Catalyst Swarm & SingularityNET

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Building Communities with Communities

The Catalyst Swarm is an assembly of highly engaged & experienced Cardano Project Catalyst Community members. We have built Community Infrastructure since spring 2021 and gathered relevant experience & expertise in how to build healthy & engaged communities.

SingularityNet is a Blockchain that was initially built on Ethereum, but now migrating to the Cardano Blockchain. As a technical merge allows direct interactions between our ecosystems, we see it as important to also work on bridges for the different communities from Cardano & SingularityNet and to join forces to unleash the maximal potential of a Blockhain merging process on the technical side as well as on the communities side

The Catalyst Swarm already started in Q2 2022 to collaborate with the SingularityNET Community and became a key contributor to the SingularityNET Ambassador program. We join and host Community Events & Workshops, share our knowledge and boost the emergence and growth of the young SingularityNET Community & Ecosystem

Our goal is to initiate, explore & maintain cross-community communications, coordination & collaborations. We use our earned experience in Catalyst to help others to succeed, we aim to share our knowledge & experience and to support the healthy growth of the SingularityNet Community & ecosystem.

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

This proposal improves the quality and effectiveness of creating an open and safe environment where we merge knowledge, resources, and visions of different networks, ecosystems and Communities from different DLT/Blockchain environments.

This Proposal is a direct collaboration between the Cardano Catalyst Swarm, and the SingularityNET Community with support & appreciation from SingularityNET Entities.

SingularityNET is listed in the Challenge as a potential “Who to collaborate with” partner. Therefore, our Proposal fits greatly in the Cross Chain Collaboration Challenge

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

Growth is something we will be focusing on with this proposal, but it will be difficult to find the balance between too much growth and too little. We will pay extra attention to strengthening ties between participants and credit the contributors appropriately to sustain the growth of the communities.

Building communities is not about going through checklists, and task lists and takes a lot of time. We will nurture the community leaders to take leadership and build towards the larger aligned vision.

Communities will fall apart if the community members themselves feel like their ideas, suggestions, and feedback are not addressed. We will be regularly holding meetings to capture that feedback and use this proposal to turn these suggestions into bounties communities can take part in and deliver together for common good.

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

Q1 & Q2 2022

• Joining the SingularityNet & Deepfund community - done
• Start to engage & support the SingularityNET Community - done & in further progress
• Support the building process of the SingularityNet Ambassadors program - done & in further progress ( Tevo Saks, Felix Weber, Jonathan Adjei & Peter Wolcott from Catalyst Swarm joining the SingularityNET Community Events ) 

• Start to raise awareness & alignment on SN community support with Swarm Veterans & Community - done

• Setting up a SingularityNET Discord channel on the Catalyst Swarm Server to start first communications - done

https://discord.gg/6hwTZbhyRC 

• Introducing Tools and sharing experience - in progress

( Introducing Community management tools & platforms such as Dework, Gitbook )

• Including AGIX ( Singularity Net token ) in the Swarm Treasury - Done

https://discord.com/channels/832894680290951179/973497013519925278/985222899436757002 

• Including AGIX in the Swarm Bounty Board - done

https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount 

• Fund 9 Proposal

Submitting a SingularityNet & Swarm Proposal for Project Catalyst Fund 9 at the Cross Chain Collaboration Challenge in collaboration with members of the SingularityNet Community

Q3 & Q4 2022

Start specific cross-chain community initiatives, Events, and Sessions in Collaboration with the Catalyst Swarm & SingularityNet Communities

Introducing Cardano Communities to SingularityNet

Introducing Catalyst Projects & Proposer to Deepfund for Deepfund Funding Round #2 (Q3 2022)

Introducing Community Infrastructure

( using our Experience from building the global community-led town halls - Eastern, Latam, Africa Town Halls ) - https://catalystswarm.com/building-communities/ 

Initiating and supporting the emergence of independent Teams, set by SingularityNet Community members, taking the responsibility to explore and establish projects at the SingularityNet Community & Ecosystem

Adoption & Implementation of Catalyst School to SingularityNet to create high-quality education & information for the SingularityNet & Deepfund

Exploring & Establishing Cross Community Project

Cross pollination & evolution 

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Community Management

Introduce, engage & mentor Cardano community members to build projects on SingularityNET & Deepfund

Introduce, engage & mentor SingularityNET community members to build projects on Cardano & Project Catalyst

2 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 12800 usd in Ada

Project Management

Manage & coordinate working spaces such as Dework, Miro, Google drive, Gitbook

2 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 12800 usd in Ada

Introducing Tools & Platforms

Introducing earned experience from the Catalyst Swarm in Community building, using tools & platforms, and building decentralized community management & infrastructure to the SingularityNET Community & the SingularityNet Ambassador Program

Research and test new potential collaboration methods and tools.

