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How can we create a positive developer experience that helps the developer focus on building successful apps?

Without the supportive environment for developers, new innovations would be stalled. By supporting this challenge settings, more developers would be drawn into Cardano. There would be a bigger talent pool of developers that Catalyst projects can collaborate with and turn project concepts/Proof of concept into successful protocols which would enhance the growth of Cardano.

Guiding questions

  • What are the the tools that we need to prioritize first
  • How do we attract developers from outside of our current community to participate in Catalyst?
  • What do developers want, and how do they get it from the Cardano dev ecosystem?
  • What would make it a developer motivated to grind through the docs and code no matter how hard it is to create an app?
  • What are enterprise dev managers looking for in order to be able to build out enterprise projects - either internal or commercial?

Potential directions

  • Developer productivity: IDE's, scripts to automate stuff.
  • Knowledge base & Documentation
  • Deployment, testing, and monitoring frameworks
  • Samples, recipes and templates
  • Hackathons
  • DEFI and tokenization
  • Dashboards
  • API's, and oracles.
  • Support structures
  • Incentivization structures

Notes

  • This challenge is a continuation of F8: Developer Ecosystem ($1,000,000)
  • This challenge is a separate challenge from Open Source Developer Ecosystem. While we are advocates of open source, we recognize that not all teams are at the point where they feel comfortable or capable of open sourcing their solutions. Some APIs may be closed source forever, but still provide an overall net positive for the Cardano ecosystem. If you are all-in on open source from day one, definitely go with the Open Source Development Ecosystem challenge (if that's an option). We are rooting for you. We believe, however, there's room for both at this point.

Why is it important?

Creating an awesome experience that incentives developers, will lead to increased developer adoption, productivity, and creativity.

How does success looks like?

Cardano attracts high-calibre Developers and developers have ample resources to work on platforms that suit their interests.

Key Metrics to measure

At the end of this challenge, we will be asking ourselves: Did we manage to make it easier for developers to build on top of Cardano?

  • Filling in gaps defined in the exploration stage.
  • Number of developers actively building on top of Cardano
  • Number of repos on Github using the tooling. (Month over month increase)
  • Reduce wait time of unanswered communications with developers to 24 hours.
  • A sense of community and conversations. Having people around to talk with.
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Total Proposals
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Completed Proposals
$ 1M
Available
$5.7M
Requested
$1M
获奖情况

GIMBALABS TREASURY FOR TUTORS

$8,640 Requested

Solution: Gimbalabs is a non-profit organization. The creation of a treasury funded by Catalyst to cover the tutors' working hours will give continuity to the students training process.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget impact proposal Requested 0.864% of the fund.
4.63 (24)

FT Smart Contracts for Marketplaces

$75,000 Requested

Solution: A set of open-source smart contracts that enable any marketplace to support NFT purchases with fungible tokens.

 

This Provides a framework for all Cardano native assets to have increased utility.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 7.5% of the fund.
4.57 (21)

Flutter SDK

$3,188 Received
$15,000 Requested

Solution: Open-source Flutter SDK - Support ongoing work to add smart contract features, APIs, data structures, tutorials and community requested features. Slow but steady funding model: $15K/fund.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
funded Awarded 1.5% of the fund.
4.79 (24)

Fix Web3 rabbit holes

$61,440 Requested

Solution: A Haskell framework for writing DApps and blockchain infrastructure which: Could start, stop & migrate at runtime. Run in servers and Web browsers, location-independent addressed

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 6.144% of the fund.
4.42 (24)

Fast reindexable data format

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We introduce new thread-safe memory-efficient persistent storage with indexing capabilities. Using a single-file solution, there will be no extra processing overhead for download and synchronization.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 5% of the fund.
3.8 (30)

Exhibit Blockchain BIT in RIO 22 BR

$18,955 Requested

Solution: We will exhibit Cardano at BIT in RIO 22 event - We bring to the famous "Marvelous City" the Carioca version of the biggest Crypto event in Latin America, Rio de Janeiro - November, 26th 2022 (1 day).

