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.
Help The Poor Come Aboard!
Solution: As a current project owner, artist, and live entertainer, I have the ability to create, display, and help those around me understand block-chain technology in layman's terms.
Helps you keep ADA longer
Solution: Create a smart contract. Helps you to lock the ADA in your wallet for the period you choose
Help2HEALTH ramping Up to 2B People Quick Pitch
Solution: To reach a bigger patients and doctors volume base, Help2Health must be multilingual. Translate into English & Portuguese as a necessary step for the global scaling of our health care services.
HEALTHFI - Healthcare Metaverse
Solution: Building a Dapp to record and guide users on workouts and healthy eating, and encourage people to do regular exercises daily by rewarding tokens & NFTs, and gaining reputation & achievements.
HAZELnet.io Community Integration
Solution: I will ensure that project can easily connect with their community and other projects, with a focus on privacy, security and user experience, across various social media and instant messaging apps.
Hard Fork Cafe
Solution: The Hard Fork creates information channels to increase communication and understanding of Catalyst.
Handle Personalization | ADA Handle
Solution: The Handle Personalization Standard will integrate Handles to unique Smart Contracts in order to create personalized datasets, that will include profile pictures, social-media accounts and a lot more.
Growing Cardano Global Presence
Solution: cnftjungle.io team constantly looks for ways and apps to be inspired from and reach out to from other ecosystems to bring best utilities and awareness to Cardano, however it costs us time and money
Governance Services Guild
Solution: Provide a range of governance products and services to support existing or emergent Cardano groups and communities.
Global Levelling Up of Education CP
Solution: To offer a unified experience of life-long learning through an already established Media3 brand that brings the best of the blockchain tools to create a robust and rewarding governance protocol
Global Collaboration Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: To install & evolve existing proven collaborative tools into a platform designed to catalyze interactive project creation and leverage our community’s extraordinary knowledge, & skills.
Global Cannabis Listing Platform
Solution: Build the 1st Cannabis Listing Service (CLS) on the Cardano blockchain. Members publish quality verified listings accessible to buyers, brokers, sellers & 3rd parties serving a global marketplace.
Get PAYDA
Solution: https://getpayda.com addresses this problem by allowing users to generate invoices that can then be sent to payers.
Get incentivised for contributing
Solution: A platform where developers get incentivized for contributing to open source projects, earn ADA and Skills NFT for every approved pull request, access to exclusive events, hackathons with your NFTs
Gender Unicorns CFNT Card Game
Solution: Gender Unicorns is the first CNFT game supporting gender diversity and equality via interactive alliances, lending platforms, and dedicated forums.
Gamers DID - Trust Built by Gaming
Solution: A DID based reputation system that allows players to be rewarded based upon their positive activity in-game.
Gamefi Infrastructure Restore2Earn
Solution: We believe we need to unite companies, communities and consumers to solve this big problem (climate change). Therefore we need a solution that can engage the masses in a fun, easy and rewarding way!
GameFan-Gaming & Esports Fandom
Solution: Creating a community fan platform for fans to be able to connect to their idols
Sponsorships will not be the only revenue stream
Creating a new revenue stream by monetizing highlight content
Funding real world Businesses
Solution: We aim to provide a platform where businesses and startups will be able to easily create, manage and sell their business tokens.
Fractionalized NFTs with Marlowe
Solution: Minting tokens with GameChanger Wallet and distributing them with Marlowe could provide an easy and auditable solution for NFT Fractionalization.
Fractal Fuzion Integrations
Solution: Fractal Fuzion will create integrations into the Cardano ecosystem. We will develop our infrastructure to produce high quality products, while supporting the growth of the Cardano Community.
Fracada Addressing Audit
Solution: The funds will be used for a Plutus developer to address the concerns found in the audit, followed by publishing the audit and updated code for the community
Food Traceability by Cardano Quick Pitch
Solution: A Daap that stores information on Cardano native tokens and transaction metadata for traceability while reducing blockchain deployment complexity & enables a collaborative environment for data sharing
Following & Social Discovery Tool
Solution: Follow any address, project, or NFT on the Cardano blockchain, and track its activities and network. Activities are transactions that are translated into a (more) human-readable format.