Cardalonia, A Metaverse On Cardano

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Cardalonia will introduce a community centric Web3 Ecosystem on Cardano where you can create custom experiences, Buy land, Customize your Avatar while also staking your assets to earn Rewards.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

We are made up of a team of entrepreneurs, developers, content writers and designers with more than 10 years of experience in the crypto and online gaming industry with many Indian clients.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Cardalonia Metaverse will be made up of multiple Civilizations that are represented as NFTs on the Cardano Blockchain, Each Civilization will have underlying NFTs that can Be farmed by the Players.

Player can be able to deploy their NFT AVatars as CPA (Cardalonia playable assets).

Users who have an active stake key with a custom ADA handle can initiate chats between other Stake holders within the cardalonia Ecosystem.

We are still in the early stages, developing the building blocks of the Cardalonia Ecosystem

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

We will create a 100% community centric metaverse goverened by the $LONIA utility token holders

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Lack of Funds to Continue Development

We have proceeded with the Cardalonia Ecosystem development

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Phase 1 (6 months): Release Staking Platform, Map and Land NFT Sale

• Release staking platform to stake Lonia tokens and also for the Land NFT sale
• Release Map
• Attracting More early adopters
• Cardalonia Fractional Theme Music Drop
• Land NFT sale
• Attracting brands join to advertise in-game.
• A political voting and governance system in the metaverse.

Phase 2 (6 months): Expand the cardalonia World

• Explore Terrania (Cardalonia Land)
• Create and sell new NFT Assets

Phase 3 (6 months): Release Play To Earn Game

• Partnerships with other developers to create new terrains in our metaverse.
• Allows players can warp to another planet

Progress Till Date

Q1-2022:

• Initial Project Idea (Completed)
• Pitch Deck v1.0 (Completed)
• Pre-Seed (Completed)
• Website (Completed)
• Socials (Completed)
• Twitter Verification (Completed)

Q2-2022:

• AMA (Completed)
• Staking Platform Release (Completed)
• Cardalonia Assets (Completed)
• Adahandle Integration (Completed)
• Demo (In Progress)

Q3-2022:

• Map Development (In Progress)
• Marketplace Development (In Progress)
• Raise funding at Catalyst
• Release Demo
• Release Cardalonia Marketplace

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Plutus / haskell Engineer: $60,000

3D Asset Creator: $18,080

Creative Art Director: $11,600

Sound Effect Engineer: $3050

Blockchain Game Full Stack Developer: $158,400.00

UX/UI Developer: $4900.00

Product Manager: $11,120.00

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Vasil Air: https://twitter.com/vasil_air Founder / CEO

Alice Sand: https://github.com/alicesand Co-Founder

Dunstan Water: https://twitter.com/dustan_water Lead Developer

Hannatu Shallangwa: https://twitter.com/_diosa_a Community Manager

Danney Velazquez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danneyve Project co-Ordinator

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

No, The Funding amount will be sufficient to develop an MVP

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We will track the progress by

1: Number Of Commits On Github

2: Number Of Users Who have Staked Their $LONIA Tokens On Our Vault

3: How Many Custom Ada handles are on the Vault Leaderboard

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Getting Over 50% of Lonia Tokens Staked By Early Adopters On our Vault

Over 100,000 Active Players on cardalonia when launched

Selling Out The Land NFT

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

New One

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

We intend to develop a self sustaining metaverse Ecosystem on Cardano