F8: DApps and Integrations

Cardano Catalyst dApps that aim to use Tokenomics, DAO or NFTs face barriers to build and test/validate massively with potential users.

Today, companies track you, collect your data and (mis)use it commercially. You have no control/benefit from it, although you own your data.

Storing images with metadata for AI training data on the blockchain is not as simple as it sounds, this can be difficult for various reasons

There is currently still no seamless HR service to actively find exact freelancers for a posted job and care until the work is completed.

Carbon tokens without a dedicated, vibrant marketplace will remain niche, held back by self-serving legacy institutions and inertia.

Lack of a system to transfer NFTs placed at GPS coordinates as a reward for participating at community events and encourage healthy behavior

Too few tools and dApp from Cardano support retailers & eCommerce. ADA holders need an app for easily retrieving their transaction invoices.

In this era of ubiquitous messaging applications, users are becoming increasingly aware of the data privacy issues associated with such apps

Privacy laws (e.g. GDPR) introduce data subject rights to help you control your data. Brands are (legally) required to respond + keep logs.

People can control (use of) their data via (legal) data rights. However, people don't know how to use/exercise them to their advantage

Crowdfunding platforms do not provide a inbuilt system assuring performance matches expectations resulting in no-delivery no-payment crime

Only 6.1% of Vietnamese own cryptocurrency, how to convert non-crypto to crypto users and keep them in crypto space[1]

Music needs an easy onramp to Web3. Blockchain gives control back to creators, eliminates middlemen & enriches the experience of being a fan

Milkomeda Hackathon will help with the deployments of DeFi projects that and boost adoption in Cardano.

Many students in Africa do not have the means to realise their full potential. Donation services lack efficiency, transparency and security.

Next-gen DAO collaboration platform needs strong connectivity with ubiquitous chat platform to connect people in gov process

Lack of open source Escrow Plutus Contract examples ready to implement by dApps where time, value & deliverables are the main constraints.

There is a lack of tools to simplify crowdsourcing and encourage collaborations between members and entrepreneurs within Web3.

There is currently no liquidity aggregator on Cardano or order book-based DEX, which puts traders at a severe competitive disadvantage.

There are no tools on Cardano that meets the needs of distributed communities - coordinating and rewarding action in decentralized groups

Gaming is one of the fastest growing categories in crypto. Cardano is not quite there in terms of quantity of games.

Currently there is no way for users to run Cardano smart contracts from a mobile device

There is no tool that allows you to cut out portions of an artist's live & sell it as an NFT during the show, it'll be good recruitment tool

As individuals and teams head into web3, appropriate tools for human growth, organization, and development are missing.

DApps using off-chain data feeds can provide a richer end-user experience. There is no easy way to consume off-chain data feeds on Cardano.

The proposal iteration and submission tool is centralized and beyond the ability to iterate by the community. Data is vendor locked.

Currently wallets in Cardano cannot easily display prices of native tokens on Cardano through self-hosted solutions

There is no solution for creatives to mint evolving, programmable NFTs, for which there is a high demand, without programming knowledge.

Ranking in Wallets and Pool Explorers favours big saturated pools encouraging saturated pools to split and centralise the network

Cardano dApps are currently expensive to build, and require setting up infrastructure that is barrier for entry of new players.

For sustainable enviorment (SDG), it is necesarry to full trace(from product generation to end of product) not only "a part of product life"

Adoption will require payments in Ada, not going to a CEX to exchange it for FIAT currency.

Indexers are a core component of DeFi and one popular indexer protocol is called TheGraph. We need a project like this in Cardano

Cardano cross-mobile wallet oriented to savings and financial health through DeFi for African emerging countries.

Custom manufacturing services are expensive. Peer-to-peer manufacturing platforms currently do not exist. We need better Cardano full nodes.

Food insecurity is a global crisis. Supply chain issues are making the problem more acute. Localizing food production fights this directly.

