This idea is closely matched with the challenge. This aims to hold a Web3 legal webinar series and a directory of Web3 lawyers to meet the the large demand of legal support and guidance from Catalyst funded projects. There is a fact that the amount of lawyers familiar with web3 project is inadequate. That is why I strongly believe if this project is successfull, it will be a big help for Catalyst to avoid missing potential projects because of lack of legal support. The author clearly describedthe project with two main activities which is the webinar and directory of Web3 lawyers. We got all information needed about the webinar such as its necessity, contents and benefit of the funded proposers. This project also organize a hub of lawyers and then pick out a list of the best ones to support Web3 project basing on their profiles and additional research. The proposer also proved that this Web3 Legal Hub aligns well with the challenge KIPs with four points which is use case, impact, scalability and adaptability. A marketing plan is provided which seems to work. Another good thing in this project is about the risk. The team has worked and forseen four thing that could prevent this project from succeeding. With the detailed migation plan, all of those risk might be well hanlded.

Legal support for Blockchain projects, legal support for the development of Wed3, to solve the problem that the author has the idea of ​​​​establishing the Wed3 legal center, providing information about the laws Good professor, organize webinars on Wedsite. The right solution that leverages attorneys' understanding of Wed3, Cardano, and Blockchain while scaling up to drive the development of future projects. The proposal has had legal implications for the solution, seeking the recognition of the course, the workshop to expand the scale of operations in the United States. The workshop will also be posted on Youtube to increase exposure for lawyers and developers. Developers will be more confident in developing projects without worrying about legal issues, the proposed proposal will be good for the Cardano ecosystem. The main goal of the proposal is to create a series of Wedsite webinars on Wed3 legal topics from which information can be obtained about good lawyers willing to help with Wed3 legal matters. Given the challenge, it's easier for developers to get legal help. It is proposed that the challenges and risks to the success of the webinar organization are the participation of legal experts, and the agreement to work collaboratively, the issue discussed by the author. Risk reduction by Marketing method combined with connecting networks to legal experts, this risk has been greatly reduced. Many risks have been mitigated by the author's appropriate handling, I suggest that the author take into account the risk that ADA may depreciate against the USD this will also affect the The capital is not enough to implement the idea, we need an extra budget to solve this problem. Rating: 4

The proposal tries to solve a problem where there are not enough lawyers that have been trained to support web3 organizations by creating a web3 legal hub where they organize a webinar on web 3 legal topics and create a directory of web3-friendly lawyers. The proposal provides a detailed background problem with a reasonable solving plan. The proposal outline potential risk that may face the project. Nevertheless, they give a reasonable mitigation plan to overcome those risks. With the proposer's experience, I have confidence the project will be implemented successfully and will add huge value to the Cardano ecosystem.

I found the Web3 Legal Hub proposal to be a good one, meeting the requirements of the Legal & Financial Implementations challenge. This proposal comes in a very timely manner as many funds and emerging projects in Catalyst face legal and financial problems that prevent them from going any further to develop the project. As I know the element of the legal corridor is a very important factor creating the success of each project, so the Web3 Legal Hub project will have direct access to service delivery solutions in terms of services, legal, support and guidance for new projects in the growing Cardano ecosystem. I found this to be the perfect project, and its uniqueness is that it is geared toward a community project, one that provides lawyers with a free webinar series to engage them in the center the legal is not only for projects within the United States but also extends beyond the region.

In the problem and solution part, I see that the author group has provided quite a lot of information about the proposal to the community. The content of legal issues covered in the webinar series is presented clearly and coherently towards solving the basic issues needed for a development project such as business organization, taxes, legal documents, etc. rights, AML/KYC, smart contracts, stablecoins… With the Web3 Legal Hub recommendation, I will give 5 points because I see the importance of this proposal, this is an issue of great concern to the Cardano community. For example, in my country Vietnam, legality is a very important issue for each project. Every day, new projects are born and the lack of understanding of the law by project owners has somewhat inhibited the development of these projects themselves, and more importantly, created legal loopholes, unintentionally creating conditions for organizations and individuals with bad intentions to profit by forging, circumventing the law, greatly affecting the community.

