Developer Ecosystem - The Evolution

How do we equip and support developers with tools and working infrastructure? How do we make Cardano their first choice when it comes to building dApps, innovating and collaborating?
This proposal was approved and funded by the Cardano Community via Project F9: Fund10 challenge setting Catalyst funding round.
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Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?
コミュニティーレビュー (16)
Challenge “Developer Ecosystem - The Evolution” was done very well in Fund8 and Fund9. In Fund10, this is the challenge to continue and develop. This challenge is important to the Cardano mission because it encourages creating new open-source projects and building dApps. The challenge helps get developers involved in Catalyst. Set a challenge to help develop the tools and infrastructure to support your business.
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- z_assessor_3208
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- 5
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I fully support 100% for this challenge. In my opinion, this challenge is one of the most important challenges in recent funds, which keeps recurring from Fund 8, 9. Cardano ecosystem still needs a lot of tools (IDE, API, deployment, testing, monitoring…) to support developers to develop Dapps. These tools are just like “infrastructure” on which Dapps will be developed. One example is Appstore. The number of iOS apps really bloomed only when Apple focused on developing tools for developers. So funding challenges like this is extremely necessary to grow the ecosystem. It is no doubt that the challenge perfectly fits the four Fund 9 strategic goals, which is “Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem”, “Turn Cardano into an open-source project & attract more developers”, “Build real-world solutions based on the Cardano blockchain”, and “Improve tooling to support human processes in Catalyst”. I vote 5 stars for this challenge with the belief that this challenge will accelerate the growth of the Cardano ecosystem.
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- z_assessor_2950
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- 7
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This challenge is critical to achieving Cardano's missions as this community needs constant incentives for tool and infrastructure improvements. It is very important to encourage developers to come up with even more innovative projects. It is important to ensure that dApp development is accelerated. Doing this will increase the number of open source projects on Cardano. This challenge ensures that developers have the opportunity to create or complete new or existing innovative projects. This challenge will ensure that the ecosystem will integrate many new interesting projects. In Fund9 there were many innovative projects that could certainly use further financing in Fund10. I am convinced that this part will have a very big impact on the Cardano ecosystem.
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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_2940
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- 7
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This challenge is a continuation of similar challenges proposed and funded in Funds 8 and 9, and is a foundational piece of the Catalyst system, since developers form the backbone of the Cardano ecosystem, a role similar to what bees play in the ecosystem as pollinators. It is thus crucial to stimulate and incentivise their presence in the ecosystem, and offer them the best possible context to flourish and continue to build the critical infrastructure.
Can this challenge help prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem? Without a doubt, yes. This challenge has the potential to support developers’ activities and critical infrastructure and turn Cardano into a prime choice for building dapps, innovating and collaborating with other stakeholders. Moreover, this challenge is probably the most outspoken one in terms of supporting the development of open source solutions.
Can this challenge help build real-world solutions based on the Cardano ecosystem? This challenge will have an indirect, but massive impact on the ecosystem’s capacity of delivering real world solutions, since it will push forward a “layer zero” of infrastructure necessary to all the other projects: APIs, repos, open source solutions, standards, knowledge bases, etc. These will not be real world solutions per se, but they will be the building blocks of such products.
For all the right reasons, this challenge deserves at least five stars and should be present in the Catalyst selected challenges for at least ten more rounds.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2824
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge is about the creation of developer tools, software, and other infrastructure to facilitate the building & scaling of DApps, Products, and Integrations on Cardano. The Cardano blockchain has been built from the ground up following the science-based formal methods approach. It utilizes the Haskell functional programming language, and IOG developed Plutus (a language based on Haskell) for writing smart contracts. As this is the new language, creating DApps and other products on Cardano becomes difficult. However, with the inception of the Plutus pioneer program and other supporting tools & resources such as Cardano stack exchange, and Gimbalabs, this has been overcome to a certain extent. This challenge will help in further smoothening the development process by incentivizing the creation of developer supports tools and resources.
