Developer Ecosystem gravatar Developer Ecosystem

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.
Expand
130
Total Proposals
24
Propositions financées
0
Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$5.7M
Requested
$1M
Attribué

cexplorer.io - cardano explorer

$3,000 Received
$3,000 Requested

Solution: We are creating a new version of the browser for the cardano ecosystem - (successor of adapools.org). You can see the results of our current work here: https://cexplorer.io/

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 0.3% of the fund.
3.75 (24)

CatalystTalk: Grow Vietnamese Devs

$15,000 Requested

Solution: Organize talks about Catalyst for developers in Vietnam, with the participation of Coreteams and proposers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 1.5% of the fund.
4.49 (39)

Catalyst Swarm Operations

$41,000 Requested

Solution: The Catalyst Swarm establishes, maintains, and explores crucial community infrastructure by empowering and encouraging Community-led Initiatives.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 4.1% of the fund.
4.6 (30)

Catalyst Swarm - After Town Hall

$47,000 Requested

Solution: The weekly After Town Hall is a well known and established community event which provides developers an excellent space to connect with other community members

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 4.7% of the fund.
4.7 (27)

Catalyst School Fund 10 Operations

$9,250 Requested

Solution: Catalyst School, a place to enhance the impact of Catalyst as a whole by improving the contribution of all its different players and roles.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget impact proposal Requested 0.925% of the fund.
4.79 (42)

Catalyst HeartBeat

$9,115 Requested

Solution: Think Speed-Dating. 60 second lightning rounds of Elevator Pitches. Followed by 120 second rounds exposing the nuances of each Contributors Project.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.912% of the fund.
4.33 (21)

Catalyst Dashboard Innovatio Tribe

$42,000 Requested

Solution: Develop specific spaces to help new and existing Catalyst members address the periodic discussions of each Fund, facilitating the adoption and exploitation of the Cardano ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 4.2% of the fund.
4.59 (27)

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)

Cardapper - YouTube C-Dev Channel

$9,900 Requested

Solution: Youtube channel that posts Cardano development tutorials consistently to help people become Cardano devs faster and learn efficiently.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved impact proposal Requested 0.99% of the fund.
3.61 (33)

Cardano Wallet OneBox

$45,000 Received
$45,000 Requested

Solution: We will provide a "Cardano Wallet OneBox". A single image that you can deploy which will setup all the downstream indexers and tools required to support all the endpoints needed to run a wallet

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 4.5% of the fund.
3.03 (30)

Cardano Stand @ PROMOTE Conf 2024

$24,000 Requested

Solution: Secure a “Cardano Village” Stand and a Conference Slot at the upcoming 2024 PROMOTE Conference to introduce opportunities offered by the Cardano ecosystem to both software developers & entrepreneurs.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget impact proposal Requested 2.4% of the fund.
4.67 (15)

CardanoPress: Docs for the Builders

$9,000 Requested

Solution: CardanoPress is a brilliant tool for projects to build DApps but requires more documentation and tutorials. We want to create more documentation to help people start building Cardano-powered websites.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.9% of the fund.
4.37 (27)

Cardano Node on AWS - Quick Start

$16,580 Requested

Solution: We propose to use CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code) to set up the infrastructure. We will modularize the sources so that it is easier to be inherited and extended later on.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 1.658% of the fund.
4.54 (24)

Cardano Learn to Earn for Devs

$27,500 Requested

Solution: "Cardano Learn to Earn for Devs" provides structured developer lessons with ADA rewards. Small continuous rewards are a cheap way soften the learning curve and motivate devs to work harder on Cardano!

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 2.75% of the fund.
4.4 (30)

CardanoHTX Developer Hub

$6,980 Requested

Solution: CardanoHTX seeks to enhance the developer ecosystem by build a Houston centric community to unite sponsors (use case owners), project leaders, developers, support skills, and ADA holders.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 0.698% of the fund.
4.53 (30)

(cardano-go) A Golang package

$21,600 Requested

Solution: Build a fully featured Golang package for Cardano.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.16% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

Cardano e-Learning Platform

$180,200 Requested

Solution: We will build a free e-Learning Platform with comprehensive courses in English and Spanish (Cardano, PoS, Blockchain, e-Utxo, etc), targeted towards women developers and novice developers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 18.02% of the fund.
4.37 (27)

Cardano developer courseware in Uni

$46,120 Requested

Solution: We collaborate with Emurgo to create 02 coursewares: Fundamental blockchain and Cardano Blockchain for developers then we will implement these curriculums in the classroom of Universities.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 4.612% of the fund.
4.72 (60)

Cardano developer club in Uni

$44,550 Requested

Solution: We aim to build an open club for Cardano developers at University. Lecturers and students who love blockchain can participate in building basic, advanced labs, organize hackathons and other activities

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 4.455% of the fund.
4.74 (68)

Cardano Code Camp - Pay To Learn

$110,000 Requested

Solution: Cardano Code Camp - Get Paid To Become A Cardano Developer. An Open Source Interactive Developer Training Hub, designed as THE go-to resource for aspiring Developers and accessible worldwide for free.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 11% of the fund.
3.22 (18)

Blockchain Course for Vietnam Devs

$22,400 Requested

Solution: Organize short training courses for developers in Vietnam to help them have the right knowledge about blockchain technology and its application in life.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.24% of the fund.
4.43 (72)

Automated Cardano Testing Pipeline

$10,400 Requested

Solution: We propose to provide a CI/CD pipeline using Gitlab runners and the Cardano-Tools Python library to develop a suite of tests capable of continuously testing the Cardano node's core functionality.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 1.04% of the fund.
4.35 (20)

Automated Bug-finding for Plutus

$68,200 Requested

Solution: We have already built Yogo, a semantic search and bug-finding tool for C, Java, and Python based on automated reasoning techniques, published in PLDI 2020. We will add Haskell/Plutus support.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 6.82% of the fund.
4.33 (18)

Attracting New Developers

$50,000 Requested

Solution: Developing content tailored to introduce new LATAM developers to Cardano and to encourage engagement through group mentoring and community activities such as project development.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 5% of the fund.
4.09 (33)