Please describe your proposed solution.
With the creation of several communities, collaboration and communications between projects from other blockchains has been halted by differences between communities, impeding these connections to flourish
Our solution is to Create a powerful & coordinated push of Cardano Hubs throughout Latin America. The LATAM Townhall has proven to be common ground for many Cardano members to interact. From our experience in the Buenos Aires Hub, by removing this digital barrier collaborations occur frictionless throughout each meeting. Making it an ideal environment for collaborations and even best, these encounters will occur in their native languages.
Latin America is a fertile region for mass adoption and create value based on Cardano. It has talented and passionate people that with the proper tools and opportunities will create its own path and ways to succeed.
Throughout our experience of work, multiple members appeared and showed capabilities of becoming Local referents in their respective countries. This proposal seeks to give those people the resources, tools and funding for kickstarting their hubs.
New hubs will be able to leverage from our community while we create a huge center of gravity for new and emerging hubs. Which will allow them to learn and get direct insight, from other hub organizer´s experiences. KEY aspect when starting a new Hub.
These spaces will allow us to drive Cardano´s growth higher, allowing even more people to join this wonderful community, while interacting at a local level.
By providing a meeting point where people can express in its own languages and cultures we expect to:
- Provide the space for powerful collaborations with people from different blockchains.
- Onboard a large population of people that are lost in translation
- Retain people by localized means of engagement
- Listen to the community and gather data and opinions from an unbiased perspective
- Welcome participants from other blockchain communities by providing openness and gratitude
- Create a new inflow of people for Catalyst
- Reach out to underrepresented groups, exploring ways to lower entry barriers and offer continuous support and advice
- Make Cardano community the best choice for people looking to participate in decentralized projects
- Create several connections with key actors in the crypto industry
Our Action Plan is the following:
This proposal will be use as a 1st experiment of how this network of hubs could look like.
Our goal is to unite and kickstart with only 5 Community hubs, while giving them freedom to work as an autonomous group. We´ve done this in the past with the LATAM Translator team and it has proven to be a great way of collaborating between teams, without demands from each other. (The hubs were chosen by leaders who rise from the community and took command of those hubs)
The Hubs will be host in:
- Buenos Aires (ARGENTINA)
- Colombia (BOGOTÁ)
- Venezuela (CARACAS)
- South Florida (USA)
- Santiago de Chile (CHILE)
Future proposals could scale on this concept and increase the number of hubs. Also, these hubs are free to create individual proposals on their own. Event organization will be taken care by each hub´s referent or team.
Our work has already started, part of the LATAM Team already had the chance to attend to 2022 Polkadot Consensus Buenos Aires event and managed to interact with several Polkadot Ambassadors, Developers and even with Gavin Wood himself, Cofounder of Ethereum and Polkadot, where we managed to discuss how to develop a Multichain Future.
With our proposal we aim to create spaces to bring several key players from the Blockchain industry to LATAM. Vitalik Buterin visited Argentina last December and caused a huge commotion, he appeared in newspapers, TV shows and EVEN met with the most influential politicians from Argentina.
Gavin Wood came to Buenos Aires for Polkadot´s summit and seems like now is the time to bring a Cardano representative right? Maybe someone by the name of Charles…?
If successful we intend to bring Charles to Latin America and sit him with key influential people from LATAM, providing Cardano access to several national governments and hopefully see huge institutional adoption for Cardano.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
These spaces will bring the spotlight to all mentioned challenges by educating, allowing collaborations and even leading the way on pushing favorable crypto legislations, creating powerful connections throughout the continent.
- Awareness & Understanding:
- Organization & Governance
- Culture, Diversity & Inclusion
- Innovation & Decision-making
- Collaboration Tools & Platforms
- Incentivized Participation
- Cost & Efficiency
- Regulation & Compliance
- Security & Privacy
“We need initiatives to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains.”
This proposal is a key element from several initiatives from the LATAM Community, to increase its presence in the region and become a Main actor in the region´s development
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Any potential risks wouldn’t put the proposal in failure risk but rather diminish it´s outcome or expand its completion. Hubs could take longer to organize and kickstart, local leaders could venture into other projects. All of these issues could be solved with efficient communication, organization and proper risk managment