Open Standards & Interoperability gravatar Open Standards & Interoperability

Can we build an Open Ecosystem to drive growth, give equal opportunities to all, and increase the synergies across Cardano projects?

Campaign Brief

Open standards built on the principles of openness, transparency and consensus lay the grounds for innovation, growth and fair competition. Open standards are not synonymous of open source. [OPSTD]

We look at Open Source as the best way to enable interoperability between different technologies and applications. But in the Cardano Ecosystem we have a set of open source projects that have no standards for basic cross-project integration. For instance, there are no standards on how to document, set-up, and contribute-to projects. Moreover, there is no common infrastructure that the projects can use to track issues, and publish basic public information about the projects funded by the community.

We are of the advise that we need a set of standards, processes, and infrastructures to be used by the Cardano open source projects, such that (1) The teams of different O.S. projects can easily collaborate; (2) New-joiners can easily discover, understand, test, and contribute to existing O.S. projects; (3) Cardano O.S. projects can access a pool of basic infrastructures and tools that are needed.

Motivation

As mentioned by Charles Hoskinson "Cardano code is Open Source, but needs to be managed like a true open source project, like Linux and other O.S. projects".

In order to proceed in this direction, we need to use Catalyst as a governance over a true, vendor-neutral open source and open-standards ecosystem. To achieve that, we are missing processes (e.g. how the project teams should behave and participate in the ecosystem), and infrastructures (e.g. VCS, CMS, Wiki, Forum, etc.)

Guiding questions:

  • How can we guide the growth of a vendor neutral ecosystem?
  • How can we build a common identity and increase awareness on Cardano projects?
  • How can we increase the discoverability and the commercial adoption of our projects?
  • How can we increase the degree of collaboration across different projects?
  • How can we lower the barriers and increase open participation to our ecosystem?
  • How can we provide equal opportunities to all projects no matter the size?

Possible directions:

  • Incentivize collaboration across projects to solve complex problems
  • Introduce common standards and processes and incentivize their adoption across projects
  • Provide cross-project infrastructures and tools needed to co-ordinate
  • Ensure the existence of a cohesive knowledge base
  • Support a network of professional technology ambassadors

Note

This challenge builds on top of the existing F7 Open Source Developer Ecosystem and is loosely related to F8 Open Source Development Ecosystem

Indeed, this challenge is about establishing standards, processes, and fostering interoperability across O.S. projects, while the "Open Source" challenges are more focused on growing the O.S. ecosystem by seed-funding open source projects for future challenges.

Shortly said: This challenge is about opennes, standardization, and interoperability across open source projects funded by the community, while the "open source" one is about increasing the number/quality of projects.

References

[OPSTD] Almeida, Fernando & José, Oliveira & José, Cruz. (2011). Open Standards And Open Source: Enabling Interoperability. International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications. 2. 10.5121/ijsea.2011.2101.

Why is it important?

To deliver complex software, driving collaboration, and accelerating innovation by sharing identity, practices, and sw components/services.

What does success look like?

  • A vendor-neutral ecosystem to
  • drive growth, awareness, discoverability
  • increase commercial adoption
  • provide needed infrastructures

Key Metrics to measure

Open standards adoption should increase among cardano projects. On the long term, all of the community-funded projects should be open and transparent by following common standards.

There should be observable improvements: easier to discover projects and find project resources, more intuitive to access project knowledge base (documentation, how-to, etc.), and simple to find and contact project members.

It should be possible to have project synergies by allowing simple inter-project communication, knowledge sharing, and re-use of existing components/services.

We should observe an increase in open-source contributions to different projects: both from new joiners and from other people already in the Cardano community

We should observe an increase in reputability of the Cardano Open Source projects. The measure can be done by looking at media communications of various open source communities.

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28
Total Proposals
17
資金提供を受けた課題
0
Completed Proposals
$ 500K
Available
$1.2M
Requested
$501.2K
受賞

Tenant Profile

$60,000 Requested

Solution: A standard that allows for compatibility matching between tenants, and tenant(s) to housing units.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
over budget Requested 12% of the fund.
4.13 (15)

Sustainable Business Standards

$15,000 Requested

Solution: Build a decentralised sustainable business model to provide real world solutions to climate issues/food shortage connecting Cardano projects

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
not approved Requested 3% of the fund.
3.22 (18)

Standard for verification of NFTs

$23,000 Received
$23,000 Requested

Solution: カルダノNFTの価値を生み出すための標準とリソースを探求し確立するための、協調的で整合のとれたアプローチとプロセス。

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 4.6% of the fund.
4.08 (12)

Sign-in with Cardano

$49,500 Received
$49,500 Requested

Solution: The full spec and implementation of a Sign-in with Cardano (front-end and back-end), just like there is already a Sign-in with Ethereum.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 9.9% of the fund.
4 (15)

