Wolfram Dashboard: Social, Finance, Governance and Ecosystem

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Jon Woodard

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Incorporated)

[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] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

A "Financial, Social, Governance and Ecosystem" dashboard upgrade through a significant expansion of the current Wolfram Governance Dashboard to cover broader aspects of the Cardano ecosystem.

[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?

No

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

The backend data will provide an open API access at a free tier level, but there will be a premium tier level that will incur a cost.

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) is committed to making blockchain data computational and easily accessible. Currently, exploring the intricacies of the Cardano ecosystem, including its apps, stakepools, developers, dashboards and Project Catalyst itself, requires hours of dedicated research for both users and developers. To address this issue, WBL proposes expanding our existing dashboard and API to provide a comprehensive project that caters to an even wider range of expectations. Our proposal seeks to expand target areas from one to more; from governance to finance, social, and ecosystem data.

Wolfram Cardano Dashboard: Video Presentation

Expanding Data Availability:

To ensure a more comprehensive exploration of the Cardano ecosystem, we aim to expand the scope of available data beyond governance. This expansion, will cover "off-chain Ecosystem Data," that encompasses various categories:

A. Social media data: 

By incorporating data from popular social media platforms and forums, we aim to provide near real-time insights into user sentiments, trends, and discussions. However, this depends on the evolving API policies and pricing structures set by these platforms (X, formerly Twitter, has changed considerably in the last year).

B. News data: 

Our proposal involves crawling and conducting analytics on top crypto news sources to offer users a well-rounded understanding of the latest developments and news within the Cardano community. This includes LLM interpretations.

C. Developer data: 

By conducting analytics on public sources like GitHub, we aim to provide valuable information about the developers and their contributions to the Cardano ecosystem.

D. Crypto Financial Data

As WBL adds access to crypto financial data from leading centralized and decentralized exchanges, we'll have the ability to add pricing data and trading pairs with relevant information to the Cardano ecosystem. In our "Price Feed Data Infrastructure" proposal, we're providing an open source solution to the difficult problem of aggregating historical price data and expanding to cover real-time data. Real time data will enable certain features of a dashboard that are more relevant to a Cardano user on a daily basis.

E. Self-reported Metadata: 

We propose enabling the Cardano community to contribute metadata on tokens, dApps, stakepools, communities, and community positions such as ambassadors, dReps, and catalyst circle members.

Summary of Project Objectives: 

• Expand off-chain "Ecosystem" data collection
• Social Media Data
• News Data
• Developer data
• Cardano Exchange pricing data
• Self-reported Data and Metadata
• Visualizations
• APIs
• Create self-registration service

Summary of Overall Benefits: 

• Broad data coverage
• Ecosystem data (social, news, devs)
• Historical and Real-Time exchange data
• Community provided data and metadata 
• Visual exploration
• Clean, educational, explanatory
• Enabling clear understanding of the various fields covered
• Developers services
• API services across data, metadata and analytics to make it easier to explore the Cardano ecosystem programmatically and build other visualizations and tools for that exploration

Our V1 dashboard was completed in Fund 8 for Catalyst users/voters/proposers/reviewers, we are confident in our ability to take on the next steps in this proposal. By expanding the existing dashboard and API with new features sets, we aim to simplify part of the Cardano ecosystem, making it more accessible.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

We are expanding the offerings of the governance dashboard to include:

1. Financial data (as an open source solution):
2. Historical
3. Real-Time
4. From centralized exchanges and Cardano's decentralized exchanges
5. Social data
6. News data
7. Developer data

These expansions improve the existing dashboard. Furthermore, the integration of Cardano decentralized exchanges, and trading pairs from centralized exchanges, makes the dashboard more relevant to understanding the ecosystem of tokens within Cardano in real-time.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

We have a strong emphasis on trust and accountability. We have a proven track record of delivering Project Catalyst projects through completion (7 total so far). This includes a previously completed dashboard which was developed from the ground up, starting from the conceptualization stage and culminating in its current V1 stage. We are building upon this success with already existing proof-of-concepts and MVPs in social, news, developer and exchange pricing components.

