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.
Cardano Swapping Application
Solution: The proposed solution would allow 2 interested parties to propose a trade of NFTs and tokens for other native assets. If the trade is agreed upon by both parties, the transaction will execute.
Cardano Submit API in Golang
Solution: Develop a Golang Cardano transaction submit API service alternative implementation, written using patterns and terms common to Golang as a fully functional example for the Golang developer community
Cardano Stonerz Club + Integrations
Solution: The Cardano Stonerz Club will create integrations into the Cardano ecosystem. We will develop our infrastructure into a high quality product, while supporting the growth of the Cardano Community.
Cardano Start Guide
Solution: I will create a clear and accessible Cardano Start Guide to guide users through the basics of the protocol and learn the essential tools and apps. The guide will be open license for any project to use
Cardano Social Hub
Solution: We will make a Cardano Social Hub where you will be able to use your wallet as a part of your account. Publish your assets to your companion to prove that you really have it and so on. Securely.
Cardano Sharks
Solution: I want to use NFT technology to empower individuals to start using the blockchain in the real world. Using NFTs as memberships or ownership stake in a company that owns real world assets is my goal.
Cardano Rent DApp
Solution: Utilize Cardano particularities to eliminate scammers and DApp that identify Homeowners and landlords, and the availability of accommodation/apartments/flats using smart contract
CardanoPress: NFT Gated Content
Solution: We have built core features of gated content by NFTs into our plugin called CardanoPress. We want to now extend it further to cater for a series of extended use cases that have been requested.
CardanoPress: ISPO Dashboard
Solution: A plug-and-play ISPO dashboard that queries data from the blockchain on a particular stake pool(s) to run against reward ratios to determine a delegate's earned ISPO rewards.
Cardano NO MORE Plastic Straws |C4O
Solution: We produce natural grass straws to replace plastic straws. The goal of reducing waste is plastic straws into the environment ocean. Integrate ADA payments.
Cardano Nodes as a Service
Solution: Build a SaaS offering which will allow anyone to provision and access their own Cardano node on mainnet or testnet at a fair price.
Cardano NFT Gaming - Lovelace Saga!
Solution: Incorporating blockchain into playable games allows users to own their in-game assets and give more control to the user. We will build Lovelace Saga, a play-to-earn NFT game built on Cardano.
Cardano Music Marketplace
Solution: We will be developing a one-stop shop Music NFT Marketplace where musicians can mint a music NFTs, play their music with our Cross-Chain Media Player, and share their Music NFTs with their fans.
Cardano loyalty systems for Dapps
Solution: Create a platform help anyone can create for their loyalty programs. Loyalty will more transparency, more benefits, and fun with customers when using NFTs and blockchain technology.
Cardano Info/ Mentorship Centre
Solution: Provide physical location/space and virtual for training & mentorship sessions where people can access Cardano/Blockchain related information that are localized in content for Africans.
Cardano General Help Desk
Solution: We will build a community-funded help desk for Cardano where people of all backgrounds and knowledge levels can ask their questions and describe their problems in their terms and get human support.
Cardano for Seniors SPO
Solution: Our solution is the Formation of a C4S single stake-pool and to initiate a Cardano4Seniors Initial Stake Pool Offering (ISPO) to fund the DAO and create a sustainable platform for future operations.
Cardano for Self-Care
Solution: Create a dApp that encourages regular self-care activities with incentives, social feedback and monitoring to maintain a good baseline of wellbeing.
Cardano For Musicians
Solution: Fund us to continue the work by enabling full time outreach to new artists and other organizations like media companies, labels, distributors and record companies
Cardano Forest - blocktree.asia Quick Pitch
Solution: The solution is to use NFT on Cardano Blockchain to manage the reforestation work in Vietnam.
Cardano ERP - Main Project
Solution: Cardano ERP will provide for seamless integration of, and optimized user experience for, business, enterprise, and government focused dApps via an open-source, standardized modular solution.
CARDANO CLIMATHON
Solution: Organizing Climathon to raise awareness, combining CARDANO technology with climate change to promote and form interdisciplinary partnerships
Cardano & Catalyst data Web Embeds
Solution: LIDO Nation has a reputation for visualizing Catalyst data on our website. Create an open-source component library that allows Catalyst and Cardano visualizations to be integrated into any website.
Cardano Beam - GPS based Assets
Solution: DApp to place NFTs on a map using a web wallet and have users pick them up with a tracking app & wallet on their phone. Onboarding of non-crypto business and accepting fiat deposits via a fiat onramp