There is no easy way for users to understand the state of Cardano DAOs and how decentralized and autonomous an organization is.
Currently wallets in Cardano cannot easily display prices of native tokens on Cardano through self-hosted solutions
DAOs in & out of Cardano don't have access to more advanced voting systems with Sybil resistance and resort to 1-coin-1-vote that doesn't always…
Nodes used exclusively as data source for client tools have different requirements than block producers / relays nodes. Many performance / cost…
PRISM verifiable credential (VCs) is a plain unstructured JSON - unstandardised and hard to use for building trust networks
There is a lack of support infrastructure for SPOs in Africa to create sustainable and scalable business models.
Diversity and enough different and independent tools for developers is the basis for a successful chain. Web-explorers are one of basics.
Cardano-serialization-lib is one of the top projects in the ecosystem used by almost all dApps & needs to be updated for the next hardfork
There exists a limiting number of ways to interact directly with the Cardano blockchain in a high-performance way.
There is currently no standard and commonly used tool that can verify NFTs as real
The ecosystem has many projects that require interconnectivity but without proper coordination these integration are difficult to achieve
People don’t know that their water is contaminated until it is too late. Centralized authorities can’t be relied upon to provide this data.
Cardano dApps are currently expensive to build, and require setting up infrastructure that is barrier for entry of new players.
Cardano Catalyst dApps that aim to use Tokenomics, DAO or NFTs face barriers to build and test/validate massively with potential users.
Cardano's rapid growth relative to Ethereum has not yet evolved the same level of comprehensive support for our open (CIP) standards as Ethereum…
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…
Cardano uses a encoding scheme called CBOR that supports multiple ways of encoding the same data. No Rust library supports all possible encodings…
Education is often expensive, separated from its context, demotivating and dependent on your language. It's hard to find language tandems.
Flutter is the fastest growing mobile app developer community but currently there's no Flutter library support in the Cardano ecosystem.
Today, companies have your data and (mis)use it for their benefit. People should control the use of their personal data and benefit from it.
Human Knowledge is important and should be backed up on the Cardano Blockchain, there are no decentralized WEB 3 Library solutions. Censorship…
Variations across tools like cardano-cli, serialization libs and Plutus, like in data serialization create difficulty when more than one is…
Currently Sebastien (dcSpark CTO) acts as a Catalyst editor which requires a weekly time commitment. This proposal is to cover the time cost
Enterprises want to build Cardano applications but do not have the infrastructure to get started.
Marketing in a world that aims for Web 3.0 relies on "manual-work and trust" and is not scalable.
