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.
REiD Real electronic identification
Solution: New operating system combined with a dap ecosystem. AI assistant guide , universal wallet , biometric security system . Bioelectric & biometric hardware devices . Designed to protect the user.
Refer to earn system for SPOs
Solution: Yugain.io will facilitate a perfect collaboration between stake pools operators and marketers. Marketers will bring delegators to the SPOS, in exchange of a commission on the SPO earnings.
Reduce NFT scam risks at Cardano
Solution: AI-service for creators that monitors blockchain, detects copycats, copymints, art, ideas, and even names usage, and takes actions to protect the IP rights, inform the community and prevent damage.
Recognize Impact through DIDs
Solution: Socious uses Atala PRISM/ProofSpace to attribute “impact score” to visualize users' contributions to impact projects and reward them with crypto tokens, which increases utility & adoption of Cardano.
Real Estate Rental Marketplace
Solution: A rental marketplace with identity tokens issued with background checks, secure payments through legally binding smart contracts, NFT receipts, and participant ratings tied to their identity tokens.
Rarety.io : No-Code NFT Launchpad
Solution: We are building an easy-to-use dashboard for all NFT-related needs of a project. No technical expertise or knowledge is required. We are bringing the whole process of launching down to a single click.
Rare Bloom Cardano Community Event
Solution: We're building an event for the Cardano community with a reasonable entry point that will allow the Cardano community to network, learn, and develop the protocols of the future on Cardano.
Quideos smart-contract
Solution: A marketplace, to exchange physical commodities with a smart contract that records exchanges on a public blockchain, to answer customers’ growing expectations, especially in sustainability.
PubWeave: Academic Publishing
Solution: A full-stack peer-review academic ecosystem where funding is secured by a treasury optimized for long-term sustainability. A democratized open publishing platform can make scholarly publishing thrive.
Proposers’ Hive
Solution: Create a product, in the form of an independent proposers’ group. It will champion proposers’ interests, address issues faced by proposers, and welcome proposers in many languages & time zones.
Proposals Mentors Marketplace - 2
Solution: Proposals Mentors Marketplace, aims to produce a solution to that problem, by connecting people, Proposers, Mentors and Collaborators can interact to maximize the impact of the proposals.
ProofSpace x Argus - IDs 4 NFTs
Solution: Combining ProofSpace's DID protocol & Argus, build on Cardano the most scalable, comprehensive solution in the industry for verifying the legitimacy of NFT projects and authenticity of NFTs.
Proof of Impact NFTs for SPOs Quick Pitch
Solution: Delegators who delegate to mission driven pools receive a Proof of Impact NFT. The NFT is dynamic. Its characteristics change in real time to display the positive impact created.
Proof of Accomplishment on Catalyst
Solution: A system by which my team evaluate progress of projects using Proof of Accomplishment, enable them to rise in reputation and eligible for future funding.
Project Verify
Solution: To build a website that aggregates NFT sales history, wallet count, wallet tx history, identify if blatant wash trading is happing plus more in a easy to read report just by providing a policy ID
Projects Analytics Supertool
Solution: We're building a token-gated analytical toolset with free & private features (NFT for software licensing) and an intellectual property that can be used through a brand-as-a-service model.
projectNEWM Marketplace Creation
Solution: We will build an integrated marketplace that will facilitate the trading and swapping of fungible and non-fungible tokens to enable a realfi solution of tradable IP rights on the blockchain.
Project Catalyst... for Musicians
Solution: DEMU ‘Inc’ is a Cardano-based incubator that funds music projects. We will build a developing network of single SPOs to support smaller pool operators and the further decentralization of Cardano.
Profitable Product Integration
Solution: Develop a sustainable ecosystem that produces profitable products using Dapps to orchestrate transactions and internal workflow. This will reduce distribution costs and increase security
Profila privacy ledger - 3dP access
Solution: People use Profila's App to learn about + exercise their data rights (e.g. right to be forgotten); the privacy metadata ledger then provides legal proof of this event = "unsubscribe on steroids"
Professional Cardano NFT Content
Solution: Create informative, well-researched, and trustworthy videos and podcasts about the exciting projects and teams that are building Cardano NFTs.
Private NFT Gates - Revelar Quick Pitch
Solution: Enter the Revelar Gate, it’s a managed private IPFS cluster, or gateway, to control access to your NFT media content, allowing for gated content when needed.
PRISM credentials for the web
Solution: A toolkit to embed Verifiable Credentials into your website for everyone to see and verify. Prepare your credentials, send a link to a signer and get a badge for you to embed into your page or profile
PRISM analytics platform
Solution: We’ll be offering a PRISM analytics tool. Not only for usage statistics and reporting, but deep insight for developers and companies using graphs displaying the trust-relationships between DIDs and VC