F12: Cardano Use Cases: Product

₳7,500,000 available

Proposals up to ₳500k

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: Product category is aimed towards projects and teams that are looking to enhance existing products, services, or innovative business propositions by significantly extending the features of pre-existing products that are already available in the market. 

Projects submitting to this category to add new capabilities to existing ventures and enterprises must show how their proposed solution leverages the Cardano blockchain. The focus of the grant is for technical development utilizing Cardano blockchain technology to extend the product that is already available in the market. 

Submissions are encouraged from proposers of enterprises, products, or services that are already used by people and customers in a live environment. Teams submitting in this category must demonstrate adoption with an active user base. This should include sharing relevant metrics, traffic, usage of their products to establish there is traction. 

Funding Guidance:

Applicants can submit a proposal for funding of up to ₳500k in Cardano Use Cases: Product category. Proposals requesting larger amounts will be automatically archived.

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

As part of the application, applicants must include evidence of a working product. The working product must already be deployed on Cardano with clear utilization of the family of Cardano-based protocols, tools, and methods that is already used by the Cardano community, or which aims to achieve the above as part of the proposal.

Areas of Interest:

• Disruptive ideas for industrial innovation using Cardano blockchain and smart contracts
• Identity, privacy, and zero knowledge applications and implementations
• Web3 integrations for gaming and entertainments
• Technical blockchain development converging with other exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine, next-generation distributed compute
• Projects and ventures porting from or bridging other ecosystems to Cardano (eg wallet adding ADA or Cardano Native Token CNT support) 
• 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 in the Cardano Use Cases: Product category: 

• Proposals that do not, as part of the application process, provide sufficient evidence of an existing product or service to clearly demonstrate adoption/usage/traction of their product
• Proposals that do not, as part of the application process provide sufficient evidence that the outcome of the proposal will leverage the Cardano blockchain
• Proposals that focus on brand new product or service ideas that have not yet been designed and developed at least to an MVP stage
• Proposals to develop content to information-only websites and blogs