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[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

PROBLEMS

Recently, Japanese companies, which are considered to be a large potential market, have been trying to enter the NFT market, but there are few communities or media outside of English where people can learn about how to participate in NFT and the benefits of Cardano Blockchain.

In addition, the Wada community and other African communities, which are Cardano's key focus areas, are also sending out information on various games and collective projects, but it is difficult for people in countries where it is difficult to understand English to catch up on this information.

OUR SOLUTION

Therefore, in cooperation with Cardano and artist communities in Japan, China (Chinese Speaking Community), Vietnam, Korea, and Africa, we are building the largest guide for beginners to Cardano NFT in East Asia, information on CNFT in Africa and the Western, and a community for those who want to collaborate internationally through CNFT.

And by onboarding members of the Western CNFT community, we will create a mechanism to quickly catch up on CNFT-related information in English, currently mainly from Europe and the US. We will also create a place where Western and East Asian creators, who are currently the main focus of CNFT projects, can collaborate on projects together.

We will primarily use the Discord server of Soudan NFT, the largest creators' community in Japan, to update information in the local language to the non-English speaking community interested in CNFTS. We will also support non-English speaking creators and companies by utilizing the relationships that the "CNFT is Community" has with communities in Europe and the United States so that they can more easily participate in the world of CNFTS.

In addition to the Soudan NFT discord, we will also create a Twitter Space twice a month to promote the community and Cardano to those who are not yet involved in the CNFT or Soudan NFT community.

We will also be developing the future of Soudan NFT's generative collection "Love Addicted Girls" (a collection of Ethereum with over $200 million in sales and over 20,000 followers) on Cardano's NFT. Issuing Vtuber-related NFTs and metaverse characters for the exchange of holders, etc.

Community Activity Detail

●Making Discord Channel of 3Language chat about CNFTs

We'll run the discord channel for the non-English people; at first, we start it for Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese in the Soudan NFT discord Channel.

We will run it with three moderators(Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese natives) and it will be started in October.

This channel will also contain noteworthy information about CNFT and Cardano gathered by our English-speaking staff and translated into various languages.

And also in this channel modulators support ask for any questions from investors, creators, and companies who are interested in CNFTs, and also moderators connect the right people when they need more support for their activity.

●Making Videos（Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese)

To spread the CNFTs and Cardano, we educate community members using Videos.

It makes it easier for newcomers to enter the CNFT ecosystem.

1. What is Cardano and CNFT (Octorber)
2. How to buy ADA and make the Wallet for Cardano Native taken (October)
3. How to mint CNFTs (November)
4. How to list CNFTs on the Market Place (November)
5. How to make the Generative project of CNFTs (December)
6. How to promote your CNFT collections(December)

●Holding Twitter Space（Twice a month）

To exchange the information between the Eastern and the Western in CNFT Ecosystem, we'll hold the Twitter space twice a month probiding translators.

For the non-English artists, it is difficult to spread their artworks to the Western people, but now the percentage of the CNFT community is huge in the West.

We will provide the chance for advertising to the non-English artists and also provide the important Western information in the Twitter space.

●Making Documents

To spread the CNFTs and Cardano, we educate community members using also documents.

It makes it easier for newcomers to enter the CNFT ecosystem.

1. What is Cardano and CNFT (Octorber)
2. How to buy ADA and make the Wallet for Cardano Native taken (October)
3. How to mint CNFTs (November)
4. How to list CNFTs on the Market Place (November)
5. How to make the Generative project of CNFTs (December)
6. How to buy CNFTs (December)
7. Documents for the important information are updated (Once a week)

●Making Twitter Account

To help the non-English people to catch up on the Daily CNFT information quickly, we'll make the Twitter Account.

English Speaking Staff will pick it up and the translation staff translates it and tweet it.

We'll also tweet the non-English CNFT Artist information.

Data about English and NFTs / Japan, China(Chinese Speaking Community), Vietnam

● English and NFTs in Japan

Japan's world ranking for English proficiency was 78th out of 112 countries. The level rating is the fourth "low" of the five levels.*1

According to the 2020 census, Japan's population is about 126 million, of which only about 2% (about 2.56 million) are foreigners.

Japan is a large market, and all goods, books, and TV programs in stores are available in Japanese. Therefore, the number of people who can understand English is very low because it is difficult to feel inconvenienced even if they cannot speak English.

In the Cardano community, the percentage of Japanese who have ADA is very high. However, the percentage of Japanese in general who has NFT is very low at 2.9%*2. Even though 10% of the population invests in cryptocurrency.

This can be said to be because the language barrier, which is the most necessary factor for NFT investment, is a very large one.

●English and NFTs in China(Chinese Speaking Community)

China's world ranking for English proficiency was 79th out of 112 countries.*1 The Level rating is the third"Medium" of the five levels.

And the other country which the majority of the Chinese Speaking country is Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Taiwan's world ranking for English proficiency was 48th out of 88 countries.*2 The level rating is the fourth "low" of the five levels.

Singapore is well used in English but almost all people speak Chinese as the main language.

