DLT360: Keeping Projects Building on Cardano out of Legal Trouble through Actionable Guidelines & Seminars

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

DLT360

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

catalyst@dlt360.io

Additional applicants

• Heinz Gassner 
• Jonas Weinberger 
• Guilherme Pereira 
• Thorsten Pottebaum 
• DLT360 Team 

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

6

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

No dependencies.

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source.

[METADATA] Category of proposal

Standards and Regulation

[METADATA] SDG rating

This project contributes to the following SDGs

[8] Descent Work and Economic Growth

[9] Industry Innovation and Infrastructure

[10] Reduced Inequalities

[16] Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Our proposed solution is to create free regulatory guidelines for the Cardano Community across a variety of legal domains, ranging from well-known risk factors such as securities laws to lesser-known ones such as data privacy and cybersecurity compliance, smart contract regulation and more.

This is aimed at making sure that innovative projects in the Cardano Ecosystem can stay clear of regulatory dangers - even those that cannot afford expensive legal advice. We aim to realize these benefits by: 

 

• Surveying projects building on Cardano to assess their awareness level of different legal risks in a variety of legal domains. 

 

• Creating free regulatory guidelines for projects building on Cardano covering the major legal & regulatory risks they will face in a variety of legal domains, and how to deal with them 

 

• Delivering a series of free educational seminars on the major regulatory risks faced by projects in the Cardano Ecosystem today and how to deal with them (based on the guidelines). 

 

• Integrating these findings into the DLT360 Navigator and Risk and Opportunity Radar  

 

• Continuously monitoring new legal and regulatory developments in the DLT360 News Radar (see LINK to our related Fund 10 proposal)

 

The graphic below shows the positioning of this project in the overall DLT360 approach (The DLT360 Business Ladder: From Aggregating News, over Knowledge Management to Consulting) 

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

This project will bring the following benefits to the Cardano ecosystem:  

 

• Enabling projects building on Cardano to become aware and stay clear of potential legal problems they will face in their product Development and operations. 

 

• Enable Cardano to become a more compliant and thus business friendly ecosystem, in order to drive the real (business) world implementation of Cardano. 

 

• Help projects building on Cardano (both current and future one’s) to make the right design choices from the outset from a compliance perspective - and thus save on costly regulation-imposed changes down the road. 

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

This project is part of the overall activities of DLT360. Nevertheless, we can identify a number of specific metrics, KPIs and qualitative factors for evaluating the mid- and long-term rate of success of this project. 

 

• Number of participants in our specific community survey 

 

• Qualitative results of the Cardano projects-survey 

 

• Number of downloads of the guidelines 

 

• Number of seminars and seminar participants: The material generated by this project will be used in dedicated seminars. We will track this number of future activities and participants in such future activities. 

 

• Tracking of usage in the community of the DLT360 News Radar and Navigator  

 

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

The outputs of this project will be of long-term use and will be systematically shared as follows: 

 

Publicly and freely available and shared with the community: 

 

• Free regulatory guidelines provide a better understanding of the major areas of legal risks identified in the guidelines, and how to navigate them. 

 

• Results of Cardano projects-survey 

 

• Free Educational Seminars for the Cardano Community to provide better access to the guidelines. 

 

• Monitoring and alerting of regulatory developments through the DLT360 News Radar. 

 

• Integration of policy and regulatory impact findings into the DLT360 Navigator as a -permanently available resource to the Cardano Community 

 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

DLT360 was founded by an ambitious core team coming from many years of leadership experience in business and industry, combined with the fresh perspective of young talents in various disciplines (see team description later in this proposal). The senior founders have also been active members of and contributors to the Catalyst community since early on. 

 

DLT360's core team and extended domain expert team in the knowledge areas of 

• Economy 
• Technology 
• Regulation 
• Politics 
• ESG 

has grown to approximately 25 people (the majority still part-time) during the past 2 years. With Fund 10, we also want to finance the launch of the DLT360 Token as the incentive basis for growing a vibrant global community of content contributors and solution partners. 

