The ADA Cafe accelerates the growth of Cardano by making it easier, faster, and simpler for Humans creating valuable, community-based products & services. We are an eclectic group of creators, technologists, and collectors with three areas of focus.
- Community, Creators & Curation
- Channels: Web, Twitter Spaces, YouTube, Discord
- Services: Art, Marketing, Design, Audio/Video, strategic guidance for projects
- Technology & Services
- NFT Minting & Setup
- NFV (Non-Fungible Visualizations)
- Stake Pool Operations
- Developer Resources
- Capital & Governance
- Strategic Direction & Patron Engagement
- Treasury Management
At its core, the ADA Café is a business-to-business community hub. We provide resources and services that eliminate or optimize manual/tedious work for proven projects building on Cardano. This is critical to the growth of Cardano.
Why is this important?
- We empower talented people and teams to focus on creating art, products, and services for existing and future community members of Cardano.
- The more time, insights, and support talent people and projects receive, the faster they will create high quality products that evolve to meet the needs of others.
- Creating high quality products and services attracts more people to Cardano and increases the chances people have (and continue to have) a positive experience in the Cardano Ecosystem.
- Coming full circle, by combining services and community, the ADA Cafe helps any project reach their audience with marketing and distribution (media + technology services)
The Café officially opened December 21 of 2021. The cafe now has over 630 Regulars, 93+ of which are Patrons (Members), and contributes to the Cardano Community everyday. Here’s a highlight of successes to date and some unique Cafe Patrons.
- 11 Twitter Spaces, hosting seven days a week providing education, insight, news, and information about Cardano. (Listed Below)
- Providing 100s of Cardano projects to share and connect with the Community, many of which get their “start” on Cafe supported shows
- Cardano and general blockchain news and education
- Facilitated community discussions to talk about important topics impacting the future of Cardano
- Creative spaces exploring and encouraging pushing the creative limits of people and technology
- Launched 3 NFT Projects, onboarding a new female artist and male musician
- Hosted two Shillamania to help people be creative and generate exposure for their projects.
- Hosted 24 Hour Catalyst Governance & Voting Twitter Spaces Marathon
- 600+ (and growing) Discord which also serves as the official Discord for several projects
- Collaborated with programmable.art and Epoch Blockchain to create Non-Fungible Visualizations, a new type of NFT
- 10+ Stake Pool Operators helping secure Cardano
- Cafe Website helping people find Twitters Spaces, NFTs, and more information about their favorite Shows.
Access and Information Sharing
The solution to the organization of Cardano as a Community is by providing reliable data, technical, and financial resources that a) many do not have the skillset today b) shouldn’t be built multiple times. For example, each Twitter Space host should not have to hire technical talent to create analytics or create a guest scheduling app.
Additionally the Cafe already serves as common ground, making it simpler and easier for anyone to have a trusted, welcoming starting point in their Cardano experience.
Connecting People and Groups
We know the projects supported by the ADA Cafe are giving people human connection, purpose, and a place for personal growth. We know helping people find their place in the Cardano Community enriches everyone who participates. How do we know this? We live it and we hear it from our Patrons and Regulars.
The ADA Cafe is supporting projects which engage the public everyday – both existing and new Cardano Community members. This proposal accelerates our ability to connect people and groups by eliminating/minimizing time spent on easily automated tasks, maximizing the time people can participate & grow the community.
The Cafe acts as bridge builders, bringing together people and projects to work together. Our three focus areas allow us to connect and solve for any creative and/or technical need. For example: if one group is working on an educational course platform and another is working on developing workshops we will help bring them together. Or if someone is working on a Dapp or NFT project we will help find people within our network that want to help.
Mentoring
The library of resources, people, and organizations that interact in the ADA Cafe is constantly growing. This growth is exciting and it requires more effort to create systems and structures that scale – something we must do and plan for today!
Organizing the information and data provides a solid foundation to mentor people trying to learn and leverage the benefits Cardano provides us. This proposals ability to free up our Patrons most valuable resource – time – is precisely how we onboard and mentor more people.
By better understanding community member’s needs with new tools, analytics, and time, the ADA Cafe can curate content and efficiently distribute resources. Anyone that comes to the ADA Cafe should be able to find the experience, people, and help that they need to be successful with what they’re pursuing.
Challenges include but are not limited to:
Maintaining Growth of the Community (Network Strength)
Maintaining authentic engagement in any Community is difficult – much less a decentralized global Community with unpredictable growth patterns. We’re addressing this challenge by providing a variety of social and professional outlets.
Carrying the welcoming, supportive, and discerning ethos of Cardano well into the future is one of the main reasons for starting the Cafe. We value learning, respect, and quality even if when we disagree. The only way to maintain and grow the community is to cultivate a supportive and productive atmosphere where people are safe to participate. This is a sustainable and regenerative process; as people benefit from the good will of others a natural sense of community and responsibility occurs.
Executing in a Decentralized Manner
Efficient execution is difficult, even for centralized companies. Given then distributed nature of the ADA Cafe, there is a risk we aren’t able to achieve as much as we are proposing due to the variable nature of working within a global ecosystem.
We are mitigating this risk with this proposal by having the mandate and resources to incentivize people/teams creating our products & services to maintain focus.
Unforeseen Technical Challenges
The ADA Cafe is fortunate to have many talented technical professionals. Nonetheless, creating new products and services always has the potential for unplanned issues that require a lot more time (therefore budget) to complete.
We are mitigating this risk by 1) having highly competent software engineers to contribute 2) iteratively building in small, achievable phases.