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Bio

We build high-quality crypto products that unify the user experience within blockchain ecosystems.

Community Reviews across funding rounds

1706
Total de reseñas
Addresses Challenge
3.88 Star
Feasibility
3.46 Star
Auditability
3.06 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.11 Star
Value for money
3.27 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

44
Completed
64
Approved
80
Proposed
₳11.5M
$3.2M
Requested
₳6.3M
$2.8M
Awarded
₳1.4M
$2.5M
Received

Funding data last updated

Top of mind of dcSpark in Catalyst

most frequent words in proposal details

Challenges

The Team (5)

Members in Catalyst that have co-proposed with dcSpark. Individuals may not be employed at dcSpark. This is is is not representative of dcSpark's full team.

  • john Valdez

  • Robert Kornacki

  • nicoarqueros

  • Sebastien Guillemot

dcSpark Challenges (1)

Challenge: Open-ended Research

$500,000 Budget

¿Qué corrientes de investigación pueden iniciarse o acelerarse para que Cardano siga siendo competitivo?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 7
Budget 3.906% of the fund.
3.94 (18)

dcSpark Proposals (80)

Milkomeda Mobile

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

Solution: We want to allow users to use Milkomeda smart contracts from their mobile device

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1% of the fund.
3.42 (12)

Milkomeda Game

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Game will be a simple casual game that uses blockchain concepts. It will bring adoption and usage to Cardano through Milkomeda.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
completed Awarded 1.6% of the fund.
1.39 (18)

DeFi hackathon

$26,667 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Hackathon will help with the deployments of DeFi projects that and boost adoption in Cardano.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: DApps and Integrations
funded Awarded 1.6% of the fund.
2.83 (12)

ERC721 & ERC-1155 for Milkomeda

$20,000 Received
$20,000 Requested

Solution: Build infrastructure required to be able to bring NFTs or ERC1155-compatible assets between Cardano <-> Milkomeda

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Cross-Chain Collaboration
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
4.53 (15)

Layer 3 scalability using zkRollups

$26,786 Received
$75,000 Requested

Solution: Research and clear blueprint on how to implement zk-rollups on top of Milkomeda as a L3 as well as a roadmap for wallet implementation

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Cardano scaling solutions
funded Awarded 7.5% of the fund.
3.08 (12)

Cotalker integration

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: Cotalker integration will allow companies to use Cardano as a source of true for storing operational information that can be verified.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)
completed Awarded 10% of the fund.
1.58 (12)

Cardano Connector (Metamask-like)

$30,000 Received
$30,000 Requested

Solution: A Chrome extension connector (similar to Metamask) that will enable communication between wallets and DApps.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: DApps & Integrations
completed Awarded 12% of the fund.
4.46 (28)

Developer Evangelist Japan

$19,000 Received
$19,000 Requested

Solution: A specialized developer evangelist will be supporting the local ecosystem in Japanese, and also managing multiple activities.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: Proposer Outreach
completed Awarded 19% of the fund.
4 (28)

Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will update this library for future updates to Cardano and also provide support & functionality to those who depend on it.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: Developer ecosystem
completed Awarded 8.333% of the fund.
4.54 (24)

Create message signing standard

$5,000 Received
$535 Requested

Prove reserves, identity, delegating to a pool and more.

Fund: Fund 2 Challenge: Fund2 Challenge
completed Awarded 0.214% of the fund.

Solve asset fractionalization

$90,000 Received
$90,000 Requested

Solution: The creation of a canonical smart contract where whitelisted assets (and bridges) can exchange their bridged asset by a canonical version that will be used by the Cardano ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Cross-Chain Collaboration
completed Awarded 10% of the fund.
4.19 (21)

Milkomeda Game #2

$80,000 Received
$80,000 Requested

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

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
completed Awarded 1.019% of the fund.
3.71 (24)

dcSpark (the company iteslf)

$399,000 Received
$400,000 Requested

Solution: This round of Catalyst does not have much money for the developer ecosystem (one of the primary things we build). To balance it out, we are asking for a loan w/ interest from Catalyst for this round

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
funded Awarded 5.096% of the fund.
2.77 (30)

Carp over-budget + maintenance

$65,000 Received
$65,000 Requested

Solution: This proposal will pay back dcSpark for the overbudget work, as well as continue development of the project given it's now used by multiple companies inside the Cardano ecosystem

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 6.5% of the fund.
3.41 (27)

Fast reindexable data format

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We introduce new thread-safe memory-efficient persistent storage with indexing capabilities. Using a single-file solution, there will be no extra processing overhead for download and synchronization.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
3.8 (30)

Liquid staking for Milkomeda / L2s

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: We will design & implement a standard for Milkomeda to allow its users to keep earning staking rewards. We will share the approach publicly so other L2s / sidechains can implement their own variation

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
completed Awarded 1.274% of the fund.
4.56 (18)