This is the recap of the June Pacific Town Hall meetings in 2023. Both meetings were fairly cozy as we lead up to Fund 10, and primarily focused on sharing community updates with each other and discussing emergent topics.
SANADA has created a Stake Pool management software and successfully using it for the past couple years. This proposal is to Open Source it, create documentation, and release to the public.
Dylan
Working hard on Algae Token and getting the legal done and the project out there
Working on single Fund 10 proposal: Val U Swap
Val U Swap allows vendors to easily tokenize their products so they can have a direct relationship with their customers and avoid centralized middlemen with high commissions and control.
I’ve been working on two Fund 10 proposals for ODIN: Our vision is to empower a dynamic and collaborative community of visionary thinkers, web3 developers, high-trust communities, and impact-driven organizations that operate as a decentralized network, uniting their diverse strengths and expertise to catalyze innovative ideas from conception to fruition.
CRCI - A First Principles Approach to DeFi Fundamental Analysis: Community
CRCI is a aDeFi review project, looking at fundamentals of the organization and their operational integrity. Looks at strengths and weaknesses across eight different domains of review.
Cham
First time from Hanoi, Vietnam
Building an NFT and Art Community
Kreate - Vibrant Community & Marketplace for Millions of Art Lovers
Cardano is missing out on millions of Artists & Collectors outside of PFPs due to the lack of tooling and a broader Art community. This is an underutilization of the chain’s capital and technology.
Building primary and secondary marketplace for art lovers to enjoy art, and artists can sell and connect with people that appreciate their work.
On August 9, 2023, Pacific Town Hall hosted an IDEA FEST! Over 20 proposers presented their projects. The format was 5-minute presentations and 5 minutes of Q&A from each proposer in a fast lightning round. There were 3 break-out rooms, and all the presentations were recorded here: https://youtu.be/Tazp9CO2jis
Scheduled presenters:
New SPO revenue streams for securing bridge infrastructure, Winter Protocol: Open-Source Traceability & Real World Asset Tokenization, Ecosystem Building & Large-scale Atala Tech Deployment Blueprint
Work History as Verifiable Credentials
CRCI - A First Principles Approach to DeFi Fundamental Analysis
Andamio by Gimbalabs: a learning management system (LMS) built on Cardano with skill-tracking, treasury management, and smart contract capabilities
StudentReader.io 2.0: Identity, Oracles, and Smart Contracts, with Atala PRISM and AIKEN
Decentralized Demeter.run - Federated Frontend Hosting - New revenue stream for SPOs
Conserving Gorillas through NFT Sales: A Campaign for Wildlife Preservation
BLOCKTRUST Identity Wallet (PRISM) v1.0 for Browser, with Shared Features
Breaking the language barrier: English training 4 on-boarded French speaker students in Goma
Cardano Forest [blocktree.asia] - Foster Trust & Trackability in Reforestation
Ambassador Campus Meetup Tours
The FUNINTEC’s student Hubs: The cascade effect in the Project Catalyst and Cardano
Decentralized Demeter.run - Federated Frontend Hosting - New revenue stream for SPOs
Catalyst Campus Invasion: Students Ignite
Cardano 4 all: The Age of Explosion
ADA Express
The first course advisor platform on Cardano
Cardano Xcard
Cardano in 9 Minutes: Deep Understanding, Smart Investing, Time Saved, Money Made
9 Minutes to Million: Catalyst Project - Where Developer Dreams Flourish
Cardano ecosystem get physical and mental healthier with yoga
Pacific Town Hall this week was very cozy with 5 participants showing up on Zoom.
We kicked things off with:
Announcements:
Ed Eykholt
** Blocktrust
*** working on wrapping up Fund 9 proposals
*** Identity Wallet: blocktrust identity wallet
*** Fund 10 proposals underway
RJ
** CRCI
*** https://www.crci.review/
*** Working on DeFi Fundamental analysis
*** Fund 10 proposal: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/104883
*** Increased transparency and accountability, to protect the ecosystem
*** 28 critical metrics tracked over 8 categories for DeFi projects in the Cardano ecosystem
Quasar
** Project Catalyst Discord server
*** trying to get it more active
** Category scoping workshops
*** trying to build momentum and understanding in the community
** Gamechanger Wallet
*** NFT mint - 100 gift wallets, pre-loaded with 2 ADA and 2 NFTs to be distributed at Rare Bloom via a QR code
*** Gamechanger is 100% browser-based wallet
*** Getting close to moving B2 to mainnet
Nori
** ODIN
*** Space Trains
*** Sociocracy 3.0
*** Fund 10
**** Space Trains and Metadata: Scaling our Communities of Trust: Community
We then had a lively discussion around around various topics:
Discussion
- Voltaire
- SanchoNetwork
- https://sancho.network/
- There is energy to give Voltaire to the community as soon as possible
- Rumors:
- Fund 11 is the same as Fund 10
- Fund 12 might be the first to go through CIP-1694
- dRep model and MVG by March of next year
- Identity
- Self-sovereign Social Graphs and Identity
- Backup and recovery of identity
- We could split your keys into pieces that are held by trusted individuals or communities and require 3 of 5 to reconstitute the key for you
- Analog to digital transition (driver’s license, diplomas, birth certificates)