It is quite clear that “Web3 Legal Hub” is a perfect proposition for this challenge. The problem the proposal focuses on addressing is the lack of Web3-friendly attorneys in the blockchain industry and of the Catalyst projects. The solution is, to establish an online legal center to support and guide lawyers in the blockchain industry with legal knowledge related to Web3. The purpose of the proposal is, through providing this knowledge will help increase the number of attorneys knowledgeable about Web3 and provide direct legal guidance to Web3 projects slated to operate in the United States. Personally, I think the proposed information is concise, direct, and clear. The authors have very solidly explained how the legal center and legal advice service for Web3 will work. According to the team's description, this center will operate in the form of organizing Web3 legal webinars, free online legal training courses lasting 2 hours (for lawyers), accompanied by one-on-one consulting services and a Web3-friendly attorney directory (for Cardano project owners who can easily access profiles of Web3 attorneys and connect with them). A potential marketing plan is also put forward by the authors to connect with law firms and legal associations, as well as promote live webinars, Youtube, and LinkedIn. I believe that these comprehensive, synchronous solutions will make it possible for Catalyst Web3 projects to have the perfect legal support to legally build and operate in the United States. Regarding the project's risk factor assessment, the team pointed out four main risks they could face: difficulty recruiting legal experts with Web3 knowledge, difficulty inviting them to participate, content Outdated documentation due to changes in the law, and ultimately a web maintenance risk. However, I personally think that another risk that the team needs to consider is that the devaluation of cryptocurrencies in the bear market can affect the project's funding and viability. This has an even greater impact when the project implementation period is 8 months long. I suggest the team consider setting aside 10-15% of the contingency budget for this. Overall, I rate 5 points because of the impact and interesting solutions that the project offers. As we know, Web3 is the next generation of the Internet but is also controversial about privacy and related legal issues. Solving the problem of the legal basis for Web3 projects operating on the Cardano platform is, therefore, more meaningful and important to our ecosystem.

I rank this impact section as a 4 because I am convinced that this is a much needed resource in the US and there is a moderately lower risk for the amount requested. The section loses a start because the contrast with a relative lack of market research included in this section. When I’m evaluating impact, I want to visualize the reality of the impact. This can be accomplished by indicating how much interest exists for this type of resource, what this resource will enable lawyers to do (or rather what precisely they will help the cryptocurrency be able to do LEGALLY), and how this program bridges the gap between Web3 trained lawyers on LinkedIn to a direct impact on Project Catalyst Funded proposals. This impact section does identify a need for Project Catalyst projects in particular but it does not connect this program to Cardano in particular or what a post Web3 Legal Hub looks like.

The proposal raises the issue that many projects funded by Project Catalyst and Web3 projects need legal support and guidance. The legal field for new technology is often left playing catch up. This makes it difficult for projects to find adequate legal support because there are not enough trained lawyers to support Web3 organizations. In addition, if there are lawyers, they do not want to participate in projects because they lack the capacity to receive more clients. The project will host a series of webinars on Web3 legal topics and create a Web3-friendly lawyers directory. The Web3 Legal Center will increase the number of Web3-friendly lawyers available to projects hoping to operate in the United States, provides some legal guidance to projects, provides projects with an easy way to locate Web3-friendly lawyers. Legal Webinar series fits challenge's KPIs such as: Use Case, Impact, Scalability, and Adaptability. The proposal outlines some of the risks such as hiring legal professionals with knowledge of Web3, Attendance, Content obsolescence and Website maintenance and also suggests how to minimize it.

This project would make a strong impact toward reaching the goals of the challenge. There would be webinars, live and recorded for later, that would help train people in legal aspects of blockchain, and a database of lawyers interested in helping proposal and project teams with blockchain legal issues. These are two of the main KPIs involved in this challenge. And this proposal scales well, and is available to any project currently on Cardano or Catalyst. This proposal would only be available for the United States. The webinars and database of lawyers who self-select to help Cardano clients would be hugely impactful.

