Grow East Asia, Grow Cardano
As in Africa, raising the awareness levels of regular people in East Asia about blockchain and the Cardano network should be a priority for the Catalyst community. In this challenge, we provide funding for people who have learned about Cardano to take advantage of the community's support and build on or use the Cardano network.
The nature of the proposals for this challenge is open-ended. Their only requirement is to originate or focus on East Asia and include East Asian team members or focus on East Asian participants.
For instance, the overwhelming majority of Stake Pools reside in North America and Europe. The Cardano network will be more resilient when Stake Pools are evenly distributed across the globe. The Catalyst community needs to step up and intentionally make that happen.
Cardano started life in East Asia (Japan and Hong Kong), and Emurgo focuses on East Asia. Let's build upon that.
What this is
A call to action; Activate the Cardano community's ability to recognise, reward the opportunity to make the world a better place. East Asia is fertile ground for the adoption of Cardano. The return on intention (ROI) is likely to be high because projects in young and developing economies face less economic inertia.
Addressing different parts of the world directly and intentionally through funding challenges makes our community more accessible. It makes us more resilient. It helps us learn and understand the needs of communities that make up our ecosystem.
It is a vision that needs votes to become an achievement. When the challenge succeeds, the beneficiary is the whole Cardano community. It is a call to close our prejudices and open our eyes, hearts and minds to good people who lack the benefits many of us were born with—allowing others with fewer privileged circumstances to rise and succeed.
Why is it important?
The Cardano community leans heavily toward North America and Europe. Growth elsewhere requires our support and initiative as a community.
How does success looks like?
A broad spectrum of people across Asia and connected to Asia, coming together and forming teams to grow our ecosystem.
Key Metrics to measure
At the end of this challenge, we will be asking ourselves some questions about the quality of participation :
- The number of proposals originating from East Asian participants in Project Catalyst
- The quantity and quality of funded proposals originating from East Asian teams
- The observed impact of funded projects (meeting their KPIs)
- Did we increase the participation of the Cardano community and Catalyst teams with East Asian residents?
- Was there an increase in Daily/Monthly Active Wallets (DAW/MAW) as a proxy measure of momentum and engagement
- Did we increase the number of Stake Pools and Stake Pool Operators based in East Asia?
We will also be asking some specific questions about the quality of the proposals:
- Is there good feedback on funded project progress, failure or success that help us understand the nuances of deploying Cardano solutions across East Asia?
- What is the novelty and appropriateness of solutions?
- Are we on track to improve the lives of people using Cardano in East Asia?
- Was social and environmental impact evaluation used to measure proposal performance?
- What is the sustainability of proposals beyond the scope of Catalyst?
YouTube educational video in Bahasa Quick Pitch
Solution: Make a brief video to promote Cardano Ecosystem through social media. As micro influencer, we believe that our campaigns regularly see higher engagement rates and better marketing performance metrics.
Web ADA Info Community In Bahasa
Solution: On the ADA website, Indonesians and the Cardano community can view reliable information, have discussions on forums, and can write articles on our ADA website.
Vcoincheck Library (Phase 2)
Solution: We will add more knowledge articles into library in phase 2
Community user can comment and participate in building library content.
Some new will be create to make content of library more diverse
Trust & Transparent News Portal
Solution: Development of Trust, Transparent and Hatespeech free News Portal with integration between AI-NLP Model and Blockchain Technology as part of Journalism Trust Initiative and Reporter Without Border.
Tre Viet - VN support channel
Solution: Tre Viet's Telegram channel has long been a trusted address of the Vietnamese community in supporting project information on the Cardano ecosystem.
Translate Eternl
Solution: Translate Eternl to 6 Asian languages with professional translation services and help from our community.
Singular- Mobile-Centric DeFi App
Solution: Singular is a Mobile-Centric DeFi investing platform offering gas-free investing, high-yield staking, and access to professionally managed decentralized assets.
Service Marketplace for Japan, VN
Solution: Create a platform to connect people with good skills with inexperienced Proposers and PAs in the non-speaking English community, especially in Japan and Vietnam.
Reskilling and Rewarding Refugees
Solution: Provide essential English language skill training to Rohingya and other refugee communities through online skills delivery and a tokenomic reward system.
Raise Vietnam awareness on Cardano
Solution: We'll build a sustainable community through supporting documents/materials, online - offline training courses/ counseling programs and motivating members to support others actively & effectively.
Quality Assurance of Organic Foods
Solution: By activating microorganisms in the soil, organic agricultural products can be grown without using chemicals. And by utilizing the blockchain, the traceability of foodstuffs can be guaranteed.
Promoting Japanese Content Abroad
Solution: From on-site, in Japan - we will create original content and partner with existing creators to help share the message of the Japanese Cardano Community with the English speaking world.
Promoting Cardano in the highland
Solution: We build a school and a library named Cardano Library for highland children, and through this event, we will promote Cardano to the children there and in the media and newspapers
Onboarding Musicians From Asia
Solution: We are onboarding musicians to the Cardano blockchain by developing a music marketplace. We've partnered with the music group Humania to be ambassadors to Indonesia.
Onboarding East Asia Today
Solution: Setup a translation pipeline to translate Catalyst documents & proposals to various languages in East Asia as accurately as possible.
Maximize Value From Previous Funds
Solution: We will remix and repurpose existing content to maximize its value and ensure it remains evergreen. We will create written content in the form of blog posts and articles, along with new visual media.
Lotus Link: Eco-Farm Traceability Quick Pitch
Solution: Develop product-traceability infrastructure using Cardano metadata for agricultural and cultural-heritage products. Implement QR Codes containing quality-assurance, cultural, & historical information.
Local Japanese Government Strategy
Solution: We will leverage our network of business strategists, executives, and researchers in Japan in order to provide local municipalities with the knowledge needed to consider Cardano for innovation.
Japanese support for wallets
Solution: We will provide Japanese translations for Nami and Eternl wallets, and update the Japanese translations we previously implemented for Flint and Yoroi wallet.
It is not straight forward for non-
Solution: We built Pool Peek Mobile to assist users with the staking process. We will translate the app into Vietnamese (70+ million speakers).
HealthFI X Cardano - Move to Plant
Solution: Building an environmental-protected campaign for the Cardano community in Vietnam with the support of the HealthFI app, allowing users to plant trees by walking and jogging.
Haskell for beginners in Vietnamese
Solution: We have a strong desired to contribute a bit to help Vietnamese builders can learn haskell much more easier.
Flooftopia: Vietnamese Translation
Solution: Flooftopia will provide Vietnamese language integration to engage more Vietnamese users, thereby broadening the impact of the game and the Cardano Ecosystem.
Flooftopia: Korean Translation
Solution: Flooftopia will provide Korean language integration to engage more Korean users, thereby broadening the impact of the game and the Cardano Ecosystem.