- credentials don’t go on the blockchain, they remain private by default
- Crypto Wild West
- Bad actors are judgement proof, we can’t do much
- Bad actors might have good intentions but poor results or mistakes
- There are no standards
- There is no insurance
- Vancouver Cardano Summit
- Will happen November 11, at the Cascades Casino in Delta, BC
Ed
** working on BLOCKTRUST proposals
** Mediator service - messaging between wallets and other services
** Open Source implementation of ATALA Prism Node
** Website describing the identity ecosystem (documentation and showcasing projects)
** Question: For APv2, is there a transaction fee model?
** Answer: unknown what the AP business model is…
** Lots of questions about the Atala Prism roadmap
** We are building on v2
** Fund 10 proposals
*** BLOCKTRUST Identity Wallet (PRISM) v1.0 for Browser, with Shared Features: Community
*** BLOCKTRUST Identity Wallet (PRISM) v1.0 for Android and iOS: Community
*** BLOCKTRUST Credential workflow platform: Community
*** BLOCKTRUST production-ready DIDComm Mediator: Community
*** Open source PRISM Node: Community
*** PRISM Verifiable Credential badges: Community
*** PRISM ecosystem website - the missing hub to digital identity on Cardano: Community
Seira
** We just launched our stakepool - SOCIO
** 40 people joining Yuta and the Tokyo community to join to talk about proposals and get together
** The link below includes presentation materials and videos explaining how Socious’ proposals will contribute to Cardano’s success. Please take a look and we kindly ask for your support. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us. Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Newman
** busy voting
** doing educations courses
*** Plutus PBL through the summer
*** Harvard CS 50 course
*** u.lab1x leadership course
** Proposals
*** Newman’s proposals - Newman’s vote list Catalyst F10 - Google Docs
RJ
** Building the CRCI reviewing defi in Cardano
** Updated website to provide more context
*** Fund 10 Proposal for CRCI
A very cozy Pacific Town Hall on November 1, Only 3 of us showed up and the discussion started with a conversation on Daylights Savings Time and the difficulty with meetings in the Cardano community across many time zones. The conversation then jumped to the topic of wrist watches and how nice GMT watches are,
We also discussed Nami wallet being acquired by IOG, and the growing excitement over what will be announced at the Cardano Summit,
We held another edition of Pacific Town Hall. Many of the attendees mentioned burnout and tiredness from the Catalyst Fund 11 rush to meet the proposal deadlines. Proposal links were shared and a lively conversation around Catalyst Proposals as well as AI ensued.
Happy New Year! On Jan. 24, we held the first Pacific Town Hall of 2024. There were four attendees, two of which were first timers.
Attendees:
RJ
Nori
Agape Pool
Justin
We talked about Catalyst Fund 11 and several attendees shared their proposals. There was also some time set aside to discuss non-Catalyst activities and projects happening in the PTH Cardano space and some very helpful feedback was shared.
On February 7, 2024 the Pacific Town Hall met and we spent the hour helping people use the Catalyst Voting App. It was nice to see new people jumping in to cast some votes and participate in the governance of Project Catalyst.
On Feb. 21, 2024 the Pacific Town Hall met. There were some first time visitors and some familiar faces. We spent the time introducing Cardano and blockchain to the new person and had a really nice time discussing how Cardano will change the world It was a great session to step back and get back to basics and explain what everything is about in simple terms. I think there was a lot of value found by the participants in this on-boarding meeting.
We were joined tonight by a member of the Japanese Cardano Community. After some discussion on the Japanese community, the main topic that was discussed was how the Pacific Town Hall can be best used and what would be valuable for the community. There seemed to be some good opportunities for bringing the Japanese community together with others in the Pacific time zones.
On April 17, 2024 there was a final meeting of the Pacific Town Hall for a while.
Attendees:
Nori
Bryan
Jeremy
Seamoss
We discussed going on a hiatus due to lack of participation and flagging community interest. We will take some time to reenvision and relaunch sometime later this year, maybe leading up to the Cardano Summit.
Lots of great discussion on how that might look and what we might do. We’ll continue the conversation on Discord and take it to the Vancouver Cardano Summit as a discussion item for the local community. It’s been a great time, but now it’s time to pause for a bit, reflect, and perhaps launch re-envisioned and better! Thanks everyone who attended over the past few years and participated and added to the community!
It was a great session to step back and get back to basics and explain what everything is about in simple terms. I think there was a lot of value found by the participants in this on-boarding meeting.
