Fund 2 to Fund 7 has funded hundreds of proposals, but - naturally - many good ideas were put on hold or were rejected along the way. The Catalyst Innovation Funnel is a gold-mine when searching for passionate people and domain experts. With this proposal we want to get funded for working through this history. As a result, we want to cluster our findings into specific collaboration segments. For the inter-disciplinary perspective of DLT360, this could lead to new content-contributors in many areas of our emerging 'think-tank'. In case of getting funded, we want to start this as a dedicated fund 8 effort and keep it as an ongoing routine for the future.

Please note: This proposal is part of a bigger picture:

The basic setup of the DLT360 Risk & Opportunity Radar was funded in fund 6 and greatly supported by a number of projects in fund 7. Fund 8 will hopefully let us continue and finally get to the status of mature, subscription-based services. Our initial work of fund 6 will be completed by approximately end of Q1/2022 with a first 360-degree roundtrip-video and roundtrip-presentation.

Why are we doing all this?

Cardano - similar to successful professional companies - needs to continuously investigate facts, trends, risks and opportunities. In commercial companies, this is typically done by independent risk-management entities reporting directly to the C-suite. With our services, we want to support Cardano in

Making sure that the millions (billions) are wisely invested
Enabling the future dREPs and Cardano governance-bodies in making data & fact based decisions
Having major trends, risks and opportunities precisely analysed and visualised (collecting from a multitude of sources)
Demonstrating this carefulness to regulatory bodies and professional clients (e.g. governments and corporations who rely on Cardano as public, permissionless blockchain)
Benefitting form continuously updated interdisciplinary perspectives in a PESTELE format (Politics, Environment/Health, Social/Reputation, Technology, Ethics, Legal, Economy/Business/Application Portfolio).

We are currently presenting our activities in form of single projects, hoping to overcome this stage with fund 9. At the end of 2022, we want to be a subscription-based service, also available to outside-Cardano clients worldwide (like commercial companies), becoming economically successful and independent from the initial Catalyst startup funding. Please also check and support our proposal for future subscription-based funding (Proposed F9 Challenge Setting: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/400085).

We see the following aspects contributing specifically to this challenge setting:

This proposal is not an isolated effort, but becomes part of our DLT360 routines
Starting under this Miscellaneous Challenge, this will become our ongoing contribution to active idea & people integration
Trying not loosing any passionate people along the journey is crucial

No specific challenges and risks, as we are handling this as part of our ongoing DLT360 journey. Main challenge comes form the need to pack our activities into single projects, but we hope to overcome this stage with Fund 9.

At the end of 2022, we want to be a subscription-based service, also available to outside-Cardano clients worldwide (like commercial companies), becoming an economically successful service-provider, independent from the initial Catalyst startup funding.

[FEASIBILITY]

The DLT360 team is applying a Business Model Canvas (in MIRO) for continuously optimising the overall business model approach. As most of our activities are highly interlinked, we see overlapping as well as specific elements when looking at the business model canvas project-by-project. Therefore, this part contains both: Generic and specific elements:

1) Customer Segments / Target Groups (generic for DLT360)

Selected industry-clients, major consulting firms, universities, regulatory bodies, DLT-relevant public, selected high-quality YouTube channels and more.
CARDANO-related projects in the need to perform ongoing risk & opportunity management
CARDANO Community

2) Value Proposition (generic for DLT360)

Dependent of the above listed customer-segments, we see our value proposition as following (more details in MIRO):

Inter-disciplinary & contextualised inputs as basis for improvement proposals and for effective and efficient lobbying
Enabling professional risk-management frameworks (e.g. ISO 31000 compliant)
Creating value-adding Implementation Whitepapers, Yellowpapers, Blueprints and Consulting Artifacts

3) Distribution Channels (generic for DLT360)

Depending on customer-segment and corresponding value-proposition, the following delivery channels will be used:

DLT360 WEB-site with a public and a subscription-based area
Quarterly online-live and video-recorded reporting based on the DLT360 Risk & Opportunity Radar
Based on case-by-case agreement: In-person presentations e.g. on selected community events or summits
Integration into various Implementation Whitepapers, Yellowpapers, Blueprints and Consulting Artifacts
Academic papers and submission of commentaries

4) Customer Relationship (generic for DLT360)

After handling our startup-activities based on fund 6 and on investments from Heinz Gassner, the fund 7 and fund 8 funding allows us to deepen our content-creation and to grow our team. Based on demonstrating the value we create, we are aiming for subscription-based service agreements in the future. The relationship with outside-Catalyst clients will be based on such subscription-based services and on specific project-based agreements.