4 People - 10 hours per week for 4 months ( 40 usd per hour ) 

= 25600 usd in Ada

Community Events

Experimenting with implementing Catalyst Swarm Community Events in the SingularityNET Ecosystem ( warm Sessions, Town Halls, Idea & Challenge Fests, Governance day ) and building open spaces for Cardano & SingularityNET Communities to meet & connect, share ideas and visions, and collaborate on building common solutions for common problems.

Providing incentives and opportunities to improve transparency and documentation for existing community events, 

4 Events with available budget of 2000 usd in Ada 

= 8000 usd in Ada

Bounties  ( Budget will be swapped into AGIX token ) - 

Timestamps, translations, Hosting Events, Creating Content, participating in Community Projects 

2500 USD in Ada per month 

= 10000 usd in Ada

Treasury & Accounting costs - 

The Treasury Guild sets up & maintains a Treasury & Accounting system for the Catalyst Swarm - SingularityNET collaboration. Further, the Treasury Guild will improve further development of the Treasury & Accounting system and ensure tailor-made, best-fitting services to Swarm & SingularityNET

4000 USD in ADA

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

Here the Team which will Coordinate the successful implementation of the proposed solution: 

Tevo Saks - SingularityNET Ambassador & Co-Founder at Catalyst Swarm

Tevo Saks introduced SingularityNET to the Catalyst Swarm in early 2022 and since then driven the collaboration forward. Tevo is highly engaged in the SingularityNET Community & Ambassador Program and introduces tools and platforms to the SingulatiyNET Community

Felix Weber - Cardano & SingularityNET Ambassador & Co-Founder at Catalyst Swarm

Highly engaged community builder who is supporting Community Projects & Infrastructure to achieve the next level. 

André Diamond - Treasury Guild 

Development & Automations

(Treasury Development Engineer) has experience in small business operation and accounting. Joined the Catalyst Circle Admin team as treasurer in Nov 2021 and has expanded this role by starting the Treasury Guild alongside Miroslav to support projects in the Catalyst community as well. Currently responsible for the development of the treasury system and automation

Miroslav Rajh - Treasury Guild

Development & Documentation

(Treasury Accountant) has 20 years of experience in managing finances and organizing the business of NGOs and the University. He also worked as a Human Resources Manager (HRM). Joined the Catalyst Circle Admin team together with Andre as treasurer in Nov 2021. Currently, he is recording, documenting, and managing all transactions for the Treasurer Guild

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

We don't think that we will have to resubmit a proposal for this specific project in a future Funding Round as it is the goal to encourage and motivate Community Members to develop and start their own objects to move this collaboration forward

[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?

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

The Project Development is on the SingularityNet & Swarm Dework Platforms

SNET: https://app.dework.xyz/singularitynet-ambas 

Swarm: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm 

Community engagements are tracked on the SingularityNet & Swarm Discord Servers

SNET: https://discord.gg/RYBedFjuZk 

Swarm:https://discord.gg/6hwTZbhyRC 

Recordings from live events are tracked on the SingularityNet & Swarm Youtube

SNET:

Swarm:

Transactions are fully transparently tracked in the Swarm Treasury & Accounting system via Discord & Gitbook

Discord: https://discord.gg/6jk8mVuYqA ( Channel #transaction-updates )

Gitbook:https://treasury-guild.gitbook.io/catalyst-swarm/ 

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

Success for this project would be a well established and growing collaboration between the Cardano/Catalyst & SingularityNET/Deepfund Communities and ecosystems. 

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

This is a entirely new Proposal from the Catalyst Swarm to enable funds for Cross Chain Collaborations