[Proposal setup] Proposal title

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Space and Time: Deploying Thousands of Mini-apps to Cardano

[Proposal Summary] Budget Information

Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA

750000

[Proposal Summary] Time

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10

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No

Original Language

en

[Proposal Summary] Problem Statement

What is the problem you want to solve?

High technical barriers limit consumer app growth on Cardano. Few tools for nontechnical creators; ecosystem lacks easy app creation and usage tracking.

[Proposal Summary] Supporting Documentation

Supporting links

• https://www.spaceandtime.io
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• https://docs.spaceandtime.io/docs/what-is-space-and-time-quick-intro
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• https://spaceandtime.io/whitepaper
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• https://app.spaceandtime.ai/data-sets
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• https://github.com/spaceandtimefdn

[Proposal Summary] Project Dependencies

Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'

No dependencies

[Proposal Summary] Project Open Source

Will your project's outputs be fully open source?

Yes

Please provide details on the intellectual property (IP) status of your project outputs, including whether they will be released as open source or retained under another licence.

All apps generated through Dreamspace and deployed to Cardano will be open sourced under Apache 2.0 license.

Many development projects from the Space and Time foundation (developed by MakeInfinite Labs) are already open source (e.g., Proof of SQL, Blitzar, etc.), and we are committed to continuing that approach. Cardano-specific schemas, developer tools, SDKs, and example queries created under this proposal will be made publicly available and open for community use and contribution.

[Theme Selection] Theme

Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal

Smart Contracts

[Campaign Category] Category Questions

Describe your established collaborations.

The Space and Time and Make Infinite Labs teams are already supporting major customers publicly such as Fidelity, FTI Consulting, US Bank, and Chainlink. These collaborations demonstrate our ability to deliver data, analytics, and no-code app-generation capabilities at enterprise scale.

For this Cardano-focused initiative, Make Infinite Labs will work directly with Cardano technical leadership to ensure that Dreamspace-generated applications deployed on Cardano satisfy new partner use cases and align with ecosystem standards. Space and Time will support ecosystem partners on promotional, analytics, and data-integration needs post-deployment.

Space and Time ecosystem press releases and customer references: https://www.spaceandtime.io/news

Describe funding commitments.

Make Infinite Labs has raised $50M in venture financing from leading global investors. This capital fully funds the development, deployment, and scaling of Dreamspace and its multi-chain app-generation capabilities, including support for Cardano.

Seed Round – July 2022

• $10M led by Framework, with participation from DCG and additional strategic investors.

Strategic Round – September 2022

• $20M led by Microsoft’s M12 Venture Fund, with participation from HashKey, Framework, Polygon Ventures, SevenX, and Foresight.

Series A Round – August 2024

• $20M led by Framework, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Arrington, and Hivemind.

These commitments cover sustained product development, Dreamspace compute infrastructure, AI-generation systems, and cross-chain deployment tooling.

Describe your key performance metrics.

All KPIs for Dreamspace-generated Cardano applications will be tracked and aggregated into a public Space and Time dashboard. These measurements will include both onchain activity and offchain ecosystem growth.

Onchain KPIs

• Number of Dreamspace-generated applications deployed to Cardano mainnet.
• Unique Cardano wallet addresses interacting with these applications.
• Total transaction count and transaction volume across all deployed apps.
• Gas consumed by deployed smart contracts.
• Contract deployment frequency over time.

Offchain KPIs

• Number of new creators onboarded to Cardano through Dreamspace.
• Number of active Dreamspace users building specifically for Cardano.
• Monthly active users for each deployed app (MAU).

These KPIs reflect real usage, developer engagement, and the growth of new applications and users in the Cardano ecosystem. They also allow Catalyst reviewers and community members to observe the measurable impact of Dreamspace-generated deployment activity on Cardano adoption.

[Your Project and Solution] Solution

Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem

Cardano needs more consumer facing apps!

Building on Cardano currently requires skills in smart contract development, blockchain indexing, API integration, and frontend deployment. These requirements exclude most creators who lack coding experience, resulting in few consumer-facing applications on the network. Developers must manually handle contract code, connect to blockchain data through custom pipelines, and manage hosting and deployment, which increases time and cost. Cardano also has no integrated system to track and report usage metrics for deployed apps, making it difficult for ecosystem leaders to measure adoption.