This challenge helps with the strategic goals as it prepares & trains the group of people who will be able and willing to contribute to the Cardano ecosystem. It also accelerates the growth of the developer ecosystem and thus enhances the creation of DApps and other products. Regarding open source projects, the author mentions that this challenge invites proposals from both the open-source and not open-source. However, I believe the solutions developed under this challenge should be open source to gain the community consensus on their credibility. Furthermore, it should be open-source with the aim of the work executed being available for the benefit of other projects to use and build their applications.
In terms of attracting votes, in Fund 8, the proposals under this challenge accumulate the highest number of votes combined. We can expect more or less the same again for this challenge. This challenge will be a springboard for Cardano adoption as it lays the groundwork for the future creation of DApps and other products on Cardano, which people will use worldwide. Given all the above points, this challenge is critical for Cardano's mission.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2811
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
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The challenge team identified the goals of the challenge as “Equip and support developers with tools and infrastructure”, “Make Cardano first choice for developers” and “Incentive large ambitious open source projects”. They are important to achieve Cardano’s mission and achieve F9 strategic goals of “able to make contributions to the ecosystem” and “open source project & attract more developers” directly and has the potential to help achieve the other goals.
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_2667
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge is one of the core settings that has survived from fund to fund and supports the developer infrastructure, which is also one of the core funding categories suggested by the IOG research paper on crypto-currency treasuries (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/435.pdf). It should be noted that there are always several versions of this challenge proposed every round, and this particular proposal is headed for its 3rd iteration, having been funded in both F8 and F9.
As a general rule, Developer Ecosystem (especially when you add in the support for Opensource Development challenges as well) are the best performing challenge settings in Catalyst. The F8 version was the highest voted challenge setting to date (1321 unique wallets and $218.7m ADA approval), and the F9 version was in the top five approved challenges. In F8 the proposals under this category performed best-in-fund, with 26,030 unique wallets voting and averaging 530(!) unique votes per proposal. For contrast the next best challenge was Opensource Development (and yeah, that probably had a lot of developer infrastructure as well) with 25,803 unique wallets and 300 votes per proposal. Dapps, which usually gets the lion's share of funding every round had 25,090 wallets voting and only 183 votes per proposal.
But where this category has really shined, to date, is when looking at completed projects, where DevEco is completing projects almost 3 to 1 compared with the broad Daps category, so ROI has been easier to gauge from this challenge. With this version of the challenge setting absorbing the Opensource setting under a larger budget, it really matches well with the Fund 10 goals.
We can tell this is a builder's world right now, and while sectors such as governance (DAOs) and interoperability (x-chain) are making strong showings, Developer tools is likely to remain a strong category with great short and long term alignment to Catalyst and Cardano. 5 stars.
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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_2436
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- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge which is a continuation of previous Dev eco system challenges is the definition of the strategic goal: 'Turn Cardano into an open source project & attract more developers.' As such is perfectly aligned with the community and IOG wishes.
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- z_assessor_2351
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- 11
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There are millions of developers who are equipped with coding skills and are employed by IT companies of all sizes. On the contrary, there are only a handful of them who are versed with coding on Blockchains. The one reason for that is that most of the Blockchains have their own programming languages and coding tools and one needs to learn these tools before that person can start building on a Blockchain. On top of that, most of these Blockchain developers are active on Ethereum as it is one of the most developer friendly platform and also because Ethereum has most number of users as compared to any other Blockchain. This makes it easy and profitable for these developers to build on Ethereum.*** Being coded in Haskell and having adopted eUTXO model gives Cardano a great deal of advantages but it is also true that this makes it very hard for developers to build on top of Cardano. There has been many initiatives to teach people about Haskell and Plutus and there has been programs like Plutus Pioneer Program, but there is as much which can be achieved through these initiatives.***
The goal of this challenge has been to create proposals which make working on Cardano an easy and fun experience. This challenge has been part of Fund 8 and 9 and there has already been some great proposals submitted under this challenge. The objective has been to achieve Accelerated dApp development and increasing the number of open source projects on Cardano. This challenge catagory is perfectly aligned with Cardano's mission and it is essential for the growth of the Ecosystem. I would also like to suggest that other then making building on Cardano easy, the objective of the challenge should also include incentivising the developers to build on Cardano.
