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.
Earthonomy™ Carbon Offset Platform
Solution: 1. Implement digital wallet within Earthonomy platform that integrates with Cardano blockchain and contains ADA and the platform's token. 2. Implement smart contacts to support features described herein.
Dyor Better With Dexplore Analytics
Solution: Dexplore will utilize APIs from Blockfrost and also our proprietary AI data model and social signals to develop a Cardano dedicated native Asset & NFT Tracking & Analytics platform.
Dynamic NFT-based reputation model
Solution: Using a unique EUTXO construction and our decentralized storage network architecture allows for collecting and storing reputational info on user wallets on-chain, with user sovereignty maintained.
Dynamic mind-brain NFT design
Solution: Dynamic NFT's that contextually map to dynamic brain signatures, to be paired with decentralized keys for authentication.
Driving Adoption via Travel D'Apps
Solution: We intend to create a Travel DAO that sustainably sends its members on free or discounted trips using community resources, i.e travel bursaries, community purchased real estate & tented experiences.
DripDropz Open Source Voting Tool
Solution: DripDropz Voting Software provides a proven means to accomplish high performance, secure on chain governance. An open source version of our tool will open up community voting opportunities to all.
DripDropz Cardano Mainstreet Suite
Solution: Create a multichain payment rail system that enables merchants and consumers to diversify their existing payment options and reach untapped global markets and purchasing power.
Dragon Warriors: Metaverse TCG
Solution: Dragon Warrior is a metaverse project that combines deck-building roguelike, TCG, and Blockchain. It's primarily about survival, collecting cards, and building a powerful deck to wipe out foes.
DOON: Decentralized News Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: MVP of a truly decentralized news platform based on a newly created reputation model that rewards valuable contributions from content creators and users.
dMAH - dMetaverse Auction House Quick Pitch
Solution: Build and integrate a Cardano-based smart contract into our current centralized auction platform. It accepts bid deposits in cryptocurrency via a partnership with the no.1 auction house in Vietnam.
Distributed Idea Management System
Solution: DIMS will be a decentralized, open source, CLI and web-based tool to help people build shared knowledge graphs. Highlighting overlaps in what people are working on will make collaboration easier.
Disrupting Fake News
Solution: Our platform will help eliminate fake news content through identity/credential verification and "trust" scores. Content can then be monetized/licensed using smart contacts.
Discord Social Credential
Solution: RootsId will develop and deploy a free ATALA Prism agent that will issue a Verifiable Credential to users that can prove that they have control of a Discord account.
Discord Community Manager
Solution: * Open Source
- Highly Configurable
- Easy to Configure
Written in Python with the help of discord.py, powered by Blockfrost.
Digital ID for paperless youth
Solution: Adopting Atala Prism will enable Goodwall to create an inclusive ID management tool, so youth can better access goods and services and all data will be collected formally and kept decentralized.
Digital Assisted Midwifery
Solution: A digital platform that seeks to strengthen the reach of midwives. It connects midwives, pregnant, and mothers for knowledge sharing and governance, to reduce mortality in reproductive health.
Digirack: Next Gen CNFT Marketplace
Solution: Instead of the regular NFT listing, users can bundle multiple NFTs into an offering basket in exchange for ADA or other NFTs, Users can also bid on NFTs if it's priced too high.
Delivery Tracking via NFTs
Solution: We pickup food from restaurants, and deliver to beneficiaries, orphanages. Track via NFTs for Transparency, Trackability and Auditability.
Delaware DAO
Solution: Create a DAO governance NFT to fund the installation of hydropower ‘whirlpool’ turbines at each of the 24 locks on the canal that stretches for a span of 60 miles and selling that energy to the grid.
Defipronto: Cardano IDO Launchpad
Solution: Defipronto will be a Cardano focused IDO Launchpad for Cardano Native Tokens & NFTs.
Developers building on the Cardano Network can get funding and early support from a community of backers.
DeFi Dashboard Trackr DEX Portfolio
Solution: Platform to track and manage the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) investment portfolio of users, in an automated and connected way in many DEXs, token pairs, pools & yield farms on Cardano blockchain.
DeFi and NFT dashboard for Cardano
Solution: * Dashboard to monitor portfolio and DeFi on Cardano: tokens, staked ADA, pools, vaults, lending, debt, rewards
- Integration of top 8 Cardano dapps
- Cardano NFT dashboard
- Explore APR for Cardano farms
- SDK
DeFi Access from Mobile Devices
Solution: We will build a DeFi connector for mobile wallets (iOS & Android) to solve the lack of mobile access to DeFi services for Thrift and other Cardano projects.
Decentralizing Telco for Cardano
Solution: We developed and launched an MVP to provide users with a secure number that acts as a digital identity and protects personal phone numbers and privacy on the world's largest social messaging apps.