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?
Cardano pre-hub in Philippines
Solution: Goodwall will educate Filipino youth on the basics of blockchain through experiential learning programs, and encourage them to build a local Cardano hub connected to the Eastern Townhall.
Cardano Outreach - China Focus
Solution: Our funded project needs to hire local Chinese speaking developers to promote our educational program.
Cardano Japan Brand Dev Initiative
Solution: Upgrade program to go beyond media with wider influencer relations activities to impact growth and development. New team talent, address increased document production demand, more dynamic engagements.
Cardano in Tamil
Solution: Provide translated content taken from official Cardano documentation in the form of Tamil videos about Cardano ecosystem.
Cardano in Sinhala
Solution: Provide translated content taken from official Cardano documentation in the form of Sinhala videos about Cardano ecosystem.
Cardano in Laotian
Solution: Create content from documentation, in video form.
Cardano in Khmer
Solution: Create content from documentation, in video form.
Cardano Incredible Race 2022
Solution: We will create the Cardano Runners Community Hub in Vietnam to connect the community who are interested in running and jogging.
Cardano in Burmese
Solution: Provide translated content taken from official Cardano documentation in the form of Burmese videos about Cardano ecosystem.
Cardano Guide - A one-stop guide
Solution: Free Project-Based Learning resources with step-by-step documentation on how to approach, understand, and master Cardano will remove all barriers for newcomers.
Cardano for Asia - impact ventures
Solution: Connect with impact entrepreneurs in Asia to understand their knowledge and needs, and offer them intro workshops on blockchain and Cardano, and the potential of participation in Project Catalyst.
Cardano ERP - Grow Asia
Solution: The requested funds will be used to cover Emurgo Academy training fees for experienced developers residing within Asia.
Cardano Catalyst TV - Ideas Sharing
Solution: A brief 5-minute video with a summary of the proposals' content/ideas, graphic demonstration, and subtitle explanation to help educate and self-pitching about the proposed ideas to the community
Cardano Catalyst TV
Solution: A 5 to 8-minute interview with Catalyst TV is the quickest way to approach viewers, provide general insights, boost reputation, and market your proposals to a diverse range of community members
Cardano Bridges in Japanese
Solution: Create Japanese translations for the most popular Cardano bridges and follow through to ensure the text is implemented. All visible text, UI, error messages, input fields, etc. will be translated.
Cardano Asia TikTok Channel Quick Pitch
Solution: We introduce Cardano Asia TikTok Channel focusing on optimizing the quality, reliability, and interesting content for the community.
Cardano4Climate East Asia
Solution: A nature-based solution as adaptation with support for climate-related initiatives built on the Cardano blockchain through a joint collaboration between East Asia Townhall and Cardano4Climate.
Blockchain Knowledge Videos
Solution: We will create Cardano and Blockchain knowledge videos in Vietnamese
We will be sharing these videos with Cardano Communities in Vietnam
These videos will help the community better understand Cardano
Blockchain for Contracts: Indonesia
Solution: Migrate storing paper original contract copies in safes to storing digital contracts on Cardano blockchain.
Blockchain is a single verifiable copy of the contract accessible by all interested parties
Asia Stakepool Alliance
Solution: Develop an Asia Stakepool Alliance, open access database and framework for knowledge exchange, facilitating + increasing impact of mission driven SPOs operating in Asia and the diaspora.
ArtSuite Cardano Course Bangladesh
Solution: Educational workshops teaching practical skills, enabling and empowering people to join the Cardano community and digital economy, and access internships at The Art Suite NFT Platform.
Amplify Japanese Cardano Content
Solution: We will create a promotional campaign for Japanese Cardano Content by leveraging our owned and partner media channels.
AI Blockchain Activity DApp 🚀
Solution: * AI Blockchain DApp.
- Targeting the global mobility / transportation industry.
- To provide a DApp solution for activity and mobility / transportation industry by combining AI & Blockchain Technology.
2 minutes Crypto Dict for Japanese
Solution: Proposal will create a “2 minutes Crypto Dictionary for Japanese”.