$2,500,000 in ada

Fund1 Challenge

Fund2 Challenge

F3: Community choice

F3: DApp creation

F3: Developer Ecosystem

F4: Catalyst Value Onboarding

F4: Dapps & Integrations

F4: Developer ecosystem

F4: Distributed Decision Making

F4: Fund6 Challenge Setting

F4: Local Community Centers

F4: Proposer Outreach

F5: Catalyst value onboarding

F5: DApps & Integrations

F5: Developer ecosystem

F5: Distributed decision making

F5: Fund7 challenge setting

F5: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F5: Metadata challenge

F5: Proposer outreach

F5: Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem

F6: Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption

F6: Cardano Emerging Threat Alarm

F6: Catalyst value onboarding

F6: DApps & Integrations

F6: DeFi and Microlending for Africa

F6: Developer ecosystem

F6: Disaster: When all is at stake

F6: Distributed decision making

F6: DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox

F6: Fund7 challenge setting

F6: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F6: Improve and Grow Auditability

F6: Metadata challenge

F6: Multilingual resources

F6: NFT Business models

F6: Partnerships for Global Adoption

F6: Proposer outreach

F6: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

F6: Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem

F7: A.I. & SingularityNet a $5T market

F7: Accelerate Decentralized Identity

F7: Boosting Cardano's DeFi

F7: Catalyst - Rapid Funding Mechanisms

F7: Catalyst Accelerator & Mentors

F7: Catalyst Natives COTI: Pay with ADA Plug-in

F7: Community Events

F7: Connecting Japan/日本 Community

F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano

F7: DApps & Integrations

F7: Disarm cyber disinformation attacks

F7: Fund8 challenge setting

F7: Gamers On-Chained

F7: Global Sustainable Indep. SPO's

F7: Grow Latin America, Grow Cardano

F7: Improve and Grow Auditability

F7: Lobbying for favorable legislation

F7: Mini/Low-Budget Dapps & Integrations

F7: Miscellaneous Challenge

F7: Multilingual resources

F7: Nation Building Dapps

F7: New SPO Business Opportunities

F7: Open Source Developer Ecosystem

F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

F7: Seeding Cardano's Grassroots DeFi

F8: Accelerate Decentralized Identity

F8: Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)

F8: Cardano scaling solutions

F8: Community Advisor Improvements

F8: Cross-Chain Collaboration

F8: Developer Ecosystem

F8: Film + Media (FAM) creatives unite!

F8: Fund9 challenge setting

F8: Gamers On - Chained

F8: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F8: Grow East Asia, Grow Cardano

F8: Grow India, Grow Cardano

F8: Improve and Grow Auditability

F8: Lobbying for favorable legislation

F8: Miscellaneous Challenge

F8: Nation Building Dapps

F8: New Member Onboarding

F8: Open Source Development Ecosystem

F8: Open Standards & Interoperability

F8: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

F8: Self-Sovereign Identity

F8: The Great Migration (from Ethereum)

F9: Building (on) Blockfrost

F9: Catalyst Natives X Cardashift: Demonstrating and monetizing impact

F9: Challenge & Scouted for Students🎓

F9: Cross-Chain Collaboration

F9: DAOs <3 Cardano

F9: Dapps, Products & Integrations

F9: Developer Ecosystem

F9: dRep improvement and onboarding

F9: Fund10 challenge setting

F9: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F9: Grow East Asia, Grow Cardano

F9: Legal & Financial Implementations

F9: The Great Migration (from Ethereum)

Catalyst Fund Operations

Catalyst Systems improvements

F10: Atala PRISM: Launch Ecosystem

F10: Building on NMKR

F10: Catalyst Open

F10: DAOs <3 Cardano

F10: Developer Ecosystem - The Evolution

F10: Development & Infrastructure

F10: dRep improvement and onboarding

F10: OSDE: Open Source Dev Ecosystem

F10: Products & Integrations

F10: SPO Tools & Community Projects

F10: Startups & Onboarding for Students

Cardano Open: Developers

Cardano Open: Ecosystem

Cardano Use Cases: Concept

Cardano Use Cases: Product

Cardano Use Cases: Solution

Catalyst Systems Improvements: Discovery

F11: Old

F11: Sponsored By Leftovers

Cardano Partners and Real World Integrations

F12: Cardano Open: Developers

F12: Cardano Open: Ecosystem

F12: Cardano Use Cases: Concept

F12: Cardano Use Cases: MVP

F12: Cardano Use Cases: Product

28 funded proposals are are already completed. Dive into the total milestones, comparing complete, in-progress, and to be completed milestones across this project set.