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2312
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge setting proposal aims at developing tools and working infrastructure to attract developers, in order to accelerate Cardano Dapp developement. This is obviously critical to Cardano's mission, and the challenge setting proposal is directly aligned with Fund 10 Strategic Goal #1 "Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem." and #2 "Turn Cardano into an open source project & attract more developers"
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2264
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge setting perfectly aligns with the four strategic goals set forth in the Catalyst Fund 9 Proposal Assessor Guide. The continued evolution of the developer ecosystem is a continuation of challenge settings from Funds 8 and 9 into the next round of funding (Fund 10). Increasing open sourced development is a core value of the Cardano community and this proposed challenge doubles the available funding from the current levels to provide the incentives and continuity open source developers need to be successful. Providing ample resources to encourage larger and more ambitious projects, this challenge also aims to accelerate dApp integration and stimulate more rapid development. This in turn will create an impetus for outside developers to migrate to Cardano and engage in Project Catalyst.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2252
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge setting proposal is the continuation of the traditional 'Developer Ecosystem' challenge found in previous Funds. Cardano relies heavily on its developing community to build and expand this blockchain. Development creates tools to create much needed use cases. Therefore, it is of great importance that this aspect gets nurtured by the community. The challenge setting proposal adheres perfectly in terms of alignment by focussing on the strategic goal of attracting more developers. Emphasizing the need to identify what tools should be prioritized first and keeping into account what the delevopers want makes me fully agree that this proposal is mission critical for cardano.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2180
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
This is one of the most critical challenges within Project Catalyst, and I find it very interesting how the team that prepared the proposal framed the challenge question. This is because they hit the nail on the head as to why it is critical. And by that being critical, it has been present in Catalyst since its conception and from my point of view it should continue to be. While we have had many successes in this regard (Plutarch comes to mind). If we compare it to other ecosystems inside and outside the industry we still have a long way to go. This challenge will allow more developers to feel incentivized to build within the ecosystem, so it is related to the first strategic objective of the next fund. Moreover, the team that prepared this proposal emphasized the importance of open source from concept through implementation, therefore, there is a direct alignment with the second strategic goal, and I consider that there is an indirect alignment with the third strategic goal, as there are better tools available, the likelihood of building solutions in the real world increases.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2142
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
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It is highly critical and important that the Cardano ecosystem makes onboarding of new developers and dApp developers as easy and simple as possible. Being a Plutus pioneer program participant myself and a senior developer, I have seen that setting up a local Cardano development environment on your local PC is neither trivial nor quick, when compared with setting up an entire Node Js, JDK or .Net core based development environment.