Malaysia's world ranking for English proficiency was 28th out of 88 countries.*2 The level rating is the second "high" of the five levels. But,1-third of the people speak Chinese as the main language.

In China itself the NFT trade is not allowed Although trading for speculative purposes in NFTs is not permitted in China itself in principle, many NFT investments are made in countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

The combined population of Chinese-speaking people is around a 60million. （Malaysia32million、Taiwan23million, Singapore５.６million)

Emerging Southeast Asian countries lead the world in NFT ownership. Of the 20 countries compared, in Malaysia 24% of the people have NFTs. *3

So Creating a community that caters to the people in the Chinese-speaking community would be very helpful in spreading the CNFT.

●English and NFTs in Vietnum

Vietnamese English proficiency index ranks 66th out of 112 countries and is among the "low" rating ranks.*1

According to Finder, the use of cryptocurrencies in Vietnam (among respondents) is 41%, of which 20% have purchased Bitcoin, and 17% of people own NFTs.*3

*1 World's Largest English Proficiency Index Rankings in 2021

https://resemom.jp/article/2021/11/17/64388.html

*2 World's Largest English Proficiency Index Rankings in 2018

https://www.efjapan.co.jp/epi/

*3 KDDI research

https://mugenlabo-magazine.kddi.com/list/singapore-nft/?amp

*4Vietnam is now a leading country with respect to the use of cryptocurrencies, according to an August release from Finder.com, a financial products comparison website

https://vietnamnet.vn/en/vietnam-in-global-top-10-for-cryptocurrency-ownership-rate-814640.html

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

Through connecting communities, Cardano and CNFT will be widely promoted to Asian markets (including Japan, China: Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam), countries with a high percentage of people hight interested in blockchain but still don't know Cardano extensively.

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

Risk 1:

Human resources to disseminate information in English as a national language

A great deal of translation work is required to deliver the vast amount of CNFT information to non-English speaking countries.

Risk mitigation

This requires a lot of human resources, which in turn requires personnel costs for staff.

When an automatic translation tool is developed in the future, we will use it to reduce labor costs.

Risk 2:

Gathering of cooperative staff

We need staff to make videos to teach how to make CNFT and use cases, staff to follow up on Discord, and staff to open Twitter Space, etc.

Risk mitigation

We will allocate personnel expenses to reduce the burden on staff with many hours of work.

Risk 3:

Information gathering and dissemination of information from overseas communities

Risk mitigation

Currently, the core of the CNFT community is made up of community members mainly from Europe and the US. Therefore, we will recruit European and US CNFT members for our project itself.

Through them, we will create a space for collaboration between Western CNFT projects and East Asian CNFT projects.

In addition, we will also ask Western members to help us spread the word about the CNFT projects that have emerged from East Asia.

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

We plan to deploy in 9 months divided into 3 phases.

In this proposal, we want funding for the first phase.

The second and third phases will continue to be implemented based on the performance of the first phase, and we will continue to propose funding for the second and third phases in the next Fund.

Phase 1: Create CNFT resources for 3 languages: Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese. (3 months)

Phase 2: Creating CNFT resources for other non-English speaking communities (3 months)

 *We will survey the community to choose the order of priority for the translation of languages

Phase 3: Promote Marketing, and promote community growth (3 months)

 Phase 1: Create CNFT resources for 3 languages: Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese. (3 months)

 The first month

 Implementation plan

1. Synthesize documents, and create video tutorials to join CNFT (2 videos, 2 documents)

2. Discord integration “CNFT is Community” and Soudan NFT

3. Set up the channels on Discord integrated into (2)

4.Started Soudan NFT collection "Love Addicted Girls" Vtuber project in collaboration with Cardano NFT

5.Started sending out information on Twitter in 3 languages

KPI:

1. End of the October

・What is Cardano and CNFT

・How to buy ADA and make the Wallet for Cardano Native taken

2. Installation: Middle of the October

Making Press release or Announcement: Early October

3. Start in Middle of the October

4.Start to mint CNFTs (V-tubers Voice NFT )

5.At least 5 original tweets are sent out daily in 3 languages.

 The Second month

 Implementation plan

1. Translating documents, and tutorial videos for joining CNFT created in the first month into 3 languages: Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese (2 videos, 2 documents)

2. Synthesize documents, and create video tutorials to join CNFT (2 videos, 2 documents)

3. Organize Twitter Seminar (2 sessions)

KPI:

1. End of the November

・What is Cardano and CNFT

・How to buy ADA and make the Wallet for Cardano Native taken

（Each of the Video/ Document： Get 300 more viewers/ readers in three months)

2. End of the November

・How to mint CNFTs

・How to list CNFTs on the Market Place

3 Early Nov: "How to Enter the CNFTs"

Middele Nov: "Consultation for creators who want to participate in CNFTs”

 The third month

 Implementation plan

1. Translating documents, and tutorial videos for joining CNFT created in the second month into 3 languages: Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese (2 videos, 2 documents)

2. Synthesize documents, and create video tutorials to join CNFT (2 videos, 2 documents)

3. Organize Twitter Seminar (2 sessions)

KPI:

1. End of the December

・How to mint CNFTs

・How to list CNFTs on the Market Place

（Each of the Video/ Document： Get 300 more viewers/ readers in three months)

2.End of the December

・How to make the Generative project of CNFTs

・How to promote your CNFT Collections

3.

