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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

44
Completed
64
Approved
80
Proposed
₳11.5M
$3.2M
Requested
₳6.3M
$2.8M
Awarded
₳1.4M
$2.5M
Received

Funding data last updated

Top of mind of dcSpark in Catalyst

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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

  • nicoarqueros

  • Robert Kornacki

  • Sebastien Guillemot

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)

Milkomeda Mobile

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

Solution: We want to allow users to use Milkomeda smart contracts from their mobile device

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1% of the fund.
3.42 (12)

Milkomeda Game

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Game will be a simple casual game that uses blockchain concepts. It will bring adoption and usage to Cardano through Milkomeda.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1.6% of the fund.
1.39 (18)

DeFi hackathon

$26,667 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Hackathon will help with the deployments of DeFi projects that and boost adoption in Cardano.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
funded Awarded 1.6% of the fund.
2.83 (12)

ERC721 & ERC-1155 for Milkomeda

$20,000 Received
$20,000 Requested

Solution: Build infrastructure required to be able to bring NFTs or ERC1155-compatible assets between Cardano <-> Milkomeda

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Cross-Chain Collaboration
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
4.53 (15)

Layer 3 scalability using zkRollups

$26,786 Received
$75,000 Requested

Solution: Research and clear blueprint on how to implement zk-rollups on top of Milkomeda as a L3 as well as a roadmap for wallet implementation

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Cardano scaling solutions
funded Awarded 7.5% of the fund.
3.08 (12)

Cotalker integration

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: Cotalker integration will allow companies to use Cardano as a source of true for storing operational information that can be verified.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)
completed Awarded 10% of the fund.
1.58 (12)

Cardano Connector (Metamask-like)

$30,000 Received
$30,000 Requested

Solution: A Chrome extension connector (similar to Metamask) that will enable communication between wallets and DApps.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: DApps & Integrations
completed Awarded 12% of the fund.
4.46 (28)

Developer Evangelist Japan

$19,000 Received
$19,000 Requested

Solution: A specialized developer evangelist will be supporting the local ecosystem in Japanese, and also managing multiple activities.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: Proposer Outreach
completed Awarded 19% of the fund.
4 (28)

Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will update this library for future updates to Cardano and also provide support & functionality to those who depend on it.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: Developer ecosystem
completed Awarded 8.333% of the fund.
4.54 (24)

Create message signing standard

$5,000 Received
$535 Requested

Prove reserves, identity, delegating to a pool and more.

Fund: Fund 2 Challenge: Fund2 Challenge
completed Awarded 0.214% of the fund.

Solve asset fractionalization

$90,000 Received
$90,000 Requested

Solution: The creation of a canonical smart contract where whitelisted assets (and bridges) can exchange their bridged asset by a canonical version that will be used by the Cardano ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Cross-Chain Collaboration
completed Awarded 10% of the fund.
4.19 (21)

Milkomeda Game #2

$80,000 Received
$80,000 Requested

Solution: We will make a 2nd game for Milkomeda that operates entirely on-chain without needing to trust a centralized server, and do so in a more gas-friendly way than traditional gas-hungry on-chain games

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
completed Awarded 1.019% of the fund.
3.71 (24)

dcSpark (the company iteslf)

$399,000 Received
$400,000 Requested

Solution: This round of Catalyst does not have much money for the developer ecosystem (one of the primary things we build). To balance it out, we are asking for a loan w/ interest from Catalyst for this round

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
funded Awarded 5.096% of the fund.
2.77 (30)

Carp over-budget + maintenance

$65,000 Received
$65,000 Requested

Solution: This proposal will pay back dcSpark for the overbudget work, as well as continue development of the project given it's now used by multiple companies inside the Cardano ecosystem

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 6.5% of the fund.
3.41 (27)

Fast reindexable data format

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We introduce new thread-safe memory-efficient persistent storage with indexing capabilities. Using a single-file solution, there will be no extra processing overhead for download and synchronization.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
3.8 (30)

Liquid staking for Milkomeda / L2s

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

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

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
completed Awarded 1.274% of the fund.
4.56 (18)