The good news is that we are still quite early in the Cardano development ecosystem and IOG has provided a solid base that needs to be quickly strengthened, expanded and grown upon via project catalyst funded ideas. Therefore these challenge settings along with the open source developer ecosystem are two challenges that will define the future of Cardano in terms of developer adoption and dapp creation. Hence, I strongly agree.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2114
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
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This challenge proposal is a continuation of previously approved challenges F8 and F9: Developer Ecosystem, each with $1M budget. It is a challenge that has been present in Catalyst since its inception, except for F7, when only its open-source version was voted in. This challenge is very well aligned with Cardano’s mission goals of turning Cardano into an open source project, since it is stated in the challenge brief that open sourcing the tools or make a plan to do so in the future is something that should be considered by the Proposal Assessors when evaluating proposals submitted in this challenge, and this would indirectly help to build real world solutions and to bring more people who are willing to contribute to the ecosystem. The alignment of this challenge proposal with Cardano’s mission is very high.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2110
- Total QA Ratings
- 19
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This challenge is critical to achieve cardano's mission because we have built out the foundation for Cardano, but we are still early on in the adoption phase. According to Outlierventures research, Ethereum is still the most actively developed Blockchain protocol, followed by Cardano and Bitcoin, while Polkadot, Cosmos and Avalanche are seeing a consistent rise in core development and developer contribution. https://outlierventures.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OV-Blockchain-Dev-Q1-2021-_v7.pdf Cardano must compete as a platform with others, and while we may have great technology, we need to provide real financial incentives for new developers to build on Cardano, and make it easy for them to get started. It is also important to simplify and de-risk the process for large institutions to begin onboarding to Cardano. While many media institutions ignore the progress of Cardano, some are reporting on the growth in developers and Github commits. As Zycrypto has reported:
"Cardano developer activity surpassed Solana and Polkadot on Github. Santiment notes that tracking developer activity is one way to gauge the growth of a blockchain. Cardano’s ecosystem has exploded in activity since it enabled smart contract functionality in 2021. Blockchains are trying to outdo each other with new developments being unveiled with increasing regularity. One blockchain analytics firm has created a way to judge the growth of blockchains by looking at its developer activity on Github and Cardano appears to be winning." https://zycrypto.com/cardano-thrives-over-solana-and-polkadot-in-development-activity-as-ada-ecosystem-flourishes/
This does not mean we can slow down, but rather we should continue to build on this momentum and continue to incentivize and attract more developers, who will build more apps, that will bring more users and use cases. Previous challenge settings that were similar to this one have proven to be successful, and therefore we should continue to leverage catalyst funded development, which is a unique competitive advantage that Cardano has over other blockchains. We must use this Catalyst platform to accelerate the growth of our ecosystem. This challenge setting is perfectly aligned with these goals as the metrics in the proposal are directly tied to developer count, open source projects, and Gihub commits.
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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_2108
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
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Feasibility
Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully?
コミュニティーレビュー (16)
This challenge has contributed significantly to the building of the Catalyst community expansion. The challenge has achieved many possible results in fund8 and fund9; many proposals are funded and in progress. The Catalyst community has tackled the challenges posed through Funds very well. This challenge needs further development and upgrades in Fund10, as the developer community is very interested in building the Cardano ecosystem. I believe that there are many potential and valuable projects that contribute to the development and expansion of the Cardano ecosystem.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_3208
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
It's also a continuation of fund 8 and fund 9 so I'm no doubt that the community will have all the tools needed to assess this challenge. I notice a number of changes in the plan for Fund 10. In Fund 8, and Fund 9, the proposers have requested 1M dollars, whereas, in Fund 10, the proposers ask for 2M dollars, a double. Even though this looks like a relatively large expansion, I think it is totally reasonable if we compare 49 proposals in Fund 8 with 139 proposals (3 times higher) in Fund 9. I do hope in Fund 10, the number of proposals in this challenge will continue to increase even more. So, I think the requested budget is aligned with the development of this challenge. The team includes June Akra, and Thomas Wedler. They are experienced proposers whose proposals are funded in Fund 7 and Fund 8. I think with their experience this challenge will be successful. For all reasons above, I rate 5 stars for this part.
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2950
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The Catalys community certainly has the capacity to rise to this challenge. An important objective here is to make it easier for developers to build on Cardano. The objectives included are all linked to the strategic objectives of Fund9. The tools that will be developed will be encouraged to be open source so that everyone will be able to use these tools. The advantage is that this challenge is a continuation of Fund8 and Fund9. This challenge has included many possible directions to give new projects a certain direction. This project is certainly feasible as it has delivered many successful projects in the past. I am definitely a fan of having this challenge funded.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2940
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
There is no doubt that the Cardano community can deliver on this challenge - the past funds have already demonstrated a healthy competition in the similar challenges, with many projects already funded or which have delivered concrete results. The budget is feasible, since F9 had a 5.6x competition for each dollar available, between almost 150 proposals. Doubling the budget would thus bring at least 2x competition, considering a constant demand from F9 to F10.
