Please describe your proposed solution
The Lido Nation Catalyst Explorer is an amazing tool for Project Catalyst research, dicing and slicing and exporting CSVs of proposal data. In fund 12 the community voted to opensource this tool and have it live at catalystexplorer.com. As the catalystexplorer product finds a life of its own as an open source product, the big idea here is to add missing functionality the community have been asking for.
The big idea: catalystexplorer.com 2.0.
For the 2.0 iteration of catalystexplorer.com we will take everything we’ve learned from workshopping the initial product and introduce more tooling to:
- Reduce barriers of entry to voting and finding good ideas (AI + tinder UI)
- Increased transparency into funding data (on chain transactions, funding metrics, ability for teams to volunteer their proposal payment addresses)
- Reviewers & Moderators profiles (with participation history)
Proposal Tinder.
This is a long requested feature that we will finally be bringing to the catalystexplorer experience. Instead of having to see a long list of a thousand proposals we will show voters a tinder like presentation with the ability to swipe right or left to bookmark or shortlist proposals that make a good first impression. The more you swipe, the more we will learn about your preferences to show you proposals you’re more likely to be interested in first.
AI Tooling.
Profiting from all of the research done by Wolfram: “The AI Revolution and Implications to Project Catalyst” funded proposal, we will implement an AI pipeline to power a couple of the most used functionalities of the explorer with more to come over time.Here are the first three we plan to start with:
- Comparing and contrasting proposals
- Asking questions about proposals in any given fund or across all funds.
- Powering the proposal tinder recommendation engine.
On-Chain Funding data.
We’ve been cataloging fund distribution data for as far back as we could go. The plan is to provide an interactive experience for digging into mainnet transactions related to catalyst funding distributions. You will be able to:
- See catalyst funding distribution transactions details for as far back we can gather:
- Dates
- Amounts
- Destination addresses
- Link to see transaction in your favorite explorer
- See USD conversions
- Teams wanting to provide more transparency to the community can tag their addresses.
Catalyst Profiles.
Already on the catalystexplorer you can claim your profile if you are associated with an ideascale account. With a claimed profile you can see all your proposals in one place, add a quickpitch, company information, and mint a free NFT when you’ve successfully completed your proposal. We would like to bring similar tooling for community reviewers and moderators. Moderators & Reviewers will be able to:
- Claim their profile
- See their review history and outcomes
Stable Open API.
We’ve been supporting other builders in the ecosystem by providing some limited apis for the last 3 funding rounds. With this funding we will overhaul the API to make it stable and OpenAPI V3 compliant. The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection. In other words it will make it easy for more people to build on top of the API.