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?
Flooftopia: Japanese Translation
Solution: Flooftopia will provide Japanese language integration to engage more Japanese users, thereby broadening the impact of the game and the Cardano Ecosystem.
Flooftopia: Chinese Translation
Solution: Flooftopia will provide Chinese language integration to engage more Chinese users (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, etc), thereby broadening the impact of the game and the Cardano Ecosystem.
Event Calendar on CardanoProjects
Solution: We will expand the existing platform by adding a feature to CardanoProjects.org that will help users soon know the NFT mint schedule, public sale, and ISPO… of the projects on the Cardano ecosystem.
Elevate Social Impacts via Cardano Quick Pitch
Solution: Engage Ada holders to stake their Ada to Stake Pools. Stake Pool owners will donate x% profit to social enterprises (SEs), we will also help SEs build reporting framework and due diligence documents.
Educational Hub by CardanoProjects
Solution: We want to create an educational portal where users can access official knowledge about the Cardano blockchain.
Educating Local Japanese Government
Solution: We will create a series of videos designed to educate local Japanese governments on everything Cardano and Catalyst has to offer them.
Eastern Town Hall Team Operation
Solution: The Eastern Town Hall offers a safe place for Eastern Hemisphere communities to learn, collaborate and build on Cardano.
East Asia Artistic Grant Proposal
Solution: Our solution is to create an artistic grant program that exclusively supports East Asian artists with sponsorships (financial, technical or material support) to mint NFTs on the Cardano blockchain.
Crypto Tik Tok Channel for Youth
Solution: Produce short content: Only 1-3 minute videos
Use the reputation of a KOL specializing in investment to easily reach the mass community.
Organize livestreams with blockchain and crypto experts
Connecting Asian Voter and Proposer
Solution: Provide reliable information, before & during voting to communities in their local language & culture to help voter understand the proposal.
CNFT Community in Asian Community
Solution: Our solution is to inform and educate non-native English speakers on the Cardano Blockchain.
Working with the Cardano and artist communities, we will build the community of CNFT in East Asia.
CNFT Alliance: Vietnamese Community
Solution: The CNFT Alliance plans to offer translation services to CNFT projects to engage Vietnamese users into the CNFT space by removing barriers and opening the ecosystem to everyone, regardless of language
CNFT Alliance: Korean Community!
Solution: The CNFT Alliance plans to offer translation services to CNFT projects to engage Korean users into the CNFT space by removing barriers and opening the ecosystem to everyone, regardless of language!
CNFT Alliance: Japanese Community!
Solution: The CNFT Alliance plans to offer translation services to CNFT projects to engage Japanese users into the CNFT space by removing barriers and opening the ecosystem to everyone, regardless of language!
CNFT Alliance: Chinese Community!
Solution: The CNFT Alliance plans to offer translation services to CNFT projects to engage Chinese users into the CNFT space by removing barriers and opening the ecosystem to everyone, regardless of language!
CNFTacademy translation
Solution: CNFTacademy is a platform created with a simple purpose, to share knowledge and decentralize it. This proposal aims to translate the content on the platfrom creating subtitles and pages in JP/CH
China Info Hub Continued
Solution: -Continue the education in the way of video content and text posts, published on Youtube
-Maintain the community by building a strong Telegram presence
CEVI - INFO HUB FOR VN (EN)
Solution: * Create short videos about 5-15 minutes on Youtube.
- Share blockchain & Crypto basic knowledge for newbies in Discord & Facebook
- Analyze investment opportunities and share crypto investment experiences
Catalyst for Student in Vietnam
Solution: Tickets to sports matches (Football, badminton, League of Legends….) are pushed up by the ticketing teams. The authenticity of the resale tickets is also an issue
Catalyst for Student in Vietnam
Solution: Our solution is to create a community with one purpose: to provide and exchange information about Catalyst based on Facebook's main platform for Vietnamese students.
Catalyst For Full-Time Speculators
Solution: Organize live sessions and create groups on social media platforms to exchange knowledge about Catalyst, penetrate speculative groups, share them with risk-free opportunities across the Ecosystem.
Catalyst Events 4 Vietnam Students Quick Pitch
Solution: Organize virtual or onsite sharing events about Cardano and Catalyst project for students. Connect, motivate and support students to participate in Catalyst.
Cardojo: Cardano in Asia Quick Pitch
Solution: With community outreach we showcase NFT use cases to onboard and accompany Asian communities and businesses on their journey of creating legally compliant Cardano products and services.
CardanoTalk for Vietnamese Quick Pitch
Solution: Build a rewarding mechanism to encourage members to find out the news, documents of Cardano, then present them to the community.