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ALDEA, the first Latin American DAO, is not currently self-sufficient to generate a treasury to fund its own growth.
ALDEA NFT Marketplace is the first use case of providing a service to the community while attempting to achieve self-sustainability.
This is the total amount allocated to ALDEA NFT - Community Marketplace.
ALDEA, the Latin American DAO, has been serving the community since its conception, aligned with its mission to enable change in Latin America by creating an ecosystem that will allow people to come together to communicate, self-govern, produce and trade as a Decentralized and Autonomous Community, with no third parties and with no central entities that may exercise any type of censorship in these interactions.
ALDEA needs some help to keep serving the community in a self-sustainable way!
2021 set the beginning of a journey towards bringing the Cardano blockchain processes and tools to the Latin American communities.
We started creating a community from scratch: a forum for regional SPOs, bringing the community together on different channels and gatherings. An example of such a collaboration is the ALDEA Wiki project, which provides incentivized ways for participants to learn, teach and collaborate with the Cardano community as a whole. This all comes together beautifully, truly building up towards ALDEA's mission: https://www.aldea-dao.org/about-eng.html of enabling change in the region by providing tools to communicate, self-govern, produce and trade.
After months of hard work, ALDEA was able to build not only the community, but also identify the mechanisms by which the DAO will be defined, through what is called "Iteration 0": https://iteracion0.aldea-dao.org/v/en
That's the name of the first iteration ALDEA is running, together with the community. During this iteration, which is still not automated or on-chain, ALDEA is learning how all of these interactions will be defined, to later on be formalized in a peer-reviewed whitepaper to finally be implemented.
As a way to kickstart the DAO treasure, the first idea was to put up an NFT sale. ALDEA Core Team has a great designer who put together a series of limited edition designer-level NFTs, representing the flags of the community (participating countries): https://nft.aldea-dao.org
The idea behind this sale was to gather funds to build up the treasure, but definitely not just that! The fact of participating in this NFT sale will grant governance tokens for the buyers once this is in place!
This treasure would be mostly used to fund proposals sent out by the community, "à la Project Catalyst" and in alignment with our mission. At the very same time, and aligned with Cardano's mission, we're building the community's knowledge in the whole Cardano ecosystem:
We came a long way. The numbers speak for themselves:
These accomplishments took long hours of dedication and hard work, and we realize there is MUCH MORE WORK to be done!
In order to take ALDEA to the next level, we have a dream… but more importantly, we have a plan: ALDEA will be self-sustainable by H2 2022! Help us make this dream come true!
Solution to the problem
ALDEA created a site to put through the NFT sale. While functional, this solution is not scalable or self-sustainable.
Introducing: ALDEA NFT Marketplace!
Take this concept and scale it up to take advantage of the power of the community, the power of the DAO and the power of the platform!
This new Marketplace model will allow for simple but extremely powerful interactions:
Partners
ALDEA NFT is powered by Tango Crypto API Services, a Project Catalyst Fund6 Winner proposal and part of our community.
Use cases
ALDEA NFT Marketplace can be used to power up a wide range of activities like:
The Team
Tech Lead + Senior Backend Developer: Matías Falcone.
Professional with 10+ years of experience in IT development and production support in the Banking Industry. Experience in start-ups and larger technology companies. Falcon Cardano Stakepool Operator and ALDEA Core Team Member.
Senior Front-End Developer + Designer: Mauro Falcone.
Professional with over 8 years of experience in software development. Advanced experience in JavaScript, ReactJS, CSS, HTML, NextJS and Responsive Web Design. ALDEA Core Team Member.
Product Manager: Esteban Ramallo.
Product Wizard with 15+ years of experience in IT and digital transformation. Global Product Lead of 50+ people worldwide. ALDEA Core Team Member. Passionate problem solver.
Technical Information
ALDEA NFT is being built using the following technologies and frameworks:
Roadmap
First month:
Second month:
Third month:
KPIs
We will measure the success of our platform by the following metrics:
Marketing
All the marketing of ALDEA NFT Marketplace will be strategically managed. This efforts are being carried out on a separate proposal that will help us with communication and awareness within the Cardano community, not only in Latin America but globally: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Grow-ALDEA-Grow-Latin-America/383175-48088
Budget
We'll need the following roles for 3 months:
In addition to this, we will need additional USD 1.200 to deploy the necessary infrastructure to provide a good and reliable service.
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ALDEA Core Team Members, Fund5 Winners, FALCO SPO.