As Web3 development is growing in fast pace currently, where almost all the proposer's are using and implementing projects in it, but finding a person who has legal knowledge about is very hard to find , as there is minimal lawyers around the globe who have knowledge about , finding and affording them is highly impossible to achieve. Hence to overcome such situation , the proposer wants to conduct webinar about web3 legal assistance where people can understand the laws, even if any person needs other types of assistance , he can contact legal advisors through directory provided, Hence this proposal effectively addresses the challenge.

I was quite impressed with the impact part of the project. It is described in detail so that the community can easily evaluate it. The project contributes to helping issues in finding legal support for Cardano's emerging projects by activities such as Webinar Series on Web3 Legal Topics, Directory of Web3-Friendly Lawyers to increase the number of attorneys available for funding proposals. That's why I believe projects align well with challenges. The communication plans are described in detail and include some examples of specific channels the project will reach in Catalyst. The risks are well studied and reasonable measures are put in place.

The proposal is great and corresponds very well to the objectives of this challenge, as the proponent herself states, it is legal hub housing a Web3 legal webinar series and a directory of Web3 lawyers. The contextualized problem is that current new technology is exciting for its developers, and the legal field is often left playing catch up. This makes it difficult for projects to find adequate legal support because not enough lawyers have been trained to support Web3 organizations. Also, it may be difficult to locate Web3-friendly lawyers that already exist, and even if they are located, these lawyers may be unwilling to take on projects because they lack the capacity to take on additional clients. Meanwhile, many Project Catalyst funded projects, and Web3 projects in general, need legal support and guidance. So the solution is to create a webinar series that would provide an overview of relevant legal issues facing Web3 projects. With that, each webinar would feature lawyers who are experts in their field. The proponent would offer multi-state, participatory 2-hour/unit continuing legal education (“CLE”) courses. I found that this initiative would provide free valuable content to lawyers and the Catalyst Community and also a directory where people can look up Web3 friendly lawyers. Besides that, I think that is a great way to educate and onboard more people into this space. In my opinion, the tool is needed in the Web3 community. Moreover, I found the whole to be very well explained and very straight forward. The process would be divided into 3 topics - Web3 education for lawyers, legal issues covered by the webinar series, and legal webinars benefit funded proposers. Each part is very detailed. Despite being a legal-technical proposal, it is possible to understand what will be done, as the content is explained in an accessible way. Therefore, I believe that the impact can be maximum if everything is done in the planned way.

The proposer proposed hosting eight webinars, creating a directory of Web3-knowledge-equipped lawyers based in the United States and laying out their foundation for a Web3 legal hub. Finding lawyers and legal guidance for a cryptocurrency project is challenging. The current regulatory framework is incompatible with the evolving rate of blockchain technologies, including Web3. Also, most of the terminology in this domain is vague to many lawyers, creating confusion. The proposer plans to tackle this problem by managing webinars that bring domain experts to talk about legal concerns such as token sales, tax, KYC and many more. At the end of the series, the proposer would follow up with the attendees to put them on a directory where they could get contacted to support Web3 projects, including funded proposals from Project Catalyst. This benefits the lawyers and the Cardano ecosystem because they could now collaborate. By providing the webinars free of charge, uploading them to Youtube, and having plans on expanding to other countries, I strongly believe this proposal would be a significant contributor to solving regulatory issues of blockchain technologies.

This proposal fits well with the challenge. To recall, its purpose is to offer legal and / or financial solutions that can support funded proposers, especially in the context where their backgrounds are more often than not more technical, and less focused on legal / financial / tax / accounting aspects.

This proposal specifically seeks to achieve this through two paths: firstly, raise awareness on blockchain topics through a series of webinars tailored for the legal industry (focused towards US lawyers). This is what I would call capacity building within the legal industry in order to be ready to provide services to funded proposers domiciled in important US jurisdictions (California, Delaware, New York, etcetera). Secondly, the proposer wishes to create a directory of lawyers that are ready to support Web3 business and obviously who have the capacity to drill down on complex issues and offer the targeted support on a case by case basis. Another excellent point is that non-US lawyers can attend the webinars, should they wish to offer their services to US-based proposers, so there is some potential for scalability.

