Introducing Cardano Bounties

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Hello everyone,

Over the past few months, I’ve spent time researching the Cardano ecosystem, engaging with builders, participating in community discussions, and observing one recurring challenge: many amazing Cardano projects struggle with visibility, community-driven promotion, and scalable contribution systems.

That research and commitment to the ecosystem led me to start working on Cardano Bounties.

Cardano Bounties is being built as a platform where Cardano projects can create tasks, campaigns, and contribution opportunities for the community, while contributors( talents) from anywhere in the world complete bounties and earn $ADA for meaningful participation.

The goal is simple:
• Increase visibility for Cardano projects
• Encourage community participation
• Create more opportunities for contributors to earn
• Help projects grow through decentralized engagement

One thing that stood out during my research is this:

Earning is a trillion-dollar industry.
People are constantly looking for ways to contribute, learn, grow, and earn online. Cardano has the builders, the innovation, and the community, but we also need more accessible pathways for participation , visibility and contribution.

That’s part of the vision behind Cardano Bounties and I am so intentional about building this for the ecosystem. I and the gimbalabs team have been working on this experiment.

I’m excited to share that the waitlist is now live :tada:

If you’d like to get early updates and be notified when the platform officially launches, you can join the waitlist here: cardanobounties.com/#waitlist

This is still the beginning, and I’m looking forward to feedback, collaborations, and ideas from the community as we continue building.

The future of decentralized work, contribution, and community growth on Cardano is something worth exploring together.

Thank you everyone :blue_heart:

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Hi @Ayomishuga !!!

Congratulations on this initiative to build a platform where Cardano projects can create contribution opportunities for the community, while offering contributors a way to complete missions and earn ADA as a reward.

That said, while analyzing and scrolling through your pre launch website, I have a few questions.

  1. On what aspects do you plan to make your platform a true Web3 or Cardano dApp, given that somewhere on your website you mention that during this pre launch phase, all bounty postings and payments will be handled by the website admin? Do you plan to integrate an escrow system to manage contracts between workers and employers in a decentralized way?

  2. Will the platform be free for both projects and contributors? If not, what fee model do you envision?

  3. Do you plan to make the project open source? To me, this would strengthen transparency and community trust.

  4. How do you plan to handle cases where projects or workers might want to use stablecoins like USDCx, USDM, USDA, or Djed on your platform, given that you currently mention only ADA as a payment method?

Apart from these questions, I recently saw Mr. @astroboysoup (Pete) posting on X about a project that seems to have a similar goal to yours, also focusing on Cardano. I invite you to check it out here: https://bounty preview.learncardano.io/bounties. I think that at this stage, you could talk to each other and see how you might complement one another, to avoid two products with nearly the same objective launching at the same time in the ecosystem, which could cause both of you to miss out on users due to early competition.

In short, keep up the courage, and please don’t see these questions or remarks as negative criticism, but rather as invitations to clarify, things that could help your initiative better address the problem you’ve identified.

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Hi Olivier @mwatsimulamo

Thank you so much for this thoughtful feedback and for taking the time to explore the pre-launch website carefully. I genuinely appreciate it :folded_hands:

These are important questions, and honestly, they reflect the kind of conversations I hoped Cardano Bounties would spark within the ecosystem.

  1. Regarding decentralization and Web3 integration:

We are already working on:
• Escrow-based bounty systems
• Smart contract integrations
• Wallet-based authentication
• Transparent on-chain reputation/contribution tracking
• Decentralized payment flows

The current admin-handled structure is more of an MVP approach to validate workflows before progressively decentralizing core operations.

  1. On the fee model:
    The goal is to keep participation as accessible as possible for contributors. We are still refining the economic model, we definitely want to build something sustainable.

  2. On open source: We are 100% doing open source on this project. It is for the community. I personally believe transparency and community trust are extremely important in Cardano or anywhere.

  3. On supporting stablecoins:
    Absolutely. While $ADA is our starting point because of ecosystem alignment and simplicity, the broader vision includes support for Cardano-native stable assets like USDM, USDA and potentially other native tokens depending on community/project needs.

And thank you as well for sharing the Learn Cardano bounty preview. Funny how I made thorough research if there’s such program before I commenced on building, but I didn’t see anything as at when I did my research.

Well, I actually think this highlights something positive about the ecosystem: multiple builders identifying the same problem means the problem is REAL.

I’m very open to collaboration, ecosystem alignment, and exploring ways different initiatives can complement each other rather than compete unnecessarily.

Again, thank you for the constructive questions and encouragement.

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