By creating a website and all the social media channels and tools necessary for an open, collaborative community (discord, telegram, gitbook, github, twitter, youtube), I want to share my passion for financial markets with prospective users of Domain Specific Language Marlowe. Together, we will add content about how to correctly and easily build smart contract solutions for TradFi problems and trading applications with an early focus on JavaScript.
Overview of what Marlowe is and what problems it will solve:
<https://marlowe-playground-staging.plutus.aws.iohkdev.io/doc/marlowe/tutorials/marlowe-model.html>
Walk-through of current status and use-case examples:
<https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2022/03/04/diving-deeper-into-the-marlowe-playground/>
It is important that new joiners from other blockchains and traditional finance can easily understand and deploy Marlowe for their projects. Existing Catalyst projects that can add functionality or complexity using Marlowe contracts should find everything in one place, even if it was generated elsewhere. We want to be this community, and provide a friendly, informative and high-quality source of all things Marlowe and finance/trading/DeFi on Cardano. Open Source projects on Cardano should always be able to have a broad range of free example contracts and educational content available, even if in the future TradFi users migrating to DeFi will have to pay for Marlowe education or solutions.
This project is dependent on the successful full implementation, first on testnet and later on mainnet, and education program by IOHK expected to launch in the first half of 2022, to come to full fruition. I see no obstacles to building a community around Marlowe Playground first, but adoption to reach 100s and 1000s of users would require real world usability. Additional functionality, like the ability to write Marlowe contracts in other language familiar to quantitative finance users like Python and finance devs like C++ would be a big plus.
Another challenge to this project - as with all open standards projects - is scattering content across many portals, websites or repositories by well-meaning groups and individuals. I am totally open to cooperation and merging efforts with anyone doing this - the end goal of having something that helps us build openly, outside paywalls and copyright restrictions, without Big Tech and legacy financial institutions, is bigger than any one moderator, influencer or sub-community.