Dapps, Products & Integrations gravatar Dapps, Products & Integrations

What dapps, products and integrations can be implemented to bring impactful use cases to Cardano ecosystem that help drive more adoption?

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.

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Total Proposals
78
Propuestas financiadas
0
Completed Proposals
$ 7.9M
Available
$51.4M
Requested
$7.8M
Adjudicado

Valuation & Tax Reporting Tool

$62,400 Requested

Solution: Track your wallet's real-time worth by combining owned, listed, and staked NFTs & coins with their current prices. And being able to export a tax report to comply with your region’s tax regulations.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.795% of the fund.
4.07 (15)

V2target-Dual target for ADA holder

$67,375 Requested

Solution: V2target is an application that helps Cardano users to process transactions on the crypto market in two directions. They can both increase their profits and also increase the amount of ADA they own…

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 0.858% of the fund.
4.96 (24)

Urban Farmer dApp Phase II

$175,000 Requested

Solution: Develop a dApp that helps micro urban farms to operate and expand, while making it easy for community members to order produce from them.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 2.229% of the fund.
4.73 (15)

Unsung NFT Marketplace with DeFi

$40,000 Requested

Solution: Ada NFT Marketplace with a DAO can facilitate reduced counterfeiting, better artwork provenance and access to DeFi and faster time to market

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 0.51% of the fund.
4.17 (12)

Universal Chemical Library

$137,860 Requested

Solution: We will create a single extensible library of chemical compound models and a platform for working with them based on our molecular simulator and the Cardano network.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.756% of the fund.
3.8 (15)

Unified Transport Payment Gateway

$40,000 Requested

Solution: To develop a decentralized Payment Gateway using DLT and DApps on Cardano employing smart contracts for payment transactions across parties.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.51% of the fund.
4.28 (18)

Uncollateralized crypto loans

$1,470,000 Requested

Solution: We are creating a platform where underwriters, small lenders and smart companies will be able to help and trust each other through decentralised smart contracts.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 18.726% of the fund.
4.07 (30)

Ubuntu Informal Biz Reg& Accounting

$89,850 Requested

Solution: Build DApp with triple-entry accounting on Cardano Blockchain to provide identity & financial inclusiveness for informal businesses in Africa.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.145% of the fund.
4.78 (18)

Typhon Wallet Mobile App

$245,000 Requested

Solution: Create a user-friendly UI/UX non-custodial Cardano Wallet mobile app that enables users to transact, connect with DApps, engage in seamless staking, browse Assets/NFT gallery, and do a lot more.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 3.121% of the fund.
4.11 (36)

Trybbles NFT AR Pets Prototyping

$36,000 Requested

Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.459% of the fund.
4.33 (12)

Trybbles NFT AR Pets Development

$86,860 Requested

Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.106% of the fund.
5 (15)

Trybbles NFT AR Pets Art & Assets

$98,860 Requested

Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.259% of the fund.
4.75 (12)

Trust-less non-custodial L2 NFT DEX

$264,600 Requested

Solution: We built Erdstall, a trust-less multi-chain L2 platform currently deployed on Ethereum. We plan to expand it to Cardano and build a trust-less, non-custodial L2 NFT marketplace on Erdstall.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 3.371% of the fund.
4.67 (15)

Tribal DIDs=Indigenous Sovereignty

$239,400 Received
$352,800 Requested

Solution: Using AtalaPrism SDK, integrate DID wallet features in Āhau, the tribal identity DApp made for, by, with Maori, indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to enable issuance of verifiable credentials

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
funded impact proposal Awarded 4.494% of the fund.
4.93 (15)

TREASURE CHAIN - An NFT Art Network

$50,000 Requested

Solution: Treasure Chain is an art network where users can assign rules about how their NFTs can interact with each other. With these rule templates the NFTs can act like a giant neural network of art.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.637% of the fund.
3.42 (12)

Transactions for Bank credits score

$50,000 Requested

Solution: Provide users and banks with a tool to leverage operations performed on the Cardano platform in the process of computation of credit score to improve the user's solvency level and financial inclusion.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.637% of the fund.
4.53 (15)

Trading Tent: Multi-language

$34,000 Requested

Solution: We will develop a multilanguage functionality for Tent, making it easier for people from all over the world to trade Native Cardano Assets from Wallet to Wallet in their native language.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
over budget Requested 0.433% of the fund.
4.61 (18)

TosiDrop dApp and Audit

$100,000 Requested

Solution: Token distribution platforms today are centralized, causing these platforms to be gatekeepers for which projects can and cannot be distributed. With TosiDrop, anyone can distribute their token.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.274% of the fund.
4.61 (18)
$156,900 Requested

Token Staking Platform Quick Pitch

$156,900 Requested

Solution: We intend to offer a Smart Contract based Staking as a Service for projects wishing to provide staking to their holders. This will be a turn-key solution, focusing on ease of use and usability.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.999% of the fund.
4.25 (24)

TokenPerkz: Unlockable Utility Hub

$50,000 Requested

Solution: A utility portal as a service for enterprises. Fully editable project hubs accessed by wallet login containing specific tokens.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 0.637% of the fund.
3.71 (21)

Token Maker + GoFunNFT

$97,800 Requested

Solution: To provide a powerful tool for issuing and managing tokens for projects of any scale. In addition, simplify tokenization in the form of access to content, services, and subscriptions.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved Requested 1.246% of the fund.
3.94 (18)

Tokenizing Income Share - Use Cases

$102,214 Requested

Solution: We will research the Income Share Agreement (ISA) value chain in emerging markets; and how to tokenize real-world educational assets.  

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.302% of the fund.
4.94 (18)

Tokenizing Income Share - PoC

$268,814 Requested

Solution: We will do a proof of concept for tokenizing income share agreements on emerging markets. 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 3.424% of the fund.
4.61 (18)

Tokenization: Creator Economy Quick Pitch

$124,500 Requested

Solution: Goodwall will develop a token-based in-app economy providing positive reinforcement whereby users are recognized and rewarded for their progress/work and have the possibility to exchange the tokens.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.586% of the fund.
4 (27)