLAR PLATFORM to decentralize solar energy allows anyone in the world to participate in the Cardano Network's upcoming 5 MW first solar farm.
AdaQuest DCrawler Vertical Slice
Solution: After creating the Concept & Prototype for Phase 2 we have to develop the Release Candidate. This will allow us to deliver the finished product to the public. This is usually stated as Early Access.
AdaQuest Brand Awareness campaign
Solution: Let´s face it! Brand awareness campaigns cost a lot of time, resources, and money. We will create a feasible plan that will use the entire budget of this proposal to boost AdaQuest's attention level.
AdaPulse: Independent Media Outlet
Solution: Expanding the grass roots independent media outlet, Adapulse. Adapulse is a coalition of tech writers/engaged community members creating content around the innovation, projects, & news within Cardano.
ADAO - RoundTable v2: Staking +
Solution: Allocate greater ADAO resources to the continued development of the RoundTable open source Repos.
Add new features to enable staking, dapp interoperability, and user focused upgrades.
ADAO - Plutus Token Vesting DApp
Solution: A Plutus smart contract dapp built to enable customizable token vesting, where issuers can deposit tokens and specify the parameters around a specific spending schedule.
ADAO- NFT Fractionalization Dapp
Solution: Deploy a NFT fractionalization dapp that anyone can use to fractionalize NFTs and distribute the underlying tokens using the Fracada v2 Smart contracts that were developed and open sourced by Dcspark.
ADAGram- Decentralized Social Media
Solution: ADAGram will create an open-sourced, decentralized social media platform. It will be resistant to censorship and bot accounts. Content creators will directly receive rewards in a utility token.
Adaglass Platform: Deep Dives
Solution: Adaglass uniquely brings data, views and analytics' tools to help answer any Cardano questions. With Deep Dives, our unique investigative tool, users can speed up analysis to achieve faster decision.
Adacheems:Optimize the value of NFT
Solution: AdaCheems NFT Project - Optimizing Use Values and Building the Economy of the NFT. We bring an NFT world that includes economy, real-world connectivity, and stronger interactions for owners.
ADA Bug Bounty Website
Solution: A website will be created to allow anyone with a Cardano wallet to create, interact with, and claim a bounty. Bounties can range from coding help to reporting security vulnerabilities in a project.
ADABET.iO |Sports Betting MobileApp
Solution: We will be building the ADABET Apps on mobile to make it easy for users to place bets. The goal is to help enhance user experience and combine it with the system of the ADABET.IO Cardano betting dApp.
ADABET.iO | Cardano Betting DApp
Solution: We build the ADABET.iO platform applying Defi to ensure property rights and increase the benefits for bettors. With the WEB3, &Cardano's tech apply to ADABET to change the traditional betting platform
A better data source owned by you
Solution: A new data source, directly created and controlled by individuals and more accurate, authentic, and valuable than anything available now, is the way the current surveillance paradigm will be crushed.
5 Loaves 2 Fish Feed The Hungry App
Solution: We pickup food from restaurants, and deliver to beneficiaries, orphanages. elders homes, homeless, street people, slums, low income housing.
5-6 lang Short Explainer Animations
Solution: A series of five animated two-minute videos in six different languages that explain Cardano-related topics ranging from what it is to how to profit.