5) Revenue Streams (generic for DLT360)

During this early stage of our startup, we are fully focusing on servicing the Cardano Community. The fund 6 and fund 7 funding of our basic DLT360 Risk & Opportunity Radar will lead to delivering 2 quarterly reporting events (end of Q1 and end of Q2 2022). This specific fund 8 project will not be separately considered in terms of a revenue stream. We are applying a careful 'Lean Startup' approach during our journey for planning, checking and iteratively adjusting our Business Model according to our learnings, all documented in our MIRO environment. For the time after Q3 2022, we see the following approaches regarding securing sufficient revenue streams for maintaining and growing our services as well as the required expert team and network:

We have posted a specific Fund 9 Challenge Setting Proposal for simplified and more reliable subscription-based funding (Please check and support our proposed F9 Challenge Setting: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/400085).

For outside-Catalyst-clients we plan to implement a revenue-ladder-model with basic content free of charge (as appetiser) and stepping-up subscription models for additional access

Specific Consulting Artifacts and specific in-depth research for e.g. industry-clients will be charged separately

6) Key Activities, Roadmap and Deliverables (now specific to this project)

This proposal is driven by the Economy/Business Team of DLT360. This project requires the following specific key-activities - all during Q3 / 2022:

Participation in the meetings of DLT360 Segment Teams
Initial analysis of the Catalyst Innovation Funnel
Communication and registration of partners, experts and future contributors
Supporting DLT360 WEBsite integration
Active role in sharing/discussing the content during the current quarter

Based on our listed key-activities and key-resources, we plan with the following costs (please note that we are in progress of setting up a formal company body and need to calculate with taxation according to applicable law):

Overall project management, updates on MIRO (3 hours for USD 50/h) = USD 150,00
Communication, social media and backoffice support (4 hours for USD 25/h) = USD 100,00
Participation in the meetings of DLT360 Segment Teams (10 hours for USD 50/h) = USD 500,00
Initial analysis of the Catalyst Innovation Funnel (100 hours for USD 25/h) = USD 2.500,00
Contacting and registration of new partners, experts and future contributors (25 hours for USD 50/h) = USD 1.250,00
Supporting DLT360 WEBsite integration (5 hours for USD 50/h) = USD 250,00
Active role in sharing/discussing the content during the current quarter (5 hours for USD 50/h) = USD 250,00

DLT360 is operated by a core-team and by a flexible team of renowned domain experts as well as a scalable network of contributors from the Cardano community, from academia and from industry. For this specific project we plan with the following key resources:

Project Management: Guilherme Peirera, Sao Paulo, http://linkedin.com/in/guilherme-pereira-da-silva-977a361a3
Communication, social media and Back-office: Eduardo Nunes, Sao Paulo
Contributing students, Sao Paulo
Radar Tool Implementation: Elias Nassall, Student in Security Management, Berlin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/elias-nassall-227858231/
Overall guidance: Heinz Gassner, Malta, with more than 30 years of industry-leadership experience: http://linkedin.com/in/heinz-gassner-9540a241

[AUDITABILITY]

Most of our DLT360 projects are highly interlinked and we handle the overall planning and tracking in our DLT360 - MIRO environment. Due to already running our fund 6 and fund 7 funded projects that way, we are well familiar with Catalyst Coordinator and acquainted with the relevant reporting processes. We are tracking our progress as following:

KPI Progress and Success Measurement (for our activities during Q3 of 2022)

KPI 1: Progress of activities as outlined above (0-100%)
KPI 2: Number of identified cooperation partners (number).
KPI 3: Number of registered domain-experts (number)
KPI 4: Number of content contributors (number)

Our Definition of Done and our success criteria by end of Q3 of 2022 are derived from the above listed KPI measurement:

We have achieved all our activities & deliverables as listed above (100%)
Number of newly registered cooperation partners & initiatives (on DLT360 WEBsite, >10).
Number of newly registered domain-experts (on DLT360 WEBsite, >10)
Number of newly registered content contributors (on DLT360 WEBsite, >25).

This is a new proposal.

SDG Rating

To be completed.

Completed outcome

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Monthly report

June 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

May 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

During May, we were working on the following (mostly DONE). 1) Redesign of the Data-Structure (now in EXCEL) as we cannot directly use our CRM due to GDPR reasons - DONE. 2) Starting with entering the contacts into this EXCEL form - DONE. PLEASE NOTE: Due to GDPR requirements, we keep an EXCEL list for now, as we only have access to IDEAscale handles, IDEAscale email addresses and proposals. We need to keep it on that level right now and use this EXCEL database later-on for our active community and partner-buildup. We need explicit sign-ups and agreements from each individual, before we can complete and enter their personal data into our CRM. This will require an extensive communication campaign, which is not part of this project. 3) Prioritising interesting persons & potential cooperation partners (flagging in EXCEL List) 4) Outlining our future 'Community and Partner Network Concept', for which we will apply the results of this project. 5) Working on the Closeout Report and Video

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

We are almost DONE with our work. We can share our internal EXCEL database on demand (of course NOT available on our website).

