Miscellaneous

It enables great ideas to be funded even if they don't fit any other challenge, and makes space for new and inventive thinking.

Funding great new ideas that are not covered elsewhere. Seeing these ideas find their place in Catalyst via future challenge settings.

At the end of this challenge, we will ask ourselves “Was this challenge valuable to the community?” We will assess this by looking at:

• Number of successfully funded proposals, approved by the community, that don't fit well into any other challenge.
• Number of new challenges to be proposed in future Funds that are based on proposals originally submitted in the Miscellaneous Challenge.

This challenge is designed to capture interesting and valuable projects that do not currently fit into other challenges.

The only constraints to submit a proposal in this challenge are that

1. the proposal is somehow related to Cardano; and
2. the proposal does not fit better in another challenge in this Fund.

Defining challenge alignment

During the assessment stage, Community Advisors should evaluate whether proposals submitted in this challenge would be a better fit in any of the other existing challenges.

If there is another challenge where the proposal would be a clear fit with the challenge goals, then this proposal is not so well aligned with the Miscellaneous challenge.

The need for Miscellaneous

The Miscellaneous challenge was first created in Fund 7, when 17 proposals were successfully funded. Since then, “Misc”, as it has become known, has gone from strength to strength – at the time of writing, there are 109 Fund 8 proposals submitted, covering a wide diversity of ideas that have no other home. This demonstrates the need for this challenge within the Catalyst ecosystem.

This Fund 9 challenge setting has been submitted by the existing Fund 8 Miscellaneous challenge team, and we are committed to bringing our experience to steering the challenge in Fund 9.