F4: Fund6 Challenge Setting

Community defined challenges are critical for Cardano community self-governance, and generate a unique way to achieve Cardano's mission.

In addition to the challenges set by the IOG-Catalyst team, we want to know which challenges the community feels should be launched during Fund6 in order to best support Cardano's mission. This is an important step towards handing responsibility to the Project Catalyst community to determine the focus for each fund and enhance self-governance for the blockchain as a whole.

This challenge is different from other challenges as it's about the community setting new challenges:

• Proposals suggest new challenges
• Funds requested become the budget of the challenge
• No reward is given to proposers

How success looks like

The community votes to include important and engaging challenges that inspire impactful and original proposals.

Key metric to measure

To assess ROI of this challenge we will ask ourselves:

How well did the selected challenges perform in terms of proposal quality and community engagement?

• What is the average Community Advisor score for the top 10% proposed Challenges?
• What is the average Community Advisor score for the top 10% proposals generated to address the challenge?
• What is the Voter Engagement with Community Challenges proposals?

Guiding questions

What are high impact goals that are not being covered by the IOG-Catalyst team challenges?

What challenges will allow the Cardano community to validate which type of challenges drive the best outcomes?

Given the total funding provided for Community Choice Challenges in this funding round, What justifies the Amount asked for this Challenge?

What challenges will engage the highest number of voters?

What challenges will provide a springboard for adoption?

Inspirational potential directions

The community open roadmap contains many potential challenges and domains the community can cover.