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1.896% of the fund.
4.11 (18)

Enable any webapps to use PRISM Quick Pitch

$80,500 Requested

Solution: Let's build a Browser Extension (like MetaMask) that will allow people to manage their identities/credentials and allow web apps to easily interact with PRISM.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 8.05% of the fund.
4.67 (24)

Emursive DApp (Metaverse) Builder

$49,190 Requested

Solution: Extend our the 1.0 metaverse/dapp builder platform by adding support for Plutus Smart Contracts. Our builder has already been successfully deployed to build food traceability meteverses in Ghana.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 4.919% of the fund.
4.57 (21)

Empower thru Project Based Learning

$36,000 Requested

Solution: Innovative PBL concept to empower developers to build on Cardano, incl. opportunity to access peer-experience & feedback & network

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 3.6% of the fund.
4.86 (21)

Dolos: Cardano “Data Node”

$75,680 Received
$75,680 Requested

Solution: We'll develop a new node, fine-tuned to solve a very narrow scope: keeping an updated copy of the ledger and replying to queries from trusted clients, while requiring a small fraction of the resources

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 7.568% of the fund.
4.76 (21)

Dev-focused Learn-and-Earn Quests

$110,000 Requested

Solution: We want to launch Learn-and-Earn campaigns to educate Web2 devs with general and technical knowledge on developing in Cardano. The campaigns are launched through StackUp, our Learn-and-Earn platform. 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 11% of the fund.
3.92 (24)

Developers Reward program DEV$

$55,000 Requested

Solution: DEV$ is the first Reward program focused on developers. The main objective is to incentivize the participation and usage of Cardano tools like Haskell / Plutus. The more you use it the more you earn.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 5.5% of the fund.
4.56 (18)

Developers Hackaton Stories Quick Pitch

$5,780 Requested

Solution: A streaming and a documentary that tells the story of Plutus Hackaton in Argentina and its outcomes for the developers ecosystem, connecting the stories of this community and tell them to the world.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 0.578% of the fund.
4.62 (21)

Developer Portal - Built on Cardano

$6,300 Requested

Solution: Gather and organize all the developer tools and educational resources that have been created for building on Cardano into an easily searchable portal for developers to use.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 0.63% of the fund.
4.21 (42)

Decentralized Escrow for Remote Job

$54,400 Received
$54,400 Requested

Solution: Decentralized escrow to protect both remote developers and hiring organizations with cheaper fees and a fair/decentralized dispute settlement mechanism.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed impact proposal Awarded 5.44% of the fund.
4.93 (15)

DCOne Crypto for Developers

$45,100 Requested

Solution: We will provide APIs, SDKs for app developers for quick access to integrate with the Cardano blockchain, allowing developers and businesses to focus on building their business model

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 4.51% of the fund.
4.33 (15)

DAO-NET: Small Developer Funding

$5,000 Received
$30,000 Requested

Solution: This proposal will allow developers to submit small budget items with minimal overhead for rapid funding and allow the community to vote on funding items as an initial trial of the DAO-NET ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
funded Awarded 3% of the fund.
5 (21)

Dandelion Community Service

$23,400 Requested

Solution: Keep the existing Dandelion Community Service, which has been serving the community for 21 months now, running for at least another 6 months.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.34% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

Crypto Blockchain Talents Platform

$49,500 Requested

Solution: A platform that will connect professionals with high technical skills in blockchain, DeFi, Crypto, Web3, Smart Contracts, NFTs, Metaverse and programming, with companies that seek these professionals

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 4.95% of the fund.
4.6 (30)

Community Managed Proposal System

$19,500 Requested

Solution: Research n Compare Non Open Source to Open-Source options for a Community Database and systems.

Create a Framework that would allow developers access to data so they can build and innovate quickly.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1.95% of the fund.
3.37 (27)

Community Consensus Certifications

$9,500 Requested

Solution: A community consensus list of courses, certificates, or exams with weightings as to how important they should be to a hiring manager.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 0.95% of the fund.
3.27 (15)

CNFTacademy Genesis

$15,000 Requested

Solution: CNFTacademy is a platform created with a simple purpose, to share knowledge and decentralize it. Would you like to learn how to run a cardano node, how to create a stake pool and how to mint NFTs.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 1.5% of the fund.
3.33 (27)

cip25 (NFT) Rust & WASM library

$7,000 Received
$7,000 Requested

Solution: We will create a native Rust, WASM and Typescript library that parses CIP25 from CBOR based on its CDDL specification given in CIP25

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
completed Awarded 0.7% of the fund.
3.96 (27)

Challenge Teams Web Portal - CTWP

$28,180 Requested

Solution: The CTWP to address the current issues CT is facing in POL, record keeping for every single task from each phase, give a sense of fairness in payment and increase productivity for CT members.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Developer Ecosystem
not approved Requested 2.818% of the fund.
4.43 (21)