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.
Token Gating on Cardano with CNFTs
Solution: We build a DApp that lets admin add information and generate a script that that can be copied to their Website/DApp to provide TokenGating capability. This proposal follows a successful pilot.
Ticketing system in Africa
Solution: With blockchain Cardano everything will happen electronically.A digital nominative ticket is purchased,which will allow you to have a unique identifier for each ticket.
There's no We without Me
Solution: A DApp to establish ownership of NIL assets by linking NFTs with DIDs to: (1) provide verifiable rights transfer of authentic NIL assets, and (2) enable legal enforcement of rights.
The Platform as a Service for Web3
Solution: The Newton Protocol is a decentralized, PaaS that
- Takes care of the complex technical concerns for you
- Incentivizes open-source contribution & innovation
- Unlocks the value of Web3 for all stakeholders
The Open Source Cardano Lottery
Solution: Continue to build out The Open Source Cardano Lottery for fundraising of Green and Social Good Cardano projects. All code is open source which contributes to the Cardano open source community.
The DAM Marketplace
Solution: A componentized marketplace builder with a fully customizable interface, allowing developers to offer app experiences based on user autonomous filtering and matching.
The Alexandria Project Web3 Library
Solution: blockchain publication, decentralized education, & the write of human knowledge. We will push the growth & development of censorship resistant education with an open source decentralized web3 library.
Tellus2 – Gamifying Sustainability
Solution: Next gen NFT Metaverse with incentivizing reward system and a real impact on sustainability for planet Earth through partnering companies – making green choices easy to sort out and hard to resist.
Telegram Wallet upgrade
Solution: In addition to its basic non-custodial wallet function, we will add features for cNFT displays, incorporate a P2P exchange, and integrate with Defi platforms to enable swaps, lending, and borrowing.
TapTools: All-In-One Platform
Solution: Provide real-time analysis for Cardano native assets trading on DEXs, NFT collection creation, payment gateway, launchpad, portfolio tracker, distributing tokens, and more - all on one platform.
Tangent - Redeemable NFTs Launchpad
Solution: Create a platform for creators, artists and enterprises. that supports not only the launch and funding of asset backed NFTs by the issuer but also the redeeming of underlying assets by the end user.
TADAStake - A Distribution Platform
Solution: Build an automated platform between pool operators and delegators looking to maximize profits and get potential tokens. Connecting the community of SPOs and token owners to distribute possible tokens
TaChiKu: Deepfake NFTs
Solution: Upload a profile picture of yourself, morph it and deepfake it via AI, then mint as an NFT on Cardano. Auto-post on social media, and promote your AI-generated artwork on the TaChiKu marketplace.
System to manage patient care
Solution: Develop a blockchain application that allows storing patient and physician information. The blockchain's own encryption provides a high level of security against theft, manipulation or cyber attacks.
Synthetic Asset Marketplace Quick Pitch
Solution: Kerb Finance will build a synthetic asset marketplace for the Cardano ecosystem. Kerb Finance will allow users on Cardano to directly invest into real world assets using stable coins.
SwarmLabs - Treasury Systems
Solution: We develop Tools and systems which provides fully transparent treasury & accounting management for Projects, building on the Cardano & Catalyst Ecosystem
sustainable usage of energy
Solution: In partnership with Donking Energy saver Ltd. which is widely known in the country for the sale of Energy saver cards, We create a decentralized platform where buyers can purchase at discounted prices
Sustainable Ecosystem Hub
Solution: We will build a community hub providing education videos and infographics on sustainable business models, with real world solutions to climate issues, encouraging onboarding to the Cardano ecosystem.
Support CNFT Jungle
Solution: We are asking the Cardano community for their vote to fund Jungle's operating costs for 6 months. This will allow us to sustain our API offering and will help us grow.
Supply chain transparency -FTs+NFTs
Solution: Use Cardano's native assets to "tokenise" every part of a supply chain for full transparency.
Build an "MVP" to demonstrate this use case.
Document and share the methodology to increase adoption.
Supply Chain 4 Legal Cannabis/Hemp
Solution: Create a cannabis supply chain service built on the Cardano blockchain. Tracking qualitative and quantitative product provenance from seed to sale. Shipment tagged w/QR codes linking to On-Chain data.
subHandles | ADA Handle
Solution: The owner of a root Handle, such as $acme*,* will have the option to issue as many subHandles as needed and allocate them to any Cardano-based payment address. Examples: treasury@acme and john@acme.
Student Control System
Solution: We will design a study control system to automate the process and speed up response times, we will include blockchain technology for the generation of administrative documents.
Stray Dogs Raising Adopt Platform
Solution: Create a platform where stray dogs can be fed or adopted online, so that shelter dogs can obtain online feeding and increase their chances of being adopted.