The challenge offers very clear potential directions for future projects, and one of its strong points is that it is focused on one niche where demand for such products is already there, and the challenge makes it very clear that an open source philosophy is the way to go - there is actually no other way around it considering that the entire existing infrastructure is built that way.
Therefore, it is highly likely that the community will be in a capacity to service this challenge and develop even more the necessary Cardano infrastructure.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2824
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Given the many tools and resources developed under this challenge in the past funding rounds, it is clear that the Cardano community is capable of addressing this challenge. In Fund 8, this challenge had a budget of $1 million and attracted a total of forty-nine proposals, out of which 19 proposals were funded. Now in Fund 9, we have the same budget for that challenge, and 130 proposals are submitted. The author keeps the same budget as the last fund. I suggest it may be better to increase the budget like the similar challenge 'Development & Infrastructure' did. They asked for $2.925 million, which looks more plausible considering the volume of good proposals in the past fund under this challenge.
As this challenge continues from the past funds, we have the challenge team assisting the proposers with their projects and doing the other necessary work.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2811
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The challenge team asked relevant and thoughtful questions in their challenge brief, showing they have taken into account perspectives of many different groups that are closely linked with their area of focus, for example dApps developers, developers outside community, enterprise managers. The team has a good understanding of the developer community and showed adequate background research. I think the budget proposed by the team looks realistic and reflects the requirement of the challenge.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2667
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
The team has provided good direction for Proposers to access goal alignment, and has added "collaborative structures" which is an area where the community is showing a lot of enthusiasm lately.
They are also providing excellent guidance on principles, keeping proposal teams on target with user defined UI/UX, from opensource to enterprise developers. The focus on sensing and listening well is, I feel, an important part of the actual evolution of this challenge setting, as we are getting into territory where duplication of effort is starting to become an issue, and where user adoption is being driven more and more by specific use cases as we draw closer to things like RealFi.
The doubling of the budget from last fund seems reasonable, given that they are absorbing the OSS challenges (following their telegram, it was where OSS projects were ending up anyways), and given the statistics I presented above.
The emphasis on proposers tuning into the ecosystem to better target goals and objectives, combined with a budget inline with the expected value and ROI this challenge has provided in the past gives me confidence that they are providing plenty scope for proposers to effectively manage. 5 stars for Feasibility.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2436
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The amount of funds provided for this challenge in fund 10 is twice that of the current fund. The Catalyst community has shown great creativity in creating tooling and documentation and dApp creators have generally contributed to the community with documentation and open source functionality. Thus there is no doubt the community will be able to contribute to open source functionality, dev tooling and documentation which will increase the usability of Cardano even more.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2351
- Total QA Ratings
- 11
- QA Rating Outcome
The Catalyst community is one of the most diversified crypto communities with varied type of skills. The community has been creating some great proposals under various Catalyst challenges since the inception of Catalyst from Fund 1. It is fact that Haskell and Plutus are not very developer friendly tools to work with and require a great deal of skills to write a piece of code and this complexity is the reason that people in the Catalyst community who are building on top of Cardano are some of the brightest minds in the space.*** This challenge is already part of Catalyst since Fund 8 and Catalyst community has shown, it is perfectly capable of taking this challenge and have submitted many great proposals. I am farely confident that the community will be up to the task and it is perfectly capable to address this challenge.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2312
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
"Developer Ecosystem - The Evolution" is a continuation of previous challenges "Developer Ecosystem". With 20 successfuly funded project in Fund 8, and 130 candidates in Fund 9, there is no doubt that the community has the capacity to adress this challenge. The challenge team give instructions to proposers, to tell in their proposal if/how/how fast projects will be or become opensource.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2264
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
