Dapps, Products & Integrations
Why this category is important
Cardano needs a thriving ecosystem of different Dapps, products and integrations for the community to use that increasingly become the better alternatives over current centralized providers.
The more interesting and useful the products and integrations are that can be built in the ecosystem the more reasons people have to interact with the Cardano blockchain that can help further drive more adoption, feedback, growth and even more innovations.
Types of proposals to include
DeFi - Stable coins, DEXs, borrow & lending, synthetic assets, etc.
Marketplaces
Gaming - Open world games, card games, RPG, etc.
Transport & logistics
Hardware - Hardware wallets, Local ATMs for interacting with the blockchain, etc.
Physical products - Tokenised housing as a Cardano native asset, International crypto headquarters and liason office on every continent, etc.
Social media
Nation governance systems - New governance systems for nation-states
Environment - Solutions that help to solve environmental issues
Many others - Any other idea, product or integration that someone thinks should be built in the Cardano ecosystem!
Potential success metrics for proposal types
This list is not exhaustive but does provide some ideas for proposers to consider.
DeFi - Total value locked, the total number of users, number of active daily/weekly/monthly users
Marketplaces - Total number of users, number of transactions performed
Gaming - Number of players, player income generated (if play to earn), qualitative feedback on game experience, etc.
Transport & logistics - Total number of packages tracked, Number of counterfeit items prevented
Hardware - Number of items sold, number of total users, number of interactions with hardware solution
Physical products - Number of products tokenised as a native asset, Number of people using physical solutions
Nation governance systems - Amount of population onboarded, amount of costs saved due to new solution, security difficulty improvements over previous approach
Social media - Total number of users, number of meaningful interactions
Environment - Total number of users, total CO2 sequestered, amount of awareness being produced, number of people changing an environmentally damaging habit
Many others - Proposers can add in whatever metrics or success criteria make sense for their own project!
Considerations for proposers
Existing products or integrations - What products or integrations already exist in the ecosystem? What are the core differences between the proposal being presented and those existing ones and why will that provide impact to the ecosystem?
Technical requirements - Does the Cardano ecosystem have the right tools, libraries and SDKs for the idea to be feasible? What needs to be introduced or improved for the proposal to fully reach its potential?
Ecosystem maturity requirements - Why is this product or integration suitable for execution right now? Are there enough pieces of infrastructure, applications or other integrations available that would be needed for this suggested proposal to have a strong chance of gaining adoption? For instance, if you were making a professional social network DApp, do the right identity tools and wallets exist to make a professional network feasible?
FUNDING CATEGORIES BACKGROUND
Funding Categories is an approach to doing funding categorisation that will welcome all ideas, maximize the amount of ideas submitted and reduce the effort for all stakeholders in the Catalyst process.
Funding categories also help remove the existing issues with challenge settings. They help to prevent duplicate challenge settings, remove challenges created by self interest, reduce the need for deep knowledge of the ecosystem from challenge proposal teams and also removes an easy entry point for malicious actors.
The full documentation for Catalyst Funding Categories can be found here: https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/
7 funding categories have been documented to cover all forms of ideas and proposals. All proposals can be found here - https://linktr.ee/cardanopace
The budget weighting for the 7 categories has been determined using a community governance process. The voting results for this process can be found here - https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/community-votes/fund-8-categories-budget-weighting/voting-results-fund-8
In closing:
The potential opportunities that Catalyst can provide to genuine dapp and product developers have increased substantially. A 32x increase in the span of a year.
At the same time, it’s now up to the Catalyst community to drive the direction of the experiment by setting the challenges that provide funding opportunities for developers.
We, in the Catalyst community, need to change our perspective on the nascent experiment and enable it to grow up.
It’s time for the Catalyst community to step up and provide developers with the challenges that will unlock the funds they need to be able to develop for, and on Cardano with confidence.
It’s time to think big!
Why is it important?
Quality Dapps, products and integrations will increase the utility & adoption of Cardano.
How does success looks like?
Novel and viable applications and products get built on top of Cardano attracting users. Integrations manage to pull in more adoption.
Key Metrics to measure
Tracking success for this category will mean:
Increasing the number of dapps and products available for the community to use that help to enrich the ecosystem with new use cases.
Increase the number of integrations that bring existing solutions together for a more seamless and connected experience between different products.
Increased quality of existing products & integrations through suggested improvements that is supported by customer feedback or increased usage by the community.
For individual success metrics for the different types of proposal that can be included please refer to the suggested challenge brief success metrics ideas (see more below).
