Today's countries prioritize rapid economic development while ignoring environmental, human health, and energy issues. This causes the national economy to grow temporarily but not sustainably. Many countries have suffered severe environmental consequences, such as China's air pollution. Along with many problems for the world, many ideas for improvement have arisen. However, because it is impossible to demonstrate transparency, the ideas are promoted ineffectively. This challenge is an excellent combination of Cardano blockchain transparency and crowdfunding to assist developers in developing ideas more efficiently. Creating real-world solutions on the Cardano blockchain at the same time is perfectly aligned with the strategic goal. Because environmental protection, quality of life, and energy are unavoidable future trends, I give this section 5 points.

This challenge wants to support and inspire impact-driven companies and entrepreneurs to build use cases on Cardano. This is important as the world is in danger, and we are running short on achieving sustainability goals; the provision of funding can bring things on track. Due to its low power usage, Cardano is already famous as a green blockchain. We can build upon that fame, and if this challenge can contribute to the sustainability goals, it will show Cardano's commitment to society. This challenge will help with one of the strategic goals. It will bring in capable entrepreneurs and impact companies who want to contribute to the Cardano ecosystem and ultimately towards sustainable goals. Moreover, the successful projects or use cases from this challenge will be a role model for other impact companies. As mentioned above, this idea of Cardano contributing to achieving Sustainability goals will solidify our commitment in society's eyes and will pave the way for Cardano adoption. Given the above points, this challenge is essential for Cardano's mission.

The heart of this challenge setting is to support proposals that have adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals or consider themselves to be Impact driven (impact here defined as having SDGs, or similar goals, as the motivation behind your endeavor). From eradicating poverty to conserving resources to cleaning up pollution, there is a huge swath of proposals funded already (the team includes a bulleted overview of some broad categorizations for onboarded proposals), and even more seeking funding in Fund 9 (in particular I have seen a number of fantastic NGO proposals), that take this approach and the addition of the SDG tool to the ideascale interface a few funds ago points to a growing urgency, so it is an interesting expansion of the experiment to see how many apply when given their own space.

Arguably to biggest alignment with the Fund10 goals comes with #3, which is real world solutions By their definition, Impact endeavors are highly focused around the world beyond the blockchain, and about where it intersects with human productivity and our ability to realize purpose, so #4, improving tooling for humans, is also in alignment. While it doesn't explicitly mention #2 (opensource) or #1 (preparing people to contribute), it isn't formatted in such a a way as to prevent alignment with those ideas from its proposers, and the deep collaborative nature of what they do explicitly talk about is certainly a set of principles cut from the same cloth as opensource.

Because this challenge provides support and space for proposer's to align with both the short and long term goals of Cardano, I believe that it merits the full 5 stars for Alignment.

This challenge has the goal creating space for proposals related to entrepreneurship and the SDGs. It mentions that $5T/year of investment will be needed to achieve the SDGs by 2030, and that this is a big opportunity for Cardano to spend some resources and showcase potential solutions for the current sustainability issues that the world is facing. Even though not mentioned in the title of the proposal, the scope of the proposals to be submitted in this challenge must be strictly related to the SDGs. It mentions some potential directions for proposers, for example, agriculture, finance, carbon market, energy, RealFi and others. These are all real-world applications, what makes this challenge proposal very well aligned with Cardano’s mission for Fund 10. The proposal could indirectly address other goals such as creating open-source tools and attracting more developers to Cardano. It is very clear that this challenge proposal is well aligned with Cardano’s mission and therefore its alignment is very high.

The team behind this "Entrepreneurship Challenge", proponents of the sustainable development goals, mostly known as the 17 goals for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. The acronym SDG, or SDGs in general, stands for ending poverty and other deprivations in a call for action by all countries - developed and developing - all while tackling climate change and preserve ecosystems of our world. This challenge should attract entrepreneurs and companies to build on Cardano with SDGs as the main driver.

As mentioned by the challenge team, the World Economic Forum foundation, who also is a main proponent of 2030 Agenda and SDGs, has stated that in order to achieve SDGs by 2030, it is needed to invest between 5 - 7 trillion USD annually. According to challenge team members: "It might be the biggest OPPORTUNITY for Cardano technology." Furthermore, the challenge brief, emphasizes the very close alignment with Cardano mission by quoting an excerpt from https://cardano.org, it shows how Cardano is a blockchain platform that strives to bring about the positive global change.

From an overall look at the challenge, it is not difficult to expect that this challenge can support 2 of the 4 fund9 strategic goals, the 'supporting groups willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem'; and the 'build real-world solutions based on the Cardano blockchain'.

