Dapps, Products & Integrations
Why this category is important
Cardano needs a thriving ecosystem of different Dapps, products and integrations for the community to use that increasingly become the better alternatives over current centralized providers.
The more interesting and useful the products and integrations are that can be built in the ecosystem the more reasons people have to interact with the Cardano blockchain that can help further drive more adoption, feedback, growth and even more innovations.
Types of proposals to include
DeFi - Stable coins, DEXs, borrow & lending, synthetic assets, etc.
Marketplaces
Gaming - Open world games, card games, RPG, etc.
Transport & logistics
Hardware - Hardware wallets, Local ATMs for interacting with the blockchain, etc.
Physical products - Tokenised housing as a Cardano native asset, International crypto headquarters and liason office on every continent, etc.
Social media
Nation governance systems - New governance systems for nation-states
Environment - Solutions that help to solve environmental issues
Many others - Any other idea, product or integration that someone thinks should be built in the Cardano ecosystem!
Potential success metrics for proposal types
This list is not exhaustive but does provide some ideas for proposers to consider.
DeFi - Total value locked, the total number of users, number of active daily/weekly/monthly users
Marketplaces - Total number of users, number of transactions performed
Gaming - Number of players, player income generated (if play to earn), qualitative feedback on game experience, etc.
Transport & logistics - Total number of packages tracked, Number of counterfeit items prevented
Hardware - Number of items sold, number of total users, number of interactions with hardware solution
Physical products - Number of products tokenised as a native asset, Number of people using physical solutions
Nation governance systems - Amount of population onboarded, amount of costs saved due to new solution, security difficulty improvements over previous approach
Social media - Total number of users, number of meaningful interactions
Environment - Total number of users, total CO2 sequestered, amount of awareness being produced, number of people changing an environmentally damaging habit
Many others - Proposers can add in whatever metrics or success criteria make sense for their own project!
Considerations for proposers
Existing products or integrations - What products or integrations already exist in the ecosystem? What are the core differences between the proposal being presented and those existing ones and why will that provide impact to the ecosystem?
Technical requirements - Does the Cardano ecosystem have the right tools, libraries and SDKs for the idea to be feasible? What needs to be introduced or improved for the proposal to fully reach its potential?
Ecosystem maturity requirements - Why is this product or integration suitable for execution right now? Are there enough pieces of infrastructure, applications or other integrations available that would be needed for this suggested proposal to have a strong chance of gaining adoption? For instance, if you were making a professional social network DApp, do the right identity tools and wallets exist to make a professional network feasible?
FUNDING CATEGORIES BACKGROUND
Funding Categories is an approach to doing funding categorisation that will welcome all ideas, maximize the amount of ideas submitted and reduce the effort for all stakeholders in the Catalyst process.
Funding categories also help remove the existing issues with challenge settings. They help to prevent duplicate challenge settings, remove challenges created by self interest, reduce the need for deep knowledge of the ecosystem from challenge proposal teams and also removes an easy entry point for malicious actors.
The full documentation for Catalyst Funding Categories can be found here: https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/
7 funding categories have been documented to cover all forms of ideas and proposals. All proposals can be found here - https://linktr.ee/cardanopace
The budget weighting for the 7 categories has been determined using a community governance process. The voting results for this process can be found here - https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/community-votes/fund-8-categories-budget-weighting/voting-results-fund-8
In closing:
The potential opportunities that Catalyst can provide to genuine dapp and product developers have increased substantially. A 32x increase in the span of a year.
At the same time, it’s now up to the Catalyst community to drive the direction of the experiment by setting the challenges that provide funding opportunities for developers.
We, in the Catalyst community, need to change our perspective on the nascent experiment and enable it to grow up.
It’s time for the Catalyst community to step up and provide developers with the challenges that will unlock the funds they need to be able to develop for, and on Cardano with confidence.
It’s time to think big!
Why is it important?
Quality Dapps, products and integrations will increase the utility & adoption of Cardano.
How does success looks like?
Novel and viable applications and products get built on top of Cardano attracting users. Integrations manage to pull in more adoption.
Key Metrics to measure
Tracking success for this category will mean:
Increasing the number of dapps and products available for the community to use that help to enrich the ecosystem with new use cases.
Increase the number of integrations that bring existing solutions together for a more seamless and connected experience between different products.
Increased quality of existing products & integrations through suggested improvements that is supported by customer feedback or increased usage by the community.
For individual success metrics for the different types of proposal that can be included please refer to the suggested challenge brief success metrics ideas (see more below).
Overview
Dapps, Products & Integrations is focused on the following areas:
Creation or improvement of different Dapps, products, and integrations that provide value to the Cardano community and wider ecosystem.
