Hello there, beautiful soul!
Hope this message finds you well.
This week, Project Catalyst has crossed another significant milestone. There are now more than 400 projects with self-reported completion status. Each project generally needs to submit a close-out video and an accompanying report to demonstrate the outcome of their funded proposal.
Have you cast a vote in the past on any of the funded projects? Or wish to learn more in general? You can directly utilize the funding section on the projectcatalyst.io website or community tooling such as Lido Nation.
Regardless, we want to congratulate all projects that have already managed to conclude their deliverables. The Cardano community appreciates the effort and work you’ve contributed to helping build this ecosystem. Your work is not taken for granted. And a big shout out to all the projects still underway and working diligently towards their goals.
Let’s dive into what’s the latest.
Town Hall
TH Recording: http://bit.ly/3Yk34ZI
TH Slides: Project Catalyst Townhall - Feb 8 - Google Slides- TH Playlist: link here
Break Out Rooms: https://bit.ly/33i38SB
- Want to open your own room next time? Book it via this form at least 24hrs in advance and get those conversations rolling!
Next: Feb 15 at 5PM UTC. Register now via this recurring link.
Psst! It’s all about the misc!
During the most recent TH, we’ve seen two close-out presentations from the Challenge Teams (CTs) looking after Miscellaneous categories. Historically, CTs have had three key deliverables.
- Present the concept of the specific challenge to the community when Fund begins
- To onboard funded projects in that challenge once governance is over and the execution stage begins
- With time passing, reflect back on the successes, failures, insights, and learnings about challenge effectiveness and outcomes - collectively addressing a question - what return on intention has the community received?
- This is where CT reports come in as extremely valuable
Both CT closeouts did a great job in resurfacing key learnings on both ends - for funded proposers as well as for challenge teams themselves. I recommend jumping into the video link to rewatch both segments.
- Fund7 Challenge TH video segment + Report
- Fund8 Challenge TH video segment + Report
To the Challenge Team members, thank you for your great effort and service to the community.
dRep Book Club
Community-led initiatives are a great way to get comfortable and immersed in various topics/events across the ecosystem. One such is called dRep Book Club.
"Hey everyone, did you know that there is a dRep Book Club? There is! The dRep Book Club 2 was funded in Fund 9: and will be kicking off with our first Zoom meeting at the end of January.
Keep up to date on the discussions on these papers and books when we hold our face-to-face Zoom meetings on the Leadership Academy Discord: Leadership Academy."
Note: The Leadership Academy is a community initiative that seeks to provide a safe space for us to explore, experiment, and learn about what “leadership” means in a decentralized, inclusive, global community. Gone are the days of “bosses” and “managers” and “CEOs”.
Catalyst GitHub Repo - Weekly Round-Up
One of the primary objectives this year is to make it easier for Community members to understand how Catalyst works on the technical side and to access the Catalyst technical backend to increase transparency in systems. The major side effect later this year is expected to be around the ability of the community to come along and start co-creating/helping build/suggest improvements to these foundations.
This repo is the starting point and we’re seeking improvements to it throughout the months to come. For now, feel free to bookmark the pages and lurk around as we get it ready:
- GitHub - input-output-hk/catalyst-core: ⚙️ Core Catalyst Governance Engine and utilities.
Catalyst Core Documentation - Page Redirection (draft/WIP)
Last week in CIPs
Here’s the recap from my colleague Ryan Williams that writes these fantastic CIP round-ups. I figured you’d like them, too. So here’s the latest to get up to speed. You can catch past and future summaries via this Cardano forum thread here as well. If are unsure what CIPs are about - please check out this link to dive deeper: https://cips.cardano.org/.
RW: What happened in CIPs last week?
- CIP-??? Ledger evolution (meta) [New CIP Proposal]:
- This proposal formally enlists Cardano Ledger as a CIP category, describing guidance for future CIPs concerning the Cardano ledger.
- CIP-??? Sums-of-products in Plutus Core [New CIP Proposal]:
- This CIP proposes to add native support for datatypes to Plutus Core, and to use that support to implement a more efficient interchange of the script context between the ledger and scripts.
- Lots of engagement and discussion.
RW: Continued Recommendations:
- CIP-56 Treasury donations
- This CIP intends to diversify the treasury holdings and increase protocol revenue to the treasury by allowing Catalyst-funded private ventures to both diversify and increase Cardano’s treasury balance.
- Quite an interesting proposal.
- CIP-30 Upgrade to the latest format & propose version/extension scheme
- [CIP Update]:
- This amendment to CIP-30 (dApp-wallet bridge) proposes a method to extend the standard with future CIPs.
- Lots of good discussion and engagement around this.
- [CIP Update]:
Next Meeting:
Further varied governance and Catalyst community conversations can be also followed on the official Cardano forum here. Don’t be shy to be part of the conversation.
Community Events
Many community events are taking place regularly across the ecosystem. In the image above and below you can find a snippet of what is available out there. A great way to lurk around and over time participate even more directly. You can browse more via this link.
Catalyst Project Completions - 400+ and counting!
400+ projects funded by Catalyst have been completed to date by submitting their self-reported close-out reports and videos. Not seeing your favorite project completed yet? You can check their progress on other tabs and also the monthly reporting output documents. Save the links below:
- Monthly Reporting: Catalyst Public Reporting Tracker - Google Sheets
- Monthly Report Output Data: Public Catalyst Monthly Reporting - Google Sheets
- Proposal Journey: Proposal Journey in Catalyst (public) - Google Docs
- Want to do more? Check this call to action about accountability and participation!
- You can also reference this town hall slide for the first meeting outcome.
Are spreadsheets a little too much? Leverage community tools like Lido Nation which you can find here or via projectcalyst.io website directly.
Get in touch
And that’s a wrap. Let’s talk Catalyst & governance via twitter, or telegram, or reddit, or wherever is your home online and keep conversations engaging on these very important topics.
Enjoy your weekend ahead!
Danny & the Project Catalyst team
Daniel Ribar
Community at Project Catalyst
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