Research Guild: Ecosystem Report

$61,329 Requested

Solution: リサーチギルドは、カルダノ上でオープンで相乗効果のあるエコシステムを成長させるための戦略を調査するためのフィージビリティスタディを提供します。

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
over budget Requested 12.266% of the fund.
3.8 (15)

PRISM VC Schema/Cred Definition

$27,685 Received
$27,685 Requested

Solution: PRISMスキーマの標準表現とVC定義をオープンソースツールで作成し、標準を検証し、ブロックチェーンに格納する方法を定義する。

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 5.537% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

Ouroboros-mini query specification

$10,000 Received
$10,000 Requested

Solution: Document the query specification so that people can implement their new clients

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 2% of the fund.
1.25 (12)

Open Standards & Design Patterns

$17,500 Received
$20,000 Requested

Solution: Work with existing projects on defining problem spaces and different components that make up solutions to promote interoperability

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
funded Awarded 4% of the fund.
4.5 (12)

Open Source Fungify

$47,727 Received
$75,000 Requested

Solution: Open source Fungify, a complete and advanced dApp, to make several complex contracts available for anyone to use as a launchpad.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
funded Awarded 15% of the fund.
4.42 (12)

Open ISPO

$48,700 Received
$48,700 Requested

Solution: Our Open ISPO is going to foster small pools growth and enable projects to distribute their tokens in the smart ways

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 9.74% of the fund.
4.56 (18)

Open Certification and Traceability

$3,000 Requested

Solution: Open source industrial NFTs standards and verification tools for track and trace and certification of real world assets such food and drugs

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
funded Awarded 0.6% of the fund.
3.13 (15)

NFT-Guild: NFT Royalty Standards

$29,000 Received
$29,000 Requested

Solution: A collaborative process and an aligned approach to explore and establish standards and resources for Cardano NFTs.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 5.8% of the fund.
4.42 (12)

NFT as an event ticket

$175,000 Requested

Solution: NFTイベント ノーコネクトTXで認証。人は身近なものを好みます。また、イベントも好きです。NFTをチケットの主流にしよう

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
not approved Requested 35% of the fund.
1.67 (18)

Metadata Dictionary

$185,000 Requested

Solution: Develop a metadata registry for standardized B2B transactions to serve as the basis for organization's accounting and business activities.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
not approved Requested 37% of the fund.
3.11 (18)

Mentorship Incentivization DAO

$8,500 Received
$8,500 Requested

Solution: Incentivizing mentors with native tokens and NFTs and gaining credibility for delivering extraordinary mentorship experience-Mentorship DAO.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 1.7% of the fund.
4.21 (24)

Marlowe for Financial Markets

$6,462 Received
$14,000 Requested

Solution: 金融市場のトレーダーやDeFiのための専用コミュニティで、間もなく開始されるMarloweのフル実装とパイオニアプログラムを後押しする。

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
funded Awarded 2.8% of the fund.
4.52 (21)

Make learn Cardano easier

$27,460 Received
$27,460 Requested

Solution: Build model website like Wiki.Where Cardano enthusiasts create and organize topics, content in a way they think is easiest to see,understand

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 5.492% of the fund.
4.33 (18)

Ideation Protocol Work Group

$28,500 Requested

Solution: Undertake a series of summits with projects working on ideation to agree on protocol level implementations.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
over budget Requested 5.7% of the fund.
3.44 (18)

DYOR Tool

$31,600 Received
$31,600 Requested

Solution: A community-curated tool that teaches people how to research a token or NFT, utilizing a consistent set of criteria.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 6.32% of the fund.
4.67 (9)

DLT360: Technology RADAR Team

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

Solution: We will add latest research regarding technology, investigate open standards and interoperability perspective, summarise & report quarterly

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
4.78 (9)

DLT360: Governance RADAR Team

$25,000 Requested

Solution: 複雑なオープンソースプロジェクトを成功させるためには、ガバナンスが重要です。DLT360のチームは、四半期ごとにレビュー、文献調査、要約、報告を行っています。

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
over budget Requested 5% of the fund.
4.56 (9)

Community collaboration standards

$35,000 Received
$35,000 Requested

Solution: A purpose driven community to build common standards, processes, and tools to increase synergies across projects.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
completed Awarded 7% of the fund.
4.92 (12)

Community and Content Accessibilty

$45,000 Requested

Solution: Reward users for engaging using a unique smart contract system "engage to earn" created by Checkpoint

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
not approved Requested 9% of the fund.
2.73 (15)

Codesign blockchain4good Principles

$2,500 Requested

Solution: Cardano stakeholders involved as core co-designers of an unprecedented open access, blockchain agnostic, Blockchain for Good Principles

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Open Standards & Interoperability
not approved Requested 0.5% of the fund.
3.92 (12)