However, the project misses a “native” capacity and initial strategy towards having a wider geographical outreach which would make it extremely easy for legal practitioners from other countries / regions to benefit from these webinars in a more direct way, for instance to be ready to offer their services within their geographical locations after attending the webinars. In my view, in order to have an excellent scalability potential, the project could be focused (or maybe this can be a future development line) more towards a “global hub” that offers country-agnostic legal advice.

This proposal is a clear definition of objectives aligned with the challenge settings. It covers every aspect of what Catalyst was expecting, from instructing lawyers into web3 services to providing the community and emerging projects a platform where they can find professionals willing to work in blockchain technologies-related jobs. It is a scalable project with a clear marketing program so that they attract as many lawyers as possible. The risk management arrangement is accurate since they take into account aspects like content obsolescence which is crucial in subjects like the one treated because of the variability of legal frameworks in emergent technologies. (Rating given: 5)

The proposal is very clear in its scope and directly targets funded proposers as suggested in the Challenge brief. By creating a webinar series and directory of “web3”(or crypto-) friendly lawyers, resources will be built to help funded proposers with thorny legal issues such as Know-Your-Customer requirements, taxes and copyrights. In addition, an overview of risk-mitigation measures and blockchain knowledge, for example covering stablecoins and smart contracts, will be provided. These resources could potentially also benefit participants outside the Catalyst system and present a welcome resource to anyone trying to build on Cardano, benefitting our ecosystem overall. By making the content available on Youtube, barriers of entry will be lowered and access to legal advice democratized.

Given that the proposer has been trained as a lawyer and practices in the United States increases the impact of this proposal in a Challenge that is targeted at a quite niche audience (funded proposers) as access to US investors, customers and compliance professionals will benefit a large share of funded proposers (compared to smaller markets) and should also be applicable to many non-US-based early-stage companies or individual entrepreneurs. The proposal could be made stronger by providing more details about the content up-front, to help the voters gauge the return on intent and possible directions beyond buzzwords.

The proposer has an impressive social media reach and seems to be well-connected but could have demonstrated these qualities better by providing more information about the team of educators / guest speakers and resources that will be used to create an impactful platform and valuable content.

As a co-founder of two, web3 projects, I can say that the industry in general and Cardano in particular are sorely lacking in resources to efficiently and cost-effectively navigate legal questions that many projects have, and far too many spend money redundantly, and often fruitlessly, for non-expert legal advice because insufficient resources exist currently. I foresee this legal hub being widely used by funded Catalyst proposals and even early-stage projects planning Catalyst proposals. The solution seems quite scalable over the long term. And while this first proposal seeks to address US law (which many projects must navigate with regard to securities law and SaaS, among other areas of US law), I like that the proposers are considering extending the hub's support to other jurisdictions in future proposals.

And the true brilliance of this proposal is the incorporation of CLE credits for US attorneys, because catalyzing the growth of more legal expertise in web 3 projects is just as important as providing a resource like this hub to funded proposers and others building on Cardano.

I hope this hub will pay special attention to addressing questions that are somewhat special to Cardano - e.g. ISPO and stake pool based fundraising, and taxation of Project Catalyst.

The success picture in this part is described pretty ideal and clear. Those seem to be helpful for the Catalyst community. And I do believe with the ambition and skills of the team, this project could achieve all those things. However, I think the authore should have used much more specific KIPs to measure the project's progress. The KIPs should be clear and quantified. For example, the number of funded project taking advantage of this or the number of the webinar's attendees. Such KIPs would be easier to keep track and assess the potential of this project.

The proposed implementation roadmap is given in a specific way, there are milestones to complete the work, events, videos can already be put on Wed3. The index/KPI is quite detailed that can determine the success of the proposal, the workshops will be carried out, the list of lawyers is put on Wed3. I have an opinion on the progress reports that need to clearly show the number of participants in the workshop, the number of Wed3 visits, the number of video views. In addition, information about the list of projects that have been helped by lawyers is an important factor in determining the success of the proposal. This addition will make it easier for the proposal to be audited. Rating: 4

The audibility for this proposal will be easy and open for the community to track because they build a website for the record live webinars and a directory of lawyers. The proposal gives 4 measurable and reasonable metrics to define project success such as 8 live legal webinars held, 50 lawyers listed in the directory for 8 months, availability of legal webinar recording, and availability of directory web3-friendly attorneys communicated through Project Catalyst channels.

