@omarbadr36 it’s significant to the Cardano community that the Emurgo reviewing team didn’t consider that standards could be relevant to enterprise adoption… which is taken as a matter of course by the rest of the tech industry and understood to be crucial to the blockchain industry.
The Standards designation was exclusive to the Cardano Open: Ecosystem category, which was not represented in your list of results — judging by the minimum ₳72K “Ask” of proposals in your short list vs. the ₳60K maximum in this category. My guess is that ecosystem-focused proposals weren’t considered relevant to your assessment because of this statement above:
Ecosystem Growth: Providing enterprises with the right tools and frameworks empowers developers, creates new business opportunities, and strengthens the ecosystem.
i.e. the “trickle-down theory” — in this case, an assumption that ecosystem advances naturally come from the enterprises, who then deliver them to the community.
Standards in particular, and potentially other community-evolved aspects of the Cardano ecosystem, natively support the two most heavily weighted “pillars” of your evaluation: Enterprise Relevance and Adoption readiness (“Pathway”).
I’m not trying to influence your results, but am only concerned about what your methods have apparently overlooked. The particular industry focus of RWAs should at least have opened up the discussion to Standards: considering that interoperability in this new industry will be impossible without them.
I appreciate the rigour of your team’s assessment and your candour in explaining it so abundantly to the community. With mixed feelings, I even appreciate the confirmation that big-budget developer proposals were the only ones considered relevant to “adoption” rather than the spontaneous, decentralised evolution observed through verifiable proposals emerging from the ecosystem itself.
I would please encourage your team, and any members of the community, to consider the bidirectional support of enterprise and ecosystem through this proposal… since the background writing illustrates how accomplishments in the Standards domain are an original and vital aspect of enterprise adoption: