Please describe your proposed solution.

We will improve the existing form of articles on Cexplorer.io/article, we will introduce a dedicated website focused purely on educational articles. We will incentivize community writers for quality content, enable community involvement and make some elements interactive for the web3 environment.

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

• raise awareness of cardano in general
• educate users, both beginners and advanced
• reduce the potential damage caused by crypto scams through educational efforts

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

We are in Cardano since Incentivised Testnet and we have experience with recent Catalyst. We are building tooling and educating community since day one. We're not worried about not being able to deliver on what we define.

What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Improve current enviroment

Prepare current enviroment to a new version.

Outputs:

• polish Cexplorer.io/article section, UX improvement
• article image previews (metadata)
• enable new features (donate author, article popularity tracking/metrics)
• marketing activity

Acceptance:

• new features available on Cexplorer.io/article
• article analytics webpage

>Dedicated edu website - beta

A new page will be created where all educational articles will be publicly available.

Outputs:

• new domain for project
• article list
• article searching
• article reading
• article interraction
• related articles
• page navigation
• page metadata, seo optimalization
• marketing activity

Acceptance

• working new website on some domain with available outputs.

>Support for future creators

Try for a while to directly support the authors of interesting articles through a fair distribution method. Our idea is set some monthly budget and this amount distribute fairly to article writers by article popularity.

Outputs

• new articles
• marketing activity

Acceptance

• tracking page link related to reward distribution, analytics behind
• example links to selected rewarded articles

>Dedicated edu website - final acceptance

Outputs:

• new website - direct donations to authors
• new website - article popularity
• new website - tabs and analytics for monthly author rewards
• reward distribution (we expect this feature for 6 months, monthly budget about 2000-5000; if this method proves effective, we can extend it in the next catalyst.)
• marketing support of project and this initiative

Acceptance

• working new educational website with new features.
• working improved Cexplorer articles page
• first monthly reward to article creators distributed - public track record and description behind
• marketing activity (social media, public ann)

Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Lukas Barta (CEO)

Josef Taborsky (PM, dev)

Jaromir Tesar (QA, writer)

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

• project management = 30 000 ada
• social media, marketing = 20 000 ada
• development = 110 000 ada
• domain, server costs, devops = 10 000 ada
• budget for writers 30 000 ada (6*5000 ada, or 12x2500 ada, or so - we will see with time)

How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

Education is priceless. We will offer a platform where authors can share their knowledge to wide community and as bonus receive direct payments from readers.