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.
Be Love ❤️
Solution: We'll make an engaging Cardano-based reality tv show, that humanizes and encourages the contestants as they dig deep to complete challenges. The pilot episode is in Chicago, and will expand worldwide.
Battle Borgz P2E Game - Phase 2
Solution: Through NFTs and blockchain technology we will offer an opportunity for game users to earn real money for doing something they enjoy.
Bashoswap - non-batching AMM DEX Quick Pitch
Solution: Bashoswap takes advantage of the EUTXO ledger design built into the Cardano network to allow rapid, non-batched transactions with improved trust and reduced latency.
Atrium - The Center of Everything
Solution: We are building a dashboard to display all your wallet and DeFi information in one clean, simple interface. Aggregating marketplace data to allow a holistic view of your decentralized life.
Atala PRISM DID
Solution: Create verifiable credentials(VCs)-the Republic of Uzupis.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20181014-uupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits
Atala Integration with Milkomeda
Solution: We integrate Atala to Milkomeda via ProofSpace/Socious to increase the adoption of Cardano.
A standard for token verification
Solution: Establishing a verification standard that is easily accessible by users and developers and protects the Cardano community from fake projects.
Asset Management ⛓💎
Solution: To conquer this Problem I want to set up a system of smart contracts, which govern access to given assets and enables cloud based programs to interact at any time in a secure way.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ML/Dapps
Solution: We can create a trustworthy technology-enabled decision-making system on blockchain that provides frictionless information access to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence training models.
APIs for Private Applications
Solution: We will build a zero-knowledge module with APIs. This way, a developer can easily build private applications that will generate zk-proofs which can be saved in Cardano blockchain.
API Datapoints & Notification Frame
Solution: Unmarshal will be indexing the Cardano chain to gather encrypted information in the hash format & provide simplified, human-readable data endpoints. This would reduce 60-65% of development time.
Antique Tokenization for Fairness
Solution: We will tokenize antiques, issue them on Cardano and launch a tokenization service for antique owners. We believe it will be a “catalyst” to transform the industry into something more free and fair.
Antiques: The Ideal Blockchain Mkt
Solution: Antiques is the world’s greatest DAO, perfectly set up for the Cardano ecosystem to become the catalyst for a digital/blockchain awakening across all demographics. This is part 1 of a 3 part project.
Anti-Phishing Chrome Extension
Solution: SecurityBot will create a free chrome extension to automatically detect and alert users visiting suspicious websites using Cardano as a decentralized database to store unsafe domains for public good.
Anonymity & data control w ZEKE (3)
Solution: Tomorrow, you can use our consent-based data (D)app; control which brands access your data; get compensated for your attention and interaction with brand content via our zero knowledge token (ZEKE).
ANIMETA | Anime Museum Metaverse
Solution: Building a museum displaying Anime in 3D allows it to act as a Metaverse platform along with the adoption of WEB3. Artists can create, define, & manage their Anime NFT assets on the Cardano blockchain
anetaBTC, decentralized wrapped BTC
Solution: anetaBTC is a decentralized, fully on-chain, wrapped BTC product that allows users to seamlessly unlock their BTC value on Cardano and Ergo.
Amazon Cardano Store
Solution: To promote the use of cardano cryptocurrency in the main capital of the Amazon, we intend to create a megastore of subsidized computer products, which will only accept Cardano as a form of payment.
All-in-One Link for Web3 Projects
Solution: Develop a powerful "All-in-One" Link platform that aggregates all links, NFTs and Wallets of a user, specialized in solving the needs of Web3, NFT and Token projects, using the Cardano blockchain.
ALGAE RHYTHM to save the biospheres
Solution: An OpenSource searchengine kickstarting a circular economy. Outputs (food, biomass and heat) generated by a closed loop microorganism production system. Usage incentivised with gamified IMPACT dapp.
Agricultural sustainability index
Solution: Technology (AI) for automatic detection of in-season and historical (30+ years) sustainability of agricultural fields using super-high resolution Satellite Earth Observation data.
Agricultural CO2 capture Unit
Solution: Massively cultivate a plant that captures a high content of CO2 to produce biogas and will also generate electricity with low levels of pollution. Scale and replicate the model globally.
AEROS Universal AirMile BasedOn ADA
Solution: Aeros currency can be converted to any miles or used as a payment method managed by our unique wallet. Aeros will be exchangeable for ADAs, converting ADA into the first crypto associated with miles.
Aedou - the Language Learning Game Quick Pitch
Solution: Aedou is a free collaborative multiplayer game, designed to learn & teach languages together in engaging, safe, active & explorable 3D-worlds that are built, governed & inhabited by the community.