Please describe your proposed solution
Overview: Develop the Jellypad dApp—a platform where projects can create their own pages to showcase details, socials, host WL/NFT/FT raffles with optional engagement tasks, create referral links, offer multi-payment gateways for various cryptocurrencies, and provide functionality for claiming or distributing fungible tokens (FTs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across different blockchains.
Problem: When new projects launch on Cardano, they struggle to gain initial exposure and provide clear information about their mission, utilities, tokenomics, and sale details. Existing projects also lack a central platform to gain visibility. Moreover, projects seeking to conduct raffles for NFTs, WLs, or FTs face fragmented distribution processes, especially when accepting payments in multiple cryptocurrencies. Additionally, investors often face challenges identifying vetted projects. Without a streamlined platform, social engagement and community growth suffer, making it harder for projects to gain momentum.
Solution: Create the Jellypad dApp, featuring dedicated project pages that highlight key information, including socials, token sale details, and mission. The platform will allow projects to host raffles or pro-rata with social engagement tasks for their NFT/FT projects, all while enabling cross-chain payments. This will attract users from multiple blockchain ecosystems, providing a cross-chain platform that connects projects with a broader audience.
Our primary focus is on supporting new projects in the ecosystem (pre-token), as this is where we can make the greatest impact through social engagement tasks, referrals, and token distribution on our platform.
We’ve seen similar launchpad/exposure models succeed on other chains, such as https://www.apeterminal.io/ and Seedify https://seedify.fund/ where users can discover vetted projects, participate in token distributions, and complete social tasks with referral bonuses.
These platforms have proven to significantly boost exposure for new projects while ensuring that higher-quality projects emerge in the ecosystem.
An important thing to note here is we are not focused as much as being a "launchpad", but more so a project explorer with social integrations and the ability to handle smaller scale raffles/pro-ratas for small token allocations from projects. We plan on working with other major launchpads such as Minswap to handle main token sales.
Outcome: The Jellypad dApp will provide increased exposure for vetted projects, giving both projects and investors a reliable platform to engage with. The social engagement features will boost visibility for projects and their token sales, while also educating users on project developments. This platform will also streamline distribution processes and attract users from other chains, expanding the reach of Cardano projects.
Why Catalyst: We require funding to develop the landing page and platform infrastructure, including tools for project creation, NFT/FT raffles, pro-rata distributions, cross-chain payments, wallet integrations, claiming/airdrop mechanisms, server costs, and the management team necessary to operate the platform at scale.