As Fund6 of Project Catalyst with a 4 Million $ budget starts, that’s a good idea to analyze the winners of the previous Fund. Not only you can learn from the winners, but it’s also useful to know what’s going on in the Cardano ecosystem in general.
For people new to Cardano it’s still not so easy to figure out the process, even the voting results are not so easy to find. Moreover, it’s so much information so it’s easy to get lost, and we can’t expect that people will read every proposal. In past (and I’m in Project Catalyst since the Focus group, since Fund1) I read all the proposals and there were periods when I read all the communication in the telegram. Even though it didn’t help my proposals, it was still interesting. All my proposals were not supported in Fund5. It was sad that in the category “F5: Catalyst value onboarding” there was enough budget, but probably more people voted against it (I can’t see their results). But anyway, I think it’s better not to give up, and come with another proposal in Fund6, and then maybe in the future funds.
One more reason to study the winners is that after checking the project - you might decide to contribute. Sometimes you contribute as a tester, and sometimes as a part-time (or even a full-time job). Such opportunities will only increase with future Funds.
So here are Voting results for Catalyst’s Fund5 (link to PDF)
And here are the winning proposals. Firstly I thought to comment on some of them, but this would keep this article too long, so I decided to limit to the proposal and proposer names, link and budget. Proposals are presented by categories.
I. Developer Ecosystem Category
Testnet Cardanoscan Explorer Community
Proposer: Ashish Cardanoscan
Budget: $7500
Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo Community
Proposer: sebastiengllmt, nicoarqueros
Budget:$50,000
C# SDK for Blockfrost API Community
Proposer: Five Binaries (Blockfrost.io)
Budget:$9,000
Elixir SDK Community
Proposer: Richard Nystrom
Budget:$12,000
Cardano JS API Community
Proposer: RAY Network
Budget: $15,000
Cardano Wallet Flutter SDK Community
Proposer: Richard Easterling
Budget: $10,000
Metadata oracle endpoint in Yoroi Community
Proposer: Five Binaries
Budget: $1,200
Websocket link for Blockfrost API Community
Proposer: Five Binaries
Budget:$18,000
NFT Key Community
Proposer: CardanoDan, Chris
Budget: $50,000
Cardano IPFS chronicles Community
Proposer: Five Binaries
Budget: $10,080
Glow Formal verification Community
Proposer: Alexander Smart , François-René Rideau , Gauthier Lamothe
Budget: $60,000
Free Commerce payment gateway Community
Proposer: Jeronimo Backes
Budget: $52,500
Localize Yoroi for Slovak market Community
Proposer: Five Binaries
Budget: $2,500
End-to-End No-code Cardano Apps Community
Proposer: Marian Filipovici
Budget: $25,400
Localize Yoroi for Czech market Community
Proposer: Five Binaries
Budget: $2,500
Arnot - iOS SDK Community
Proposer: fragkiskos.katsimpas , Greg
Budget: $12,980
NFT Guaranteed Storage Community
Proposer: Kiriakos [SPEC]
Budget: $14,550
Quality-Assurance-DAO Community
Proposer: Stephen Whitenstall
Budget: $5
NFT-DAO EZ-Pay API wallet connector Community
Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)
Budget: $69,945
Artificial Intelligence/ML API Community
Proposer: Francisco
Budget: $80,000
Step-by-Step Guide: Off-Chain Code Community
Proposer: quinn
Budget: $5,000
NFT-DAO EZ-On Interop NFTs Community
Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)
Budget: $8,200
NFT-DAO EZ-Name Community
Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)
Budget: $59,842
Tokenizing GitHub Pull request Community
Proposer: Max
Budget: $12,000
II. DApps & Integrations
Cardano Connector (Metamask-like) Community
Proposer: sebastiengllmt, Robert Kornacki, nicoarqueros
Budget: $30,000
The Quest for ADA Community
Proposer: Marcin Kugla, aikkahn, Christian Hayungs
Budget: $100,000
nft-maker.io → Full NFT platform Community
Proposer: Patrick Tobler
Budget: $40,000
DaPassword - a password manager Community
Proposer: Jeronimo Backes
Budget: $54,600
iGIVit - The Future of Giving Community
Proposer: David Poulin, Ludovic
Budget: $20,416
III. Distributed decision making
NFT-DAO EZ-Honor contribution token Community
Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)
Budget: $29,000
Catalyst Community Tools Community
Proposer: Philip Khoo, Victor Corcino, Lucio Baglione, Adagov.org
Budget: $4,600
Catalyst Site: Project tracking Community
Proposer: lovegrovegeorge, Jakob Dickhaut, Ben Stokes
Budget: $8,400
Open Ideas and Data For Cooperation Community
Proposer: Adagov.org
Budget: $33,470
Tutorial for Community Advisors Community
Proposer: Dominik Tilman
Budget: $10,850
IdeaScale Improvements Community
Proposer: Erik Siebert , Rob Hoehn
Budget: $10,000
IV. Proposer outreach
Developer Evangelist Japan Community
Proposer: sebastiengllmt , Robert Kornacki , nicoarqueros