[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Ecosystem Data Management (Social/News/Developers)

1. Collecting social media/news/developer data
2. Populating social media database tables
3. Designing Analytics APIs for visualizations

Ecosystem Data Analytics (Social/News/Developers)

1. Define Analytics for visual representations
2. Display visualizations on the dashboard
3. Test/debug

Display financial data and analytics from API

1. Connect financial data platform to dashboard visualizations
2. Design and implement a crypto financial data and analytics section in the dashboard.
3. Enhance user experience

Closes out Reporting

1. Video
2. Close out report

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Jon Woodard, CEO

Jon Woodard is the CEO at Wolfram Blockchain Labs, where Jon coordinates the decentralized projects that connect the Wolfram Technology ecosystem to different DLT ecosystems. Previously at Wolfram Research Jon worked on projects at the direction of Wolfram Research CEO Stephen Wolfram and prior to that was a member of the team who worked on the monetization strategies and execution for Wolfram|Alpha. Jon has a background in economics and computational neuroscience. He enjoys cycling in his spare time.

Johan Veerman, CTO

Johan Veerman is General Manager at Wolfram Research South America and CTO at Wolfram Blockchain Labs. Previously he has been Science Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Peru and Chief Scientist on two Antarctic expeditions. Johan's background is on physics and business management. He enjoys playing soccer and is a certified cave diver.

Steph Macurdy, Head of Research and Education

Steph Macurdy has a background in economics, with a focus on complex systems. He attended the Real World Risk Institute in 2019, lead by Nassim Taleb, and has been investing in the crypto asset space since 2015. He previously worked for Tesla as an energy advisor and Cambridge Associates as an investment analyst. Steph is a youth soccer coach in the Philadelphia area and is interested in permaculture.

Gabriela Guerra Galan, Project Manager

Gabriela Guerra Galan: Gabriela has 15+ years of experience leading projects. She is a certified PMP and Product Owner with bachelor's degree in Mechatronical Engineering, complemented by a master's degree in Automotive Engineering. As the co-founder of Bloinx, a startup that secured funding from the UNICEF Innovation Fund, she has demonstrated a passion for driving innovation and social impact.

Daniel Suarez, Manager Blockchain Integrations

Daniel Suarez: Daniel is a Manager at Wolfram Research. He is in charge of the software architecture as manager of the blockchain project, and has been with the company for seven years. Daniel has a background in electronic engineering, focusing on Digital Signal Processing and Parallel Computing. Previously, he has experience as a radar software engineer at Jicamarca Radio Observatory. He enjoys playing drums.

Piero Sanchez, Lead Developer

Piero Sanchez: Piero is Lead Developer of Blockchain Integrations at Wolfram Blockchain Labs/Wolfram Research South America. Piero has been with the company for five years, and he is in charge of integrating and maintaining new blockchain technologies with the Wolfram Language, as well as helping other team members with technical tasks. He has a background in experimental physics and quantum optics and has worked in the blockchain group since it started. In his free time, he likes to play video games and board games.

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

1. Ecosystem Data Management (Social/News/Developers) - (₳45,143)
2. Populating social media database tables
3. Designing Analytics APIs for visualizations
4. Ecosystem Data Analytics (Social/News/Developers) - (₳43,429)
5. Define Analytics
6. Display visualizations on the dashboard
7. Test/Debug
8. Display financial data and analytics from API - (₳36,571)
9. Perform data exploration and develop mock-ups.
10. Design and implement a crypto financial data and analytics section in the dashboard.
11. Enhance user experience
12. Close out Reporting - (₳10,971)
13. Video
14. Close out report

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

We're creating a Governance, Financial, Social, Developer and Ecosystem dashboard for Cardano, using real-time and off-chain data. This tool is a good investment because it's the continuation of our V1 dashboard which focused solely on Governance, so now we can expand into new territory. We have made significant progress on each of the areas described since unsuccessful outcome of this proposal in Fund 10.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agrees to Fund 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