 

DLT360 has successfully completed various projects in Funds 6, 7 and 8. Fund 10 is now dedicated to finalizing DLT360's foundational developments. This will get us to scaling up our activities in 2024, for which we are aiming for a strategic-partnership-based financing round - with the vision to become THE major think-tank and commercial consulting entity in the dynamically growing CARDANO/Web 3.0 space. 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

This project is focusing on achieving the following goals and deliverables:  

 

• Surveying projects Building on Cardano to find out the current state of knowledge on legal risks in the Community. 
• Proof: Community Survey 

• Establish the latest knowledge about the main regulatory risks that Projects Building on Cardano face. 
• Proof: Extensive Report/Guidelines (approx. 10,000 words) 

• Creating free educational seminars for educating the Community on how to stay clear of these regulatory risks.   
• Proof: 3 Seminars were held; Slides were shared with the assessment team. 

• Creating easily accessible Navigator and News Radar Material for increasing knowledge of the Community 
• Proof: 10+ Navigator and 10+ News Radar Items created. 

 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Please find the basic definition of our Milestones and the related timeline and activities below: 

 

Milestone 1: Project, Processes & Team in place 

• Timeline: End of Week 1 of 24 
• Method: DLT360 program- and project management  
• Activities: Setting up project infrastructure & Web-landing page, kickoff meeting  

Milestone 2: Completion of Literature Review Phase  

• Timeline: End of Week 4 of 24 
• Method: Research in the form of a Literature Review (focus on the latest online sources) 
• Activities: Establishing a list of sources in consultation with domain experts, critical reading, capturing relevant content, setting up citations in ZOTERO, summarizing results in a literature-study report 

Milestone 3: Draft Guideline Report 

• Timeline: End of Week 8 of 24 
• Method: Academic writing 
• Activities: Writing draft guideline report on the major legal risks facing projects Building on Cardano and how to deal with them. 

 

Milestone 4: Presentation slides completed  

• Timeline: End of Week 12 of 24
• Method: Presentations plotting, design and production 
• Activities: Creating the plotting and the design of the Presentations for our Seminars (total ~ 30 Slides) 

 

Milestone 5: Final Guideline Report Completed  

• Timeline: End of Week 16 of 24 
• Method: Academic writing, Graphic design 
• Activities: Editing the draft report, finalizing the report, designing the visual aspects of the report 

 

Milestone 6: First Seminar held 

• Timeline: End of Week 20 of 24 
• Method: Seminar presentations via Zoom 
• Activities: During this phase, we prepare, promote and hold the first of three seminars on the basis of the report created. 

 

Milestone 7: All Seminars held and Navigator and News Radar Items complete 

• Timeline: End of Week 23 of 24 
• Method: Seminar presentations via Zoom, DLT360 Navigator and News Radar Content Creation 
• Activities: During this phase, we hold the final two seminars on the basis of the report, and provide evidence for the continuous creation of the Navigator and News Radar items during the duration of the Project 

Milestone 8: Project completed 

• Timeline: End of Week 24 of 24 
• Method: Reporting 
• Activities: As a last step, we establish the close-out report and the close-out video as required by the Catalyst guidelines 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Here we show the Deliverables, Acceptance Criteria and Evidence for our Milestones: 

 

Milestone 1: Project, Processes & Team in place

• Deliverables: Project execution and communication framework
• Acceptance Criteria:

1.1) GitHub workspace and

1.2) Project Website-landing page created

1.3) Kickoff meeting held

• Evidence for 1.1), 1.2), 1.3): Short demonstration video

 

 

Milestone 2: Completion of Literature Review Phase

• Deliverables: Literature Study Chapter of report completed
• Acceptance Criteria:

2.1) At least 20 relevant sources reviewed, documented in bibliography

2.2) Report-chapter with description

• Evidence for 2.1), 2.2) : Short demonstration video

 

