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CrossChain Blockchain4Good Research

$13,000.00 Requested
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Problem:

Connecting UN frameworks like the SDGs to Proposals require analyses + evaluation. Support our research work in Fund 9 as in Fund 6, 7 and 8. Comparative cross chain research is lacking.

挑戦: Cross-Chain Collaboration
over budget impact proposal Requested 1.444% of the fund.
コミュニティ・アドバイザー・レビュー:
4.5 (12)
Yes Votes:
₳ 52,276,662
No Votes:
₳ 26,545,838
Unique Wallets:
238

エクスペリエンス

200+ team of active Cardano community members. Cardano AIM team (voter-tool, CA-tool, vCA-Tool, SDG Proposer Tool, SDG Search Tool). Globally diverse multidisciplinary team of professionals: Catalyst, sustainability and impact research. Fund 5,6,7,8 winners.

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Cross-chain comparative research and analysis of Project Catalyst Fund 9 funded proposals and their connection to UN SDGs, in addition to another blockchain’s system of funding ecosystem growth. 

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Impact / Alignment

4.5 / 5
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Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?

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This proposal is just a spectacular idea that is going to be implemented from a very experienced, previously funded and trusted team of people. The tools that have been created by now have all been very successful and widely used by the community members so i am inclined to believe that such a tool would have a great impact on the whole Cardano ecosystem, as well as, the proposing procedure. It greatly addresses the challenge as it is oriented in a cross-chain collaboration with projects like Cardano4Climate, Blockchain4Good Collective, Sustainable ADA and many more, some even based on the Project Catalyst concept (Catalyst School) and i think that this team has a lot to offer on this field, the cross-chain communication.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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The project presents a continuation of previous funded rounds for research led by the team in linking UN sustainable development goals to projects funded by Catalyst. This proposal matches the challenge's guidelines since it attempts to cooperate with other teams leading similar efforts over other chains like Blockchain4good and also compares funded projects' sustainability goals alignment from Catalyst for other chains having similar funding paradigms. This project helps the ecosystem grow in the NGO and similar organizations' space. Plus, it shows the value and impact of our projects in real life and advocates for the importance of crypto indirectly. As mentioned, the project has a global impact since its analysis is done under the UN sustainable development goals and its ability to scale is paramount to its ability to create a larger framework of analysis where multiple chains and organizations are involved which is what this proposal is about. I look forward to seeing the team's report.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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z_assessor_2317
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Yes this proposal effectively addresses the challenge by exploring alignment between blockchain grant/funding programs (like Catalyst) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the SDGs are blockchain agnostic and apply more broadly than tech, there is likely a significant opportunity to link our efforts on Cardano to other chains seeking to address these same global goals.

The team clearly has thought their proposal through and does an excellent job framing their exploratory research, not necessarily as a ground breaking advances, but instead a check on where we are at and how we are doing. The more we can identify our common missions across chains will certainly help reduce the silos we often find ourselves in.

One thing that I think could make the project even stronger would be to submit the final reports and findings to the UN itself. Perhaps there could be a way to link the community's efforts to the broader UN network. While not necessary for the proposal itself, there is likely much good that could come from expanding our reach into these well established entities.

Assessment Quality Assurance

Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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z_assessor_2233
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8
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The problem statement of the proposal is that connecting UN framework like SDGs requires analysis + evaluation. But why? Why do we want to connect SDGs with UN framework? (with respect to the challenge setting). This is not very clear, and if so, it is not emphasized and from my perspective, the proposal lacks clarity. Nonetheless, the proposal aims to perform an analysis of all funded proposals at the end of F9, and deliver PPT + article where the results of this analysis will be displayed. I believe, that it will include some charts showing how many proposals are solving SDGs and which SDG in particular, and as I came to understanding, it will be an information source for public or stakeholders. I must say, that I am not really sure how is this aligned with the cross-chain collaboration – yes, it can possibly attract new people who are very initiative when talking about SDGs, but other than that, I see it more as a research, and I did not find any supporting information, how this will create new, or enhance current cross-chain partnerships directly. In the proposal, it is also stated that the team is currently exploring a possibility to perform the same comparative analysis within Gitcoin grants or that possible collaboration is in play with other researchers from another chain, but even if performed, there is no supporting information what impact it will bring on Cardano, with respect to the challenge goal.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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Feasibility

4.5 / 5
4 レビュー

Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully?

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All the team members and their relevant skills, with all the links provided, the necessary skills and resources, a detailed plan and the architecture/langueage that will be implemented are all there and suffieciently described. The budget is described in a clear manner as well, and has been broken down into identifiable manners. It is also quite reasonable and does not exceed any limits given the fact that the team members of this proposal have been funded many times before and could have asked more, given they are trusted and experienced professionals. The future risks have also been tackled. The only thing i would like to ask, but doesn't cost in terms of feasibility, is if 4 months are going to be enough for the implementation of the proposal.