From an audit perspective, I see that the community can completely base on the project implementation plan and progress to monitor and evaluate the success of the project. However, this is a project with a long time and a large budget, so the author team needs to have a monthly report on the work that has been/is being implemented and will be implemented as well as provide a budget expenditure report in an open and transparent way to help the budgeting community to be more continuous and tight. In addition, 03 KPIs are provided by the author team such as the success of live legal webinars, the videos of the seminars are pushed to the website and the list of participating lawyers web 3 are also very important evaluation criteria for the success of this proposal. I found that the criteria to evaluate the success of this proposal were written very clearly by the author team telling the community that 04 indicators to measure and score this proposal was successful or not, out of these 04 indicators I'm very interested in 02 indicators which are the availability of legal webinar recordings communicated through Project Catalyst channels and the availability of a Web3 friendly attorney directory communicated through Project Catalyst channels. I am also quite interested in the section where the authors describe the long-term roadmap of the proposal in the near future, which helps me to assess that this is a passionate project of the authors. With a new proposal that has never been participated in before, I see 02 criteria for building the project's global sustainable development goals (the goal of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and children, and the goal of building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation) is vitally important, which is not just the goal of the authors who are working on but also a common goal of the whole world. I'll give this recommendation a 4 for transparency, which is a high score on the recommendation's rating scale.

Regarding auditability, the team made it clear with success descriptive metrics and KPIs for 3 main categories of work, namely: holding 8 webinars, at least 50 laws attorneys are listed as Web3-friendly attorneys after the 8th month, and conference recordings are available to be broadcast on the web. Specific timelines for preparing and organizing seminars have also been detailed on a monthly basis. I believe that with these figures, the community can completely audit it at any time during each stage of the proposed implementation. I rate 5 points in this section.

I always need to see objectively measurable metrics in this section to ranks anything higher than the 2 stars that I gave for this section. Most projects tend to identify mere completion of the project as a measure for success. The best proposals measure the project’s impact with specific target metrics and measurable KPIs on the population and impact of the completion of the project, with some bonus points for progressively increasing timeframe based metrics. This proposal’s section could benefit from metrics on number of attendees for each webinar, number of views for the recorded version, website traffic targets, and perhaps LinkedIn SEO interaction goals. Especially for projects that aim to fulfill a heavily needed resource such as this one, there needs to be an indication that this proposal is being acutely governed and adaptable as time goes on.

The proposal provides indicators to measure project success such as 8 legal webinars held, legal webinar recordings communicated through Project Catalyst channels, Web3-friendly lawyers directory announced through Project Catalyst channels, at least 50 lawyers listed as of month 8. In addition, each conference will have a list of attendees, conference recordings will be uploaded to the Web, LinkedIn event ads will have screenshots, etc. Thus the community can easily check them out, track progress, results of the project.

So long as the team follows through on the proposal and continues working for the next eight months, this project is clear and auditable. So long as they develop and publish their site on time, hold their eigh web meetings, and then publish it all to the website, this will be completed. The proposal is fairly simple and very doable, and I believe that so long as the team follows through on their reporting, this would be a highly impactful project for Cardano.

The audit has introduced all the team members who'll be involved in the project, and has presented experience of each person , where they have experienced law team and development team in it, the proposed solution has detailed structure on how to complete the project , where it involves conducting webinars first and then setting up directory. The proposed solution has structured timeline to complete the project, it even contains decent budget breaking to make the project efficient , hence with the experienced team provided ,The information provided is sufficient to audit the progress and the success of the proposal.

The auditability part of the project is full of elements so that the community can evaluate and track the project's progress such as: quantitative KPIs with 3 specific Milestones. The author describes the success of the project in an easy way including specific criteria such as the number of live legal webinars held, the number of lawyers listed in the directory, the Availability of directory of Web3-friendly attorneys, and legal webinar recordings. The SDG Goals are also carefully analyzed. However, I have not seen how to track the project's process, the tools used for community use are presented in this section, The author can mention more of these contents to increase the audibility of the project.

