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How can we create a positive developer experience that helps the developer focus on building successful apps?

Without the supportive environment for developers, new innovations would be stalled. By supporting this challenge settings, more developers would be drawn into Cardano. There would be a bigger talent pool of developers that Catalyst projects can collaborate with and turn project concepts/Proof of concept into successful protocols which would enhance the growth of Cardano.

Guiding questions

  • What are the the tools that we need to prioritize first
  • How do we attract developers from outside of our current community to participate in Catalyst?
  • What do developers want, and how do they get it from the Cardano dev ecosystem?
  • What would make it a developer motivated to grind through the docs and code no matter how hard it is to create an app?
  • What are enterprise dev managers looking for in order to be able to build out enterprise projects - either internal or commercial?

Potential directions

  • Developer productivity: IDE's, scripts to automate stuff.
  • Knowledge base & Documentation
  • Deployment, testing, and monitoring frameworks
  • Samples, recipes and templates
  • Hackathons
  • DEFI and tokenization
  • Dashboards
  • API's, and oracles.
  • Support structures
  • Incentivization structures

Notes

  • This challenge is a continuation of F8: Developer Ecosystem ($1,000,000)
  • This challenge is a separate challenge from Open Source Developer Ecosystem. While we are advocates of open source, we recognize that not all teams are at the point where they feel comfortable or capable of open sourcing their solutions. Some APIs may be closed source forever, but still provide an overall net positive for the Cardano ecosystem. If you are all-in on open source from day one, definitely go with the Open Source Development Ecosystem challenge (if that's an option). We are rooting for you. We believe, however, there's room for both at this point.

Why is it important?

Creating an awesome experience that incentives developers, will lead to increased developer adoption, productivity, and creativity.

How does success looks like?

Cardano attracts high-calibre Developers and developers have ample resources to work on platforms that suit their interests.

Key Metrics to measure

At the end of this challenge, we will be asking ourselves: Did we manage to make it easier for developers to build on top of Cardano?

  • Filling in gaps defined in the exploration stage.
  • Number of developers actively building on top of Cardano
  • Number of repos on Github using the tooling. (Month over month increase)
  • Reduce wait time of unanswered communications with developers to 24 hours.
  • A sense of community and conversations. Having people around to talk with.
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Total Proposals
24
Propositions financées
0
Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$5.7M
Requested
$1M
Attribué

MLabs - Cardano Throughput Solution

$81,200 Received
$81,200 Requested

Solution: Our solution to Cardano concurrency leverages VRFs, off-chain communication, and on-chain infrastructure to heavily increase throughput. It ensures competing state transitions are not posted on-chain.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 8.12% of the fund.
4.67 (18)

MLabs - Apropos for Property Tests

$62,400 Received
$62,400 Requested

Solution: While QuickCheck is effective, we propose Apropos which generates thousands of property tests based on a logical dApp construct greatly increasing confidence in code and reducing the developer burden.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 6.24% of the fund.
4.76 (21)

MeetProposer-Bright Up Dev's Ideas

$49,892 Requested

Solution: Host a series of "Meet Proposers" for developers to present their ideas to the community and get critical questions and advisements from experts around the world before the Finalize stage expires.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget impact proposal Requested 4.989% of the fund.
4.76 (42)

Marlowe Course for Vietnam Devs

$26,900 Requested

Solution: Introducing a free course to make the Cardano blockchain easy for new developers. This is the first step for talented developers to dive deeper into the Cardano blockchain world.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.69% of the fund.
4.54 (48)

Making developers into businesses

$16,000 Requested

Solution: We propose using an existing scale up programme, tailored to use Cardano appropriate language, with 1-on-1 mentoring from a team of experts who have demonstrable experience of growing startups.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1.6% of the fund.
4.63 (27)

Lucid - Developing the Easy Way

$44,800 Received
$44,800 Requested

Solution: Lucid is a library to help you develop dApps on Cardano using JavaScript; abstracting the complexity that comes with building Cardano transactions and allowing developers to focus purely on the dApp.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 4.48% of the fund.
4.57 (30)

Learn-to-Earn Open Source Tooling Quick Pitch

$19,440 Requested

Solution: We will deliver plug and play Smart Contracts and tooling for Incentivized eLearning initiatives within the Cardano ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1.944% of the fund.
4.29 (24)

Learning token engineering elements

$33,400 Requested

Solution: Teach product managers and developers about designing the fundamentals of token engineering through video and written tutorials.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 3.34% of the fund.
4.5 (18)

