F8: DApps and Integrations
Campaign Brief
Cardano is an ecosystem that sets itself apart through its rigorous research and strives to do things correctly. We expect all dApp projects applying for funding to aspire to the highest possible levels of certification. To understand what this refers to and practically means, please watch Charles Hoskinson's video on this topic: "DApp certification and Community Curation", https://youtu.be/Y7zcYSQarI0.
This challenge is suitable for incorporated technology or blockchain companies and larger projects with competent teams that already have deployed MVPs. Ideally, these are projects that have a proven user base. Projects that satisfy such criteria are welcome to apply for more than $100,000 if that can be justified and clearly budgeted for.
For smaller teams (4-5 people) with proven competence, relevant experience and technical skills with sketches/whitepaper detailing how they would go about to launch their proposal, the budgets would typically be in the range $40,000-$80,000.
For people with the relevant background but without a full team or completed whitepaper detailing the solution, the project ought to be considered as a research stage project and budgets should less than $10,000.
Guiding questions
- What are the key applications that underpin the application ecosystem on other platforms?
- What are the most profitable or most used applications on other ecosystems?
- What needs do users of Cardano have that could be solved by new applications?
- What applications deliver the highest amount of value with the least amount of technical sophistication?
Potential directions
- Swaps, both simple and fancy variants (multi-party etc.)
- Escrow, both simple and fancy variants
- Integrations with existing products
- NFT marketplace or facilitator
- Solutions utilising the power of smart contracts
Why is it important?
Quality Dapps and integrations will increase utility & adoption of Cardano. A broad funding challenge like this encourages more proposals.
What does success look like?
Novel and viable applications get built of top of Cardano attracting users. Integrations manage to pull in more adoption.
Key Metrics to measure
To assess the challenge we will be asking ourselves: Did our efforts manage to attract users to the platform? Did our efforts result in new, viable applications built on top of Cardano?
Let an "application output" and an "application transaction" be an output and transactions that use the applications' script addresses, and an "application token" be a token that's issued by the application.
EternalSwap: Perpetual contract DEX
Solution: EternalSwap allows traders to trade on margin without the need for counterparties via vAMMs. vAMMs guarantee liquidity & limit capital loss.
ESTATI - real estate investments
Solution: All-in-one Interface to facilitate real estate transactions (buy and sell) using smart contracts on Cardano Blockchain
Escrow Smart Contract for dApps 🔥
Solution: Create a sophisticated Escrow Smart Contract which can be used by a variety of applications in different use-cases, with good documentation.
Drive Secure Community Chat Servers
Solution: We have created a secure end to end Integration of Matrix with Projects near and far to use and test as we onboard communities from discord.
Done Collectively Discord Integrati
Solution: Integrates chat for DAO Groups/Proposals/Projects with Discord channels; archives those Discord channel messages for better decentralization
Divine Blockchain - Phase I
Solution: Tracking of the wine's real-time quality in many supply chain checkpoints, supported with a blockchain-ownership and -monitoring solution
DirectEd - Donations dApp
Solution: Scholarship/donation platform based on Atala PRISM enabling secure, low-cost, conditional peer-to-peer donations to students.
DeFi hackathon
Solution: Milkomeda Hackathon will help with the deployments of DeFi projects that and boost adoption in Cardano.
Decentralized Token Distribution
Solution: A decentralized alternative that entities can use to distribute tokens for projects or themselves and users can claim tokens at low cost.
Decentralized Social Network
Solution: A decentralised social network of the people, by the people, for the people. A platform where users have a choice on how to use their data.
Decentralized Physics Tokenomics
Solution: To allow free decentralized physics computations we will integrate basic tokenomic features into our developing computational infrastructure
Decentralized Music Platform
Solution: A financial platform for the business of music. Tools to help music easily enter Web3; starting with automated royalty payments for artists.
Decentralized Metaverse Mall - DMM
Solution: Create a platform for cryptocurrency users to buy tangible items as consumer electronics and convert new-to-crypto to cryptocurrency users.
Decentralized LinkedIn, Link Start
Solution: A new recruiter tool for Web3 specifically that helps new uses discover tools and that provides vetting service for existing users.
Decentralized Auction Platform
Solution: Building a decentralized auction platform, bidding actions are conducted by smart contracts using ADA payments
De. Application and Tender filing
Solution: use of smart contracts to accept end to end encrypted filings and privacy based system to transparently check the status of each application
d-Cargo: Decentralized Cargo Dapp
Solution: –
Create a Dapp (d-Cargo) that connects people with a transportation medium (Truck, Bus …), to those seeking freight services.
dApp Market for Tickets and Events
Solution: Create a dapp marketplace for direct ticket sales, split payments, and automated reselling auctions enforced by smart contracts.
DAO-NET: Voting Dapp
Solution: Create a voting DApp for DAO-Net processes that integrates with previously funded DAO-NET suite and existing wallets.
Crowdfunding with inbuilt mediation
Solution: A crowdfunding platform with in-built KPI to enable mediation functionality - reliability attribute is set dynamically for each participant.
Crowd funding platform with ADA.
Solution: ADA supported Crowdfunding platform for startups
Create Cardano App
<p>New developers are finding it hard to integrate their website with the Cardano Blockchain</p>
Coupon Application "Couponium.io"
Solution: Offer a decentralized end-to-end coupon application to serve the coupon marketplace with a combination of NFT and smart contracts.
Cost of listing on an exchange.
Solution: An African exchange linked to the first African blockchain provides a very attractive listing rate.