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.
Prediction markets on Cardano
Solution: We propose to build CONVEX - the first operational prediction market on Cardano. CONVEX is truly decentralised: anyone can participate. No central infrastructure. You don't need anyone's permission.
Poolpeek Stake Pool Pledge Tracker
Solution: We believe providing an overtime total holding of the cardano stake pool operators will bring a sense of education and trust to the wider cardano community.
Plutus Lottery ADA Game
Solution: We propose to create a decentralized team that will work on a project that will further bring adoption by creating lottery games that which anyone can participate just with 1 ADA.
PLUTUS.ART: NEW KIND OF MARKETPLACE
Solution: We will build a new marketplace that will involve tokenomics, vestation periods, claiming of rewards and other new technology for Cardano. Think looksrare.org but with Plutus smart contracts.
PlayerMint: Web 3.0 Arcade
Solution: A protocol that integrates with existing games like Fortnite to monetize gameplay performance through play-to-earn functionality. Tokens earned through gaming can be spent across an NFT marketplace.
PillarWheel Studios Cardano Apps
Solution: Provide both a centralized company for legal purposes, and decentralized autonomous organizational tools for those working remotely: that assists to develop needed products and services.
PillarWheel's NFT ARPG Sim Game
Solution: Providing a persistent RPG world where characters can persist with predefined tasks and projects that a player more oversees than controls.
PetLove Social Media & Marketplace
Solution: A blockchain based social network platform with AI capability and digital payment processing will allow all stakeholders within the pet industry to network, conduct e-commerce, and digitize records.
Perma-music rmNFT Marketplace
Solution: Our platform Rythmeet will allow musicians to network, mint and sell their creations through NFTs and permanently lock their original files allowing them to become independent and develop their career
PeakChain Uber on Cardano Quick Pitch
Solution: We aim to develop a Cardano ridesharing solution like Uber but on the blockchain, guaranteeing privacy and security in the services provided, as well as being fully governed by users of the platform.
PeakChain Fleet Management Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: We aim to develop a Cardano Fleet Management solution on the blockchain, guaranteeing privacy and security for the provided services.
PeakChain Car-Sharing Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: We aim to develop a Cardano Car sharing solution on the blockchain, guaranteeing privacy and security for the provided services.
PeakChain Cardano Car Wallet Device Quick Pitch
Solution: Create a hardware device that allows cars to connect to the Cardano blockchain. This would be done in a decentralized way by submitting transactions, including car data and managing the vehicle wallet
Pay&Rate Reputation System
Solution: A Pay&Rate reputation system for marketplaces in Cardano, which features open-source, community-driven, decentralized, immutable, transparent, highly scalable, marketplace-independent, and secure.
Parcel Delivery dApp [MVP only]
Solution: We build a dApp (MVP) on Cardano for a cheaper, faster and greener P2P postal delivery solution allowing anyone to deliver parcels going there anyways while making an extra income at the same time.
P2P NFT Trading and Offers Market
Solution: A platform & community where collectors can post NFTs they are willing to trade, specifying ADA or other NFTs they are interested in, allowing them to connect and trade in a trustless system (Tent).
P2P Marketmaker Money Transfer
Solution: Ekival allows users to access transnational incomes without the need of using a traditional money transfer business. Ekival offers providers of liquidity a venue to transfer cash to more secure Ada.
P2E: Group Progression System
Solution: We will create a product that tracks players' progression and enables them to earn rewards while playing in a group.
Oxford crypto valley: Cardano house
Solution: Establish a Cardano hacker house in the HomeDAO Oxford Crypto Valley alongside other major protocol and VC houses. Talented entrepreneur student tenants contribute to the ecosystem 25% of their time.
OUTGOING (Let's go places)
Solution: Ease of online transactions while providing consumers with a selection of choices.
The platform will also promote the growth of small, medium and big business within the country.
A one stop shop.
Ouroboros network (NtC) in Golang
Solution: Create/develop an open source Golang library for speaking the Ouroboros protocol with a Cardano node.
Optim Finance - Liquidity Bonds
Solution: Liquidity Bonds are a novel DeFi instrument that allows anyone to lend + borrow ADA delegation.SPO Bonds allow SPOs to borrow delegation to bootstrap pools, mint blocks consistently, prove competence
Open Vesting Tool - Unvest
Solution: Unvest is a free point-and-click vesting tool that anyone can use. Complex schedules can be built easily.
We will port our existing vesting dApp at app.unvest.io to support all native Cardano assets.
Open Source Wallet Messaging App
Solution: A wallet-to-wallet messaging app where individuals can privately message each other as their wallets without having to risk revealing their IRL or web2 identities.