Integrations with other existing services, products, and protocols that improve the end-user experience whether that's giving the user more options or making something easier to use that benefits the wider ecosystem.
KYC Registry Network Quick Pitch
Solution: On-board users through WADA Hubs. These Hubs are located in several countries in Africa and are destined to grow over time. In-person collection of biometric identity and conversion into DIDs
KudoProject
Solution: KudoProject will integrate with many popular Project Management Systems (PMS)
It will bridge the gap between traditional systems and the possibilities emerging from the Cardano ecosystem.
Koios - Side-chain & Chain Analysis
Solution: -The lightweight K. API instance microservice-type will introduce lighter, faster and easy to set up node
-The K. side-chain will reward nodes
-Our first Dapp featuring Cardano’s on/off-chain analysis
Keyword Coin Price Widget for Sites
Solution: Powerful widget inserted into keywords in news content of cryptocurrency websites, displaying real-time price & info about coin or token. All in modal with the relevant information about the currency.
JUS: Decentralized On-Ramp + Credit
Solution: JUS makes it easy for anyone to purchase stablecoin. All that's required is their facial biometrics, phone number and mobile money payment methods.
JPG Create: Generate Art + Metadata
Solution: We want to create an application that would allow non-technical people to launch their work on Cardano easily; by providing the ability to generate art, create metadata and link to IPFS services.
Job board cardajobs
Solution: Global decentralized platform (job board) that offers an e-identity for employers and employees, allowing companies to search for personnel worldwide and applicants to apply for jobs worldwide.
Japanese Traditional Crafts NFT
Solution: We will establish the value supported NFT market with Japanese Traditional Craftsman Group. We want to make this system as a standard for art type NFT and a way to save the art tradition.
IRONSKY NFT GAME | Build on Mobile
Solution: We will be creating a Highly Entertaining Play2Earn Game focusing on NFT integration into Metaverse to attract Gamers & Investors to Cardano. A space game genre is expressed through spacecraft warfare
IoT/M2M Oracle Platform Development
Solution: We will increase the feasibility of blockchain-enabled systems by developing an Oracle Platform. This Platform will be designed to be available from Cardano's environment.
Investor Network Community Platform
Solution: Professional directory platform of Investors, Founders, Venture Capitalists, Angel investors, Accelerators, Launchpads and Open Innovation.
Inukshuk HealthDigital Identity
Solution: An Inukshuk Health DID provides u individuals and the purveyors ofclinical trials and research a basis for action. Using Atala PRISM SDK,we will issue a DiD in a no code interface.
Inukshuk Clinical Smart Contracts
Solution: This proposal generates Smart Contract (SC) framework of records for Clinical Trials and Health Research. A no-code model based on Plutus for generates SC’s . All Clinical Trial data is documented.
Interview Cardano=Know Our Builders
Solution: We will seek out current builders, perform in-depth interviews, and publish the results in long-form articles providing a new place for readers to find inspiration and connections.
InnovatioFounder KYC & AML Process
Solution: Implement PRISM-based KYC & AML for Innovatio's Crowdfunding platform based on European Union requirements, with custom workflows and easy SSI implementation via ProofSpace.
Indico: Knowledge Brokering
Solution: We are solving Cardano's lack of collaboration by building a system that incentivizes everyone to document knowledge and drive cooperation in a shared marketplace.
Increase Cardano peer-review papers Quick Pitch
Solution: Decentralized reward scheme for academics, students, or anyone wishing to write and publish papers related to Cardano blockchain topics to well-known and high-ranking journal and conference databases.
Improved Staking & ADA derivatives
Solution: Develop a DeFi protocol that is going to allow users to earn consistent and competitive staking rewards regardless of what pool they delegate to via a token that derives its value from staked ADA.
Impact Staking: STaaS for Good Quick Pitch
Solution: Create an impact-focused, STaaS for Good consultancy and Stake Pool Operator (SPO) network to help businesses attain and maintain corporate social responsibility, regulatory and investor compliance.
Impact lending for the unbanked
Solution: A P2P lending platform with low interest rates for the unbanked, powered by Impact Score instead of credit history.
Impact Creating NFTs for Causes
Solution: Create a system for creators to designate their favorite social, enviro causes to receive an amount of their revenue on a transaction.
Hotel booking on Cardano
Solution: Decentralized traveler ID gives travelers control over their data when booking a hotel and provides efficiency for travel websites
HONEYBEES ON BLOCKCHAIN
Solution: Develop an NFT marketplace and unique NFT art collection to help increase and sustain honeybee population. Each NFT address is the proof of honeybees' work.
Homeless Hub Hackathon
Solution: We will plan & run a Zoom event to meet Cardano developers and discuss what homeless people need from a dApp; invite them to pitch ideas; select a winner, pay for it to be built, and help test it.