LATAM TRANSLATION HOUSE

$9,900 Requested

Solution: Establish an independent translation body to quickly and efficiently process official Catalyst documentation and provide it to the Spanish and Portuguese speaking community without delay.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.99% of the fund.
4.71 (24)

Koios Extensions - Utilities, Bots

$60,000 Requested

Solution: Integrate an extendable microservice branch into Koios to reduce work duplication between builders. Implement an intuitive and easy-to-use query bot and library to improve end-user accessibility.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 6% of the fund.
4.67 (21)

Kogmios Open Source Doc/Dev/Support

$30,000 Received
$30,000 Requested

Solution: Ogmios is an open-source library capable of using the cardano network mini-protocols to interact with the Cardano blockchain in a high-performance way. Kogmios makes this trivial to use from Kotlin.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 3% of the fund.
4.05 (21)

KodeKlash Hackathon

$80,000 Requested

Solution: We propose to have Konma host hackathons where groups of developers come together and develop smart contracts and Dapps as per challenges. This will help bring in more Haskell devs into the ecosystem

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 8% of the fund.
3.96 (24)

Kelley: Cardano k8s Operators

$64,560 Requested

Solution: We'll provide a set of Kubernetes operators for the main Cardano components, hiding the configuration complexity behind high-level resources.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 6.456% of the fund.
4.63 (27)

Keeping Up with Cardano: 100 videos

$39,300 Requested

Solution: We will use live video interviews with the founders of the projects at Cardano, explaining in a friendly way the project and its features.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 3.93% of the fund.
4.76 (33)

Katiopa women: The pioneers of DeFi

$21,000 Requested

Solution: Launch a multidimensional marketing campaign to enroll more WOMEN for our Plutus training program, teaching them Haskell and Plutus and introduce them to the Cardano Ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved impact proposal Requested 2.1% of the fund.
4.56 (18)

Java SDK to Build Health App

$7,500 Requested

Solution: Hippocrades has built a health infrastructure with APIs for devs to easily create a health app. Currently, it has a Javascript SDK already. We want to create an SDK to cater Java developers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 0.75% of the fund.
4.56 (18)

Imperator - Secure, Imperative SCs

$60,000 Requested

Solution: Imperator is a language for SCs that looks and feels like well known imperative languages popular among developers. It is a specialized language that focuses on security and intuitivity.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 6% of the fund.
4.57 (21)

Immigration Documents on Chain Pt.2

$3,900 Requested

Solution: The solution we are still developing from F8 is to have an owner of their immigration documents mint NFTs, or otherwise translate their credentials, onto Atala/PRISM that a U.S. univ. then processes

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 0.39% of the fund.
3.9 (21)

Haskell-Plutus-Atala => French Devs

$21,000 Requested

Solution: Translate high profile video courses, and exercises (Plutus Pioneers Program, and Atala Prism Pioneers Programs into French to make it more accessible to French devs. Support them in leaning Haskell.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.1% of the fund.
4.33 (18)

Haskell Integration in Wolfram Tech

$130,000 Requested

Solution: Wolfram will work with Haskell developers from Tweag to connect Wolfram Language and Haskell. Allowing execution of Haskell across Wolfram Notebooks & Client Libraries to call W.L. from Haskell.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 13% of the fund.
3.48 (21)

Haskell Course For Developers

$16,080 Received
$16,080 Requested

Solution: We created a Haskell course for developers from other programming languages. Haskell is the base programming language of Cardano's Smart Contracts. We can grow the number of developers for Cardano

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 1.608% of the fund.
4.85 (54)

Haskell Book Vietnamese Translation

$8,080 Received
$8,080 Requested

Solution: We will translate the book "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A Beginner's Guide"(recommended book from IOHK) into Vietnamese and share it with current Developer communities in Vietnam.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 0.808% of the fund.
4.87 (45)

Golang SDK to Build Health App

$7,500 Requested

Solution: Hippocrades has built a health infrastructure with APIs for devs to easily create a health app. Currently, it has a Javascript SDK already. We want to create an SDK to cater Golang developers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.75% of the fund.
4.78 (27)

Glow on the PAB

$300,000 Requested

Solution: Glow is a simple yet efficient language for DApps.

It already works on the EVM, and we propose porting Glow directly to Cardano by making it compatible with the PAB (Plutus Application Backend)

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 30% of the fund.
4.56 (18)