Hellp peeps, we are seeing a proliferation of projects claiming to be part of the Cardano Ecosystem. In order to protect people I really would like to see an official list of approved projects listed on the Cardano website that people could refer to. This means that any project claming to be part of the Cardano ecosystem would be checked out by the Cardano team and then only after sufficient checks be listed on the Cardano website. Is this possible? For instance I am very concerned that popular YouTube influencers such as Crypto Banter, Bitboy and others are heavily promoting Cardstarter projects which don’t seem to be part of the Cardano ecosystem - https://coin.fyi/news/cardano/cardstarter-and-every-single-project-it-has-launched-smells-of-a-scam-nmrfpt
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There you go:
# The Essential Cardano list #
The Essential Cardano list provides an outline and accompanying map of the Cardano ecosystem and a central library of materials, which includes official IOG, Cardano Foundation, and Emurgo resources, as well as community-generated materials, and a list of active stake pools.
This list is fully open source so we hope that you can help us to grow and fine tune our recommendations to make our list even better. We encourage you to let us know of new content that is being produced by the community, new relationships, new innovations, so that we can add them all to this list and build out the ecosystem.
Here is an outline of the categories:
- [Navigate the Cardano Ecosystem](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#navigate-the-cardano-ecosystem)
- [Core Organizations](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#core-organizations)
- [Oracles](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#oracles)
- [Enterprise & Business Ecosystem](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#enterprise--business-ecosystem)
- [Startups](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#startups)
- [Strategic Partners and Collaborators](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#strategic-partners-and-collaborators)
- [Layer 2 Solutions](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#layer-2-solutions)
- [Deployments](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#deployments)
- [DeFi and Capital Markets](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#defi-and-capital-markets)
- [Governments](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#governments)
- [Exchanges](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#exchanges)
- [Payments](https://github.com/input-output-hk/essential-cardano/blob/main/essential-cardano-list.md#payments)
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If those guys promote it, most probably isn’t a scam, relax.
Altough I don’t keep tabs on cardstarter so can’t say for sure.
cheers