Use cases deliver adoption and real world utility of Cardano to a global base of users and customers. Use cases can be in the nature of applications, products, and new services that lay the foundations for innovative business ideas to flourish on Cardano.

The Cardano Use Cases: Solution category is aimed towards projects seeking to develop and test the technical feasibility of solutions and prepare the innovation to a minimum viable product (MVP) stage of readiness.

Proposers in this category must demonstrate that the innovation in the product, service, or innovative business model functionally works. 

By the end of your proposed project, you should be able to demonstrate the extent that the proposed MVP is usable on and beneficial to Cardano or a Cardano L2 service, side-chain, or partner-chain.

Submissions are encouraged from proposers of products or services that intend to deploy first the solution via the suite of testnet environments offered by the wider Cardano ecosystem, before deploying live onto the Cardano mainchain. 

Funding Guidance:

300k ada is the maximum amount of funding a single proposal can request in Cardano Use Cases: Solution category.

Projects in this category do not need to be open source and may be proprietary, however in all cases the proposed technology solution must be for the benefit of the Cardano ecosystem. 

Applications must include evidence of an existing prototype that is made publicly available and accessible to the Cardano community as part of the submission process. 

Areas of Interest:

• Disruptive innovation for industrial use cases using blockchain and smart contracts such as but not limited to applications for: alternative finance (Defi, RealFi), authenticated ownership and provenance, digital identity, Internet of Things, impact and social good, gaming and entertainment, manufacturing, marketplaces, oracles, supply chain and logistics, tokenization, zero-knowledge and privacy-preservation
• Blockchain research as it converges with other exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine, next-generation distributed compute
• Projects and ventures porting from other ecosystems to deploy on Cardano or bridging to other ecosystems
• Projects which make use of Cardano-based scaling solutions such as Hydra or alternatives  

Eligibility: 

The following are examples of proposals that will not be funded under the Cardano Use Cases: Solution category: 

• Proposals that do not include an existing prototype as part of the proposal application. 
• Proposals that focus exclusively on brand new product or service ideas that have not yet been designed and tested as a proof of concept.