Total to date

Total votes cast The total number of votes cast across all proposals in this category.

Status: Complete
 Proposals: 28/37

Status: In progress
 Proposals: 9/37

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Project Catalyst turns economic power into innovation power by using the Cardano Treasury to incentivize and fund community-approved ideas.

Funds Overview

When a proposal is ‘Approved’, it means it received enough support to receive funding (at least 1% of the total registered voting power voted ‘YES’). But only those proposals that most people say 'YES' to get money first until there's no funding left in that category.

Meets all approval criteria; the highest ‘YES’ result gets funding first until the remaining budget is depleted in the category and unable to fully fund the next approved proposal. If the amount requested by a proposal is larger than the remaining category amount at any point, it is skipped.


Proposals that did not meet criteria for approval and were not eligible for funding. Each proposal needs to get enough 'YES' votes equal to 1% or more of total registered voting power in a funding round in order to be approved.

Proposals that met approval criteria but whose budgets exceeded the remaining category budget. Some 'Not Funded' proposals can get second change via 'Sponsored by Leftovers' category. Proposals can be approved but not funded due to lack of funding budget availability in a relevant category.

At least 1% of the total registered voting power must vote ‘YES’ on a proposal. In Fund11, there was ₳4,535,989,461 as a total registered voting power as accounted for by the snapshot. To be accepted (become an ‘approved proposal’ as well as be eligible for funding), a proposal must be voted by at least 0.01 * ₳4,535,989,461 = ₳45,359,894.61. ‘ABSTAIN’ votes do not count towards the acceptance threshold of 1%.

Proposals are ranked by the highest ‘YES’ votes and funded one by one until the category budget runs out. Any leftover funds excludes proposals submitted in ‘Cardano Use Cases: Product’ and ‘Catalyst Systems Improvements’ categories.

Includes Fund 10 and 11 total funds, converted to USD at the time of fund launch. Please note, any ecosystem role incentives are not included in these figures.

Funds requested by funded projects. Please note, any ecosystem role incentives are not included in these figures.

There's some funds left in each category that haven't been given out. All that leftover funding is put together into a new category called 'Sponsored by Leftovers'. All approved (and not yet funded) proposals across the entire Fund are eligible for this funding, except proposals from the 'Cardano Use Cases: Product' or 'Catalyst Systems Improvements' categories.

Title of the proposal is a link that will bring you to the proposal detail page.

The number of Cardano wallets that take an active part in the Catalyst voting event. Each wallet can vote once per proposal. The number indicated by each proposal represents a number of unique wallets casting a vote for that specific proposal.

Total voting power in ada casting an ‘ABSTAIN’ vote from all wallets combined. ‘ABSTAIN’ votes can be found in the results CSV for reference and do not count towards the approval criteria thresholds.

Total voting power applied in opposition of a proposal

Total voting power in ada casting a ‘YES’ vote applied in support/favor of a proposal from all wallets combined counting towards approval criteria thresholds.

Amount of ada registered to vote in Catalyst determined by the voting power snapshot unique for every funding round. For Fund11, the snapshot took place on Jan 15, 21:45 UTC. Each wallet has its own unique voting power based on the balance on the day/time of the snapshot. Each time a wallet casts a vote, it uses its full voting power applied to a proposal. This can be done only once per each proposal: ‘YES’ or ‘ABSTAIN’.

Project Catalyst explained: an innovation engine from IOG

Project Catalyst is the world’s largest decentralized innovation engine for solving real-world challenges.

Ideas. Innovation. Impact.

Project Catalyst has funding rounds every few months, with a set amount of ada ready to allocate to ideas.

At the start of each Fund, the community has three weeks to submit proposals to answer challenges set in the previous funding round. Proposals are selected by community vote and funding is allocated to bring the projects to life.

All funds

F8: DApps and Integrations

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