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Bio

We build high-quality crypto products that unify the user experience within blockchain ecosystems.

Community Reviews across funding rounds

1706
Total reviews
Addresses Challenge
3.88 Star
Feasibility
3.46 Star
Auditability
3.06 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.11 Star
Value for money
3.27 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

47
Completed
64
Approved
80
Proposed
₳11.5M
$3.2M
Requested
₳6.3M
$2.8M
Awarded
₳2.8M
$2.6M
Received

Funding data last updated

Top of mind of dcSpark in Catalyst

most frequent words in proposal details

Challenges

The Team (5)

Members in Catalyst that have co-proposed with dcSpark. Individuals may not be employed at dcSpark. This is is is not representative of dcSpark's full team.

  • Robert Kornacki

  • john Valdez

  • Sebastien Guillemot

  • nicoarqueros

dcSpark Challenges (1)

Challenge: Open-ended Research

$500,000 Budget

What research streams can be started or accelerated to keep Cardano competitive?

Proposed in Fund:
Budget 6.25% of the fund.
0 (1)

dcSpark Proposals (80)

Milkomeda Mobile

$25,000 Received
$25,000 Requested

Solution: We want to allow users to use Milkomeda smart contracts from their mobile device

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.156% of the fund.
0 (1)

Milkomeda Game

$40,000 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Game will be a simple casual game that uses blockchain concepts. It will bring adoption and usage to Cardano through Milkomeda.

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.25% of the fund.
0 (1)

DeFi hackathon

$26,667 Received
$40,000 Requested

Solution: Milkomeda Hackathon will help with the deployments of DeFi projects that and boost adoption in Cardano.

Challenge: Fund 8
funded Awarded 0.25% of the fund.
0 (1)

ERC721 & ERC-1155 for Milkomeda

$20,000 Received
$20,000 Requested

Solution: Build infrastructure required to be able to bring NFTs or ERC1155-compatible assets between Cardano <-> Milkomeda

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.125% of the fund.
0 (1)

Layer 3 scalability using zkRollups

$75,000 Received
$75,000 Requested

Solution: Research and clear blueprint on how to implement zk-rollups on top of Milkomeda as a L3 as well as a roadmap for wallet implementation

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.469% of the fund.
0 (1)

Cotalker integration

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: Cotalker integration will allow companies to use Cardano as a source of true for storing operational information that can be verified.

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.625% of the fund.
0 (1)

Cardano Connector (Metamask-like)

$30,000 Received
$30,000 Requested

Solution: A Chrome extension connector (similar to Metamask) that will enable communication between wallets and DApps.

Challenge: Fund 5
completed Awarded 1.5% of the fund.
0 (1)

Developer Evangelist Japan

$19,000 Received
$19,000 Requested

Solution: A specialized developer evangelist will be supporting the local ecosystem in Japanese, and also managing multiple activities.

Challenge: Fund 5
completed Awarded 0.95% of the fund.
0 (1)

Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We will update this library for future updates to Cardano and also provide support & functionality to those who depend on it.

Challenge: Fund 5
completed Awarded 2.5% of the fund.
0 (1)

Create message signing standard

$535 Received
$5,000 Requested

Prove reserves, identity, delegating to a pool and more.

Challenge: Fund 2
completed Awarded 2% of the fund.

Solve asset fractionalization

$90,000 Received
$90,000 Requested

Solution: The creation of a canonical smart contract where whitelisted assets (and bridges) can exchange their bridged asset by a canonical version that will be used by the Cardano ecosystem.

Challenge: Fund 9
completed Awarded 0.563% of the fund.
0 (1)

Milkomeda Game #2

$80,000 Received
$80,000 Requested

Solution: We will make a 2nd game for Milkomeda that operates entirely on-chain without needing to trust a centralized server, and do so in a more gas-friendly way than traditional gas-hungry on-chain games

Challenge: Fund 9
completed Awarded 0.5% of the fund.
0 (1)

dcSpark (the company iteslf)

$399,000 Received
$400,000 Requested

Solution: This round of Catalyst does not have much money for the developer ecosystem (one of the primary things we build). To balance it out, we are asking for a loan w/ interest from Catalyst for this round

Challenge: Fund 9
funded Awarded 2.5% of the fund.
0 (1)

Carp over-budget + maintenance

$65,000 Received
$65,000 Requested

Solution: This proposal will pay back dcSpark for the overbudget work, as well as continue development of the project given it's now used by multiple companies inside the Cardano ecosystem

Challenge: Fund 9
completed Awarded 0.406% of the fund.
0 (1)

Fast reindexable data format

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: We introduce new thread-safe memory-efficient persistent storage with indexing capabilities. Using a single-file solution, there will be no extra processing overhead for download and synchronization.

Challenge: Fund 9
completed Awarded 0.313% of the fund.
0 (1)

Liquid staking for Milkomeda / L2s

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: We will design & implement a standard for Milkomeda to allow its users to keep earning staking rewards. We will share the approach publicly so other L2s / sidechains can implement their own variation

Challenge: Fund 9
completed Awarded 0.625% of the fund.
0 (1)