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Cardano’s potential shines through interactive apps. Centralized platforms limit trust and depth. Our solution leverages Cardano to educate, certify expertise, and empower confident deployment.
Decentralized quiz app on Cardano educates users, certifies expertise with NFT badges, and empowers deployment via gamified quizzes, secure question generation, and ADA rewards.
This is the total amount allocated to Cardano On-Chain Quiz & Trivia DApp: Learning with Rewards.
Please provide your proposal title
Cardano On-Chain Quiz & Trivia DApp: Learning with Rewards
Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA
65000
Please specify how many months you expect your project to last
6
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No
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en
What is the problem you want to solve?
Cardano’s potential shines through interactive apps. Centralized platforms limit trust and depth. Our solution leverages Cardano to educate, certify expertise, and empower confident deployment.
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Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?
No
Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'
No dependencies
Will your project's outputs be fully open source?
Yes
License and Additional Information
The Cardano On-Chain Quiz & Trivia App’s code and content are open-source on GitHub under the MIT License, fostering community contributions, transparency, and ecosystem growth. This enables reuse, modification, and collaboration for Cardano’s decentralized app development.
Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal.
Learn to Earn
Describe what makes your idea innovative compared to what has been previously funded (whether by you or others).
The Cardano On-Chain Quiz App innovates by blending gamified education with Cardano’s blockchain, using DID, NFTs, and smart contracts.
Unlike typical apps, it offers short-answer/oral quizzes, community-driven content with secure randomization, and verifiable badges, fostering deep learning and deployment readiness.
It drives adoption and trust, setting a new standard for interactive blockchain education.
Describe what your prototype or MVP will demonstrate, and where it can be accessed.
The MVP will demonstrate on-chain authentication via wallets, an interactive quiz interface (multiple-choice, short-answer, oral), NFT badge minting and progress tracking. It takes inspiration and builds on our existing off-chain learning platform, https://app.weblearn-lm.com/, which serves as a basis for the on-chain solution.
Describe realistic measures of success, ideally with on-chain metrics.
Success includes users completing quizzes (on-chain metadata), NFT badges minted (testnet/mainnet), and ADA rewards distributed (smart contract transactions). Users engage in trivia and return regularly (app analytics). Many report improved Cardano understanding (surveys).
Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem
The Cardano On-Chain Quiz & Trivia App is a highly interactive mobile and web-based application designed as a comprehensive Cardano knowledge hub, delivering gamified quizzes and trivia to guide users from Beginner to Pro levels, empowering them to confidently deploy applications, smart contracts, or other solutions on the Cardano blockchain.
By integrating Cardano’s decentralized identity (Atala PRISM or similar) and on-chain metadata, the app ensures secure, transparent, and user-controlled data management.
The app promotes Cardano education through a structured learning journey, where users progress from foundational topics (e.g., staking, governance) to advanced concepts (e.g., Plutus smart contracts, DApp development), earning on-chain badges (non-transferable NFTs) at each stage—Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Pro.
These badges, recorded immutably on the Cardano blockchain, serve as trusted, tamper-proof certificates of expertise, independently verifiable by third parties such as Cardano projects, DApp developers, employers, or external platforms (e.g., educational institutions, job boards).
To ensure deep understanding and expressive learning, the app incorporates multiple-choice, short-answer, and oral-input quizzes, fostering critical thinking and impactful mastery of Cardano concepts. Community-driven content is a cornerstone, with users submitting questions through a gamified interface, logged on-chain for transparency.
These submissions are moderated off-chain, then randomized and rewritten using algorithms to ensure questions are unique, secure, and trusted, preventing duplication and maintaining quality. Users completing the entire learning journey receive ADA rewards, incentivizing deep engagement.
On-chain metadata tracks progress and provides intelligent insights into performance, enabling a classification system that reflects users’ readiness to contribute to Cardano.
Interactive features like real-time trivia, leaderboards, and secure question generation foster engagement, positioning the app as the go-to hub for mastering Cardano and building on its blockchain.
Key Features
On-Chain User Authentication:
• Users authenticate via a Cardano wallet (e.g., Lace, Yoroi) with Atala PRISM or a lightweight DID solution for secure login.
• Showcases Cardano’s decentralized identity capabilities.
Interactive Quiz Library:
• A comprehensive set of quizzes in English, covering Cardano’s blockchain, Ouroboros, staking, governance, Catalyst, and deployment topics (e.g., Plutus, DApps).
• Quizzes include multiple-choice, short-answer (e.g., “Explain how staking works in Cardano”), and oral-input formats (e.g., verbal responses via speech-to-text), categorized by difficulty (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Pro).
