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.
FML : P2P sync licensing protocol
Solution: Build a peer-to-peer music licensing protocol and marketplace called Free Music Land to issue synchronization licenses via NFTs on the Cardano blockchain.
Fluxus: NFT & Gaming Alliance
Solution: The Fluxus CNFT & Gaming Alliance will promote a higher quality CNFT & gaming ecosystem by providing support, knowledge, and promoting interoperability between projects.
FluidTokens Protocol Security Audit
Solution: Our focus at the moment is to implement code review for FluidTokens smart contracts and audit them to release the latest version as open source
Fluent: Bridging TradFi+DeFi
Solution: We will be launching an interoperable stablecoin and settlement system connecting digital assets to core banking, and thus providing an efficient bridge between enterprise and public layers.
Flooftopia: NFT Interoperability
Solution: Flooftopia will produce interoperability between multiple NFT projects. The first of which is AdaQuest, and will provide value/interoperability to other NFT Projects, through Flooftopia’s ecosystem.
FIRST-EVER MULTI-CREATURE METAVERSE
Solution: Miverse multiverse with excellent visual quality, a space design with unlimited species, and art styles to change player mindsets and captivate them to play our game. Check out our one-page in f9 here
Find your Way Route Optimizer App
Solution: Create a system so staff collects food and distribute to beneficiaries, minimize costs/time of the process, using a route optimization app
Fiat to NFT Payment Gateway
Solution: We want to create a system that facilitates the rapid onboarding of new users using familiar payment methods, allowing users to immediately benefit from their NFT purchases.
Fiat Payments for NFTs - Revelar Quick Pitch
Solution: Create a simple checkout page connected to existing fiat payments (Credit/Debit card, Bank account, etc) to purchase NFTs.
Fetachain - IIoT Cardano Framework
Solution: We propose an automated B2B & B2C food traceability & tracking solution using IIoT sensors on Cardano's eUTXO infra, enabling full transparency of the supply chain while benefiting all participants.
Farmer carbon credit validation
Solution: Android app+dapp to validate farmer activity, incentivize farmer to implement biochar practice, remove carbon and earn an income
EZ-Mint Open Source NFT minting API
Solution: Create an Open Source API for NFT minting that anyone can use in their dApp. We are building a library of primitives that are composable.
Evolve Eternl
Solution: We'll develop the next version of Eternl as a modular wallet app. A simpler design will make it easier for new Cardano users to get started. Pro users will be able to add advanced features on demand.
Event CryptoHouse of Commons Brazil
Solution: We will exhibit Cardano at Crypto House of Commons event - The First Crypto Community Focused on Accelering the Growth of the crypto market in Brazil, São Paulo - November, 18th-20th 2022 (3 days).
EternalSwap - Perpetual Swaps dApp Quick Pitch
Solution: EternalSwap allows traders to trade on margin without the need for counterparties via vAMMs. vAMMs guarantee liquidity & limit capital loss.
ESG Reporting Mechanism
Solution: Developing a uniform and consistent method for validation of ESG score that is in line with offchain assessment models.
Erdős (An AirBnB Competitor)
Solution: We will provide a cryptocurrency alternative to AirBnB and Vrbo, which is cheaper and easier to use for hosts and guests. A percentage of the fees will be donated to the Ashby Charity.
Environmental Oracle
Solution: Environmental Oracle as a consolidated source of regularised multi-modal multi-scale environmental data for low-cost scalable and dependable monitoring and verification for sustainability DApps
Enabling privacy for Cardano DeFi
Solution: 1. Multi-Asset Shielded Pools for private DeFi transactions on Cardano 2. Connect to L1/2s using private interchain bridges allowing Cardano to be Hub in their ecosystem 3. Panther Reveals for user compliance
Enable Eternl
Solution: We are asking the Cardano community for their vote to fund Eternl's operating costs for 6 months. This will support our current setup plus additional capacity for a growing Cardano user base.
Employment Credentials on PRISM
Solution: Connecting our recruitment SaaS software to PRISM making the issuing and viewing of Proof of Employment-Credentials in recruitment easy
Ecosystem of Hotels on Cardano
Solution: Decentralized traveler ID gives travelers control over their data when booking a hotel and provides efficiency for travel websites
Ecosystem Map-Community Wayfinding
Solution: We create an open source - interactive ‘planetary’ based map of the Cardano NFT Ecosystem With solid research & design thinking in the backend
Earthtrust decentralized validation
Solution: Satellite monitoring and on the ground validation to document the last 10 years of land health for farm & forrest land to provide verification of success of on the ground activities.