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Bio

We build high-quality crypto products that unify the user experience within blockchain ecosystems.

Community Reviews across funding rounds

1706
Total reviews
Addresses Challenge
3.88 Star
Feasibility
3.46 Star
Auditability
3.06 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.11 Star
Value for money
3.27 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

41
Completed
64
Approved
80
Proposed
₳11.5M
$3.2M
Requested
₳6.3M
$2.8M
Awarded
₳1.4M
$2.5M
Received

Funding data last updated

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Challenges

The Team (5)

Members in Catalyst that have co-proposed with dcSpark. Individuals may not be employed at dcSpark. This is is is not representative of dcSpark's full team.

  • john Valdez

  • Sebastien Guillemot

  • nicoarqueros

  • Robert Kornacki

dcSpark Challenges (1)

Challenge: Open-ended Research

$500,000 Budget

What research streams can be started or accelerated to keep Cardano competitive?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 7
Budget 3.906% of the fund.
3.94 (18)

dcSpark Proposals (80)

Self-hosted pricefeed for wallets

$45,000 Received
$45,000 Requested

Solution: We will deploy an Oura source+sink that parses on-chain dApp data to provide an open-source self-hosted price feed that wallets can use

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1.8% of the fund.
4 (18)

Cross-chain Asset Transfer Standard

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

<p>Currently there exists no standard for token transfer interoperability bridges between Cardano and other chains (L1s and sidechains).</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Metadata challenge
completed Awarded 25% of the fund.
4 (3)

Multisig For Building EVM Bridges

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

<p>Multisig currently exists in the Cardano ecosystem, however there is no go-to solution to coordinate sharing and signing the transaction</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: DApps & Integrations
completed Awarded 16% of the fund.
2.56 (9)

Multiverse - dApp Rollback Handler

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

<p>Rollbacks create unnecessary stress on the user's side, degrade UX and make it hard for developers to handle all the edge cases for dApps</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Developer ecosystem
completed Awarded 9.95% of the fund.
3.89 (9)

Milkomeda Accelerator

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will use our expertise at dcSpark to run an accelerator program for projects interested in building with Milkomeda

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Catalyst Accelerator & Mentors
completed Awarded 10% of the fund.
2.56 (45)

Nation-ready scalability research

$37,500 Received
$75,000 Requested

Solution: We will perform novel research on a scalability solution called "naive rollups" or sometimes called "lazy rollups"

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Nation Building Dapps
funded Awarded 12.5% of the fund.
3.17 (18)

Milkomeda documentation(JP, KR, ZH)

$4,000 Received
$4,000 Requested

Solution: Translate onboarding documents for users & developers to other languages

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Multilingual resources
completed Awarded 4% of the fund.
3 (21)

Cardano Omnibus - UTXO Management

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Write input selection algorithms inside the Rust SDK for Cardano so that all projects implementing Cardano have access to state-of-the-art

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Open Source Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 20% of the fund.
4.17 (6)

AI Stablecoin & Oracle Hackathon

$75,000 Requested

Solution: We will host a virtual hackathon for individuals & companies in domains that overlap w/ AI and share our knowledge about Cardano & Ethereum

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: A.I. & SingularityNet a $5T market
over budget Requested 15% of the fund.
3.58 (24)

Milkomeda ADA Audit

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Audit all components of Milkomeda that are required for the Cardano deployment

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Miscellaneous Challenge
completed Awarded 20% of the fund.
3.44 (18)

Milkomeda SPO validator training

$10,000 Received
$10,000 Requested

Solution: We plan to write documentation to help any stake pool that wants to be come a Milkomeda validator and also help validators w/ any questions

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: New SPO Business Opportunities
completed Awarded 4% of the fund.
3.42 (12)

Milkomeda Latam Hackathon

$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will host a virtual hackathon for individuals & companies in Latin America and share our knowledge about Cardano & Ethereum

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Grow Latin America, Grow Cardano
over budget Requested 10% of the fund.
3.58 (12)

Milkomeda documentation (es & pt)

$4,000 Requested

Solution: Translate onboarding documents for users & developers to other languages

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Grow Latin America, Grow Cardano
over budget Requested 0.8% of the fund.
2.92 (12)

Gaming dApp Hackathon

$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will host a virtual hackathon for individuals & companies in the blockchain games domain and share our knowledge about Cardano & Ethereum

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Gamers On-Chained
over budget Requested 20% of the fund.
2.08 (12)

Basic Plutus Voting dApp

$15,000 Received
$15,000 Requested

Solution: We plan to create an open standard for on-chain voting through a Plutus smart contract that can be used by any DAO or dApp

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano
completed Awarded 3% of the fund.
2.81 (21)

Fractionalized NFTs v2

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We want to publish a v2 of Fracada that is both audited and supports fractionalizing a bag of NFTs

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: DApps & Integrations
completed Awarded 20% of the fund.
4.44 (9)