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How can we make Cardano the go-to choice for building DAOs? What tools can we provide to enable effective DAO's Creation & Operation

Currently if a DAO (even one that is aimed to build products and services around Cardano) wants to setup their DAO infrastructure, the current options are all based on, mostly, the Ethereum blockchain.

These dApps range from basic Treasury management, to Decision making in DAOs and even supporting services like Decentralized Justice. Some of them are:

https://aragon.org https://daostack.io https://colony.io https://www.molochdao.com https://abridged.io https://kleros.io

Cardano needs:

Similar tools that offer superior features to those offered on other chains. Effective Collaboration Management Platforms to Organize Community Intentions and Actions Additional not yet existing tools to give Cardano a distinct advantage Tools for prospective organizations to use in evaluating the features available in Cardano DAO's DAO community collaboration DAO creation DAO operation DAO governance.

Why is it important?

Blockchain applications have moved from Currency to DeFi, to NFT. DAOs are Next. Cardano needs to be ready for when that happens.

How does success looks like?

There are no better ways to manage your DAO than to use Cardano DAOs. From Small Business to Global Communities.. Cardano DAOs deliver.

Key Metrics to measure

Number of Communities engaged in collaboration using Cardano DAO creation tools.

Amount of ADA coming from DAOs transaction fees after the solutions on this challenge get implemented (> than the challenge's allocated fund amount)

Number of DAOs that use Cardano as governance/management chain in 6 months.

Number of DAO toolset/frameworks available for DAO Ops (>1).

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Total Proposals
17
Funded Proposals
0
Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$4.4M
Requested
$1M
Awarded

'What The DAO?' Twitter Space

$3,850 Requested

Solution: Build an organic weekly audience through Twitter Spaces that participates, listens, & learns through interviews of DAO builders, tool makers, & avid members––all working on the Cardano Blockchain.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
vote pending impact proposal Requested 0.385% of the fund.
4.24 (21)

Web3 Onboarding DAO

$25,300 Requested

Solution: Create a DAO to ease the onboarding process by encouraging and helping people gather into teams applying for grants. By doing that, they can learn and get crypto exposure ( poor countries can't buy).

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 2.53% of the fund.
4.44 (18)

Web3 Education DAO by Wada

$75,000 Requested

Solution: Build a Web3 Education DAO with Cardano’s ecosystem builders and thinkers to develop, modify and test DAO tools. This enables exponential community growth and showcase Cardano as a DAO go-to platform 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 7.5% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

Voteaire Escrow Smart Contract Quick Pitch

$98,600 Received
$98,600 Requested

Solution: Integrate a smart contract or native script solution into the existing Voteaire platform to allow locked funds to be unlocked by the outcome of a ballot

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed Awarded 9.86% of the fund.
3.75 (20)

Ubuntu Crypto Use Map DAO

$64,500 Requested

Solution: Develop crypto use map DAO on Cardano blockchain that would organize, locate and map credible business locations with integrated crypto use/adoption.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 6.45% of the fund.
4.6 (15)

TosiDrop DAO Governance Platform

$70,000 Requested

Solution: Through TosiDrop, projects are able to implement votes to decide on the direction of a project. On-chain voting will allow projects to seamlessly host governance events.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 7% of the fund.
3.94 (18)

SPO Learning Support Community DAO

$10,800 Requested

Solution: We will evolve a learning DAO with our existing SPO programme incubator community that ensures their ongoing support, and codify our experience to create a knowledge-base for future DAO developers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 1.08% of the fund.
4.2 (15)

Smarthubs=more impact/adoption

$28,600 Requested

Solution: Design a DAO model to connect localised hubs for collaboration starting with 3 businesses promoting Cardano (Suiss, New Zealand & Canada) to distribute & decentralise the work to onboard organisations

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 2.86% of the fund.
4.73 (15)

SharpDAO - DAO Tooling for Cardano

$56,250 Requested

Solution: CardanoSharp and Gimbalabs want to build tooling and an interface for the Cardano community. The goal is to provide both off-chain and on-chain tools.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 5.625% of the fund.
4.53 (15)

