F9: Developer Ecosystem

There is a shortage of qualified senior developers for Cardano Blockchain worldwide. India has 2 million Developers with only 0.25% on all the…

Currently, if you want to deploy your own light wallet or similar application, there is no single tool that you can use. Instead, you can have…

Carp is a more flexible alternative to the cardano-db-sync tool that was created as the result of a previously funded Catalyst proposal. However…

Diversity and enough different and independent tools for developers is the basis for a successful chain. Web-explorers are one of basics.

CIP25, the NFT standard for Cardano, currently does not have an open source Rust, WASM or Typescript library to parse the on-chain metadata…

The bureaucratic overhead and long timelines of the Project Catalyst funding are significant hurdles to developers seeking to rapidly create…

Direct contracts between employers and remote developers may lead to disputes. However, centralized escrow services can be expensive and their…

Nodes used exclusively as data source for client tools have different requirements than block producers / relays nodes. Many performance / cost…

Currently no efficient tooling exists for storing the blocks persistently with fast indexing and fast distribution. For example, an empty indexer…

Flutter is the fastest growing mobile app developer community but currently there's no Flutter library support in the Cardano ecosystem.

Cardano's Smart Contract is built on Haskell. But there is no book or document about Haskell for developers in Vietnamese. It is a big barrier…

There are many developers who really want to write smart contracts and build projects on Cardano. But Haskell is a big barrier for developers…

There exists a limiting number of ways to interact directly with the Cardano blockchain in a high-performance way.

Cardano didn't have a friendly and easy-to-use library for building transactions, interacting with Plutus smart contracts, and building dApps…

Property tests help ensure mission-critical dApps don’t contain vulnerabilities. However, writing tests to check every contract permutation…

Cardano is a 3rd generation blockchain supporting expressive and secure smart contracts (DApps). Yet, as often noted, Cardano's eUTXO design…

In Cardano's growing ecosystem, we've seen an explosion of tools and techniques for building smart contracts. Developers can and will move much…

Plutarch v1 greatly reduces the requirements of implementing stateful dApps (DeFi). Yet, expanded functionality is needed for Cardano devs/auditors…

Metamask is the most popular Web3 wallet and Cardano dApps don't have an easy and an Open-Source plug-in that they can easily add to their website…

Adoption of the open-source project "Oura" has increased and new feature / issues are being requested. Extra development bandwidth is required…

Variations across tools like cardano-cli, serialization libs and Plutus, like in data serialization create difficulty when more than one is…

Verifiable Credentials are a key component for interoperability across Self Sovereign Identity systems, within Cardano and abroad. However…

Cardano uses a encoding scheme called CBOR that supports multiple ways of encoding the same data. No Rust library supports all possible encodings…

The transaction editor has no secure key management and key storage, all keys are on the filesystem. Users improvise safety by working on air-gapped…

$1,000,000 in ada

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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: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

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: 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

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Fund10 Voting results are in

Fund11 voting results are in.

Fund12 will launch on April 26th!

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