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Civic sentiment data (polls, complaints, satisfaction) is siloed, mutable, and hard to verify. Cardano lacks a reusable, live pipeline to anchor this data on-chain as open public infrastructure.
Build a Demeter powered pipeline that writes anonymised civic polls and sentiment aggregates from our running app to Cardano, exposing a public Civic Sentiment Index and open verification tools.
Please provide your proposal title
Cardano Civic Sentiment Index with Demeter
Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA
100000
Please specify how many months you expect your project to last
9
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No
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en
What is the problem you want to solve?
Civic sentiment data (polls, complaints, satisfaction) is siloed, mutable, and hard to verify. Cardano lacks a reusable, live pipeline to anchor this data on-chain as open public infrastructure.
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Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?
Yes
Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'
The project depends on: Demeter as a managed Cardano infra provider (node, DB-Sync, APIs) under standard commercial terms. Cardano testnet/mainnet availability and stability. Supabase as the existing backend for our civic data application. These are standard infrastructure dependencies and do not require any new partnership agreements or deliverables from other organizations. If Demeter became unavailable, we could fall back to self-hosting Cardano infrastructure with reduced convenience but the same core functionality.
Will your project's outputs be fully open source?
No
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.
Core Platforma Civica (Civic Platform) web app remains closed-source and proprietary. New Cardano integration components (on-chain metadata schema, indexer examples, reference scripts) will be published open-source under MIT licence. All Civic Sentiment Index data written on-chain is public and reusable as open data (CC0-equivalent).
Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal
Governance
Describe what makes your idea innovative compared to what has been previously launched in the market (whether by you or others).
Most civic-tech tools keep sentiment and feedback data locked in siloed databases or closed dashboards, even when they use Cardano for voting or identity. Our project is innovative because it turns continuous civic interactions (polls, complaints, suggestions, satisfaction scores) into an open, reusable Civic Sentiment Index on Cardano, not just a voting tally or one-off snapshot.
Technically, we combine a running civic platform (already live in Romania) with Demeter-managed Cardano infrastructure to create a repeatable pipeline: civic data → anonymised aggregates → on-chain metadata → open indexer and explorer. This lowers the barrier for other cities or apps to adopt Cardano as their sentiment backbone without running their own nodes.
Compared to existing market solutions and dashboards, our index is:
• Tamper-evident: anchored on Cardano, not editable by local administrations.
• Standardised: same data model across cities and institutions.
• Open by default: anyone can query, analyse, or build on top of the on-chain data.
This turns Cardano into a neutral “civic data layer” that can outlive any single vendor, municipality, or platform.
Describe what your prototype or MVP will demonstrate, and where it can be accessed.
The MVP will demonstrate an end-to-end pipeline that takes real civic data from our existing platform (polls, complaints, suggestions and sentiment scores), aggregates it, and writes it to Cardano as Civic Sentiment Index entries using Demeter infrastructure.
Concretely, the prototype will show:
• Poll definitions and final results anchored on Cardano (testnet or mainnet).
• Periodic Civic Sentiment Index snapshots per city/institution/category stored as on-chain metadata.
• A public web explorer where users can browse this data, see the underlying transactions, and verify hashes.
• Basic documentation and example queries so other builders can integrate the index into their own tools.
The prototype will be accessible via:
• A public web app (linked from our current platform at platforma-civica.rocsi.eu).
• Cardano testnet/mainnet explorers and APIs, where transactions with our metadata label can be inspected directly.
Describe realistic measures of success, ideally with on-chain metrics.
We will track both on-chain and usage metrics. Key on-chain success indicators:
• At least 300 transactions containing Civic Sentiment Index or poll-anchoring metadata during the project.
• Index entries covering multiple cities/institutions and at least 12 consecutive weeks of sentiment snapshots.
• A clearly documented metadata schema and policy that can be reused by other projects.
Off-chain and adoption metrics:
• Active civic users from our platform contributing data that ends up in the on-chain index.
• At least 3 external stakeholders (researchers, NGOs, Cardano builders or governance tools) who test or query the index and provide feedback.
• Public availability of the explorer and docs, with usage logs (page views/API calls) demonstrating real interest.
Success means that by the end of the project, Cardano hosts a live, queryable Civic Sentiment Index with real-world data, and we have clear evidence that others can and want to build on top of it.
Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem
We will build a Demeter powered Civic Sentiment Index on Cardano, fed by real data from our existing civic-tech web application.
The solution has three layers:
Our current platform collects structured civic data from real users:
This gives us a rich, continuous stream of sociological data that today lives only in a Postgres/Supabase database.
We will add a dedicated backend service that runs on top of Demeter’s managed Cardano infrastructure.
This service will:
Poll definitions and final results (so questions and outcomes can’t be altered later).
Periodic sentiment index snapshots per city/institution/category (e.g. weekly trust/satisfaction scores and participation levels).
Demeter will provide the Cardano node, DB-Sync / APIs and submission endpoints, so we can focus on the data model and application logic instead of low-level infra.
On top of this, we will deliver:
A Civic Sentiment Explorer web page, linked from our platform, where anyone can:
A small open-source toolkit (MIT licence) with:
Example 1 – Poll creation and result anchoring
A public institution or community admin creates a poll in our platform (e.g. “How satisfied are you with public transport in your city?”). When the poll is published, the backend creates a canonical JSON definition (question text, scale, target city, tags, etc.) and stores it in the database.
We compute a hash of this definition and send a Cardano transaction via Demeter containing:
When the poll closes, we aggregate responses into final results (total responses, average rating, distribution across the scale).
A second transaction anchors the final results on-chain, referencing the same poll ID, so anyone can verify that the published results match what was committed.
Example 2 – Weekly Civic Sentiment Index snapshot
On a weekly schedule, a backend job reads from Supabase:
It stores the full JSON off-chain, computes its hash, and sends a transaction with:
The web explorer and any external indexer can then read these transactions (via DB-Sync / APIs) and reconstruct time series charts of civic sentiment backed by the Cardano ledger.
The index will be designed to be research friendly but privacy preserving:
This directly tackles the current situation where civic data is either locked in private CRMs or shared in opaque PDFs that cannot be audited or reused.
Cardano provides the neutral, tamper-evident ledger where civic indexes can live beyond the lifespan of any one vendor or local administration.
Demeter lowers the barrier for us and others by:
By packaging our metadata schema and example scripts, we make it straightforward for other civic platforms or municipalities to:
Today, civic sentiment data is:
Our solution:
For Cardano, this is a new class of governance-oriented on-chain utility. Instead of only recording votes, the chain becomes a persistent, trustworthy record of how communities feel about their institutions over time.
This turns our already-built civic platform into a Cardano-backed governance data source, and gives the ecosystem a reusable pattern for publishing real-world civic sentiment on-chain.
Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community
This project turns Cardano into a live, queryable backbone for civic sentiment and public accountability data, not just a platform for votes or financial transactions. By publishing a Civic Sentiment Index on-chain, based on real interactions between citizens and public institutions, we bring a new type of governance signal into the ecosystem: a continuous view of how people feel about services, policies and institutions over time.
Today, most governance use cases on Cardano are centred on discrete events such as elections or treasury votes. Our work adds the missing layer between those events: the day-to-day feelings, complaints, suggestions and satisfaction scores that rarely leave municipal CRMs or private dashboards. Anchoring this information as anonymised aggregates and poll results on Cardano makes it tamper-evident, independently verifiable and easy to reuse. Instead of only seeing “how people voted”, the ecosystem can also observe “how people felt” as policies are designed, implemented and adjusted.
For the Cardano community, this becomes a new governance primitive. Builders can combine voting data with sentiment data in dashboards and decision-support tools. Researchers and NGOs can use a neutral, blockchain-backed time series to study trust in institutions, the impact of local projects, or changes in public mood. Public institutions, in turn, can refer to a ledger-anchored index when they want to demonstrate progress or acknowledge problems, rather than relying on internal spreadsheets that are easy to contest.
The project also acts as a practical reference for teams that want to use Demeter but do not have the resources to run and maintain their own Cardano node and DB-Sync setup. We will document how we design a metadata schema, submit transactions, read them back and visualise them in a web explorer. This shows, in a concrete and non-DeFi context, how a web application can integrate Cardano as an auditable data layer by standing on top of Demeter’s managed infrastructure. Other SaaS products, civic platforms or registries can follow the same pattern for their own domains.