 

Milestone 3: Draft Report completed 

• Deliverables: Draft of the complete report, including the conclusions and recommendations chapter 
• Acceptance Criteria:

3.1) Draft of the Report with approx. 10,000 words available (no graphics included yet)

• Evidence for 3.1): Short demonstration video

 

Milestone 4: Primer and Presentations completed

• Deliverables: Public Primer (short document), Public Presentation (short), Training Presentation
• Acceptance Criteria:

4.1) Primer with short summary of the report (approx. 500 words)

4.2) Short Presentation (approx. 5 slides)

4.3) Training Presentation (approx. 30 slides)

• Evidence for 4.1), 4.2), 4.3): Short demonstration video

Milestone 5: Final Report completed 

• Deliverables: Edited report by correcting and designing the visual aspects of the report, finalizing the report 
• Acceptance Criteria:

5.1) Finalized report with approx. 10,000 words and graphics available

• Evidence for 5.1): Short demonstration video

 

Milestone 6: First Seminar held 

• Deliverables: First of 3 seminars on the basis of the report created. 
• Acceptance Criteria:

6.1) Seminar Recording

6.2) List of participants (probably anonymized due to GDPR requirements) 

• Evidence for 6.1), 6.2) : Short demonstration video

 

 

Milestone 7: All Seminars held and Navigator and News Radar Items complete 

• Deliverables: All 3 (online) seminars held, content for DLT360 Navigator and DLT360 News Radar Content created and integrated 
• Acceptance Criteria:

7.1) Seminar Recording

7.2) List of participants (probably anonymized due to GDPR requirements)

7.3) 10+ DLT360 Navigator items integrated and functional 

7.4) 10+ DLT360 News Radar items integrated and functional 

• Evidence for 7.1) to 7.4) : Short demonstration video

 

 

Milestone 8: Project completed

• Deliverables: Official closing of the project according to Catalyst Guidelines
• Acceptance Criteria:

8.1) Close-out Report and

8.2) Close-out Video

• Evidence for 8.1) and 8.2): Official Closeout Report & Closeout Video according to Catalyst Guidelines

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Budget Milestone 1: Initiate Project, Processes & Team 

• Project & Team Kick-off (5 hours x 250 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Back office (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 2,500 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 2: Completing Literature Review Phase  

• Research (35 hours x 250 ADA = 8,750 ADA) 
• Back office Assistance (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 10,000 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 3: Draft Report 

• Report writing (60 hours x 250 ADA = 15,000 ADA) 
• Back office support (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 16,250 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 4: Presentation slides completed 

• Creating presentation (45 hours x 250 ADA = 11,250 ADA) 
• Back office support (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 12,500 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 5: Final Report Completed 

• Completing Report Draft (60 hours x 250 ADA = 15,000 ADA) 
• Back office support (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 16,250 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 6: First Seminar held 

• Plot and Design (10 hours x 250 ADA = 2,500 ADA) 
• Presentation Production Lead (10 hours x 250 ADA = 2,500 ADA) 
• Back office support (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,250 ADA) 
• Total: 6,250 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 7: All Seminars held and Navigator and News Radar Items complete 

• Video Production: (20 hours x 250 ADA = 5,000 ADA) 
• Backoffice Support (10 hours x 125 ADA = 1,2500 ADA) 
• Total: 6,250 ADA 

Budget for Milestone 8: Project completed 

• Quality Checking and Reporting 
• Infrastructure and tools-share for the project (CAPEX & OPEX) 
• Total: 5,000 ADA 

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

The following background is important for understanding our project-costing 

 

• The DLT 360 Team is located in Europe, the UK and Brazil 
• Europe-focused topics can be directly approached in Brussels 
• Flexible on-demand access to experts in various disciplines (the DLT360 Domain Expert Team) 
• Our Brazil location allows us to do intelligent and efficient cost-arbitration (back-office, project management, research assistance, design assistance and alike) 

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept