F8: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

Cryptocurrency and blockchain development is not a common topic in universities, with most having no exposure to Cardano.

Marketing in a world that aims for Web 3.0 relies on "manual-work and trust" and is not scalable.

People need access to high quality information about blockchain technology. Fun approachable ways to learn are hard to find.

Cardano4climate builds and participates since fund 6 in building the Cardano Ecosystem without ensured and sustainable access to resources

Senior Citizens learn differently than other age groups and have been slow to adopt Defi. How do we engage a Worldwide population to ADA?

Cardano Community Hubs like Cardano Center Poland should become self-sufficient at possibly early stage for continuous independent growth.

Need to diversify learning methods and exchange knowledge with experienced devs and Cardanian in Vietnam

Cardano can greatly benefit from visibility in the Geneva ecosystem, but increased awareness, credibility and enhanced networks are needed.

The Cardano community in Taiwan is limited, and most people, especially university students, have little knowledge about crypto or Cardano.

Community hubs lack the visibility needed in order to attract new members, connect with each other and share resources.

The successful global adoption of Cardano & ₳DA depends on exclusivity and building utility - We need more project led Hubs!

The Cardano Chinese-speaking community has been forming nicely since F4. Continue the work to keep educating the Chinese-speakers globally

Participating in Catalyst is difficult when you live in the Eastern Hemisphere Time zones where English is not the main language.

Only a few Brazilian and LATAM companies know Cardano as a main Blockchain. Difficulty in adopting Cardano (ADA) in the real business world.

Only few JP and East Asia companies recognize Cardano as main BLOCKCHAIN! so, it is difficult to adopt CARDANO into the real business world.

There is no Cardano community in the French West Africa. People lack awareness of the blockchain solutions. Cardano could gain more grounds.

Proposers funded by Catalyst lack a collaborative layer to answer FAQ questions, leave feedback, and raise and discuss issues / problems.

Physical HUBs limit the participation of community members in specific cities and local spaces, leaving many digital users outside.

Cardano originates from Japan and has a lot of ADA holders but the problem is the level of engagement with the int' community is still low.

There is a lack of philosophical discussion at community level about Cardano, so an opportunity to engage people is being missed.

Cardano lacks community awareness and needs more developers. Lack of quality articles explaining Cardano and the ecosystem.

Due to TAX problem in Japan, some ADA holder stopped Staking. On the other hands, there is many possibility and issue around Cardano spread.

There are no specific hubs to connect Argentina's scientific talent with the Cardano ecosystem and its multiple possibilities.

Our mission is to bring the most comprehensive knowledge about Cardano to the community in Vietnam.

There is a need to create a collaborative space to educate, train developers & entrepreneurs in order to foster Cardano-based solutions.

$500,000 in ada

Fund1 Challenge

Fund2 Challenge

F3: Community choice

F3: DApp creation

F3: Developer Ecosystem

F4: Catalyst Value Onboarding

F4: Dapps & Integrations

F4: Developer ecosystem

F4: Distributed Decision Making

F4: Fund6 Challenge Setting

F4: Local Community Centers

F4: Proposer Outreach

F5: Catalyst value onboarding

F5: DApps & Integrations

F5: Developer ecosystem

F5: Distributed decision making

F5: Fund7 challenge setting

F5: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F5: Metadata challenge

F5: Proposer outreach

F5: Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem

F6: Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption

F6: Cardano Emerging Threat Alarm

F6: Catalyst value onboarding

F6: DApps & Integrations

F6: DeFi and Microlending for Africa

F6: Developer ecosystem

F6: Disaster: When all is at stake

F6: Distributed decision making

F6: DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox

F6: Fund7 challenge setting

F6: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F6: Improve and Grow Auditability

F6: Metadata challenge

F6: Multilingual resources

F6: NFT Business models

F6: Partnerships for Global Adoption

F6: Proposer outreach

F6: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

F6: Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem

F7: A.I. & SingularityNet a $5T market

F7: Accelerate Decentralized Identity

F7: Boosting Cardano's DeFi

F7: Catalyst - Rapid Funding Mechanisms

F7: Catalyst Accelerator & Mentors

F7: Catalyst Natives COTI: Pay with ADA Plug-in

F7: Community Events

F7: Connecting Japan/日本 Community

F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano

F7: DApps & Integrations

F7: Disarm cyber disinformation attacks

F7: Fund8 challenge setting

F7: Gamers On-Chained

F7: Global Sustainable Indep. SPO's

F7: Grow Latin America, Grow Cardano

F7: Improve and Grow Auditability

F7: Lobbying for favorable legislation

F7: Mini/Low-Budget Dapps & Integrations

F7: Miscellaneous Challenge

F7: Multilingual resources

F7: Nation Building Dapps

F7: New SPO Business Opportunities

F7: Open Source Developer Ecosystem

F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

F7: Seeding Cardano's Grassroots DeFi

F8: Accelerate Decentralized Identity

F8: Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)

F8: Cardano scaling solutions

F8: Community Advisor Improvements

F8: Cross-Chain Collaboration

F8: DApps and Integrations

F8: Developer Ecosystem

F8: Film + Media (FAM) creatives unite!

