Detailed Plan
What is the Data Intelligence Platform for Cardano?
Data intelligence refers to the practice of using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to analyze and transform massive datasets into intelligent data insights, which can then be used to make informed decisions, accelerate growth, drive operational excellence, improve customer experiences, services, and more.
Our Data Intelligence platform for Cardano, ADAGLASS, is an ambitious, community-driven, unified, scalable, machine learning-powered solution that continuously observes, orients and shares data in relation to the Cardano ecosystem. It offers an intuitive and engaging user experience that enables Cardano’s users to gain end-to-end visibility, instant insights and actionable intelligence.
It is composed of 5 platform components that underpin each other, currently envisioned as follows:
- Telemetry: collect on-chain, social, development, financial data using different mechanisms (streaming and polling)
- Unified Data Lake: unify siloed data into one data lake, normalize and enrich to allow for analytics and reporting on market, infrastructure, application and service KPIs
- Analytics & Reporting: provide real-time and built-in analytics dashboards to the mass, the community and relevant stakeholder groups
- Predictive Analytics: predict risk / trust scores and forecast trends to help make informed decisions and react to developing shifts in the ecosystem
- Market Data: provide exclusive market data through a fast and powerful API
Why does Cardano need a Data Intelligence Platform?
With the upcoming of DEXs and other very promising projects, as well as potential states going to operate on top of the Cardano’s blockchain, we can anticipate an exponential growth of the user base, the community, and associated needs.
Instead of waiting for existing generic and blockchain agnostic solutions offering some similar capabilities to integrate Cardano, we have an opportunity to be proactive and build a platform owned by the Cardano community and tailored to Cardano’s specific user needs.
Benefits that the platform aims to bring to the community over time:
- A leading Cardano-powered and community-owned Data Intelligence Platform
- An evidence based and enterprise grade source of truth, driven by data
- Rapid access to actionable insights that can’t be found find on well-known trackers and explorers
- Engaging and unparalleled dashboards giving a 360 view of the ecosystem
- Impartial ratings based on a multi-factor AI & ML model
Who is the platform for?
The Cardano ecosystem has reached a significant milestone in this year Summit in September with more than 10k people attending the event.
Put alongside the 2k+ SPOs, 2M+ Users, 900k+ Delegators and 200+ Projects referenced across major Cardano’s explorers, this represents a large audience to serve with custom dashboards, reports and actionable intelligence.
Other Ambassadors, Traders, Advisors, Partners, Analysts, Journalists, Influencers that have some degree of involvement and/or interest in the Cardano blockchain would also benefit from tailored views and insights.
Additional interesting and quantitative sites’ metrics (from similarweb):
Cardano Community
- 3.8M avg visits per month (cnft.io)
- 1.3M avg visits per month (pool.pm)
- 900k avg visits per month (adapools.org)
- 800k avg visits per month (cardanoscan.io)
- 500k avg visits per month (yoroi-wallet.com)
- 300k avg visits per month (daedaluswallet.io)
- 350k avg visits per month (adalite.io)
- 450k avg visits per month (iohk.io)
Other Markets’ Analytics Platforms
- 1.5M avg visits per month (cryptoquant.com)
- 1.4M avg visits per month (glassnode.com)
- 900k avg visits per month (nansen.ai)
- 660k avg visits per month (isthiscoinascam.com)
- 180k avg visits per month (santiment.net)
- 90k avg visits per month (evai.io)
- 65k avg visits per month (tradethechain.com)
What is the main value proposition?
An upcoming community first, ownerless Cardano platform for actionable intelligence, with:
- All profits to go directly to Project stake pool delegators and token holders
- Unlimited free plans to Project stake pool delegators and token holders (minimum stake or token hold required)
- Attractive / competitive subscription plans for the rest of the world
- Project utility token to give governance to the token holders
- Cardano powered-community data intelligence platform
- Unique insights for Cardano only
What is the anticipated timeline?
