Indigo MetAcademy

[IMPACT]

This proposal will bring an Indigo Academy educational library focused on synthetic assets and their uses to the Cardano ecosystem, all within the Metaverse. Indigo is already partnered with Metadams, owns an estate in Pavia, and developing with the Cornucopias metaverse project!

Metadams partnership:

https://twitter.com/Indigo_protocol/status/1497716644541513736?s=20&t=6uSBSsm7zOzLFSK_RjO8bg

 This Academy will consist of several modules, allowing users to dive deeper into the DeFi world as they progress through the course while interacting with the metaverse environment.

Indigo has been making progress towards presence in a variety of current Metaverse projects.

Indigo will plan to release its curriculum over the course of several weeks. Each week will include a written article and a video related to the topic of the week. Users will ultimately be able to interact and learn about Indigo throughout various Cardano Metaverse projects. Indigo has been working with the community to develop Metaverse assets in preparation for this project. Some of these rendered 3d assets are attached to this proposal.

Ultimately, We would like to host AMAs and workshops where we can interact with the Cardano community in place of more traditional methods like Twitter spaces and discord-hosted calls. We believe the metaverse will be a viable social platform in the near future. By adopting these platforms early on, we hope to inspire users and other metaverse projects to participate in Cardano.

By creating a Metaverse environment that is easy to use and interactive, we will bring a new method of DeFi education to Cardano Ecosystem participants who seek to learn about DeFi in as many ways as possible!

Indigo is planning to develop across multiple Metaverse projects. We've mitigated some of the risks of putting everything on one platform by building across multiple projects.

[FEASIBILITY]

May - July 2022

Indigo will develop 10 pairs of an article and an accompanying video to release throughout the 5 module program. While part of the team is structuring the educational content, the 3D designers and developers will be building 3-5 3D Assets per metaverse project and integrating smart contracts where needed. Indigo will leverage these platforms for ongoing community engagement initiatives to interact with members and partners in a more reliable and efficient manner than Twitter Spaces and/or Discord.

3D Designer ($40/hour)

Developer ($90/hour)

Content Creator ($50/hour)

These developers are paid $90/hour. We offer a competitive pay to be able to snag the best talent in the industry.

• $15,000 USD budget for 3D asset creation (375 hours)
• $5,000 USD budget towards content creation (100 hours)
• $10,000 USD budget for development (~112 hours)

Who is Indigo Labs?

Indigo Labs is a team of developers building key DeFi applications for the Cardano Ecosystem. The first product we plan to build is Indigo Protocol.

Team of 3 Haskell devs, 1 web dev (Plutus experience), 1 marketing lead, 1 channel manager, 1 Product Lead, 1 Product Research, and 2 tech consultants. With these resources, we believe we can produce an excellent educational environment that can be used by hundreds, if not thousands, of Metaverse users. Our team is also a top community contributor to the Plutus GitHub repository, has also contributed to Yoroi, and is active in the dApp development community.

Current open github repositories:

https://github.com/IndigoProtocol/cardano-token-registry-sdk

https://github.com/IndigoProtocol/plutus-pab-sdk

[AUDITABILITY]

KPIs will be determined by the usability of the environment in each Metaverse.

• Quantity of high-quality 3d asset creation (3-5 per metaverse)
• Smart contract integrations for each metaverse (0-3 per metaverse)
• Curriculum by section (10 sections)
• Promotion of developing metaverse projects

This project will develop over the coming years. From this initial proposal, we would like to achieve an early presence in a few of the popular and partially adopted metaverses of the Cardano blockchain. We can offer a new way of sharing and educating the general community. Once this is complete, we'll expand by continually updating and growing our presence.

This is an entirely new proposal