Why is it important?

Until cryptocurrency has immediate validity to more people, widespread adoption will be difficult, regardless of what marketing is employed.

What does success look like?

People have better access to fundamental resources which gives more weight to Cardano in the real world.

Key Metrics to measure

Number of proposals addressing scarcity-related issues

Number of Catalyst projects proposing guaranteed-income / UBI solutions

Number of guaranteed-income / UBI-related initiatives in the broader crypto space, and political spaces

Utilize the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for addressing poverty (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/)

Challenge brief

Poverty exists for no reason. We, as a global community, have the wealth to give every human being a good quality of life, and financial security. Poverty is a distribution problem to be solved, that cardano can solve.

Proposers might consider tracking data on the health, finances, and housing status of individuals participating in a given program to assess project viability.