“Lovable For Cardano”

• For those unfamiliar, Lovable is a no-code studio for non-technical creators to generate and publish production ready apps.
• Watch this quick video to better understand Dreamspace: https://x.com/dreamspacehq/status/1955995696563409082?s=46
• We will integrate Cardano deployment into Dreamspace: an AI-powered, no-code app generation platform by MakeInfinite Labs (creators of Space and Time). Dreamspace lets anyone design, generate, and deploy production-grade onchain apps from a conversational chatbot interface.
• Note regarding Space and Time, the data foundation powering Dreamspace: Space and Time (SXT) is a Microsoft M12-backed, decentralized data warehouse that introduced the first sub-second zero knowledge proofs to crypto. Space and Time invented ZK proofs for data queries against chain activity, allowing smart contracts to execute SQL onchain.

Key Capabilities:

• AI-Generated Smart Contracts – Automatically create and audit Cardano-compatible contracts.
• Integrated Indexed Data – Connect to Cardano blockchain data and external APIs.
• One-Click Deployment – Launch to Cardano testnet or mainnet without coding.
• Ecosystem Analytics – Track and report app usage metrics to Cardano leadership.

This lowers the barrier to entry for dApp creation and drives measurable ecosystem growth by enabling thousands of nontechnical creators to build and launch consumer-facing apps on Cardano.

[Your Project and Solution] Impact

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

The integration of Dreamspace with Cardano will:

• Rapidly grow Cardano’s dApp ecosystem by onboarding thousands of existing Dreamspace creators to deploy apps directly on Cardano.
• Diversify the developer base by enabling nontechnical creators to participate in Cardano’s growth.
• Boost onchain activity through the launch of new consumer-facing applications.
• Provide actionable ecosystem insights via app indexing and reporting, including top apps, active users, transactions, and engagement trends.
• Enhance Cardano’s brand positioning as the first major blockchain with a fully integrated AI app generation and deployment studio.

[Your Project and Solution] Capabilities & 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?

After years in development, Dreamspace is already live today for creators to generate EVM apps at dream.space and we’re equipped to bring these capabilities to Cardano smart contract deployments. MakeInfinite Labs, the team behind Space and Time, has a proven track record of delivering blockchain indexing services used by 10,000+ monthly active developers since mid-2023. We have built tamperproof indexing solutions for multiple major chains, AI-powered prompt-to-SQL interfaces, and secure, high-performance APIs.

The MakeInfinite Labs (developers of Space and Time) engineering team comprises 20 devs and cryptographers, mostly Rust-focused. This team developed the first sub-second zero knowledge proofs for the crypto industry (in Rust!): https://github.com/spaceandtimefdn/sxt-proof-of-sql

Feasibility of the Project:

• Dreamspace is already a functioning platform generating and hosting production-grade web applications.
• The required Cardano deployment features (contract templates, deployment pipeline, indexed data integration) build directly on existing Space and Time and Dreamspace infrastructure.
• With ~20 engineers at MakeInfinite Labs, we have established engineering, DevOps, and product teams ready to execute, along with a security audit partner for smart contract review.

Let’s get more technical!

Cardano dapps require two codebases:

1. Onchain validators (stateless scripts checking transaction conditions)
2. Lucid-Evolution (TypeScript) for off-chain logic, wallet connection, transaction assembly, datum/redeemer encoding, and submission**.**

Dreamspace will generate:

1. Aiken for on-chain validators, modern syntax, type safety, and efficient compilation.
2. Lucid-Evolution (TypeScript) for off-chain logic, wallet connection, transaction assembly, datum/redeemer encoding, and submission.

The AI will be trained with Cardano UTXO validator patterns (including Anastasia Labs’ list of patterns) to produce secure templates. Each project:

1. Generates and audits Aiken + Lucid-Evolution code from a natural-language prompt.
2. Integrates Space and Time’s tamperproof indexer for blockchain data queries.
3. Runs locally with yaci-devkit, a sandbox Cardano network with explorer, Blockfrost-compatible API, and no tADA required.
4. Deploys to testnet or mainnet in one click after passing automated tests.