• Short-answer and oral-input quizzes encourage expressive learning and critical thinking, ensuring deeper understanding.
• Exact number of quizzes to be determined post-funding based on community feedback and development capacity.
On-Chain Progress Tracking with Insights:
• Quiz completions, scores, and milestones (including short-answer/oral responses) are recorded as metadata on Cardano, leveraging immutability to ensure achievements are tamper-proof and verifiable.
• Immutability guarantees that progress and certificates (badges) are trusted credentials, independently verifiable by third parties (e.g., Cardano projects, employers) via blockchain explorers or APIs.
• Metadata captures performance metrics (e.g., accuracy, depth of short-answer responses), offering insights into readiness to build on Cardano.
• Interactive dashboard displays visual progress maps and analytics.
Classification System with NFT Badges as Certificates:
• Users earn non-transferable NFT badges tied to a classification system, certified on-chain as verifiable certificates of expertise:
• Beginner: Completing foundational quizzes (e.g., “Staking Novice” badge).
• Intermediate: Completing mid-level quizzes (e.g., “Governance Scholar” badge).
• Advanced: Completing advanced quizzes (e.g., “DeFi Expert” badge).
• Pro: Completing the full learning journey, including deployment topics (e.g., “Cardano Developer” badge).
• Badges serve as certificates, independently verifiable by third parties (e.g., Cardano projects, DApp teams, employers, or platforms like LinkedIn) using Cardano’s blockchain.
• Badges are minted on Cardano, showcasing NFT capabilities.
Interactive Trivia Challenges:
• Weekly real-time trivia games with live leaderboards, featuring timers, score updates, and chat, including short-answer or oral-input options for select questions.
• Questions are randomized from the approved knowledge base to ensure variety and fairness.
• Leaderboard rankings stored as metadata, leveraging immutability for transparency.
Community-Driven Content:
• Users submit quiz questions (including multiple-choice, short-answer, or oral formats) via a gamified interface, logged on-chain as metadata to ensure transparency and attribution.
• Off-chain moderation by community moderators reviews submissions for accuracy, relevance, and originality, approving high-quality questions.
• Approved questions are processed by an algorithm to:
• Randomize: Questions are dynamically selected and shuffled for each quiz session, using a randomization algorithm to prevent predictability and ensure variety.
• Rewrite: Approved questions are rephrased (e.g., changing wording or structure) by moderators or AI-assisted tools to avoid duplication and enhance clarity, maintaining consistency with Cardano concepts.
• Generate: New questions are derived from the knowledge base by combining user submissions with curated templates, ensuring a growing, unique question pool.
• On-chain logging of approved questions and their metadata (e.g., submitter wallet, approval timestamp) ensures trust and traceability.
• Randomization and rewriting processes are secured against manipulation by using cryptographic hashing (e.g., question IDs stored on-chain) and moderation oversight, ensuring questions are trusted and aligned with Cardano’s ecosystem.
• Users earning approved submissions receive a “Contributor” badge, incentivizing participation.
ADA Reward System:
• Users completing the entire learning journey (achieving the “Cardano Developer” badge) receive ADA, capped
• Rewards distributed via smart contracts, showcasing automated payouts
Educational Feedback:
• Real-time feedback with explanations, including evaluations for short-answer and oral responses, linking to Cardano resources (e.g., Plutus documentation).
User Experience
• Onboarding: Users connect their Lace wallet, authenticate via DID, and complete an animated tutorial quiz.
• Quiz Interaction: Users select a quiz (e.g., “Plutus Basics”), answer randomized multiple-choice, short-answer (e.g., “Describe a Plutus script’s role”), or oral-input questions (e.g., verbally explaining Ouroboros via speech-to-text), receiving tailored feedback with deployment tips.
• Progress Tracking: Completions and badges (e.g., “Cardano Developer”) are recorded immutably on-chain, serving as verifiable certificates. Dashboard shows analytics (e.g., depth of short-answer responses, accuracy in smart contract quizzes) and classification level.
• Trivia Challenges: Users join “DApp Deployment Trivia,” answer randomized questions (including short-answer/oral formats), compete with live scores, and rank on-chain.
• Community Engagement: Users submit questions via a gamified form, which are logged on-chain, moderated off-chain, and rewritten/randomized for uniqueness. Approved contributors earn a “Contributor” badge.
• ADA Rewards: Upon completing the learning journey, users earn the “Cardano Developer” badge and ADA.
• Social Sharing: Users share badges on X or LinkedIn, linking to on-chain records for third-party verification.
Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community
The app aligns with the Cardano Use Cases: Concept category by:
• Certifying Expertise: On-chain badges serve as tamper-proof certificates, independently verifiable by third parties, enhancing credibility for deployment or governance roles.
