Please describe your proposed solution.
Adaglass is an ambitious, community-driven and unified solution that continuously observes, enriches, presents and shares data in relation to the Cardano ecosystem. It uniquely brings data, views and analytics' tools in an intuitive and engaging user experience that enables Cardano stakeholders to gain end-to-end visibility, instant insights and actionable intelligence.
The platform combines modern, enterprise-grade and open source telemetry, search and machine-learning technologies to provide the community with unparalleled transparency of the Cardano ecosystem, helping everyone tracks, learns from and reports on key events, actors, assets and performance indicators.
Adaglass aims to improve trust to the Cardano blockchain – creating, through data, a community-driven, transparent, and sustainable foundation for developers, operators, investors, partners and users to visualize the performance, growth and opportunities of the Cardano ecosystem.
The heart of the Adaglass platform is the Cardano Search & Analytics (CSA) service, a fast and scalable search and analytics engine, which helps collect, normalize, enrich, aggregate and share data and metrics originating from a large set of data sources. The Cardano Search & Analytics service provides aggregated and structured data to the Cardano Service Intelligence (CSI) application, a web application that, for now, allows users to visualize into one unified view the growth and performance of the Cardano ecosystem.
With this proposal, we are looking at bringing our Operationalization Phase to the next level by building the next iteration on top of our MVP, developing further the Adaglass operations and team, and increasing overall value to end-users with additional free features. Primarily, we will focus on bringing to market an innovative investigative tool (Deep Dive) and enriching our catalog of metrics with additional Tier 1 indicators.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
By nature and design, the Addaglass platform addresses the challenge in numerous ways.
First, it is a unique platform and set of products built for the Cardano community and ecosystem. The views and tools available are unique in the industry.
Secondly, Adaglass connects to a large span of data sources including on-chain and off-chain data, via the use of cardano-node, db-sync, Oura, static files and multiple Cardano related services and APIs such as IOHK, Blockfrost, Pool.pm, Ada Pools, Cardano Jobs, to name a few.
Finally, Adaglass provides the following key benefits to the community:
- Maximize engagement and growth of the Cardano ecosystem and community with an always-on, one-stop-shop for every Cardano question
- Perpetual increase of the global awareness and credibility of Cardano for developers, investors and influencers with easy access to end-to-end service performance views
- Move towards improving trust to the Cardano blockchain and uncovering new and hidden opportunities with increased transparency and accurate, unbiased, and correlated data
- Expand business to new areas with unique analytics’ tools that provide instant insights and actionable intelligence to make informed decisions on everything Cardano
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Risk #1: Heavy reliance on third-party data, applications and interfaces
Probability: Low, Impact: Medium
Mitigation Measures:
- Design flexible data source connectors
- Monitor and alert on data source availability and third-party service change
Risk #2: Limitations of third-party charting libraries
Probability: Medium, Impact: Medium
Mitigation Measures:
- Avoid use of small, unknown, opinionated third-party libraries
- Consider premium, lightweight, flexible and customizable libraries
- Diversify library depending on UX/UI needs across the user journey
- Build custom features on top of libraries
Risk #3: Broken mobile experience
Probability: Low, Impact: Low
Mitigation Measures:
- Simplify and adapt UX design for mobile devices
- Reduce feature set of mobile experience
Risk #4: Schedule and cost overrunning
Probability: Medium, Impact: High
Mitigation Measures:
- Plan with contingency
- Establish a strong project governance framework (use existant)
- Lock down the release scope early
- Protect team from distraction and scope creep
- Inject personal funds to support for an extended support period