Quiz Bank building and Edu Gamification for Cardano ecosystem

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Vo Nhat Cuong

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

Entity (Not Incorporated)

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

We solve the lack of engaging Cardano learning by creating an AI-powered quiz game with on-chain achievements. Learners defeat BOSSes, advance levels, and earn $ADA rewards based on their knowledge.

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

All of our source call will be shared to community under Apache 2.0 open source license

[METADATA] Horizons

Learn to Earn

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution

How do you perceive the problem you are solving?

We plan to collect Cardano knowledge (both general Cardano ecosystem knowledge and developer knowledge) to train with LLM AI. After that, we implement a tool to generate a quiz bank for Cardano (2000+ quizzes and target 10k quizzes later). Based on the Cardano quiz bank, we will implement the Cardano Race Track Game as follows:

• Participants will learn about Cardano through the games and quiz bank embedded into the game.
• Participants’ mission: defeat the BOSS in each level to increase their level.
• Levels of difficulty: 5+ levels of difficulty with the quiz bank.
• At higher rounds, the BOSS will have more health and advanced skills, requiring learners to gain more health and items to defeat the BOSS.
• Participants' rewards: health and items based on the number of solved problems and the time taken to solve them. This motivates participants to learn Cardano to earn rewards to defeat the BOSS.
• Leaderboard: all learners will be ranked. Achievements will be recorded on-chain on Cardano.
• $ADA rewards: for top learners in the month and quarter.

What are your reasons for approaching it in the way that you have?

From learning various courses, we find that the drop rate of learners is very high. To educate people about Web3 and Cardano, we need to engage them by offering a learning experience similar to playing a game—where they can play, enjoy, and lead just like they would in a game.

Who will your project engage?

Our game will attract four main user groups:

1. General Web3 users: to learn Cardano
2. General Web2 users: to learn Cardano and Web3
3. Web3 developers: to learn Cardano
4. Web2 developers: to learn Cardano and Web3

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

In what way will the success of your project bring value to the Cardano Community?

• This project enables people to learn Cardano like playing a game, thus promoting Cardano more easily to both Web2 and Web3 users.
• The project will create a large quiz bank for Cardano.
• New updates and knowledge of Cardano will be reflected through the game.
• Non-tech users and developers can learn about Cardano while playing.
• It will educate a significant number of people about Cardano through game tournaments.
• The project will be open source, allowing other projects to save time when developing similar products.
• The achievements of participants are recorded on-chain, which increases the number of transactions and educates users about on-chain transactions naturally.

How will you measure this impact?

• Quantitative: Number of participants, number of quizzes in the quiz bank.
• Qualitative: Feedback and ratings from both non-tech users and developers.

How will you share the outputs and opportunities that result from your project?

• Outputs and opportunities, as well as project progress, will be regularly updated on GitHub and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram).

[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 experience developing games, AI and edtech solutions for 3+ years, with support from an experienced developer team with 10+ years of experience. We participated various Web3 education programs and understand the pain points pretty well. We are advised by experienced lecturers for quiz, game design, and tournament organizing. 

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

1st Month

Milestone outputs:

• Collect Cardano’s documents and data
• Clean data and pre-processing
• Collect Cardano’s developer documents and data
• Clean data and pre-processing
• Project management (organizing, and controlling resources, tasks)

Acceptance criteria

• Collect all data to prepare for production
• Reviewing all data to check missing parts and ensure the quality of data
• Categorize data into groups to be able to group quiz later

Evidence of milestone completion

• List of data
• Shared drive for data storage
• Category of data
• Check list of data cleaning and preprocessing
• Meeting minutes and report for the whole process

2st Month

Milestone outputs:

• Cardano data ready for LLM AI training
• LLM AI trained with Cardano data
• A tool for auto generating quiz for Cardano with 5 level of difficulty (frontend, backend, and AI)
• Quiz bank generating with the tool (minimum 2000 quiz)
• Checking and validating the quiz bank
• Project management (organizing, and controlling resources, tasks)
• Game play design