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From the links and media attachments and info provided by the team and their previous experience, I feel comfortable saying that their success likelihood is very high. For starters, the team has been delivering on their proposals since Fund 5 and has been enriching the community and the ecosystem with their insights about the projects funded and influencing the direction of projects positively. Furthermore, The people behind the project are experts in their fields and have a long resume to speak for them. The budget presented by the team is as organized and as detailed as always. The team also proposes a timeframe including a structured roadmap that sets expectations and goals to be achieved. The only risk mentioned is currency volatility which will affect the funding. The lack of risks discussed is understandable if we look at the extensive planning the team has presented in the body of their proposal from collaborations to other chains being looked at.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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Yes, given experience and plan presented it is highly likely this proposal will be implemented successfully.

The team behind this project is made up of a group of strong community leaders from a variety of different projects. Each project listed has an excellent track record of delivering value to the Cardano community while being leaders and driving change. For these reasons, I am totally confident in the team's ability to succeed.

Another strong feature of this proposal is that they have a very clear plan and path to execute it. The proposal consists of some basic research that assess the scope and depth of alignment between funded Catalyst proposals and the SDGs. Since they have been funded previously for this work and this project is a mere continuation into F9, there is also a strong likelihood of success.

On a different note, and not something to mark down for, but I would have liked to see some of the questions that will be included in the survey to proposers. As is currently the case, the SDG section of the proposal template is a nice addition but it is too broad. Often teams simply list the SDGs they are targeting but offer no evidence of how their project specifically would reach it. Perhaps providing a better explanation of what is included and how this section could be filled out, could also be a lesson learned from the research.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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The roadmap is from September – December, and the first three months are focused on revision of all funded F9 proposals, and then during November/December to summarize results in public database, prepare the paper PPT and share the results in different media. The requested budget is 13k USD, but expected workload (time spent) is not disclosed. It is not clear how much time is expected for anything through paper to ppt, project management or data collection. I think it is important to state, that they are asking 4,5k for F9 research and another 4,5k for another chain/s comparative analysis, but another chain analysis is not discussed in more details. It is not clear whether they will perform it after F9, or simultaneously, or what chains are in play. The team is composed of four people, with their bio provided and linked in profiles. Based on this information, I believe that the team has the required skills for performing such analysis and present their results. Star down, because we do not know the time donation (how much time it takes to perform it) + budget is containing items that are not described in the roadmap.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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Auditability

4.5 / 5
4 レビュー

Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?

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There is a roadmap with milestones in it and some key metrics needed to measure the success of the proposal. It is mentioned that there will be quantitative and qualitative results and learnings from findings into how Fund 9 Project Catalyst funded proposals are connected to the UN SDGs and they are indeed quantified as the amount of USD needed to finance impact. The progress of the proposal can be tracked though the site provided and that is an important fact for the auditability of the proposal. All points included, i think that this proposal has more than suffiecient information to audit the progress and the success of it. Well done to the team members!

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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The team presents an extensive roadmap including all necessary details and joined with milestones that will help the community judge their development. Furthermore, the team presents a report by the end of their project joined with a power-point for all the community to review and get insights about the funded project and its relation to UN sustainable development goals. The detailed budget presented also shows the team's exact spending which shows their transparency. The delivery date is not mentioned explicitly since it highly depends on the analysis being done. The team also sets some goals to be achieved from this research like the comparison to other chain and further collaboration with similar organization for better insights into the community. Furthermore, the community has no problem so far with this team's auditing and delivery which raises confidence in their ability and ease of auditing. The team prides its ability to collaborate and is open to any audit or criticism from the community.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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Yes, the information provided is sufficient to audit the progress and the success of the proposal.

One thing that inspires confidence in the ability to audit the proposal is that all the findings will be open source and freely available on the team's website. This means that voters and community members both in and out of Cardano will be able to follow up on how the team is doing, and by extension how Cardano is doing to meet the SDGs. This type of approach is welcome in Cardano and will be the end goal for most projects, and the protocol as a whole. By committing to this approach now, the team is portraying their commitment to this objective.

As mentioned above, the team has an excellent track record of being funded and delivering on their items. They have a very useful and engaging website that will be used to track all of their indicators. One thing that could be strengthened here is more granularity around which chains they plan to work with. While they list "other chains" several times more specifics would help demystify this section. However, they do list gitcoin as their first volley so perhaps this is enough.

Overall, this is an excellent proposal and I wish the team best of luck in the voting stage.

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Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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With the respect to the audit, I am not sure if we can track the progress, because milestones are outlined on a high level, and we know only that the results will be collected by the end of November and published at the end of December. Nevertheless, the results of the analyses will be published on public channels, which we can verify at the very end of the roadmap. Also, the proposer state that the success of the proposal is to have qualitative and quantitative analyses of F9 + another chain, but since there is no plan to perform the analysis of the another chain, we can not really keep the track with it.

Assessment Quality Assurance

Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.

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z_assessor_2222
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5
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