Please describe your proposed solution.
Trusted relationships are the foundation for productive collaboration. OneUpOneDown is a mentorship-focused social network that facilitates deep connections between people based on levels of experience within industries. This is achieved using a protocol that creates short term mentorship pairs, each lasting three months with four one-to-one meetings within this time period. Matches are made by taking into consideration the experience of all users and proposing the best matches across the network at a given time.
Our solution is a highly scalable way to create connections, communication and collaboration opportunities between individuals within the Web3 industry, working across different blockchain platforms and protocols.
In Fund 8, we received funding to develop a pool for matching mentors and mentees within Web3, to create connections within Cardano and to bring more people into the Cardano network. Cardano is formally recognised as a sponsor of this Pool and Catalyst community members will be involved in the creation of educational materials to develop the knowledge of people within this pool.
We are applying for funding to build out this Pool with functionality to improve our ability to make matches and engage participants within this network, and for marketing activities generate awareness about the Web3 Pool across blockchain networks.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
The proposed solution will be an effective way to build deep relationships between people working across different blockchain platforms, which will effectively increase communication, coordination and collaboration between blockchain communities that are currently siloed.
Alignment with Challenge KPIs:
- A group of people who has proved their consistent actions and willingness to make contributions to the ecosystem.
- Opening the doors to other communities can increase the number of Catalyst members and broaden their perspectives and knowhow.
- Learning from other open source communities
- Increasing the brand awareness and bringing in curious developers from outside of the Cardano community.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
- Unable to generate enough demand from blockchain communities. We will mitigate this risk by working with existing communities, including Cardano Women, to promote the opportunity to their existing network. We will focus on Women in Blockchain groups who are aligned in a shared mission of supporting more women to be successful in Web3.
- Inability to make high-quality matches at scale - we are mitigating this risk by continuing to develop our AI matching software and user interface to better facilitate mentor matches. We have received funding for this in Fund8.
- Busy people with not enough time to be mentors - we can mitigate this risk by incentivising mentors through payment in ADA and/or tokens.