[Milestones] Project Milestones

Milestone Title

Milestone 1 – Scope & Integration Plan

Milestone Outputs

• A finalized scope document detailing the technical integration of Cardano deployment capabilities into the Dreamspace AI Studio.
• Includes architecture for Cardano smart contract generation, deployment pipeline, and indexed data integration.

Acceptance Criteria

• Scope document reviewed and approved internally.
• System design included for AI-generated smart contracts compatible with Cardano.
• Cardano API connection points defined for deployment and indexed data access.

Evidence of Completion

• Final PDF scope document detailing the technical integration.
• Internal sign-off from Dreamspace and Space and Time leadership.

Delivery Month

1

Cost

62500

Progress

10 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 2 – Prototype Cardano Deployment Pipeline

Milestone Outputs

Initial functional prototype enabling Dreamspace-generated smart contracts to be deployed to a Cardano testnet environment, including AI chatbot workflows and associated tooling to generate and audit smart contracts.

Acceptance Criteria

• User can create a basic mini-app in Dreamspace and deploy it to Cardano testnet.
• AI chatbot correctly generates Cardano-compatible contracts and passes internal audit checks.
• Indexed Cardano data can be queried and displayed in the app’s frontend.

Evidence of Completion

• Recorded demo of prototype deployment to Cardano testnet.
• Internal QA test results.
• GitHub repository or internal code repo containing prototype code.

Delivery Month

2

Cost

133333

Progress

20 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 3 – Full Feature Build for Cardano Deployment

Milestone Outputs

Expansion of the deployment pipeline to support production-grade Cardano mainnet applications, including integration of Cardano wallet connections, advanced smart contract features, and third party API connectivity.

Acceptance Criteria

• Mainnet-ready deployment workflows available in Dreamspace.
• Contracts pass automated security audits and manual code reviews.
• Dreamspace applications can use Cardano indexed data alongside external APIs.

Evidence of Completion

• Successful deployment of at least two production-grade sample apps to Cardano mainnet.
• Security audit report.
• Updated deployment process documentation.

Delivery Month

4

Cost

150000

Progress

50 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 4 – UAT and Ecosystem Partner Testing

Milestone Outputs

User Acceptance Testing with selected Cardano ecosystem partners, including performance testing, bug fixes, UX improvements, load testing under high transaction volumes, and stress testing of data query performance.

Acceptance Criteria

• At least five ecosystem partners successfully deploy applications using Dreamspace to Cardano testnet or mainnet.
• All high-priority bugs identified during UAT resolved.
• Documentation updated based on partner feedback.

Evidence of Completion

• Signed UAT completion forms from partners.
• List of deployed partner applications with links.
• Updated user documentation.

Delivery Month

5

Cost

141667

Progress

70 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 5 – Public Launch and Marketing

Milestone Outputs

Public release of Dreamspace’s Cardano deployment capabilities and tooling, including a launch marketing campaign targeting Cardano developers and nontechnical creators, and community webinars and workshops.

Acceptance Criteria

• Deployment to Cardano available to all Dreamspace users.
• At least three public marketing activities completed, such as webinars, social media campaigns, or blog posts.
• Documentation and tutorials publicly available.

Evidence of Completion

• Public announcement posts on official channels.
• Recordings of marketing events.
• Published documentation and tutorials on the Dreamspace platform.

Delivery Month

7

Cost

125000

Progress

80 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 6 – Final Report and Demonstration Video

Milestone Outputs

Comprehensive grant report and professionally produced demonstration video showcasing Cardano deployment in Dreamspace, including detailed metrics on adoption, user engagement, and transaction volumes, as well as a best practices guide for Cardano app deployment.

Acceptance Criteria

• Report detailing all milestones, budgets, and KPIs achieved.
• Video demonstrating building and deploying a full mini-app to Cardano using Dreamspace’s AI studio.
• Publication on official Dreamspace and Cardano community channels.

Evidence of Completion

• PDF final report.
• Public video link.
• GitHub repository with complete project code and documentation.
• Confirmation of deliverables by Catalyst reviewers.