Q1 2022: Catalyst F7, Hire core team, Tokenomics, Whitepaper, Product Design (Business Model, User Journey, Target Personas, Backlog), Initial Marketing (Website, Social Channels, ISPO Campaign), SPO Revenue Stream Launch, Project Setup (Code Repo, Tools, Backlog, App Architecture, Infrastructure Sizing, DevOps Pipelines)
Q2 2022: App MVP (Free Tier with Telemetry, Market Visibility, Continuous Monitoring, Wallet Connector), Testnet
Q3 2022: Token Public Sale, Vault, Pro Features (Proactive Monitoring & Alerting, Market Insights, Real-time Advanced Risk Analysis), TGE, Mainnet
Q4 2022: Enterprise Features (Predictive Analytics), Continuous Improvements (More dashboards, use cases, KPIs, target personas)
Q1 2023: Enterprise API, Community Governance
What does success look like?
3 months: a well-known brand in the community with a stake pool, a website, a core team, a whitepaper, a twitter and telegram community
6 months: a functional Testnet and MVP (Free Tier), 1 stake pool with 60M active stake
12 months: 100k avg visits per month, 1k ADA holders’ subscriptions, 3 stake pools with 60M active stake each, Paid plans and features
Who are we?
We are a small team of 2 engineers combining 20+ years of experience in providing end-to-end IT and digital services across CX, Cloud, Cyber, Data for public and private sector organizations worldwide, working in companies operating across the UK, France and Switzerland.
- Team Lead - Damien Despas
With more than 10 year experience working in the consulting and digital market as CTO of a leading UK service provider, I bridge the gap between theory and pragmatic transformation for global organizations, delivering enterprise-grade digital platforms and solutions across Technology, Customer Experience, Data and Change disciplines.
I bring a blend of management, technical and operational expertise in areas such as business strategy, technical architecture, product design, team management, project management, software development, IT operations, user experience and data engineering. Most recently, I have specialized in technologies covering content management, ecommerce, observability, search and data analytics, and have built platforms that support Executive, Marketing, Security and Network teams operating within the Finance, Telecommunications and Healthcare industries.
My experience and set of transversal skills allow me to lead and respond to the complex needs of creating a new venture within the Cardano ecosystem, from ideation through product launch and to future industrialization.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/despasdamien/
- IT Operations and Engineering - Hugo Allamel
With more than 10 year experience working as an engineer in the French and Switzerland IT service industry, I deliver and operate world-class infrastructure and specialize in domains like Cloud, Network and Security.
My experience and skills allow me to design, build and operate resilient, secure and highly-scalable global infrastructure that never sleeps.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-allamel-571b9526/
What capabilities do we need?
Initially, the project requires a core leadership team that will handle a large amount of work across technology, marketing and operations. We will look for a well-balanced group of engineers and designers to support the initial needs and will seek for advise and support from a legal and accounting point of view.
Past the first phase, we / the team will look at growing the engineering arm to support the upcoming needs across the infrastructure, application and data layers of the platform. Technical leadership and architecture will be key to the success of the project. Damien will provide this capability until community governance. Medium-terms, we are seeking for Tech Lead, Technical Architect, Front and Backend Developers, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, DevOps Engineer, QA Engineer.
Additionally and in parallel, more sales, product, creative and marketing skills will be added to ensure we execute effectively on the go-to-market strategy, develop strong partnerships, design the best experience for end-users, increase platform awareness across the ecosystem and grow a large community. This will require a mix of Business Developer, Marketing Director, UX Designer, Community Manager.
We envision the project to be governed by a thin management layer and an appropriate toolset allowing collaboration from a distributed team delivering in an agile and lean way, supported by a Project Coordinator, Agile Boards, Wiki, Discord.
Budget breakdown and allocation?
While our platform build will be crowdfunded through a token sale, this Fund7 Catalyst proposal is seeking funding for our incubation needs, covering Q1 2022 activities only. The current cost-estimate is based on the activity-list shown below. Other Q1 2022 costs are not listed and will be provided as initial investment and effort from the proposer.
Initial Marketing
- Website Design = USD 1500
- Website Operations (6 months) = USD 3600
- ISPO Campaign = USD 3000
SPO Revenue Stream Launch
- Infrastructure Build (enterprise grade infra as code) = USD 5000
- Infrastructure Operations (6 months) = USD 4800
App Foundations
- Product Design = USD 5625
- Project Setup = USD 5000
Total = USD 28525