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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.
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Total Proposals
24
資金提供を受けた課題
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Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$5.7M
Requested
$1M
受賞

Rewards for Community Contributors

$29,600 Requested

Solution: It is necessary to design a reward mechanism that aims to encourage community members to contribute quality content to the website

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 2.96% of the fund.
4.54 (24)

RESTful wrapper for Plutus Offchain

$32,400 Received
$32,400 Requested

Solution: Enrich the usability of cardano components with a RESTful abstraction for off-chain plutus for dApps that runs with the Plutus Application Backend (PAB).

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 3.24% of the fund.
4.89 (27)

Rendering and Tokenomics Consultant

$20,000 Requested

Solution: Work with existing projects to provide 3d rendering and tokenomics.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 2% of the fund.
2.78 (18)

RampUp Plutus Devs for Cardano

$55,950 Requested

Solution: We’ll implement Alkemy's proven Job-Ready program for recruiting talents that will pass through a 4-month accelerated training program in Plutus and leave ready to onboard Catalyst funded projects.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 5.595% of the fund.
4.88 (24)

Python SDK to Build Health App

$7,500 Requested

Solution: Hippocrades has built a health infrastructure with APIs for devs to easily create a health app. Currently, it has a Javascript SDK already. We want to create an SDK to cater Python developers.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.75% of the fund.
4.55 (33)

Pure-Vue: Vue to PureScript bridge

$120,000 Requested

Solution: Build a bridge from an accessible JavaScript framework with a rich HTML syntax (Vue) to the closest Haskell syntax (PureScript).

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 12% of the fund.
3.73 (15)

Plutus Video Sub for Vietnam Devs

$13,900 Requested

Solution: Translate IOHK's pioneering Plutus course videos into documents for Vietnamese developers to easily access and learn. Forming a team of developers using the Plutus. programming language

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget impact proposal Requested 1.39% of the fund.
4.71 (63)

Plutus support for Golang SDK

$32,000 Requested

Solution: Implement Plutus support, including Vasil fork element, into the Golang serialization library.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 3.2% of the fund.
3.86 (21)

Plutus for Nigerian Universities

$22,500 Requested

Solution: Create hubs in universities that train students become plutus developers with the help of our friends at Wada.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.25% of the fund.
4.71 (21)

plu-ts Typescript smart-contracts

$105,840 Requested

Solution: implement a library able to construct an AST of Untyped Plutus Core and then serialize it, so that it can be submitted with a transaction and processed on-chain

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 10.584% of the fund.
4.5 (18)

(plu-ts) full Typescript off-chain

$68,160 Requested

Solution: Implement a 100% Typescript library to write off-chain code, minimizing dependencies

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 6.816% of the fund.
4.17 (18)

Play2Learn2Earn ADA Makerspace Game

$80,000 Requested

Solution: Almost everyone loves playing games, and when done correctly game mechanics can be used to make learning fun and competitive. Gamification of learning would help more people become DEVs.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 8% of the fund.
3.33 (27)

Oura v2

$44,640 Received
$44,640 Requested

Solution: We'll assign a fixed development bandwidth to develop a new version of Oura that incorporates new features, improves performance and evolves the event model.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 4.464% of the fund.
4.72 (18)

Open Standards Library

$14,650 Requested

Solution: Build an open-source library that allows anyone to search and build metadata standards.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 1.465% of the fund.
4.5 (24)

OpenSource MetaMask<=>₳ Integration

$55,200 Received
$92,000 Requested

Solution: Open-Source Metamask & Cardano integration allows 55 million monthly active wallets to easily send, receive, and drive adoption & traction on Cardano dApps and projects to accept ETH and receive ₳DA.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
funded impact proposal Awarded 9.2% of the fund.
5 (35)

Open Source Auctions Smart Contract

$74,000 Requested

Solution: We want to build a robust auctions smart contract which will be implemented into JPG Store and made available for any other platform in the ecosystem that wants to use or build upon it.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 7.4% of the fund.
4.55 (42)

Open Smart Contract Library

$14,650 Requested

Solution: Build an open-source library that allows anyone to search, share, and get feedback on smart contracts.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 1.465% of the fund.
4.67 (18)

Open analytics standard for DeFi

$7,900 Requested

Solution: We develop a common API standard that will make it easier for information aggregators to include Cardano DeFi protocols and ensure that all protocols deliver the necessary information.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.79% of the fund.
4.38 (24)

Onboard Devs with Impactful Events

$13,300 Requested

Solution: Organize and host 3 monthly events related to impact and developer themes to onboard newcomers, inspire Cardano developers and build stronger community engagement. We collaborate and we celebrate!

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.33% of the fund.
4.37 (27)

Off-chain SC interaction tooling

$71,250 Requested

Solution: Continuously developing such components ourselves, we want to provide templates and tutorials for building them to the community and thereby enable non-experienced users to make their contribution.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 7.125% of the fund.
4.67 (27)

No Code Smart Contract Indexer

$250,000 Requested

Solution: Imagine, if the above problem can be solved by yourself at low-cost with just basic computer knowledge & without any infra costs. Reimagine data in your own way with few mouse clicks on Cardano chain

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 25% of the fund.
3.52 (21)

More Developers on Cardano

$10,000 Requested

Solution: There is need to build a the developer ecosystem that helps them to have a sense of community and a place they can share ideas

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1% of the fund.
2.9 (29)
$73,040 Requested

MLabs - Plutarch v2 Quick Pitch

$73,040 Received
$73,040 Requested

Solution: We will greatly expand the Plutarch feature set to improve efficiency and capability. There will be more powerful abstractions than before and a multi-backend solution for off-chain and on-chain use.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 7.304% of the fund.
4.7 (30)

MLabs - Dev Documentation Drive

$60,000 Received
$60,000 Requested

Solution: MLabs has worked with Cardano smart contracts for 15 months across multiple projects. We’re well-positioned to make direct contributions and work with maintainers to improve docs for everyone.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 6% of the fund.
4.48 (27)