・Early Dec: "Introduce your collection to the Western"

・Mid Dec："Making the Collaboration "

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Total: $31,500

• Cost of creating documents :

Documents （4000words）

500USD(/per document) X 2documents X 3months =3000USD

• Cost of creating Videos :2400USD

Videos(15min)

Writer,Navigator

100USD(/per Video) X 2videos X 3months=600USD

Editor

50USD(/per hour) X 6hours X 2Videos X 3months=1800USD

• Cost of operating Discord Channels (3 languages as moderator permanent):

3 people x 1000 USD x 3 months = 9000 USD

• Marketing expenses, Seminar on Twitter (3 languages permanent):

3 people x 500 USD x 3 months = 4500 USD

• Cost of translating (3 languages : Twitter Space, Documents, Videos and support moderator on Discord):

 2000USD X 3 months = 6000 USD

• Cost of researching and synthesizing information from English documents:

 20$(/per hour)X 3H X 20days X 3 months = 3600 USD

• Cost of implementing CNFT - Love Addicted Girls:

1000 USD x 3 months = 3000 USD

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

■Yuri Hayashi (Yunya: @BLUSTYURI1)

Yuri has been working for Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (the video, event, and TV production division of Japan's largest publisher, Shogakukan) since 2003, and was involved in content production at the company until 2012.

She has been deeply involved in the Japanese TV and event industry, including large-scale promotional events for the "Pokemon" movie, anime, and idol production.

She has also translated numerous articles on the Cardano ecosystem and is the founder of CNFT is Community, a community that supports Japanese creators and companies entering the CNFT.

She is also deeply involved with the CNFT project, hosting AMA and Twitter Space, and connecting with the CNFT community in Japan, the US, and other countries. She also organized the "CNFT Festival ~Japan meets the West~", an event that bridges the CNFT communities in Japan and abroad.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-hayashi-2a974b212/

■Soudan.NFT (Founder: Crypto Muscle)

The largest NFT creators' community in Japan, with 25,000 registered users on Discord.

A community with many ETH-centered creators.

Published an NFT generative collection called "Love Addicted Girls" in the community. 500+ ETH gross sales.

Also has many ETH investor community members such as China and Korea.

And also they are pioneers of the Japanese NFT Generative collection and they have a strong tie to the Japanese big companies.

■Timothy Vang

Tim is currently serving on active duty in the United States Air Force. While in Japan, he has extensive project management experience, including coordinating bilateral events between the Japanese and U.S. Embassies. He also has experience as a community outreach coordinator, coordinating over 73 community events and festivals and building relationships with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Ambassador, and local Japanese American cities.

■Abe Senpai

Founder of CNFT's project Cardano Waifus.

He has been active in the CNFT is Community since around October last year to build bridges between Europe, the US, and Japan.

He also participates in the CNFT Festival.

■YUTA

Yuta @yutazz - Japan: Cardano Ambassador, Community Co-Organizer, Catalyst Fund 2 & 7 Recipient, Certified Public Accountant

■Ms.Ha Nguyen: 

Japanese interpreter, translator, and blockchain project reviewer.

 + Connecting the Vietnamese-Japanese community and the international community

 + Being an active member in the Vietnamese, Japan communities

 + The operator of the following Facebook groups:

"Vietnam ADA Cardano Community": >5000 members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ada.holder

"Cardano ADA Vietnam": >47,000 members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardanoviet

 + 10 years of experience in translating and interpreting Japanese.

 + N1 Japanese language ability, fluent in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

 + Blockchain Researcher: Having 2 years of research on blockchain, learning Cardano, evaluating blockchain projects.

Telegram: https://t.me/hanguyen122009

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

We need a lot of support from the Catalyst fund for the next stages of the development of the project.

In the short term, we prioritize translation into 3 languages: Japan, China, and Vietnam.

Over the medium term, we will create multilingual resources serving non-English speaking communities to accelerate the expansion of CNFT to more countries around the world.

In the long term, we want to create a large CNFT community and connect more artist communities, thereby creating many cooperation opportunities to promote the development of the Cardano ecosystem in a sustainable way.

[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?

Number of Cardano wallets created

-We can track it from the Soudan NFT discord server.

discord.gg/Soudan

Create videos to educate the Asian community about Cardano

-We'll upload it to the Soudan NFT discord sever and tweet it.

Twitter Space

-We'll upload the announcement on the Soudan NFT Discord server

Creation of educational documents about CNFT

-We'll upload the announcement on the Soudan NFT Discord server

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

500 net Cardano wallets created in 3months

Create videos to educate the Asian community about Cardano

(6 videos in 3 months-in 3 languages)

Twitter Space (6 times in 3 months)

Creation of educational documents about CNFT (6 documents in 3 months, in 3 languages)

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

It's a new project.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG subgoals:

10.c By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

10.c.1 Remittance costs as a proportion of the amount remitted

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