The proposal is fully auditable, the topic is almost perfect. The proponent gives many metrics for measuring both progress and final results. As for progress, they suggest many ways that we could track 3 milestones of the project. I think they are really good indicators to see how this project is developing in practice, but it is not clear how this information would be accessible to the Cardano community. Besides that, I also suggest that at the end of each month, a final report is made available that contains links to the videos that were launched, the list of attendees, etc… and also a summary of how the team worked in that period of time. I think that this way, we would have a more complete understanding of the process. And in terms of the final results, I would like more qualitative data to be analyzed in addition to the numerical statistics provided by the proponent. We must know the number of legal webinars, the number of lawyers listed in the directory by Month 8, number of the legal webinar recordings communicated through Project Catalyst channels, etc… because these quantities will objectively demonstrate the scope of this project. But beyond that, we would need to understand if the people who watched those legal webinars were understanding well, or if they became active members of the community… In summary, I think the auditability is good, but it can improve in some points, mainly due to a more humane approach to the final results. Other than that, everything is ideal, the proposal is excellent, all the topics are very good works and in my opinion, it certainly deserves funding.

The proposer targets to successfully run eight webinars and list 50 lawyers in the directory. The proposer would also provide recordings of those webinars to the public through their website, which would scale the proposal's reach. I appreciate that the proposert already plans to publish the “transcripts of any in-webinar surveys or discussions,” which would help us see how the transfer of information went. I want to suggest the proposer list the attendee's questions and concerns so we could also improve and reiterate based on what lawyers usually don’t understand with the current Web3 topics. Overall, I strongly agree we could track the progress and the success of the proposal.

This part of the proposal is very good across the board. Firstly, since the webinars are designed to be “marketed” towards legal practitioners and since the project has set aside a hefty budget for their own web portal, it will be very easy to make the webinars available for the general audience and to raise awareness about them through the already known Catalyst channels (discord, Telegram proposers channel, etcetera).

So it will be very easy for anyone to check not also the delivery of the webinars, but also go through the recordings and make its own assessment of their quality (provided they have the legal background to do so) and also assess their impact by observing the number of participants for each, and the level of engagement during them ( number and quality of questions asked, general level of debate, etcetera).

The proposers also take good care of choosing appropriate goals. We know from the very beginning that there will be eight seminars in total, and the team sets its own challenge of on-boarding 50 lawyers onto the platform in the first eight months of the project.

A suggestion if I may, Is to ask the proposer to consider including additional KPIs that can measure the success of each webinar, through for instance: measuring attendance and implementing feedback surveys at the end of each webinar. This way, the team can gauge extremely well not only the popularity of each topic, but also the way in which their legal experts selected have performed and whether they should be employed in future sessions.

In order to track the progress of the project, the team proposes a series of deliverables in which information about the different webinars is presented. The number of attendees and the results of in-webinar surveys are actually very useful to measure engagement and commitment to the project. The success of the proposal looks like what the challenge defines as a success since, for example, having a list of 50 lawyers with web3 knowledge willing to work for emerging projects would create a major impact on the Cardano ecosystem, allowing it to grow and scale in a healthy and sustainable way. This is why it shows that the team proposes a clear and understandable solution to address the problem (Rating given: 5)

Although it is in my opinion highly feasible that this proposal can be implemented successfully given its potential (skills, experiences, track record), the team could have put more effort into linking the project's milestones with a timeline and audit deliverables to allow the community to check on the progress of the implementation. The proposal plans to communicate through Project Catalyst channels the progress over the eight months implementation period. It would have been great to learn exactly which channels these are, and I also would have liked a more granular breakdown of the goals to allow early tracking of project success. For example, instead of 50 lawyers listed in the directory or 8 webinars held at the end of eight months, partial targets after three or five months would have been helpful.

Eleven discrete, specific deliverables and "success criteria" are listed in the proposal, and both success criteria and deliverables will clearly contribute to providing "direct access to legal services, support and guidance to emerging Projects in the Catalyst Ecosystem."