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Community Reviews across funding rounds

186
Total reviews
Addresses Challenge
4.63 Star
Feasibility
4.52 Star
Auditability
4.61 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.63 Star
Value for money
3.2 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

3
Completed
6
Approved
11
Proposed
₳450.8K
$697.2K
Requested
₳87.3K
$387.4K
Awarded
₳0
$346.6K
Received

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  • Nana Safo

    Nana is the University Ambassador for Wada and the Blockchain Education Network (BEN) in Accra, Ghana. Amongst his responsibilities are delivering workshops to explain Cardano blockchain technology to newcomers. His presentations are grounded in a deep knowledge of Ghanian history and culture for which he is an eloquent advocate.

  • Dorus van der Kroft

    Dorus is a full stack developer with over twenty years of industry experience delivering projects from start to finish for both start-ups and large enterprises. His broad set of technical skills spans from coding to technical design, to functional design and requirements analysis. He's also received training in the fields of testing and deployment.

Iona Proposals (11)

Orcfax: trustworthy Cardano oracles

$49,500 Received
$49,500 Requested

<p>Smart contract developers need reliable real-world facts but there are no standards-based Cardano oracles providing authentic information.</p>

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 1.238% of the fund.
0 (1)

Factpage: Cardano fact check site

$28,500 Requested

Solution: Archive media about Cardano using the verifiable audit trails implemented in the Orcfax oracle project and publish an explorer at fact.page

Challenge: Fund 7
funded Awarded 0.356% of the fund.
0 (1)

Treedano: NFTs for mature trees Quick Pitch

$56,250 Requested

Solution: A Dapp that implements natural capital accounting to tokenize mature trees, reflect their true economic value, and incentivize conservation.

Challenge: Fund 7
over budget Requested 0.703% of the fund.
0 (1)

Landano: Cardano land registry Dapp Quick Pitch

$98,725 Received
$98,725 Requested

Solution: Landano registers land titles via a Dapp and a tokenized cadastre map. Transactions are made legally-binding by local legal professionals.

Challenge: Fund 7
completed Awarded 1.234% of the fund.
0 (1)

Reference Inputs SDK ▶ MLabs+Orcfax

$112,200 Received
$112,200 Requested

Solution: An open source Javascript SDK that demonstrates how best to publish and consume on-chain data using Cardano's CIP-31 reference inputs.

Challenge: Fund 8
completed Awarded 0.701% of the fund.
0 (1)

A People's Cadastre in Mozambique ✊ Quick Pitch

$86,144 Received
$98,450 Requested

Solution: Import Mozambican land right documents onto Cardano to create a People's Cadastre using Landano for NFT minting, maps, and web3 storage.

Challenge: Fund 8
funded Awarded 0.615% of the fund.
0 (1)

Launching Landano on Mainnet

$236,000 Requested

Solution: 1. Mint land right NFTs on Cardano Mainnet 2. Transition from username/password to wallet-based authentication & credentials 3. Refactor client/server MVP to use decentralized storage & WASM-based processing

Challenge: Fund 9
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.475% of the fund.
0 (1)

Growing The African Tertiary Sector

$17,600 Requested

Solution: Diversify the Cardano and Project Catalyst adoption rates in the African tertiary sector through a series of online workshops for university students, developers, and instructors.

Challenge: Fund 9
over budget impact proposal Requested 0.11% of the fund.
0 (1)

Landano: Decentralized Land Administration with Identity Management using Atala Prism

₳320,000 Requested

Solution: Develop a proof of concept for a blockchain-based land administration system, with an integrated identity management solution, fostering stakeholder coordination and tech interoperability.

Challenge: Fund 10
not approved Requested 0.64% of the fund.
0 (1)

Onboarding Toolkit for New dReps

₳87,250 Requested

Solution: Develop a simplified onboarding toolkit to help new DReps quickly and effectively enter Cardano's governance era.

Challenge: Fund 13
funded Awarded 0.175% of the fund.
0 (0)

Multi-Sig Wallet for Cardano's Organizational DReps - Feasibility Research

₳43,560 Requested

Solution: Research the feasibility of Multi-Sig wallet functionality for teams or organizations who have an interest in setting up DRep pools.

Challenge: Fund 13
not approved Requested 0.087% of the fund.
0 (0)