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.
NFT Powered Pay-Wall System
Solution: Rarety aims to build customizable use cases using a trade-able NFT paywall, built in-house, enabling creators to sell digital content behind a scarce and trade-able paywall.
NFT Portfolio & Tax reporting tool
Solution: CNFT Jungle Portfolio Tracker and Tax Reporting Tool will allow NFT investors to track key data about their NFTs from across various sources and provide guidance on tax reporting, all in one place.
NFTMarket for Disabled-Dextroverse
Solution: Mouseware enables people with disabilities to control devices hands free with simple head movements. This product would enable persons with disabilities to generate income by creating like art, music.
NFT machine learning evaulation
Solution: The lending pond team will create and fine tune a vector machine using machine learning to mimic the price evaluation of a NFT broker.
The machine will also take into account floor price, traits, vol
NFT Job Board
Solution: An NFT job board that allows creators to post open positions for artists, community mods, developers and more.
NFT for DRC Fauna and Flora
Solution: The creation of a web platform in partnership with the ICCN for the sale or auction of endangered animals from the fauna and flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in NFT format.
NFT Film Distribution Dapp&Showcase
Solution: Build a platform for NFT film distribution and showcase a successful example of a blockchain-enabled solution to attract the attention of key players in the industry.
NFT Farming on Cardano with Tangent
Solution: A platform that allows for owners and developers to create farms where users can stake multiple NFTs on an aesthetically pleasing interface whilst generating extrinsic rewards for each user.
NFT Data Public API
Solution: We will develop a public api offering using our Jungle database which consists of all NFTs, full historic sales (even pre-sc era from cnft.io) to provide all necessary data points for projects to use.
NFT Books - Book Token Platform
Solution: We're creating a marketplace for NFT eBooks and audiobooks. Readers can buy and sell. Authors and publishers get a % of the secondary sale in perpetuity. Readers earn $BOOK token as they read.
NFT BATTLE ROYAL GAME ON CARDANO Quick Pitch
Solution: Pangaea Kingdom’s solution is to create an interactive play-for-fun-and-earn concept which is the Social-GameFi.
NFT 4 customer feedback - creators
Solution: NFT platform to record constructive consumer feedback/content; shared by people with brands; compensating you for useful & creative content (fund 6), now extended to professional creators (artists).
NFT 2.0 Platform (Dynamic NFT)
Solution: We create a dynamic NFT platform that can help NFT holders "really own NFT"
The platform also helps users to create interoperability NFTs. A user's NFT can contain multiple assets.
NFBooks: a Pan-African NFT library
Solution: Create an NFT book library focused on promoting a reading culture in Africa starting in CMR. The platform will greatly expand and facilitate access to books as well as provide incentives to readers.
Native Token Incentivize Onboarding
Solution: Create a native token to incentivize evangelists and influencers of Catalyst comprehensive onboarding process for kids to senior citizens
MyUnbox
Solution: There is no ability to combine ‘real world’, positive social interactions with your unique experiences; all while creating a digital (web 3.0) presence in the process.
MY DIGITAL LIBRARY
Solution: As pathways to knowledge and culture, libraries occupy a decisive place in society. This library makes available in real time books in agronomic, environmental and technological sciences.
"Munchy Go" Delivery Food dApp DAO
Solution: We will use smart contracts to decrease layers of inefficiency, improve business performance, integrating orders, cut costs, automate and simplify food on demand services.
Multisig wallet with fiat on-ramp
Solution: We will develop an overlay for existing Cardano wallets that provides a credit card payment gateway and a business vault with multisig wallet functionality for shared treasuries.
Multi-sig Trading Audits & Security
Solution: Through the funding of this proposal, we will be able to perform all the security and penetration tests, and code audits done all by a third party, and implement any changes needed to improve security
MULTIPLE THE VALUE OF $220B MARKET
Solution: Our community-built gaming platform will both satisfy the gaming experiences of 4 billion real gamers and thousand crypto investors with sustainable business models. Check out our one-page in f9 here
Multi-hop swaps for more liquidity
Solution: We want to develop an implementation for multi-hop trading on Cardano.
Multichain multisig wallet
Solution: We provide a unified multisig wallet, that supports multiple chains under one simple UI. It is the same user experience, regardless wither it is coin or token and what chain is it on.
Mtidano: NFTrees 4 Erosion Control Quick Pitch
Solution: Plant fast-growing, fertilizing trees in areas at risk of erosion and turn each tree into a dynamic NFTree, facilitating their protection, tracking, and expansion.