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We are an international organization with local footprints

We aim to equip local developers and entrepreneurs to build decentralized applications and businesses of the future.

Community Reviews across funding rounds

1193
Total reviews
Addresses Challenge
4.47 Star
Feasibility
4.18 Star
Auditability
4.25 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.26 Star
Value for money
3.9 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

25
Completed
32
Approved
69
Proposed
₳888K
$1.5M
Requested
₳0
$841.5K
Awarded
₳0
$812.7K
Received

Funding data last updated

Top of mind of Wada in Catalyst

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Challenges

The Team (8)

Members in Catalyst that have co-proposed with Wada. Individuals may not be employed at Wada. This is is is not representative of Wada's full team.

  • ditcameroon

  • Nana Safo

  • Securities & Commerce Institute

  • Megan Hess

  • Joget

  • Josh F

  • Félicien Fotio Manfo

Wada Challenges (8)

Challenge: DeFi and Microlending for Africa

$0 Budget

<p>How can we enable the creation of micro-lending and Defi dApp solutions that fit the African setting?</p>

Proposed in Fund: Fund 6
0 (1)

Challenge: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

$1,500,000 Budget

How do we encourage Local Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano? How do we ensure they are optimizing and scaling efficiently?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 8
Budget 11.719% of the fund.
4.6 (15)

Challenge: Scale-UP Cardano Community Hubs

₳500,000 Budget

How do we encourage Local Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano? How do we ensure they are optimizing and scaling efficiently?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 9
Budget 3.906% of the fund.
4.74 (39)

Challenge: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

$500,000 Budget

How do we encourage Local Community Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano in 2022?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 7
Approved Approved 3.906% of the fund.
4.92 (12)

Challenge: Functional Paradigm Onboarding

$21,000 Budget
Proposed in Fund: Fund 4
Budget 5.25% of the fund.
0 (1)

Challenge: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

$350,000 Budget

How do we encourage Local Community Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano in the next 6 months?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 6
Approved Approved 6.481% of the fund.
4.78 (9)

Challenge: DeFi and Microlending for Africa

$250,000 Budget

How can we enable the creation of micro-lending and Defi dApp solutions that fit the African setting?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 4
Budget 62.5% of the fund.
4 (6)

Challenge: DeFi and Microlending for Africa

$180,000 Budget

How can we enable the creation of micro-lending, payments and DeFi dApp solutions that fit the African setting?

Proposed in Fund: Fund 7
Budget 1.406% of the fund.
3.33 (12)

Wada Proposals (69)

AI Oracles in the African Market

$100,000 Requested

Solution: A strategic data-gathering plan is essential to ignite African AI oracles solutions for connecting the physical world to the blockchain.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: A.I. & SingularityNet a $5T market
over budget Requested 20% of the fund.
3.61 (18)

Zimbabwe Developers for Cardano

$11,880 Received
$11,880 Requested

Solution: Bring local Zimbabwe devs on a discovery journey of the Cardano protocol through hackathons, training and dApp design.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
completed Awarded 3.394% of the fund.
4.08 (12)

wadaDAO

$37,800 Requested

Solution: Fuse known organizational standards into DAO models. Design distributed treasury system. Confirm quadratic voting and other voting models.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano
over budget Requested 7.56% of the fund.
4.08 (12)

Influencing Policy for Adoption

$14,000 Received
$14,000 Requested

Solution: Organize 2 high profile events in 2 African countries to show Cardano use and adoption benefits & onboard policy makers to local Cardano hub

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Lobbying for favorable legislation
completed Awarded 18.667% of the fund.
4.78 (9)

Wada Preserving Culture: NFT -> DAO

$18,000 Requested

Solution: Create a NFT-based model for Intellectual Property rights that will integrate into WadaDAO Preserving Culture on Cardano Blockchain.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano
over budget Requested 3.6% of the fund.
3.67 (9)

Cardano Recycling DApp

$44,586 Received
$44,586 Requested

Solution: Create a platform to connect institutions' (government and private) recyclable plastic waste to recycling agencies.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)
completed Awarded 4.459% of the fund.
4.74 (42)

WadaDex|Facilitating Capital Access

$80,000 Requested

Solution: WadaDex: a fiat and mobile money accessible platform that simplifies crypto market participation and facilitates capital access for projects

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Nation Building Dapps
over budget Requested 10% of the fund.
4.33 (24)

WADA Media Funnel for Proposers

$12,000 Received
$12,000 Requested

Solution: Create engaging visual content to document proposal journey from the bottom up, and to motivate new users to come to into Project Catalyst.

Fund: Fund 5 Challenge: F5: Proposer Outreach
completed Awarded 12% of the fund.
4.36 (11)

French & Arabic resources &trainers

$12,000 Requested

<p>Many African entrepreneurs are not exposed to Cardano because the initial information is given in English.</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Multilingual resources
over budget Requested 16% of the fund.
4.4 (15)

+WADA Outreach=Smart Catalyst Users

$9,000 Requested

Solution: Build WADA a solid, scalable, distributed, proof of concept system/ Dapp from the ground up using Servant Server, Haskell, and Elm.

Fund: Fund 4 Challenge: F4: Distributed Decision Making
not approved Requested 18% of the fund.
0 (1)

+ Dev incentives in Cameroon

$9,000 Requested

Solution: Offer unique gateway into the world of DLT, incentivizing Hub attendance and participation by providing above and beyond community support.

Fund: Fund 4 Challenge: F4: Developer ecosystem
not approved Requested 2.25% of the fund.
0 (1)

Auditability through film and media

$9,000 Requested

Solution: Create a template through Wada's media networks to follow proposers FULL journey from idea creation to full implementation post funding.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Improve and Grow Auditability
over budget Requested 9% of the fund.
3.5 (18)

SSI through ancestral Africa lenses

$30,000 Requested

Solution:

Propose an interactive platform incorporating a unique journey to discover our real self through African lenses with a gaming component

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Self-Sovereign Identity
over budget Requested 7.5% of the fund.
4.22 (9)

French Haskell + Plutus Curriculum

$9,000 Requested

Solution: – Extend the curriculum already being developed through our fund 7 funded proposals to include a French professional translation services

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
over budget Requested 1.8% of the fund.
4.58 (12)

On-boarding French Developers

$18,000 Requested

Solution: – Create a streamlined and more accessible version of all tree courses in French giving access to a wide francophone audience.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: New Member Onboarding
not approved Requested 9% of the fund.
4 (12)

TREEdano: Regenerative NFTrees

$24,429 Received
$27,000 Requested

Solution:

Plant and turn each rare tree into a dynamic NFTree, creating awareness, facilitating their protection, tracking, and expansion.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Nation Building Dapps
funded Awarded 3.375% of the fund.
3.83 (12)