Secure off-chain community voting

$51,750 Received
$51,750 Requested

Solution: Development of an open-source off-chain solution specifically tailored for conducting Cardano community elections enabling the formation of DAO structures for many projects in the ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 5.175% of the fund.
4.81 (27)

Scalable Open Innovation Ledger

$10,000 Requested

Solution: Build Soil - A decentralized knowledge graph, which everyone can contribute to, curate, and fractionally co-own. Like Wikipedia, but with 2 revenue streams - referral fees from hiring and selling.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 1% of the fund.
2.8 (15)

Research on Mentorship Tokenization

$65,000 Requested

Solution: We will build a research project to discover use cases of tokenizing the entrepreneur & mentor engagements in emerging markets and how tokenization of the platform can help the growth of enterprises.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 6.5% of the fund.
4.4 (15)

PropX DAO :- Property Exchange DAO

$87,000 Requested

Solution: We will democratize and tokenize the biggest asset class in the world. We will provide our users with an instant swap tool where they can swap their real estate for ADA or any other token instantly.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 8.7% of the fund.
3.54 (24)

Plural Voting and Identity for DAOs

$81,900 Received
$91,000 Requested

Solution: Plural Voting with Proof of Reputation, Identity, and Quadratic Sybil Resistance to improve DAO Governance for all without requiring full KYC to increase voter participation and lower voting disparity

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
funded impact proposal Awarded 9.1% of the fund.
5 (30)

paoDAO School of Blockchain

$34,200 Requested

Solution: Continue on the first Web 3.0 "school" integrating DAO, DID, contracts, NFT and search functionalities into a scalable, searchable, navigable, sustainable model for supporting learning and community.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 3.42% of the fund.
3.27 (15)

OpenSource for Sustainable DAOs

$25,000 Requested

Solution: We’ll develop a P2P trading platform to increase the arrecadation of resources for DAOs and communities.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 2.5% of the fund.
4.27 (15)

Open-Source DAO Framework

$400,000 Requested

Solution: Create abstract structures which give each particular DAO broad governance design choices for accurately expressing their values through a hard-coded, but dynamic, incentive structure.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
not approved Requested 40% of the fund.
3.67 (15)

NFT powered Turnkey DAOs

$80,000 Requested

Solution: A tool to allow creators to use their NFTs as governance tokens to help inform the growth of their collections without paying for developmental costs of creating a working DAO from the ground up.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 8% of the fund.
4 (15)

NFT Guild Operations

$30,000 Requested

Solution: The NFT Guild identifies common problems and needs, coordinates efforts, creates open spaces for discussions.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 3% of the fund.
4.5 (18)

NFT Fractionalization System

$30,000 Requested

Solution: The mechanism presented here allows DAOs or any entity to be able to take NFT assets that they own, fractionalize them, and fairly distribute those fractions to their members.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 3% of the fund.

Munchy Go Delivery Food dApp DAO

$22,400 Requested

Solution: Our solution is Decentralized Autonomous Organization delivery food app, by creating the necessary tools and voting statutes to direct future budgets, costs and rewards systems.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget Requested 2.24% of the fund.
4.41 (27)

Mentorship Digital Identity DAO

$90,000 Received
$90,000 Requested

Solution: We aim to create a DAO Infrastructure on the Seedstars mentorship product by implementing identity verification to decentralize the identities of startups and mentors.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 9% of the fund.
4.87 (15)

littlefish - Tools of DAO Work

$93,600 Received
$93,600 Requested

Solution: A dedicated team of technical researchers, to produce up-to-date information about technological developments, documentation, and how-to's about the Cardano ecosystem and tools of digital work.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 9.36% of the fund.
4.88 (24)

littlefish - Redefining Earning

$260,000 Requested

Solution: A well-engineered crypto-economy where individuals share earnings within peer networks, without bosses, allowing DAOs and other organizations to collaborate like never before.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: DAOs <3 Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 26% of the fund.
4.87 (15)