Please describe your proposed solution
We leverage the European Cardano Community events (i.e. Zoom calls we call Fireside Chats) as a central hub to facilitate collaboration.
Our focus is on ecosystem projects and information about EU regulations. We do not endorse projects but engage with a positive mindset to increase awareness. Our intrinsic motivation is knowledge exchange, fostering growth, and helping overcome language barriers.
Since our inception in 2022, we have engaged key stakeholders, including Stake Pool Operators (SPOs), project teams, community members, and policymakers.
We are building strong strategic partnerships to address the unique needs of projects building on Cardano in Europe.
With this proposal, we intend to increase the intensity of our endeavors.
We are featuring indy projects as well as prominent Cardano projects and organizing multilingual X spaces; we ensure inclusivity and broad participation and cater to diverse linguistic needs.
This approach enables us to connect with regional values, support the adoption of Cardano within Europe, and provide a platform for projects building on Cardano to network and share insights.
We care about transparency and compliance. We understand compliance as the responsible trajectory of a project or ecosystem to comply with our community's expectations and prevent getting into the crosshairs of regulation.
Amongst others, we are already fostering collaboration among projects building on Cardano. However, with this proposal, we want to furthermore contribute to the community's knowledge about local regulatory compliance, and enhanced growth of the Cardano ecosystem in Europe.
As Cardano ecosystem participants often care about business and philanthropy, we see us as a founders' hub. Establishing a blueprint regarding general compliance, funding mechanisms, and business ideation is helping us and the greater community to improve on everyone of these aspects, reaching far beyond the Cardano ecosystem (Note: At the time of your reading we are still in our creation phase from F11).
The blueprint will be a continuation of our non-imposing set of suggestions for communities to build on, regarding their specific needs and region-specific aspects. A bundle of strategies, internal rules, and tools to formalize ideas into a tangible pathway assisting projects to navigate through their own unexplored realms.
We will actively foster alignment and collaboration with other regional Town Halls, such as the African Town Hall, Eastern Town Hall, LATAM Town Hall, and MENA Town Hall, promoting cross-regional knowledge sharing and driving synergistic growth within the global Cardano community.
We are currently re-evaluating a Stakepool delegation rotation to add to already existing initiatives of the xSPO and the F2LB communities. These initiatives help small pools receive enough delegation to mint blocks. They also foster their interexchange. We see the need for additional delegation pillars like these to bridge the gaps between the rotation cycles.
Our fireside chats are building a solid foundation for physical meetups. These will be coordinated by local country hubs, for which we will establish a treasury to work with some of our trusted and active community members.
These events are comparable with the meetups supported by Cardano's founding entities and intersect MBO: however, this time, they are 100% community-led, community-financed, and following the principles of our blueprint to the likes of the Cardano Community.
With our experience from Fund11, we are now increasing the budgets for hosts, and will adjust the total amount of live events to 12 workshops over a period of 6 months.
With Fund 12, after having been funded in Fund 11 - we have established country hubs - with a strong focus on building local communities via face-to-face workshop events.
To be clear, we are not working against any of the founding entities or Intersect, but we observed the expression of independence around the community and this is one way to fulfill it.
By offering a platform that facilitates networking, knowledge sharing, and strategic alignment, our solution amplifies Cardano's visibility, adoption, and influence in the European market, strengthening its position as a leading blockchain platform.