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.
Cardano Ancient Peoples DCCG Game
Solution: We will create a Digital Collectible Card Game that prioritizes game quality, has decentralized balance changes, and is resistant to pay-to-win by adopting play-to-earn by making cards free out of box
Cardano 101 Course - Kaizen Crypto
Solution: The Cardano 101 course will be an A-Z style platform that breaks down the process of being involved in Cardano. From setting up a wallet, understanding the eutxo model and even plutus smart contracts.
“Cardania” educative board game
Solution: Create a boardgame that teaches basic concepts of blockchain in a didactic and fun way without the need for technical jargon.
Cardalonia, A Metaverse On Cardano
Solution: Cardalonia will introduce a community centric Web3 Ecosystem on Cardano where you can create custom experiences, Buy land, Customize your Avatar while also staking your assets to earn Rewards.
Cardahub-One Stop Shop for CNFT
Solution: Providing Smart Contract-based One Stop Shop for everything CNFT for those who want to work with NFTs on Cardano blockchain
Cardafolio.com your yield portfolio
Solution: I've created a solution to this by reading the API's on the different DEXes (cardafolio.com), however using their APIs not optimal, we'll have more on APR/APY by reading the blockchain directly
Carbonno Verifiable Carbon Platform
Solution: Create Decentralized Carbon Trading dApp, where verified real-world carbon credits from various sources are traded in the form of NFTs and our carbon backed token $CNC.
Cannabis & Hemp Grading App
Solution: A Web3 mobile Dapp based cannabis grading tool & quality verification system publishing to the cardano blockchain, will enable development of a global grading network facilitating an efficient market.
C64 Wallet - Extension Tool
Solution: Design and implement a progressive modular extension wallet as a tool that facilitates new use cases to interact with users and the web3.
C4S - Cardano for Seniors Hub
Solution: Seniors do not adapt quickly to technology and learn differently. Clubhouse, an interactive verbal social media platform will be used with YouTube to host Senior friendly educational “chat rooms” .
C4S-Cardano4Seniors Incubator
Solution: Establishing an independent incubator fund within Cardano to initiate the funding of focused projects on the developing niche Senior Market. The funding would be capped at $25,000 per Proposal.
C4S-Cardano4Seniors-Animation
Solution: In Fund 8 C4S was funded to develop an educational language-ELI65 & start SM marketing. Phase2 was to create animated characters for global translation and distribution of this educational platform.
Buy food & make an impact
Solution: Buying regenerative foods with ADA, sent through a smart contract % towards smallholder farmers to support livelihood, best farming practices and receive impact validation.
Building Profitable Cardano Hubs Quick Pitch
Solution: By building Training Kits & more software tools with COTI ₳DA Pay, helping Cardano Hubs show the world we are the Blockchain for real-world business & increase ₳DA denominated ecosystem transactions
Build-an-NFT Functionality!
Solution: We will introduce our “Build-an-NFT” functionality to the Cardano Ecosystem. This never-before unseen functionality in any other NFT Ecosystem can provide dApps with new and fun NFT user experiences!
Build a Court System Oracle
Solution: We will build a specialized court system oracle that provides Cardano smart contracts with actionable data about court rulings.
Broaden open source wallet options
Solution: Our solution is to, fork Nami wallet, update manifest to v3, develop new and innovative features, improve the UI/UX further and resubmit to google chrome store, thus creating a new wallet called Lucem
Bring NFT To Life
Solution: Giving mint users an NFT depends on how much that user contributes to the community. The higher the level the NFT owner will get, the more benefits.
Bringing MMORPG Gaming to Cardano!
Solution: Cardano has yet to see a large MMORPG with blockchain integrations go live. Flooftopia will bring this well-beloved genre to Cardano, and, in doing so, bring many new users to the Cardano Ecosystem!
Bonding native assets to NFTs
Solution: We have built a tool that allows a user to vest any asset in linear fashion to any existing NFT collection. Users can also mint new NFTs with our tool and vest allocations of tokens to those NFTs.
BLOCKTRUST identity wallet (PRISM)
Solution: We already have a working product (see video). It’s the first browser-wallet for digital identities (except an internal demo by IOG). Now we need to finish and ship it asap to help PRISM move forward.
Blockchain Educational dApp
Solution: Develop an educational dApp with concise and interactive lessons on blockchain for beginners to easily understand. These topics are chosen by the user and consumed in bite-sizes to avert confusion.
BLAGO - Global Paradigm Shift
Solution: I will create an environment to bring together people who want to build a new decentralized society that eliminates social inequality, cares for nature, and lives in well-being, sanity, and unity.
BEST WAY TO ATTRACT REAL GAMERS
Solution: Miverse provides a comic platform and produces a comic - one of the ultimate weapons to attract real gamers on-chained. In long term, authors can monetize their dream here.