April 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

During April, we were working on the following: 1) Redesign of the Data-Structure (now in EXCEL) as we cannot directly use our CRM. 2) Starting with entering the contacts into this EXCEL form. PLEASE NOTE: Due to GDPR requirements, we keep an EXCEL list for now, as we only have access to IDEAscale handles, IDEAscale email addresses and proposals. We need to keep it on that level right now and use this EXCEL database later-on for our active community and partner-buildup. We need explicit sign-ups and agreements from each individual, before we can complete and enter their personal data into our CRM. This will require an extensive communication campaign, which is not part of this project. 3) Prioritising interesting persons & potential cooperation partners (flagging in EXCEL List) 4) Working on the Closeout Report and Video

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

No meaningful link this time, as we have just reshaped the resulting database (will now be an EXCEL List as explained before). We can share this on demand.

March 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

February 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

January 20, 2023 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

As communicated in the previous monthly report, we were working on the following: - Complete the screening of IdeaScale up to Fund 9 - Integrating of people and projects into our CRM system - Implementing processes and people for doing this routinely in the future - Working on the Closeout Report and Video We plan to do the closing in a 'cluster' with 2 other projects as following on February 1, 2023) - Project 1: Review of 600020 - CARDANO DLT-360 RISK RADAR (for understanding what we did initially and WHY we decided to substantially expand the scope of DLT360) - Project 2 800158 - DLT360 Technology Radar, Explaining, how this project was key to establishing our expanded approach, demonstrate the TECHNOLOGY segment of the DLT360 Navigator (for understanding WHAT we changed and HOW we implemented these changes) - This project 800157 - DLT360: Review Catalyst Funnel (for understanding HOW we plan to systematically expand our community and partner network)

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

Our WEBSITE provides access to our Whitepaper (explaining DLT360 in detail) and to the DLT360 NAVIGATOR. As we work on a rather big overall startup, we will provide a consistent explanation in our Closeout Video. This will allow the community to better understand what we are aiming for and how this project contributes to our ambitious activities.

December 20, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Our December focus was on: 1) We made the basic setup for our CRM tool (Active Campaign) for capturing our community, our partners and clients in the legally required way (either as pseudonymous or as identified persons and/or organisations). 2) We worked on integrating this tool into our overall tech-stack. 3) We continued to go through all previous CATALYST Funds and identify organisations and people, who can be valuable cooperation partners for DLT360 Open: - Complete the screening of IdeaScale up to Fund 9 - Implementing processes and people for doing this routinely in the future - Closeout Report and Video

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

Link to our WebSite. Here you can find our DLT360 Whitepaper that explains all details of how we integrate all our funded projects into our overall approach (DLT360 NAVIGATOR, WEB3.0 Innovation Accelerator Program etc.). In our Closeout Video we will explain, what potential cooperation we identified and how we approached our potential partners, inviting to become part of our community respectively of our partner network.

November 28, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

No funding instalment for this specific project requested for this month, as we were mainly working on: 1) Integrating our various projects (and content) into our overall overall DLT360 NAVIGATOR environment (based on GitHub, OBSIDIAN, ZOTERO and specific applications on our WEB-site) 2) Refining our overall processes, tools and team-setup for securing longterm success 3) Focusing on getting the overall DLT360 Whitepaper done and finalise our company foundation (Hong Kong Limited Company).

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

Please visit our WebSite and download our Whitepaper and take a glance on our onboarding video. The DLT360 Navigator will be live before end of the year.

October 25, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

Evidence

https://dlt360.io

Explanation

Link to our (pre-MVP) Website with the DLT360 NAVIGATOR, where all the elaborated content is currently integrated.

September 25, 2022 Progress report

Status:

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

1. We started to scout for a tool-framework for capturing potential networking and collaboration partners. This is important, since we do not only do this once, but have a maintainable way of doing this in continuous way. 2. We decided to use a classic (easy to use, flexible and cost-effective) CRM tool. We made a short list of possible tools and have selected our best choice. 3. Currently we are piloting this tool. 4. We will then continue to go through all previous CATALYST Funds and identify organisations and people, who can be valuable cooperation partners for DLT360. 5. This project should be completed by December 2022. In the future this will be a routine effort. Our success will always require a maximum of networking within and outside the CARDANO community.

Explanation

There link goes to our selected CRM tool, which we are just piloting. As stated above, we will use this tool for professionally capturing our potential cooperation partners (also in a legally correct way) and for supporting ongoing networking activities.