Budget: $19,000
Catalyst Site: Collaborators list Community
Proposer: lovegrovegeorge, Jakob Dickhaut, Ben Stokes
Budget: $11,600
FREE MONEY Direct Marketing Community
Proposer: rich
Budget: $43,827
WADA Media Funnel for Proposers Community
Proposer: WADA , Megan Hess
Budget: $12,000
Hands-On Marketing in Addis Ababa Community
Proposer: Jonathan W., Nebiyu, mearaftadewos and 2 more
Budget: $4,570
ALDEA Wiki - Cardano Encyclopedia Community
Proposer: Matias Falcone
Budget: $5,960
V. Catalyst value onboarding
Inner-View with KEWW Video Series Community
Proposer: Ken Adams, Chad Dickson
Budget: $8,900
WADA Uni Students Catalyst Registry Community
Proposer: WADA , jaycidiq
Budget: $11,000
PCDiscord - Bot to Assign Roles Community
Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R
Budget: $500
ALDEA Catalyst Spanish Support Site Community
Proposer: Matias Falcone
Budget: $9,080
Barriers to Entry = Proposals Community
Proposer: James Dunseith
Budget: $10,000
Catalyst Site:Improve proposal data Community
Proposer: lovegrovegeorge , Jakob Dickhaut , Ben Stokes
Budget: $8,400
PCDiscord Miro board for Onboarding Community
Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R
Budget: $900
Catalyst Site: Education resources Community
Proposer: lovegrovegeorge , Jakob Dickhaut , Ben Stokes
Budget: $5,200
PCDiscord - Bot to create channels Community
Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R
Budget: $479
Charles Hoskinson in Russian https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350835-48088
Proposer: Evgeniy Sereda
Budget: $6,500
VI. Metadata challenge
Control your data - privacy ledger https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350680-48088
Proposer: Michiel Van Roey , Shawn Jensen , Ipek Sahiner, Luke Bragg
Budget: $19,200
Graph DB Sidechain with Fluree https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352531-48088
Proposer: Dmitri Safine [DDAY] , Michael Yagi , bplatz
Budget: $12,500
Oracle Performance Metrics
Budget: $3,000
Blockchain Authentication Mechanism https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352005-48088
Proposer: gargiulo.gianni
Budget: $6,000
C64 NFTs Minter(on-chain+identity) https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352588-48088
Proposer: Caso
Budget: $6,500
VII. Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
Africa Opensource Pharma & Medicine https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352738-48088
Proposer: Andre.Chagwedera, startupsnyc, kusters.rem
Budget: $45,000
No-Code For Creative Africa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351502-48088
Proposer: tobrien, WADA
Budget: $20,000
Introducing Empowa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352666-48088
Proposer: Phil Lewis , Glen Jordan , Marie-Odile Zanders and 1 more
Budget: $60,000
Cardano Student Clubs in Ethiopia https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351822-48088
Proposer: Nebiyu , Jonathan W. , mearaftadewos and 1 more
Budget: $19,350
ADA news in African languages https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352267-48088
Proposer: Rik, Renemacarthur, Unofficialbydesign and 2 more
Budget: $42,720
Networking events https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351854-48088
Proposer: nathansamson, Nebiyu, Jonathan W. and 1 more
Budget: $24,000
Paper wallet terminal for in a shop https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350836-48088
Proposer: Maarten Menheere
Budget: $12,000
Cashout and Buy ADA in Ethiopia https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350836-48088
Proposer: mearaftadewos , Nebiyu , Jonathan W. and 1 more
Budget: $9,000
VIII. Scale-UP Cardano’s DeFi Ecosystem
Liqwid Protocol Security Audit https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352039-48088
Proposer: Liqwid Labs, MLabs Consulting
Budget: $119,000
Liqwid x Credmark R&D on Loan Risks https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352081-48088
Proposer: Liqwid Labs, Neil Zumwalde, MLabs Consulting
Budget: $25,000
MinSwap - Multi-pool DEX https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352679-48088
Proposer: Long Nguyen
Budget: $37,500
Dandelion: Cardano API market https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352562-48088
Proposer: rcmorano [PEACE]
Budget: $24,300
Smart Contract Audit Token SCAT DAO https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351387-48088
Proposer: Eric Helms
Budget: $35,000
In Challange setting, the following proposals won: NFT Business models, Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption, Disaster: When all is at stake, Scale-UP Cardanos Community Hubs, Improve and Grow Auditability
One more proposal was funded with leftover funds:
ErgoDex Plutus Port https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352410-48088
Proposer: Ilya Oskin
Budget: 91000
