Bringing Investors to Cardano

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Lucas Macchiavelli

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

lucasmac9@hotmail.com

Additional applicants

Lucas Macchiavelli

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

8

[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?

Yes

[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.” .

Our proposal depends on the platform where we are hosting spaces. In the case of the impossibility of continuing with Twitter, we could try already existing ones.

[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

DAO

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Token Allies, the first Decentralized VC on Cardano, is poised to redefine venture capital. The VC will be managed by the Token Allies DAO, aimed to ease capital flow and broaden opportunities by disrupting the traditional VC model and engaging many ecosystem participants.

Our goal is to attract new investors to the Cardano ecosystem by conducting a series of 16 engaging Crosschain spaces. These spaces will serve as a platform for onboarding new users and providing them with valuable insights into the Cardano project and its potential for growth. Through informative presentations, panel discussions, and interactive Q&A sessions, we will showcase the benefits and opportunities that Cardano offers to investors.

We aim to create a bridge between different blockchain communities and Cardano. These sessions will highlight Cardano's advanced blockchain technology, its sustainable and scalable approach, and the vibrant ecosystem it offers to businesses and developers.

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

Our proposal addresses a main point in the challenge:

"Amount of ADA coming from DAOs transaction fees after the solutions on this challenge get implemented (greater than the challenge's allocated fund amount)."

Once implemented, new investors joining our DAO will be able to invest in Decentralized Funding with different objectives and targets, leading to a significant inflow of transactions on the Cardano Network. If proven successful, our model could be a segue for bringing larger investment firms to invest in the Cardano ecosystem through our DAO.

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

Participation and Engagement: We will measure the number of participants attending the cross-chain spaces. We expect a combined audience of 1600 attendees, with an average of 100 per space.

Collaborations and Partnerships: We will register the number of collaborations and partnerships formed between Cardano and other blockchain projects as a result of the cross-chain spaces. We aim to collaborate with at least 16 blockchain projects.

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

We will utilise various communication channels to share the outputs and results of our project. This includes regular updates on social media platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, and Discord, where we will provide project updates, highlight key milestones, and share relevant content related to the cross-chain spaces.

We will also maintain detailed documentation of the project with our Milestone reports.Through these communication channels and strategies, we aim to ensure that the outputs and results of our project are widely shared and accessible to the Cardano community.

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

Our core team, is comprised of 4 partners from Argentina, who are active members in Catalyst and the Cardano ecosystem, looking to leave a footprint in the world. We are passionate about the potential that Cardano can provide to people all over the world. 

  

Lucas Macchiavelli 

Lucas started his journey in the traditional stock markets, and quickly made his road into a passion at 19 years old. After advising several clients to traditional investments he turned his sight into Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, where he recognized it's life changing potential. Thanks to blockchain technology many doors that were previously closed opened, crowdfunding was one of them. After seeing the difficulties with traditional funding methods, he came up with Token Allies. F8 Proposal Assessor & Cardano Ambassador. 

F7 Funded Proposer (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/382611) 

F8 Funded Proposer (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/400427) 

F9 Funded Proposer (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/64666)

 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasmacchiavelli/ 

Alex Pestchanker 

Alex has 24+ years of experience building Digital Products and Companies. He has a dual background, on one side a Solutions Architect and Developer (Cloud, Blockchain, C#, .NET, Java, Angular, DevOps) and on the other side a Company Builder and Advisor, building high-performance teams to deliver products that customers love (Customer Development, Agile, Lean, Design Thinking). Alex is also a professor at ITBA (one of the most prestigious engineering universities in LATAM) and a public speaker, helping to build common knowledge around Digital Transformation, Exponential Organizations, and Abundance. 

Within Cardano, Alex is an active community member, performed as Proposal Assessor in F6, F7, F8 and F9 with high ratings on his assessments, and Veteran PA in F7, F8 and F9. He has also been awarded several times for his proposals and successfully completed most of them such as:

F6: Proposals Mentors Marketplace ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/369749-48088 ),

F7: Proposals Mentors Marketplace -cont (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/382926),

F8: DCorps - Digital company registry (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/400064),

F8:Funding real world Businesses (https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/422489-48088),

F9:Bringing Business to Cardano (https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/422416-48088), among others. 

Alex is also a 1st cohort ATALA-Prism Pioneer a 3rd cohort Plutus pioneer and 1st cohort Marlowe's pioneer. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apestchanker/ 

Facundo Lopez

His entrepreneurial mindset has led him to develop skills and live experiences throughout his company path that were essential when it came to create, design and execute Token Allies. His ambition, passion, perseverance and abilities, combined with all the knowledge acquired during his academic training, are crucial when carrying out and managing the project, especially when taking care of administrative issues. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/facundo-l%C3%B3pez-franceschi-b13814184/ 

Elias Aries

Started as a content creator, creating and managing CardanoWeekly, on Instagram. Through strategic marketing efforts, Elias witnessed firsthand the overwhelming support of the Cardano community and recognized the importance of simplifying information for a broader audience to comprehend the project and its ecosystem. This experience led him to join the Token Allies team, where he seamlessly transitioned his skills into a more institutional landscape.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elias-aires-342058236/

Both Alex and Lucas are known active members of the Cardano ecosystem, as cofounders of the LATAM Cardano Community helping to building impact in and out of the Latin America region and hosts of the LATAM Townhall and Spaces weekly meetings that aim to lower the barriers for adoption of Cardano in Latin America and organizers of the 13 CIP 1694 Cardano Decentralized Workshops held in LATAM and attendees of the Global CIP 1694 workshop in Edinburgh.

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

Our goals with this propossal is to establish relationships with key builders on the Blockchain industry, being representants and ambassadors of what Cardano´s technology and community is capable of. By

[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.

MILESTONE 1: (Month 1-2) Host 4 Spaces

• Contact and schedule spaces
• Create promotional material
• Promote the space
• Execute the space
• Generate Proof of Milestone

MILESTONE 2 (Month 3-4) Host 4 Spaces

• Contact and schedule spaces
• Create promotional material
• Promote the space
• Execute the space
• Generate Proof of Milestone

MILESTONE 3: (Month 5-6) Host 4 Spaces

• Contact and schedule spaces
• Create promotional material
• Promote the space
• Execute the space
• Generate Proof of Milestone

MILESTONE 4: (Month 6-8) Host 4 Spaces

• Contact and schedule spaces
• Create promotional material
• Promote the space
• Execute the space
• Generate final closing report

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

Deliverables will be the content generated by each space, including the recording and designs created for promotion, and the project milestone reports. With our proposal, we aim to onboard new investors who will become active participants in the Cardano ecosystem.

All milestones will produce the same outcomes and deliverables since they all require the same type of work. Hopefully, each milestone will introduce higher metrics.

MILESTONE 1, 2 ,3 & 4.

Outcomes for each Milestone:

• Host 4 Spaces

Deliveries:

• Content generated for promotion, recording, and metrics (views, projects, etc.)

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

Budget: 60720 ADA (At current rate: 0,31 = 18,823 USD)

• Community Manager: 25.600 ADA = 3200 ADA * Month for 8 Months 

• Host: 9600 ADA = 600 ADA per space * 16 Spaces 

• Designer: 12000 ADA = 1500 ADA * 8 Months  

• Paid Promotion / Incentives = 8000 ADA = 500 per Space * 16 Spaces

• +10% Price Variation Margin = 5520 ADA

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

If successful, our spaces will play a key role in the onboarding of hundreds of users to the Cardano ecosystem, and we will be able to establish essential connections that the Cardano community can leverage. This value is often hard to measure, but it could substantially improve the strength of the Cardano community.

[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