Acceptance criteria

• Proper data set for Cardano
• Reviewing all data set
• Verifying training process for Cardano data
• Design Cardano quiz bank generating tool
• Backend, frontend, and AI API based development for the quiz bank generating tool
• Gathering feedback for game design
• Testing and adjusting UI of the tool based on feedback and user requirements

Evidence of milestone completion

• List of data set
• Reviewing document for data set
• Quizz generating tool design
• Sourcode of the tool
• Document report for game play design

3rd, 4th, 5th month

Milestone outputs:

• Game-engine, frontend and backend implementation
• Quizz configuration and Quiz import function
• Leaderboard design and implementation
• Smart contract specification design
• Develop smart contracts.
• Project management (organizing, and controlling resources, tasks)

Acceptance criteria

• Game design with interesting game play
• Game UI/UX is attractive
• Quiz bank can be imported easily
• Leaderboard is updated real time
• Smart contract to be designed to ensure security
• UI/UX is friendly and easy to use
• Reviewing all pendings and planning, assigning tasks to members, Resolve roadblocks if any

Evidence of milestone completion

• Design report
• Game play report
• Quiz bank output report
• UI/UX and game design report
• Code repository on github will be public
• Smart contract vulnerables/bug testing report
• A copy of meeting minutes uploaded to github
• Game and tool testing report

6th, 7th, 8th month

Milestone outputs:

• Game and tool release
• Cardano gamification tournament marketing plan
• Cardano tournament detail plan report
• Collect user feedbacks
• Running the 1st Cardano tournament
• Cardano leaderboard for the first tournament
• Project management (organizing, and controlling resources, tasks)

Acceptance criteria

• Reviewing game and tool release
• Running the Cardano tournament
• Social and media promotion for the tournament
• Collect feedback from participants
• Reviewing all pendings and planning, assigning tasks to members, Resolve roadblocks if any

Evidence of milestone completion

• The URL of tool and game for report
• URL of tournament marketing plan
• Cardano tournament detail plan
• Github of the products
• URLs of social and media promotion for Cardano tournament
• Bug and feedback report
• Cardano leaderboard report

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

• Mr. Cuong Vo ( AI team lead, 1st prize @ Orai global hackathon, NEAR hackathon winner)
• Mr Tinh: AI developer (2+ years of experience with LLM AI)
• Mr Truc: game developer (2+ years of experience, SUI global hackathon winner)
• Ms An: UI/UX designer (3+ years of experience)
• Mr Truong: senior backend developer (7+ years of experience)
• Ms Linh Da: (3+ Frontend developer)
• Ms Lam Tran: (7+ years of experience in operations and marketing)

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

Our proposal is expected to be divided into 04 milestones with the following expected budget:

Total Budget & Costs

Total Budget: $34,000 (~100,000 ADA)  

USD/ADA Rate: 0.34  

Breakdown of Costs:

• Participant Rewards: 5882 ADA
• Marketing: 5882 ADA
• API and Other Fees: A portion of the budget will be allocated for these costs.

Duration: 

• The entire campaign will last for 8 months.

Outputs:

• 3 Public Goods:

1. Cardano AI Quiz Generating Tool
2. Educational Game
3. Quiz Bank of at least 2000+ quizzes

• Educational Game Tournament for Web2 and Web3 participants, focusing on the Cardano ecosystem and developers.

Link to budget

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

The value of the proposal for the Cardano ecosystem can be demonstrated by highlighting the following key benefits:

• Establish quiz bank for Cardano ecosystem: that can be used for multiple purposes later
• An easy and enjoyable way to educate people about Cardano and Cardano development
• Increase the number of transactions on the platform: with onchain interaction in-game
• Increase the number of wallets: there will be more creators because the tool is designed for non-tech users
• Attracting developers to Cardano ecosystem through educational game tournament