There is near certainty that the Catalyst community can successfully implement this challenge setting as can be demonstrated by past successes. The community of open source developers inhabiting the Cardano ecosystem are competent, committed, diverse and highly motivated. Additional resources will magnify the feasibility quotient and create the space to onboard new developers to a thriving community. Building upon a stable foundation is one of the best ways to ensure long term success.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2252
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
As this challenge's predecessor has been active in past Funds, and given the number of solutions that it has produced in the past, there is no doubt about the capacity of our community to tackle this challenge. As development is highly needed and should be of utmost priority at all times, the proposed budget is certainly not out of order. In fact, it could be wise to increase it even more towards the future as with current market situation, the time to build is now.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2180
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
Due to the fact that this challenge will be open to both open source and closed source projects, I believe that this will be a good indicator to measure the level of community response, and therefore determine the level of capacity of the community to address this challenge. Therefore, I have decided to group the proposals and budgets allocated in the challenges "Developer Ecosystem" and "Open Source Developer Ecosystem" in Fund 8, where a total of 135 proposals were submitted (approximately 12% of the total number of proposals in the previous fund) of which only 61 were allocated a budget of more than US$2.3 million, so the amount requested is reasonable. The description of the challenge does not make it clear whether the team that prepared this proposal would also be a member of the challenge team. However, from that perspective, since this is a critical challenge within Catalyst, I do not think this would be a problem. Considering my previous arguments, I strongly agree.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2142
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
I strongly agree that the catalyst community has the capacity to address this challenge. Whether it is dcSpark, Liqwid team, MLabs, OR Emurgo, there have been plenty of initiatives by different projects and teams that either are building or grooming developers and helping funded projects find good plutus developers for Smart contract and dApps development.
This challenge will therefore allow scaling the initiatives to help onboard more developers and fulfill potential directions such as Developer productivity, DeFi, dApps, building APIs and having a good incentivization structure for developer contributions e.g. mentor mentee proposal funded in fund 8.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2114
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge, as mentioned, has been present in Catalyst since its inception and this already proves that it is a success. The community always come up with many different proposals, there are teams working on continuation projects that are making good use of Catalyst funds through this challenge, and there are always many proposals competing for these funds. The community has been growing since previous funds, so we can expect more participation in this challenge. On the other hand, the proposed budget has doubled in comparison to the previous fund, $2M instead of $1M, so more effort from the community would be required in this scenario. But in fund 8, there has been 2 dev ecosystem challenges, one open source and the other not necessarily, and together they had an overall budget of $2.2M. Also, since the budget calculation has been changed, the $2M figure would be the maximum budget for this fund, and it would be lower if the price of ADA is below $1 by the time the results are calculated. If there is no other developer ecosystem voted in in the same fund, I believe the community is totally capable of making this challenge a success and therefore I believe its feasibility is very high.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2110
- Total QA Ratings
- 19
- QA Rating Outcome
Supporting the developer ecosystem in previous challenges has proven to be successful in incentivizing a wide range of development activity. It is reasonable to expect this proposal will deliver a wide variety of solutions in the next 6 months as well, as more people are learning about the benefits and incentives catalyst has to offer, and Cardano technology and tools continue to improve.
The challenge team has been successful in the past and has created a developer ecosystem telegram group for people to collaborate with. The cardano community will be able to use this challenge to fund and deliver many new resources and projects.
The budget is generous enough to cover a wide number of proposals, and also fund some larger ambitious projects should they apply. The Cardano foundation recently becoming a gold member of the Linux Foundation could help to bring in many large projects and new people, and this challenge is a great way to welcome these developers with a 2M Ada development fund. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1539931014491000833?s=20&t=wJ56D_iF_eAOzNXINIz_xw
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2108
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
Auditability
Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?