F8: Fund9 challenge setting

F8: Gamers On - Chained

F8: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F8: Grow East Asia, Grow Cardano

F8: Grow India, Grow Cardano

F8: Improve and Grow Auditability

F8: Lobbying for favorable legislation

F8: Miscellaneous Challenge

F8: Nation Building Dapps

F8: New Member Onboarding

F8: Open Source Development Ecosystem

F8: Open Standards & Interoperability

F8: Self-Sovereign Identity

F8: The Great Migration (from Ethereum)

F9: Building (on) Blockfrost

F9: Catalyst Natives X Cardashift: Demonstrating and monetizing impact

F9: Challenge & Scouted for Students🎓

F9: Cross-Chain Collaboration

F9: DAOs <3 Cardano

F9: Dapps, Products & Integrations

F9: Developer Ecosystem

F9: dRep improvement and onboarding

F9: Fund10 challenge setting

F9: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

F9: Grow East Asia, Grow Cardano

F9: Legal & Financial Implementations

F9: The Great Migration (from Ethereum)

Catalyst Fund Operations

Catalyst Systems improvements

F10: Atala PRISM: Launch Ecosystem

F10: Building on NMKR

F10: Catalyst Open

F10: DAOs <3 Cardano

F10: Developer Ecosystem - The Evolution

F10: Development & Infrastructure

F10: dRep improvement and onboarding

F10: OSDE: Open Source Dev Ecosystem

F10: Products & Integrations

F10: SPO Tools & Community Projects

F10: Startups & Onboarding for Students

Cardano Open: Developers

Cardano Open: Ecosystem

Cardano Use Cases: Concept

Cardano Use Cases: Product

Cardano Use Cases: Solution

Catalyst Systems Improvements: Discovery

F11: Old

F11: Sponsored By Leftovers

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Project Catalyst turns economic power into innovation power by using the Cardano Treasury to incentivize and fund community-approved ideas.

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When a proposal is ‘Approved’, it means it received enough support to receive funding (at least 1% of the total registered voting power voted ‘YES’). But only those proposals that most people say 'YES' to get money first until there's no funding left in that category.

Meets all approval criteria; the highest ‘YES’ result gets funding first until the remaining budget is depleted in the category and unable to fully fund the next approved proposal. If the amount requested by a proposal is larger than the remaining category amount at any point, it is skipped.


Proposals that did not meet criteria for approval and were not eligible for funding. Each proposal needs to get enough 'YES' votes equal to 1% or more of total registered voting power in a funding round in order to be approved.

Proposals that met approval criteria but whose budgets exceeded the remaining category budget. Some 'Not Funded' proposals can get second change via 'Sponsored by Leftovers' category. Proposals can be approved but not funded due to lack of funding budget availability in a relevant category.

At least 1% of the total registered voting power must vote ‘YES’ on a proposal. In Fund11, there was ₳4,535,989,461 as a total registered voting power as accounted for by the snapshot. To be accepted (become an ‘approved proposal’ as well as be eligible for funding), a proposal must be voted by at least 0.01 * ₳4,535,989,461 = ₳45,359,894.61. ‘ABSTAIN’ votes do not count towards the acceptance threshold of 1%.

Proposals are ranked by the highest ‘YES’ votes and funded one by one until the category budget runs out. Any leftover funds excludes proposals submitted in ‘Cardano Use Cases: Product’ and ‘Catalyst Systems Improvements’ categories.

Funds requested by funded projects. Please note, any ecosystem role incentives are not included in these figures.

There's some funds left in each category that haven't been given out. All that leftover funding is put together into a new category called 'Sponsored by Leftovers'. All approved (and not yet funded) proposals across the entire Fund are eligible for this funding, except proposals from the 'Cardano Use Cases: Product' or 'Catalyst Systems Improvements' categories.

Title of the proposal is a link that will bring you to the proposal detail page.

The number of Cardano wallets that take an active part in the Catalyst voting event. Each wallet can vote once per proposal. The number indicated by each proposal represents a number of unique wallets casting a vote for that specific proposal.

Total voting power in ada casting an ‘ABSTAIN’ vote from all wallets combined. ‘ABSTAIN’ votes can be found in the results CSV for reference and do not count towards the approval criteria thresholds.

Total voting power applied in opposition of a proposal

Total voting power in ada casting a ‘YES’ vote applied in support/favor of a proposal from all wallets combined counting towards approval criteria thresholds.

Amount of ada registered to vote in Catalyst determined by the voting power snapshot unique for every funding round. For Fund11, the snapshot took place on Jan 15, 21:45 UTC. Each wallet has its own unique voting power based on the balance on the day/time of the snapshot. Each time a wallet casts a vote, it uses its full voting power applied to a proposal. This can be done only once per each proposal: ‘YES’ or ‘ABSTAIN’.

Project Catalyst explained: an innovation engine from IOG

Project Catalyst is the world’s largest decentralized innovation engine for solving real-world challenges.

Ideas. Innovation. Impact.

Project Catalyst has funding rounds every few months, with a set amount of ada ready to allocate to ideas.

At the start of each Fund, the community has three weeks to submit proposals to answer challenges set in the previous funding round. Proposals are selected by community vote and funding is allocated to bring the projects to life.

Project Catalyst is currently between funding rounds, with the next Fund coming soon.

How it works

Relaunching soon: Catalyst Fund10!

Voting is now closed.

Fund10 Voting results are in

Fund11 voting results are in.

Fund12 will launch on April 26th!

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