• Empowering Deployment: Guides users from Beginner to Pro, equipping them to deploy DApps or smart contracts through expressive learning formats.
• Promoting Education: Serves as a knowledge hub, simplifying topics and enabling mastery of Cardano, and encouraging mastery of Cardano with the incentive of ADA rewards and verifiable badges.
• Incentivizing Engagement: Interactive quizzes, trivia, badges, and ADA rewards drive participation, with secure, unique question generation fostering trust.
• Community Growth: The classification system and community-driven content foster achievement, encouraging contributions as developers or innovators.
• Showcasing Cardano: Demonstrates DID, NFTs, metadata, and smart contracts in a practical use case.
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?
As a dedicated Cardano Ambassador, I am committed to delivering this project with integrity, transparency, and accountability. Over the past four years, I have led Cardano adoption efforts across Ghana and Kenya through governance workshops, constitutional events, and community education programs.
My active involvement in the Cardano community has provided me with a solid understanding of its technology and principles, ensuring that the project aligns with the values and vision of the Cardano ecosystem.
My contributions are well-known and appreciated within the community, which fosters trust in my capability to lead this initiative.
To validate the feasibility of this project, we will leverage feedback and insights from user interactions and engagements to tailor our approach to community needs.
This systematic approach will ensure our initiatives are not only impactful but also sustainable within the broader Cardano community.
Milestone Title
MVP Development and Initial Content Creation
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
3
Cost
27000
Progress
40 %
Milestone Title
Beta Launch and Community Testing
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
2
Cost
20000
Progress
70 %
Milestone Title
Full Launch and Community Rollout
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
1
Cost
10000
Progress
90 %
Milestone Title
Project Close-Out and Reporting
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
1
Cost
8000
Progress
100 %
Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources
Total Requested: ₳65,000
Breakdown:Development (₳35,000):
Mobile/web app with interactive features (Flutter/React Native), wallet APIs, Atala PRISM, smart contracts for NFTs/rewards, metadata analytics, speech-to-text integration, and randomization/rewriting algorithms for question generation.
Content Creation (₳7,000):
A structured set of quiz questions in English, including multiple-choice, short-answer, and oral-input formats, with moderated and rewritten community submissions (exact number to be determined post-funding).
Testing & Security (₳10,000): Smart contract audits for metadata, NFTs, and rewards; beta testing for interactivity, analytics, speech-to-text, and question randomization.
Reward Pool (₳8,000): 5–10 ADA per user (average 8 ADA) for 500 users (~4,000 ADA at ₳2/ADA).
Marketing & Outreach (₳3,000): X campaigns, AMAs, Cardano hub partnerships.
Moderation & Maintenance (₳2,000): Community question moderation, 6-month updates, and close-out report/video production.
How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?
The ₳65,000 cost delivers high value by educating users through an open-source (MIT License) quiz app, minting NFT badges as verifiable credentials, and distributing ADA rewards to users.
It showcases Cardano’s DID, smart contracts, and metadata, fostering trust and engagement.
Community-driven content and low-cost moderation keep expenses lean. Led by Jeremiah Baani, a Cardano Ambassador, the app drives adoption, empowers developers, and enhances ecosystem growth with a scalable, transparent platform.
Breakdown Impact: Educates a broad audience, certifies expertise, and prepares Pro-level users for deployment, with badge recognition by third parties.
Ecosystem Benefits: Boosts Cardano’s visibility and developer onboarding via practical use of blockchain features.
Terms and Conditions:
Yes
Abdul Razak: Senior Software and Geospatial Engineer with over 10 years of experience developing advanced Learning Management Systems for universities and colleges. Holds a degree in Geomatic Engineering from the University of Mines and Technology.
As CTO of Nest Systems and a 2016 Digital Change Leader, Abdul has led AI-powered learning platforms from concept to deployment.
His expertise in web and mapping technologies, combined with his role in Landano (a Cardano-based land title system), equips him to drive the quiz app’s development, ensuring user-friendly, engaging, and Cardano-integrated educational tools.
Jeremiah Baani: Cardano Ambassador in Ghana and founder of Cardano Africa Academy. Organized major Cardano meetups across Ghana and beyond, engaging over 1,000 students with Cardano’s blockchain opportunities over two years.
Trained ~50 active Catalyst proposers and reviewers through in-person and virtual workshops. As an IT professional, Educational Technologist, and Instructional Designer, he holds an MPhil in Information Technology. As CEO of the Center for Technology Education and Innovation Lab (Cteil), a small IT startup, he empowers youth with emerging technologies, making him ideal to lead the quiz app’s development for user-friendly, community-driven Cardano education.