コミュニティーレビュー (16)
The success criterion is entirely consistent, which is proven through the results achieved from the projects in the previous fund. Metrics are clearly shown and can be specified. The challenge calls for proponents to participate in the project's construction through the telegram community group "Developer Ecosystem" This is a new challenge development. I believe that in this fund, the success metrics will increase.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_3208
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposers gave good metrics to evaluate this challenge. Because this challenge welcomes not only open-source proposals, it separates KPIs for open-source proposals and those that are not open-sourced. I think it is reasonable. I think these are important and relatively complete metrics.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2950
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
Success criteria and suggested stats are properly set up to measure progress in tackling the challenge. These statistics are divided into several parts. Very nice KPIs have been included to see if this challenge has made it easier for developers to build on Cardano. This is a very important part that should ensure that the ecosystem is expanded. The main challenge is to stimulate large ambitious open source projects. Questions are clearly included for this. Care has been taken to provide very clear directions that can be addressed. The other metrics serve to measure a positive open source impact. This challenge should definitely be taken up because it is crucial to provide developers with tools and working structure in the Cardano ecosystem. It must be ensured that people are convinced to work with Cardano. This challenge can provide additional opportunities that can convince people.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2940
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
There are three measures of success that the proposers have included in the challenge: number of open source proposals, number of contributions (github forks, clones, repository traffic), and level of community involvement (discord, telegram, etc.). While the first two are rather evident and fairly easy to measure, the third one is a little less so but still not impossible, and rough approximations / proxies can definitely be used to get a feeling of the levels of community involvement, so I believe that the proposal does a good job at defining these measures of success.
The same thing applies for its capacity to generate healthy competition - since the problem statement is very well defined and so are the types of proposals welcomed - it will thus be easy to measure the community’s capacity to offer solutions and compare them across a wide range of categories, if desired. So definitely five stars for verifiability.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2824
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The author mentions the potential directions for the proposals under this challenge. The author also mentions several metrics such as the number of API & developer tools created, the number of developers actively building, and the increasing number of open source projects that can be used by auditors or interested parties to measure the challenge's success. I suggest the author include the metrics to measure the proposals' progress while it is being executed, especially if it relates to software development; it can be the number of GitHub commits or project tracking on the Jira board or milestones achievements. Anyhow, I am rating it five stars as the author does provide the possible directions which can be considered to ascertain the metrics.
As stated by the author success of the proposals under this challenge will be the accelerated DApp development using the tooling & solutions created under this challenge and the growth of open-source projects.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2811
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The focus area of the challenge is make it easier for developers to build on Cardano. Defined clear and measurable metrics, measure number, this is quantitative rather than qualitative. Easy to compare past and current data, informative. Highly relevant to the focus area - support developers. The challenge is a continuation of F8 and F9 challenge, the past challenges have attracted many proposers and voters with a healthy amount of competition between proposers. The team has experience setting challenges.
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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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2667
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
They helpfully have upgraded some standard software KPIs to gauge things like MoM (month over month) gains in reporting on things like commits and open repos. This should help to gauge not just progress of isolated projects, but the velocity of the ecosystem as well, which can help provide even more data for driving decisions like budgeting for this challenge going forwards. As part of a core group of challenges (alongside things like Marketing and Governance) it is important for these challenges to effectively sense into the future a bit too, by finding data points for long term alignment and parameters, so it is good to see that starting to happen.
The ultimate success metric is clearly stated and succinct: is it easier to build on Cardano at the end of the day? This clarity should help projects stay on track, and help voters prioritize the projects in this challenge.
Because the team has provided quality progress metrics, alongside longterm tracking points, with a clear vision of success for the proposers that aligns with the Fund 10 goals, I believe this proposal warrants a full 5 stars for verifiability.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2436
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposers have given some metrics with which to measure the success, but not if actual targets, only increases. It would be good if the goals could be quantified in the future, as that requires understanding of what are base effects and what is missing to further increase a given metric.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2351
- Total QA Ratings
- 11
- QA Rating Outcome
The challenge is measuring the success of a proposal from the acceleration of dApp development and increase in number of open source projects on Cardano. Some of the important Key Metrics to measure the success of a Proposal are Number of APIs or Developer tools deveoped to lower entry barrier for developers in Cardano, number of developers actively building on top of Cardano, number of repos on Github using the tooling, project collaborations, and increase in number of open source projects. In my opinion, the success criteria and the suggested metrics will be able to measure the progress of a proposal in addressing the challenge.