A key part of the impact is that we are not just publishing a one-off dataset. We are defining a reusable Civic Sentiment Index format and providing a small open-source toolkit with the schema, example queries and explorer code. Any other city, civic platform or Cardano project can adopt the same structure, send their metrics to the chain and immediately benefit from network effects. Analytics teams, wallet projects and DAO tooling providers can read from a single, well-documented standard instead of dealing with bespoke APIs.
Because our data source is a real civic platform already being piloted in Romanian municipalities, the story is grounded in practice rather than theory. The transactions represent real complaints and suggestions, real satisfaction and trust scores, and real institutional responses that citizens can recognise. This provides a strong narrative for public-sector and govtech conversations about Cardano: we can demonstrate how the blockchain helps make civic feedback more transparent, auditable and durable than traditional databases or social media posts.
All Civic Sentiment Index entries written to the blockchain are treated as public-domain open data. This makes them particularly attractive to academics, journalists and community analysts, who can reuse the information in dashboards, reports and research without licensing friction. At the same time, the focus on aggregated metrics and hashed snapshots keeps individual citizens’ privacy protected.
For Catalyst and the broader Cardano governance ecosystem, the project offers an additional benefit: it creates a testbed for experimenting with sentiment around Cardano-related initiatives themselves. In the future, similar pipelines could be used to track how communities feel about protocol changes, CIPs or treasury decisions, feeding richer information back into governance processes.
Finally, by exposing a simple explorer and clear documentation, we give multiple groups entry points into the project. Developers can fork and extend the toolkit. Governance and community groups can use the index in their workshops and discussions. Non-technical citizens and NGOs can see their feedback reflected in a neutral, blockchain-backed index, which can increase trust both in the civic platform and in Cardano as an infrastructure for public good.
In summary, the project strengthens Cardano by introducing a new, governance-focused form of on-chain utility, by providing a concrete Demeter integration that others can follow, and by establishing a shared civic data layer that multiple actors across the ecosystem can write to and build upon.
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?
This proposal stands on top of work and skills that are already proven in practice. The core proposer is the builder and operator of the existing civic platform at platforma-civica.rocsi.eu, which runs on Google Cloud with a Supabase/Postgres backend and a modern TypeScript/React frontend. The same person manages Linux servers, SSL and DNS configuration, deployment scripts and integrations with external APIs and KYC providers. In other words, the combination of application development, infrastructure management and integration work required for this proposal is already part of day-to-day operations.
Because of that, we are not designing the Civic Sentiment Index in a vacuum. The current platform already handles real users, institutions, polls, suggestions, complaints and sentiment scores, so the data model for the index is grounded in real civic interactions. We know which fields matter to local administrations, which sentiment scales are actually used and how data behaves over time. This significantly reduces the risk that we design an elegant but impractical schema.
On the Cardano side, the proposer is an active participant in the ecosystem and is familiar with operating infrastructure on cloud providers. Demeter is deliberately chosen to reduce the operational burden of running and maintaining cardano-node and DB-Sync, so we can focus on designing metadata, constructing transactions and connecting them to the existing data pipeline. We will rely on established libraries such as Lucid or PyCardano and on standard Cardano metadata patterns rather than inventing bespoke mechanisms, which keeps the technical approach aligned with community practice.
Trust and accountability are addressed by how we structure the system. The existing civic platform, the new Cardano integration service and the public explorer will be separate components, each with its own deployment and monitoring. This separation makes it easier to test and evolve the Cardano layer without risking the core civic functionality. Privacy is built into the design: only aggregated, anonymised metrics and hashed snapshots are written to the blockchain, while free-text complaints, KYC information and any personally identifiable data remain in Supabase. Where there is a risk of very small groups being identifiable, we will employ thresholds or aggregation rules so that those metrics are not published at a granular level.
The dependency on Demeter is important but not absolute. Our architecture is intentionally designed so that, if needed, a self-hosted node and DB-Sync instance could replace Demeter’s services with configuration changes rather than a complete redesign. This reduces the risk associated with relying on a single infrastructure provider.
Feasibility will be validated step by step. We begin by defining the Civic Sentiment Index JSON schema and the corresponding on-chain metadata structure, and by running local scripts that generate index records from anonymised snapshots of our existing data. This first phase allows us to verify hashing, versioning and size constraints without touching the blockchain. Once the schema is stable, we connect to a Cardano testnet via Demeter and submit a small number of transactions with synthetic but realistic civic metrics, then inspect them through explorers and DB-Sync queries to confirm that encoding and decoding behave as expected.
