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.
Stay Updated With Cardano Events
Solution: We will make a platform that allows users to keep track of events, twitter spaces, in person meetups, and other project developments within a single interface. This platform is called Cardano Calendar
Startverse-Metaverse for Startups
Solution: In STARTVERSE, we allow worldwide people to do anything to earn(Actions to earn) and build their dream life, dream companies, meet their couple, hire friends to work for them, and earn real money.
Startverse: Marketplace Portal
Solution: In STARTVERSE, we allow worldwide people to do anything to earn(Actions to earn) and build their dream life, dream companies, meet their couple, hire friends to work for them, and earn real money.
Startup Launchpad & Crowdfunding
Solution: Ennarea launchpad will provide ADA supported crowdfunding platform and will enable startups to raise capital for their project.
SPOxNFTs: A Decentralization Tool
Solution: We want to build a platform that provides both Single SPOs and NFT Projects or creators the ability to promote delegation to a particular Pool and share the rewards of the SPO in a fair manner.
SPOs Impact Dashboard Quick Pitch
Solution: An impact dashboard for SPOs that allows the comparison of supported projects and promotes those with the greatest social and environmental impact per amount staked.
Social network for deep connections
Solution: A social network that uses near-peer mentor matching as a tool for the effective formation of deep quality-centered connections, and mutual growth within a large network.
Social Mobile NFT Game - Alpha
Solution: Build a compelling mobile game that brings gamers to the ecosystem. Use Twitter integration for the social element and exposure. Use NFTs for their "ownership" benefits but avoid GAMEFI vocabulary.
Social Images: Stock Photos as CNFT
Solution: Social images: The first and only marketplace for social media content. Monetization of social media content, owned by the creators and can be traded as NFTs on the Cardano blockchain
Smart Contract Audit projectNEWM
Solution: We will hire a 3rd party auditing company to review our fractionalization smart contract.
Smart Card Hardware Wallet
Solution: We will develop a Cardano-compatible card-type hardware wallet. The device will be equipped with a fingerprint sensor to limit who can use it and eliminate the need to enter a PIN code required.
Small-Business Crypto Payments DApp
Solution: We create DApp software solution that will give merchants access to tech that they need to adapt crypto currency payments into their business.
The DApp will approach adaptation of crypto in real life.
Sharing liquidity between DEXs
Solution: We want to develop an open order book that can be used by any DEX to fill orders. This meta-dex protocol allows users to place limit orders and use the liquidity of all participating DEXs.
SharedLink - Fundraising for NGOs
Solution: We'll create the first portal for NGOs fundraising campaigns. Supporters can directly donate or access other fundraising tools. Funds will converge to a specific stake-pool dedicated to the NGO.
Sequestering farming CO2 dApp
Solution: Our solution is to work with a major agricultural business to lead and deliver a feasibility study of how Cardano technology can prove the soil sequestration of carbon during the farming processes.
Self-Hosted Full Node for End Users
Solution: I will build a small appliance to make running your own Cardano at home possible, similar to what umbrel does for bitcoin. I will bulid a web interface and a way for apps to integrate with that app.
Secure Offline Portfolio for crypto
Solution: We are developing a Secure Offline Portfolio for your favorite cryptocurrencies and tokens for any Android or iOS device
SDG Impact-Investment Token Quick Pitch
Solution: The CONU security token provides easy & secure access for entrepreneurs to fundraise their impactful projects + for purpose-driven private & institutional investors to invest in these enterprises
Scaling ArtSuite NFT4Good Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: Develop the already operational theartsuite.io NFT4GOOD platform to grow highly competitive and consequently scale the positive social, environmental and economic impact.
SaaS3:Permissionless Oracle Network
Solution: SaaS3 leverages Permissionless oracle Network (PoN) to eliminate the security issues to protect on-chain assets and logics. Any kind of web2 API can permissionlessly be deployed as an oracle on SaaS3.
Rythmeet:P2P music network platform
Solution: Creating the most complete music platform for musicians where they can network, find instruments, receive scholarships, discover Cardano
RootsWallet - User Feedback Updates
Solution: RootsWallet will continue to improve based on the feedback from users and UX experts. RootsID will implement these recommendations to evolve the design of RootsWallet, making it intuitive/useful/fun!
RootsWallet - iPhone version
Solution: RootsID will integrate the new Atala Prism Javascript SDK and build an iPhone version of RootsWallet.
Returning Trust To Global Donations
Solution: Develop an interoperable, scalable & decentralized platform that mediates transparent transactions between donors & NGOs to ensure legitimacy of both ends & revive the trust between all parties.