This challenge setting intends to encourage impact companies to develop solutions with Cardano in the next 6 months (I would recommend changing the description to 6 months after funding, as proposals eventually created in this challenge should only receive funds in 2023). Many of the SDGs are already naturally addressed by various projects in the blockchain industry in a natural way, as the blockchain industry has already been created as a tool that allows distribution of financial power (cryptos with transparent financial policies and DeFi), political power through DAOs and accessibility.The combination of these aspects makes the 17 SDGs end up being served by the blockchain industry. The use cases mentioned in the challenge setting are already being addressed in several challenges present in Catalyst. SDGs and public blockchains such as Cardano have several points in common, so I see the theme as being important in the Cardano mission. This challenge setting aligns with the Catalyst Fund9 Challenge Setting Strategic Goals mentioned in the Proposal Assessor Guide. The presence of this challenge would be important in the Cardano mission, but its absence does not mean that impact companies and solutions in favor of SDGs have much less space, after all, in general, the challenge settings already allow several proposals that address SDGs and this can be easily checked as the SDGs were incorporated into the description of all proposals. For this reason I don't see this challenge setting as a top priority/mission critical.

The world is facing numerous problems that must be addressed. If this challenge is accepted, I can see ideas for afforestation to help with carbon balance, cleaning up marine litter for biodiversity, food verification technology, and community service projects. ….Along with the Cardano blockchain's transparency, it will attract funding from major charities such as Samsung Group, which has previously funded the Cardano blockchain-based tree planting project. So, with solutions to the world's problems and significant growth potential, this challenge is fully capable of competing with others, and I award 5 points for this section.

The author mentioned several metrics to measure the challenge's success, such as the number of impact-driven companies, entrepreneurs & projects onboarded,' 'the number of use cases for SDG on Cardano,' etc. The author states other metrics to measure the proposals' success. I do not think these metrics will help measure proposals' success as they are unclear from the proposals' perspective. However, it can also help measure the challenge's success. Hence there is room for improvement in this challenge for this criteria. The proposals' success metrics can be 'the number of users using their platform,' the number of companies using their solution for their products, 'the increase in on-chain activity due to the proposals', etc. There is also a need to mention the metrics to track/audit the proposals' progress while they are under development; those metrics can be the development updates on GitHub or Jira or via other reports.

The list of provided metrics is a combination of more abstract ones that aren't that useful to help proposer's dial in their objectives, but also a number of excellent KPIs that do help. "Increasing the technology development of impact-driven solutions" is one that is less helpful (due to clarity of what that objective looks like) and could probably be combined with the suggestion below it to give us something like "Increase adoption of blockchain tooling for existing impact initiatives", or something like that.

" Increase the number or quality of the standards, resources, and research that support Cardano as the leader of the impact-driven blockchain and the place for impact-driven companies" is much more helpful and gives 3 areas where proposers can create specific objectives. As success metrics, I feel they have given lots of good examples. They are a bit more sparse on providing guidance for proposers to measure their progress towards these goals. Things like "number of tech developers connecting with entrepreneurs" are sort of helpful in this area (as they could be measures used at the beginning of a project to show outreach milestones) but given that the scope of the proposal speaks broadly to somewhat abstract "Impact" as well as SDGs, I think more guidance for measuring progress would be helpful here.

Despite not having a lot of progress metrics, they do have some, and they also have plenty of good metrics and support for measuring success and setting objectives, so I don't feel that there is any reason to mark it down for verifiability, and I am giving it full marks. 5 stars.

The proposing team suggested KPIs to measure the success of this challenge proposal that are appropriate and measurable. They are related to the number of companies and entrepreneurs onboarded to Cardano, new technologies developed, use cases, number and quality of standards, new community members and investors. It would be interesting to also measure the number of projects that are related to each of the SDGs, so the community would have a good insight about which SDGs are being addressed by community projects and which need more attention. There are also some KPIs suggested for the proposals submitted in this challenge, and these KPIs could be used to generate overall numbers for the challenge and measure its success as well. Based on all this, I believe the verifiability of this proposal by the challenge team and community is very high.

The metrics and KPIs are well organized. Stated examples of metrics for the future proposals are defined in an easily perceptible manner, thus making it easy for the proposers to identify and motivate within this challenge. Tracking success of this challenge is also well documented, six categories account for the engagement, the development and use of technology, research and investments.

The definition of success and key metrics proposed are aligned with the context of this challenge setting. Several metrics were suggested to measure the number of projects, entrepreneurs, communities and impact driven solutions.

Tools and research are options to verify the quality of the initiatives developed.

The challenge question establishes impact in the first 6 months, but as I said in the alignment rationale, it would be appropriate to make it clear that it is 6 months after funding and clarify if this is the period to verify success and assess key proposed metrics.