When this proof of concept is reliable, we integrate it with a staging or limited-scope production environment of the civic platform so that a subset of real polls and sentiment aggregates is mirrored to the testnet on a schedule. At this stage we pay close attention to performance, error rates and corner cases such as very large polls or unusual categories, and we adjust the aggregation rules where needed. With real data flowing, we then build the Civic Sentiment Explorer and invite a small circle of external testers, ranging from local civic partners, researchers and Cardano community member to use it, compare what they see with off-chain reports and verify transaction details themselves. Their feedback provides a practical check that the index is not only technically correct but also understandable and trustworthy to non-developers.
Only after this full cycle on testnet do we enable mainnet submissions, starting with one or two municipalities and a limited set of metrics and then expanding once we are confident in stability and value. Because the core output of the project is on-chain data, each stage leaves behind verifiable artefacts: schemas and scripts, testnet transactions, explorer URLs, mainnet activity. The community can independently confirm whether the frequency of updates, number of transactions and coverage match what we report.
The proposer’s track record of delivering and operating complex web systems that combine frontends, databases, external APIs and cloud infrastructure, along with the existence of a live civic platform using the relevant data structures, makes this scope realistic for a focused nine-month project. The work is intentionally bounded: we are not trying to redesign governance; we are building a specific, well-defined index and the Cardano integration needed to keep it alive. Accountability is reinforced by the very nature of the solution: once the Civic Sentiment Index is on Cardano, its presence, frequency and content can be checked by anyone, which creates a strong alignment between what we promise in this proposal and what is actually delivered.
Milestone Title
Civic Sentiment Index schema and Demeter infrastructure setup
Milestone Outputs
Design and document the full architecture of the Cardano Civic Sentiment Index and prepare the infrastructure needed to implement it. This includes: a JSON schema for index entries and poll anchoring, a clear mapping from the existing Supabase tables to the on-chain schema, a chosen metadata label and versioning strategy, and a working Demeter workspace (cardano-node, DB-Sync/APIs) connected from our backend environment.
Local scripts will generate index records from anonymised sample data, compute hashes and validate that payload sizes and formats are compatible with Cardano transaction metadata limits.
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
2
Cost
18000
Progress
20 %
Milestone Title
Cardano testnet proof-of-concept with Civic Sentiment data
Milestone Outputs
Implement a working proof-of-concept on Cardano testnet that uses the schema from M1 to write and read Civic Sentiment Index entries and poll anchoring data. This includes a small backend service that connects to Demeter, constructs transactions with our metadata label, submits them to testnet, and then reads them back via DB-Sync / APIs. Using anonymised or synthetic civic data, the service will publish multiple index entries and poll records. A simple internal web page will list recent on-chain entries and link to a public testnet explorer so they can be inspected.
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Links to a short screencast or screenshots showing:
A summary document or README describing how the PoC is triggered, how many transactions were submitted, and how to query them back.
Representative transaction IDs on testnet that reviewers can check independently.
Logs or console output from the backend service showing successful submission and decoding of sample entries.
Delivery Month
4
Cost
22000
Progress
40 %
Milestone Title
Full testnet integration with live civic platform
Milestone Outputs
Connect the Cardano testnet pipeline to the running civic platform so that real civic interactions generate Civic Sentiment Index entries automatically. The backend will read from the existing Supabase database (polls, complaints, suggestions and sentiment scores), aggregate them according to the schema from M1, and use the M2 integration to publish index snapshots and poll records to testnet on a schedule. The Civic Sentiment Explorer will be updated to display these live testnet data series (per city, institution and category) pulled via Demeter / DB-Sync, not just synthetic examples.
Acceptance Criteria
A scheduled job (e.g. daily or weekly) running in our backend environment that automatically:
At least 8 consecutive weeks of Civic Sentiment Index snapshots written to testnet for at least one real municipality or institution set.
Poll creation and closure events from the civic platform result in corresponding testnet transactions that anchor poll definitions and final results.
The Civic Sentiment Explorer shows testnet data sourced from real platform usage (time series charts or lists), with links to the underlying testnet transactions.
Monitoring in place for submission failures and transaction volume, with basic metrics (number of index entries, number of poll records, last successful run).
