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.
Monitoring tools for SPO
Solution: We are developing a client/server solution to track key parameters of the node/server and send notifications to a special node operator app
Model ICT Hub Quick Pitch
Solution: Set-up a premiere community hub in Nalerigu to offer students access to basic ICT training and services to compete with their peers in other regions and the globe at large.
Mobile Multisig Live Asset Trading
Solution: We will design and develop a mobile version of Tent, allowing easier access to secure trading to a wider audience while providing a first-class user experience.
Mobile Money Bridge & DEX
Solution: Build a bridge DEX to facilitate the conversion between FCFA to ADA leveraging the opportunities offered by mobile money agencies.
MLabs - Embedano (Embedded Devices) Quick Pitch
Solution: We are developing a secure and open-source software platform for embedded devices on Cardano blockchain. This applies to hardware wallets and other devices buildable using our primitives.
MLabs - Cardano DApp Schemas Quick Pitch
Solution: Configuration-based mechanism for specifying DApp data types and associated tooling for producing type libraries with common operations for popular language/PAB environments.
Minimizing Risk in the NFT Market!
Solution: There has been an increased cost to users in the form of rug-pulls and other dubious practices that make NFTs less attractive to users. Our CNFT Alliance will minimize these risks!
MineFreeUkraine
Solution: Information management and DeFi platform for reporting, coordination and financing for large-scale humanitarian demining action in Ukraine and globally
Milkomeda Game #2
Solution: We will make a 2nd game for Milkomeda that operates entirely on-chain without needing to trust a centralized server, and do so in a more gas-friendly way than traditional gas-hungry on-chain games
Milkomeda Djed
Solution: Our team developed and deployed Djed for the testnet version of Milkomeda. This allowed both developers and users to play around with Djed before its official release on Cardano.
MiFi: Where mining meets finance Quick Pitch
Solution: Our project is backed by mining machines and consists of 3 layers:
- Cost-efficient mining
- Smart portfolio rebalancing
- Defi layer
With a long term goal to bring mining to the insurance sector.
Microfinance ID Uplink to Banking
Solution: Integrate a blockchain ID system into the rural village banking system, easing friction of payments to vulnerable people. Also enabling international remittances from abroad directly into villages.
Metera: Impactful Token Portfolios
Solution: With innovative oracles and smart contracts, Metera allows communities to collectively create impactful portfolios, bringing mindful investing into the crypto space and onto Cardano.
Metaverse Jobs & Gigs
Solution: Unlike NPCs, real humans can react to players in real time and enhance the overall experience. We will build the infrastructure to enable people to work in Cardano metaverses and get paid in crypto.
METAIN: Asset backed NFTs/New trend Quick Pitch
Solution: 1. The real-world asset-backed NFTs with compelling interest of 15%-25% APY 2. Follow REIT regulations, NFT is SECURITY TOKEN. DAO vote for property screening delegation before buy/sell, for rent or listing
Messaging Any Address
Solution: Send a message to any address, and encrypt it so it’s not readable for anyone else but the one sending and receiving the message. Expandable into on-chain publishing feed people could follow.
MentalHealth = Wealth: heal2earn.io
Solution: BUIDLing an impact ecosystem: Incentivizing and Rewarding Mental Health via dApp:
- Caring Community
- Healthy-Fi Mental Health
- Creators courses (our Coaches) & 1:1 sessions
& Health.Foundation DAO
Mehen: Onboarding Assistance
Solution: Mehen wishes to lower the barrier to entry unbanked creators and investors face by subsidizing the cost required to enter the Mehen ecosystem, including background check and ID verification expenses.
Mehen: Fiat-backed Stablecoin USDM Quick Pitch
Solution: Mehen is working with the community to build a Cardano Native Asset stablecoin, USDM.
USDM uses stablecoin best practices: fully-backed 1:1 with high-quality, liquid, transparent, audited USD assets.
MediKamRecord: DoctaApp
Solution: Build a decentralized health information exchange platform allowing patients to have more control over their medical record and health practitioners to have to go to place for information.
MASCOT GALLERY
Solution: We are planning to release various collections of NTF tokens that visualize different unique talismans for everyone. You can purchase it and keep it in your wallet to attract good luck.
Market making bots on Cardano
Solution: Develop an open-source framework and templates to use trading bots like market-making, arbitrage, and liquidity mining on Cardano.
Mainline Evangelist dApp
Solution: A platform for projects to drive and reward community engagement across social media.
Lokole and Cardano Integration Quick Pitch
Solution: We have built a solar charged portable off/online server device called box Lokole Numerique, which will give Cardano Ecosystem the golden opportunity to reach out to the world unconnected populations.