F5: Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem
How can we encourage DeFi team to build/deploy open finance solutions on Cardano in the next 6 months?
Stiff Money | Crowdlending PaaS
Solution: Stiff Money offers depositors of ADA and other cryptos a 10% APY. And offers homebuyers a no-down-payment lease to own smart contract loan.
Smart Contract Audit Token SCAT DAO
Solution: A DAO which will have audit projects chosen by the community and funded entirely through their treasury with zero conflict of interest.
Small business expansion funding
Solution: Publishing tokenized company shares and paying dividends on Cardano Blockchain will open small businesses to trustless funding for expansion
RAY Swap
Solution: Adaptation of the Uniswap smart contracts (which is distributed under the GNU license) for the Plutus platform.
Promptous Trust + Loyalty Program
Solution: Promptous will reward its plan administrators and service providers with ADA for validating claims and maintaining a "trust rating"
Pharo - ACM
Solution: Pharo engages the public w/auto cover maker that allows buyers to protect expenses and allows crowd-sourced liquidity and rev generation.
MinSwap - Multi-pool DEX
Solution: Introducing MinSwap - a DEX on Cardano that supports multiple liquidity pool functions and initial token listing.
Liqwid x Credmark R&D on Loan Risks
Solution: The Credmark team are DeFi experts and have worked extensively in developing risk-adjusted models for Ethereum DeFi lending protocols (Aave)
Liqwid Protocol Security Audit
Solution: We want to integrate continuous code review of Liqwid smart contracts & conduct a security audit of the protocol leading up to v1.0 launch.
Kitty Party 😺 DeFi Lending Circle
Grow Our Own Teams
Solution: Connect our own experts to grow native DeFi teams that are already bought in on the Catalyst mission.
Fund the masses
Solution: 1. Staked funds can be loaned and borrowed against in ADA.
ErgoDex Plutus Port
Solution: ErgoDEX - a decentralized exchange that combines AMM with OrderBook in a single app in order to provide best user experience.
DEFI billing - an untapped market?
Solution: Propose to develop a billing smart contract solution targeting use cases around initially Utilities billing. Calling it "adabillr" or Billr
Dandelion: Cardano API market
Solution: Build a market of API gateway deployments that serves as backbone for projects; specially for DeFi ones, whose criticality is high.
Daedalus Wallet Node SBC Devices
Solution: App integration of Daedalus to memory core. Important to improve app experience. Ubuntu $45,000 for dev and updates, Fedora Workstation OS
Credentialing Liquidity Dex
Solution: Create a liquidity protocol from existing credentialing invoices and allow creds to be transported amongst organizations
Carbonland Trust Carbon Credits DEX
Solution: Carbonland Trust's DEX to trade carbon credit NFTs based on actual Forest being conserved will inspire & fund conservation efforts all over
AVOUM: Account View on UTXO Model
Solution: We solve issue by offering an "Account" view on top of the UTXO model of Cardano, using malleable transactions and Node-Extractable Value.
AMM for Continuous Financing
Solution: A reusable module (money legos) of economic protocols based on bonding curves to scale up continuous project financing and investment.
A DEX aggregator on Cardano
Solution: Instamo - A cross-chain DEX aggregator attracts other startups and businesses building the other DEXs on Cardano to grow global communities