Evidence of Completion
URL to the updated Civic Sentiment Explorer pointing at testnet data, plus a short screencast demonstrating:
A brief technical note or README that explains the scheduled job, its frequency, and how it maps Supabase data to on-chain records.
A list of representative testnet transaction IDs covering both index snapshots and poll anchoring, spanning at least eight weeks.
Screenshots or logs from the monitoring setup showing successful periodic runs and basic metrics (counts, last run timestamp).
Delivery Month
6
Cost
25000
Progress
60 %
Milestone Title
Mainnet deployment of Civic Sentiment Index and poll anchoring
Milestone Outputs
Promote the validated testnet pipeline to Cardano mainnet and run it with real civic data for at least one municipality or institution set. The backend jobs that aggregate civic data and submit index snapshots and poll anchoring transactions will be configured for mainnet via Demeter. The Civic Sentiment Explorer will gain a mainnet view so users can switch between testnet and mainnet data. Monitoring and basic alerting will be extended to cover mainnet submissions, with attention to transaction fees and reliability.
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
8
Cost
20000
Progress
80 %
Milestone Title
Documentation, open toolkit and community validation
Milestone Outputs
Finalize the project by packaging the Civic Sentiment Index into a reusable toolkit, publishing clear documentation, and validating the solution with external users. This includes: public documentation of the metadata schema and architecture; an MIT-licensed reference repository with example scripts and/or explorer components; and a short community testing phase where researchers, civic partners and Cardano builders use the explorer and data, then provide feedback. A concise final report will summarise the full pipeline, lessons learned and recommendations for adopters.
Acceptance Criteria
Public documentation page or site describing the Civic Sentiment Index concept, on-chain schema, privacy model, and integration steps for other platforms.
An open-source repository (MIT licence) containing at least:
The Civic Sentiment Explorer publicly accessible, with mainnet data available and clearly explained for non-technical users.
At least three external testers (e.g. researchers, NGOs or Cardano builders) have tried the explorer and/or toolkit and provided written feedback.
A final written report summarising what was delivered, on-chain activity achieved, feedback from testers and next steps for adoption.
Evidence of Completion
Links to the public documentation and the open-source repository.
URL of the live Civic Sentiment Explorer and a short screencast walkthrough aimed at new users.
Collected feedback from external testers (emails, forms or short quotes), referenced in the final report.
The final report document shared with Catalyst, including references to example transaction IDs and summaries of usage and impact.
Delivery Month
9
Cost
15000
Progress
100 %
Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources
The total requested budget is 100,000 ADA for a 9-month project. The cost is focused on engineering, infrastructure and documentation needed to design, implement and operate the Cardano Civic Sentiment Index and its tooling.
This covers the main development effort over 9 months:
Backend integration with Demeter (transaction construction, submission, metadata encoding/decoding).
Index aggregation jobs that read from Supabase and produce anonymised Civic Sentiment Index entries and poll records.
Testnet and mainnet deployment, monitoring, logging and error handling.
This work represents roughly one senior engineer working most of the time on the project, plus some support for code review and refactoring as the pipeline matures.
Design and implementation of the Civic Sentiment Explorer:
UI to browse index snapshots and poll records by city, institution and category.
Integration with Cardano explorers for transaction-level verification.
Mainnet / testnet switching and basic visualisations (lists and time-series charts).
Infrastructure costs over the 9-month period:
Demeter workspace fees for Cardano testnet and mainnet (node, DB-Sync/APIs).
Incremental Google Cloud costs for additional services, storage and bandwidth associated with the index jobs and explorer.
Monitoring, backups and basic security hardening to keep the civic platform and Cardano integration reliable.
Work dedicated to:
Designing and validating aggregation and suppression rules to protect user privacy.
Testing edge cases (large polls, unusual categories, partial data) on testnet.
Manual and automated tests to ensure that on-chain data matches the off-chain aggregates.
Preparation of reusable materials and adoption support:
Public documentation of the metadata schema, architecture and integration steps.
An MIT-licensed reference repository with example scripts/queries and configuration samples for Demeter.
Time spent organising and responding to external tester feedback (researchers, NGOs, Cardano builders), and producing the final report.