To fulfill the Cardano's objective of having billions of users, we need to attract thousands of developers to the ecosystem and this challenge is a step in that direction. I wish the team all the best
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2312
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
The scope of the challenge is will defined : it includes potential directions such as "APIs and Oracles" or "Testing frameworks". Metrics are listed to enable proposers and the community to assess and compare the impact of proposals in the challenge. The challenge also identified metrics to consider for a positive open source impact, like number of github forks/clones/ traffic for an open source repos.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2264
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Utilizing Github repositories and a myriad of social media platforms as a measure of KPIs, this challenge details the metric analysis necessary to verify the effectiveness of funding open source development on Cardano. Tracking developers who transition to open source is another Key Progress Indicator that has been identified as a way to measure the successful implementation of this challenge. The only metric I would like to see added is a comparison to past funds to see exactly how much the funding increase translates into the influx of new developers and the creation of more open source protocols. This comparison should also measure dApp development rates to best guage the success of this challenge.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2252
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
The challenge proposal provides several directions to move towards as a potential proposer. Focussing heavily on open source encourages competition as an environment for durable production is created. The only aspect that I feel is difficult to measure is overall participation in community involvement as this might not always be equally visible.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2180
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
As such, it seems that both the description of the criteria of success and the 5 proposed metrics for measuring success are appropriate to the focus areas of this challenge. I believe they are simple to measure, general enough to apply to most projects, but with clear boundaries for future proposers. I would like to draw attention to the section included in this challenge setting titled "Metrics to consider for positive open source impact" which, in addition to emphasizing open source characteristics, also encourages future proposers to establish communication channels with the community. Considering that this challenge has been present in past funds, it would be interesting for the challenge team to prepare data regarding the metrics of projects that have been funded in the past, thereby giving more power to the community and providing sufficient information for future decision-making.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2142
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge is a continuation to Fund 8 and Fund 9, and there have been many funded proposals in previous rounds that fulfill the potential directions of this challenge. The success is defined as accelerated dApp development and aligned with the strategic goal of Cardano, which is to increase the number of open source projects on Cardano. This challenge overlaps with the Open source developer ecosystem challenge, and therefore I see a little room for improvement in the write up so that it helps new proposers find right challenge settings for their proposals in fund 10, should these both challenges be voted by voters.
The key metrics to measure clearly mention the concrete data points against which success of this challenge can be measured against. However, it would have been nice if some kind of statistics was provided (e.g. bar/pie charts) to visualize these data points until now. Therefore, I see some room for improvement and hence agree that progress can be correctly measured while addressing the challenge.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2114
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
This challenge has been a resubmission from previous funds and its challenge brief and KPIs are being refined each round. The metrics mentioned in the challenge proposal to track the success of this challenge are appropriate and measurable, except the “A strong community of developers and proposers with thriving project collaboration” KPI, but this could be evaluated subjectively. It would be interesting to add some KPIs that were more specific and related to the potential directions mentioned in the challenge brief, for example, number of projects related to IDEs, APIs, Oracles, hackathons, etc. Overall, the verifiability of this challenge is very good, although some more KPIs could be added to increase the insight related to which areas of the developer ecosystem are being most benefited by this challenge.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2110
- Total QA Ratings
- 19
- QA Rating Outcome
The key metrics in this challenge are all directly measuring specific outcomes, and they are aligned with the challenge setting and the Fund9 strategic goals. The metrics are numerical and quantifiable, and relatively easy for the catalyst community to track and audit, as they will be available on Github and Catalyst. Community involvement is another metric that is perhaps less accurate, and difficult to attribute specifically to this challenge, but it is still possible to track the social analytics through discord, telegram, cardano stack exchange, youtube, twitter, etc. Therefore this proposal is rated 5 stars for Alignment, Feasibility, and Verifiability.
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.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_2108
- Total QA Ratings
- 16
- QA Rating Outcome
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