Delivery Month

10

Cost

137500

Progress

100 %

[Final Pitch] Budget & Costs

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Engineering and Development

Core development of the Cardano deployment pipeline, AI smart contract generation modules, wallet integration, indexed data connections, and frontend workflows. Covers salaries for backend, frontend, and blockchain engineers.

Cost: 350,000 ADA

Infrastructure and Hosting

Cloud hosting for AI model inference, app build and deployment pipeline, indexing infrastructure, and production hosting for deployed Cardano mini-apps. Includes scaling costs for public launch.

Cost: 91,667 ADA

Security and QA

Third party smart contract security audits, code reviews, automated testing tools, and internal QA team costs for UAT and performance testing.

Cost: 70,833 ADA

Design and UX

UI and UX design for Cardano deployment features in Dreamspace, including onboarding flows, deployment dashboards, and tutorial materials.

Cost: 50,000 ADA

Marketing and Community Engagement

Public launch events, developer onboarding webinars, social media campaigns, and educational content creation targeted at Cardano ecosystem participants.

Cost: 62,500 ADA

Project Management and Coordination

Coordination between Space and Time, Dreamspace, and Cardano ecosystem partners, including milestone tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communications.

Cost: 37,500 ADA

Final Reporting and Demonstration

Production of the final report and professionally edited video showcasing the Cardano deployment process and ecosystem impact.

Cost: 87,500 ADA

[Final Pitch] Value for Money

How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?

This project introduces a capability to the Cardano ecosystem that has never existed before: a no-code, AI-powered studio (Dreamspace) that can generate production-grade onchain applications and deploy them directly to Cardano.

Dreamspace is more than just a "vibe coding" studio. It combines two transformative capabilities:

1. App Generation at Scale – Nontechnical creators can build and launch fully functional Cardano dApps without writing a single line of code. The platform generates and audits smart contracts, connects to Cardano-indexed data, and integrates with third-party APIs through a conversational chatbot interface. This drastically reduces the barrier to entry for building on Cardano.
2. Ecosystem Growth with Measurable Impact – Space and Time already has a large, active creator community in the thousands. Upon launch, we will drive these creators toward deploying to Cardano, resulting in a significant influx of new applications in a short timeframe. All deployed apps can be indexed, and we will provide Cardano leadership with detailed reports on top apps’ usage metrics, active users, transaction volume, and activity trends.

Why This Represents Strong ROI for Cardano: a wealth of real apps deployed

• Rapid Expansion of dapp Ecosystem – By making Cardano development accessible to nontechnical builders, we unlock a new wave of innovation and usage.
• Data-Driven Ecosystem Insights – Cardano leadership will have visibility into real-world adoption through app usage analytics.
• Sustainable Developer Pipeline – Once deployed, these apps remain in the ecosystem, continuing to generate transactions, attract users, and demonstrate Cardano’s utility.
• First-of-its-Kind Capability – No other blockchain currently has an integrated AI app studio + deployment + analytics solution of this scope. Cardano will be the first mover.

[Self-Assessment] Self-Assessment Checklist

I confirm that the lead applicant is a verified legal business entity.

Yes

I confirm that the lead org has a ≥2-year track record, and the consortium collectively has ≥$5M in verifiable annual revenue.

Yes

I confirm that evidence of collaboration with a qualified Tier-1 enterprise is provided.

Yes

I confirm that the proposer and all team members are in good standing with prior Catalyst projects.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal is for mature R&D or integration, not an early-stage concept or core infrastructure.

Yes

I confirm that evidence of a mature product is provided, with a clear integration plan if not already on Cardano.

Yes

I confirm that all key partners, including the Tier-1 collaborator, are clearly identified.

Yes

I confirm that a clear statement of the partner's in-kind or financial contributions is included.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal provides verifiable references (e.g., LinkedIn, portfolio) for key team members.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal includes clear KPIs for adoption (e.g., transaction volume, user growth). Forecast for projected on-chain transaction volume is provided with adequate justification.

Yes

I confirm that delivery is ≤ 12 months with clear milestones.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal includes a co-marketing or community engagement plan to amplify Cardano's visibility.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal budget is for future work only, not for completed tasks. No incentives, giveaways, private treasuries and regranting are included in the budget.

Yes

[Required Acknowledgements] Consent & Confirmation

I Agree

Yes