These category totals align with the milestone payments defined earlier:
M1 – 18,000 ADA
M2 – 22,000 ADA
M3 – 25,000 ADA
M4 – 20,000 ADA
M5 – 15,000 ADA
Together, they fund a lean but capable effort to turn an existing civic platform into a reusable Cardano-backed Civic Sentiment Index, with infrastructure and documentation that other projects can build on after the funded period ends.
How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?
The requested budget sits comfortably in the middle of the allowed range for this category and is directed almost entirely toward engineering, infrastructure and documentation rather than marketing or one-off events. Catalyst is not being asked to fund the creation of a new product from scratch, but to finance the Cardano integration layer and Civic Sentiment Index that extend an already running civic platform.
Most of the cost reflects the time of a small, focused team over nine months. That work includes designing a robust metadata schema, implementing the Demeter-powered integration service, connecting it to the existing Supabase data model, building the Civic Sentiment Explorer and hardening the pipeline through testnet and mainnet pilots. For a prototype that is intended to run with real users and real municipal data, this is a lean engineering commitment rather than an oversized team.
A smaller but important portion of the budget covers infrastructure and operations. Hosting a civic platform on Google Cloud and using managed Cardano infrastructure through Demeter generates ongoing costs for servers, storage, monitoring and bandwidth. Including these expenses ensures that the prototype can be deployed and maintained properly for the full duration of the project, instead of cutting corners on reliability or security just to save money.
The remaining funds are reserved for documentation, testing with civic partners and modest engagement with the Cardano community, mainly through guides and walkthroughs that help other builders reproduce the pattern. There is no allocation for giveaways, merchandising or re-grants; every expense is tied directly to building, deploying or supporting the on-chain index and its tooling.
In exchange, the ecosystem receives several durable benefits. Cardano gains a live Civic Sentiment Index backed by real municipal pilots, not just synthetic data. The project publishes a clear metadata schema and reference implementation that other teams can adopt, along with an explorer and example queries that make the data accessible to both technical and non-technical users. Perhaps most importantly, it establishes a concrete, documented pattern for using Demeter as an auditable data layer for governance-related information.
Because the underlying civic platform already exists and has been developed outside of Catalyst, the fund is effectively paying only for the “bridge” into Cardano and the shared index that sits there. That makes the spend highly leveraged: once the pipeline and schema are in place, adding new cities, institutions or partner platforms becomes relatively inexpensive, while the value to the ecosystem grows with each new adopter. The index can continue to generate meaningful, non-speculative on-chain activity and open data long after the funded period ends, providing a long-lived governance asset for a one-time development cost.
I confirm that evidence of prior research, whitepaper, design, or proof-of-concept is provided.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal includes ecosystem research and uses the findings to either (a) justify its uniqueness over existing solutions or (b) demonstrate the value of its novel approach.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal demonstrates technical capability via verifiable in-house talent or a confirmed development partner (GitHub, LinkedIn, portfolio, etc.)
Yes
I confirm that the proposer and all team members are in good standing with prior Catalyst projects.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal clearly defines the problem and the value of the on-chain utility.
Yes
I confirm that the primary goal of the proposal is a working prototype deployed on at least a Cardano testnet.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal outlines a credible and clear technical plan and architecture.
Yes
I confirm that the budget and timeline (≤ 12 months) are realistic for the proposed work.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal includes a community engagement and feedback plan to amplify prototype adoption with the Cardano ecosystem.
Yes
I confirm that the budget is for future development only; excludes retroactive funding, incentives, giveaways, re-granting, or sub-treasuries.
Yes
I Agree
Yes
Founder of the Romanian Cyber Space Initiative (ROCSI) and long-time independent builder with over 20 years of experience in software, digital products, and remote collaborations. Cardano Blockchain Certified Associate, actively involved in the ecosystem as a Web3 / blockchain advisor and decentralized governance enthusiast.
Mihai is the designer and main developer of the existing civic platform that powers this proposal, responsible for the frontend (TypeScript/React), the Supabase/Postgres backend, API integrations, and deployment on Google Cloud. He also manages Linux servers, SSL/DNS configuration, and continuous delivery scripts for multiple production services.
His background includes:
Within this project, Mihai will act as:
Supporting roles
The project will also rely on a small set of supporting contributors engaged on a part-time or contract basis:
Overall, the project is deliberately scoped so that a single experienced lead can deliver the core engineering work, while targeted specialist input is brought in only where it adds clear value (UX polish, privacy review, and domain validation).