Overview
Dapps, Products & Integrations is focused on the following areas:
Creation or improvement of different Dapps, products, and integrations that provide value to the Cardano community and wider ecosystem.
Integrations with other existing services, products, and protocols that improve the end-user experience whether that's giving the user more options or making something easier to use that benefits the wider ecosystem.
Valuation & Tax Reporting Tool
Solution: Track your wallet's real-time worth by combining owned, listed, and staked NFTs & coins with their current prices. And being able to export a tax report to comply with your region’s tax regulations.
V2target-Dual target for ADA holder
Solution: V2target is an application that helps Cardano users to process transactions on the crypto market in two directions. They can both increase their profits and also increase the amount of ADA they own…
Urban Farmer dApp Phase II
Solution: Develop a dApp that helps micro urban farms to operate and expand, while making it easy for community members to order produce from them.
Unsung NFT Marketplace with DeFi
Solution: Ada NFT Marketplace with a DAO can facilitate reduced counterfeiting, better artwork provenance and access to DeFi and faster time to market
Universal Chemical Library
Solution: We will create a single extensible library of chemical compound models and a platform for working with them based on our molecular simulator and the Cardano network.
Unified Transport Payment Gateway
Solution: To develop a decentralized Payment Gateway using DLT and DApps on Cardano employing smart contracts for payment transactions across parties.
Uncollateralized crypto loans
Solution: We are creating a platform where underwriters, small lenders and smart companies will be able to help and trust each other through decentralised smart contracts.
Ubuntu Informal Biz Reg& Accounting
Solution: Build DApp with triple-entry accounting on Cardano Blockchain to provide identity & financial inclusiveness for informal businesses in Africa.
Typhon Wallet Mobile App
Solution: Create a user-friendly UI/UX non-custodial Cardano Wallet mobile app that enables users to transact, connect with DApps, engage in seamless staking, browse Assets/NFT gallery, and do a lot more.
Trybbles NFT AR Pets Prototyping
Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way
Trybbles NFT AR Pets Development
Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way
Trybbles NFT AR Pets Art & Assets
Solution: Make clear the value of digital ownership enabled by NFTs and blockchain through a concept anyone can understand and connect with: owning, interacting and caring for a digital pet in a fun, unique way
Trust-less non-custodial L2 NFT DEX
Solution: We built Erdstall, a trust-less multi-chain L2 platform currently deployed on Ethereum. We plan to expand it to Cardano and build a trust-less, non-custodial L2 NFT marketplace on Erdstall.
Tribal DIDs=Indigenous Sovereignty
Solution: Using AtalaPrism SDK, integrate DID wallet features in Āhau, the tribal identity DApp made for, by, with Maori, indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to enable issuance of verifiable credentials
TREASURE CHAIN - An NFT Art Network
Solution: Treasure Chain is an art network where users can assign rules about how their NFTs can interact with each other. With these rule templates the NFTs can act like a giant neural network of art.
Transactions for Bank credits score
Solution: Provide users and banks with a tool to leverage operations performed on the Cardano platform in the process of computation of credit score to improve the user's solvency level and financial inclusion.
Trading Tent: Multi-language
Solution: We will develop a multilanguage functionality for Tent, making it easier for people from all over the world to trade Native Cardano Assets from Wallet to Wallet in their native language.
TosiDrop dApp and Audit
Solution: Token distribution platforms today are centralized, causing these platforms to be gatekeepers for which projects can and cannot be distributed. With TosiDrop, anyone can distribute their token.
Token Staking Platform Quick Pitch
Solution: We intend to offer a Smart Contract based Staking as a Service for projects wishing to provide staking to their holders. This will be a turn-key solution, focusing on ease of use and usability.
TokenPerkz: Unlockable Utility Hub
Solution: A utility portal as a service for enterprises. Fully editable project hubs accessed by wallet login containing specific tokens.
Token Maker + GoFunNFT
Solution: To provide a powerful tool for issuing and managing tokens for projects of any scale. In addition, simplify tokenization in the form of access to content, services, and subscriptions.
Tokenizing Income Share - Use Cases
Solution: We will research the Income Share Agreement (ISA) value chain in emerging markets; and how to tokenize real-world educational assets.
Tokenizing Income Share - PoC
Solution: We will do a proof of concept for tokenizing income share agreements on emerging markets.
Tokenization: Creator Economy Quick Pitch
Solution: Goodwall will develop a token-based in-app economy providing positive reinforcement whereby users are recognized and rewarded for their progress/work and have the possibility to exchange the tokens.