Please describe your proposed solution.

The Alexandria Project (TAP) is an open-source community project working to revolutionize the worlds of blockchain publication, decentralized education, content distribution, archival collections, and other web3 solutions to the fields of art, information, literature, science, and technology.

TAP has an enduring commitment to using blockchain in innovative ways for the preservation & dissemination of knowledge, and to develop platforms and social networks that function as global libraries of content on Cardano. In doing so, TAP seeks to provide both resources and publication opportunities for global publics in ways that helps to promote learning and increased human understanding across generations.

The Alexandria Project offers it's members unique insight into learning about blockchain technology which helps develop their skills. This type of interaction plays a role in our communities ability to understand technology and gives them relevant skills to compete in a competitive technological environment. TAP also promotes education for all people because of the work we do in immutable censorship-proof educational tools. Governments cannot restrict its people from access to quality education as long as they can access the internet.

We would like to expand the infrastructure to ensure maximum impact-fullness for all people using the Cardano blockchain.

*TAP = The Alexandra Project

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The Alexandra project is a product in the Cardano ecosystem. In addition we would like to integrate our Products with other Protocols on Cardano.

This addresses the challenge by bringing already popular, successful content to a much broader audience. This is really needed to spread awareness about the Cardano blockchain. This proposal bridges cultures and countries together in common spirit creating educational tools that will improve the end user experience.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

We work with a group of very determined Cardano trailblazers!

Together we are strong! The more funding we have the more work we can do!

Another challenge to this initiative would be to not create interesting high quality content, I think that is one of the most important aspects of this campaign.

potential risk of this project would be not being able to find a competent developer on Cardano. Thankfully We have programmers directly on the team to ensure its success.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Week 1-8

-Equipment upgrades

-Create Smart Contract based cataloging system

-Develop infrastructure to catalog web 3 library in human readable form.

-Develop CNFT records of important Cardano Milestones.

-Creation of art to promote the library to Cardano community members.

-Back up all data to make library fully immutable, and scalable.

Week 8-16

-Develop platforms and social networks that function as global libraries of content on Cardano

-researching new ways to build innovation, pushing the edge of web3 technology.

-Plutus pioneer developer to create smart contract based infrastructure.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

$3500 <u>Developing infrastructure</u> to catalog web 3 library in human readable form.

programming, web development, video, content distribution.

$1500 <u> Art Creation</u> to promote the library. 60 hours x $25 per hour

$2500 <u>Equipment upgrades</u> -Team members have broadcast hundreds of hours of media using old equipment. This is really important to be able to provide high quality content. Funds will be used to upgrade the equipment used to broadcast our TAP content to WEB3. Audio interface, iPhone, microphone, Laptop PC, Vocal recording Mic.

$500 <u>Immutable Services</u> - Configuration and integrations with immutable services such as Arweave and IPFS Distributed, neural relay nodes.

$3500 <u>Plutus pioneer developer</u> @ $50 per hour 100 hours- smart contract development

$2500 **<u>CNFT records keeping </u>**of important Cardano Milestones. 100 hours @ $25 per hour

$1000 <u>Miscellaneous</u>- discretionary budget.

Total Requested Funds - $15,000

If not specifically specified the funds will be used according to budgeted line items. TAP will use the funds at the discretion of @cardanonoodz as efficiently and productive as possible to accomplish our stated goals.

*TAP = The Alexandria Project

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

<u>Cardano Noodz</u> - Project Director

Dave is a PhD student in Anthropology and Research Fellow at the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society. Dave has been building on Cardano since 2021, and is currently the ambassador for Tokhun.io, a minting platform and NFT Marketplace. He is also a co-founder of inFi stake pool, The Alexandria Project, and a co-host of "This Crazy Kitchen," a community workshop series for people to learn native assets on Cardano and the basics of computer programming languages.

<u>ThisCrazyLife </u>- Full-Stack Developer & Programmatic Artist

ThisCrazyLife has worked in IT for over 11 years and has been building on Cardano since 2021. Crazy Life is best known for his work on "The Refresh" and is the founder of Fre5sh Music, a music publisher on Cardano. He is a co-founder of The Alexandria Project, and a co-host of "This Crazy Kitchen," a community workshop series for people to learn native assets on Cardano and the basics of computer programming languages.

<u>adatomsnft -</u> Is a PHD academic who has tirelessly worked in the fields of science and technology. Has created catalog of open source scientific journals on the Cardano blockchain.

<u>Fractal Fuzion</u> @fractalfuzion is a CNFT creator, stake pool operator, Shill-A-mania Champion, Cardano Stonerz club OG, Tokhun premium partner artist, active Cardano community member, catalyst community advisor, 2500 club member www.fractalfuzion.com

Also have many talented artist friends in the Cardano community who we would rely on for help and creative input.

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

It is possible we would propose additional funding for The Alexandra project in the future. The reason would be to increase our effectiveness with a larger operating budget.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

The project will document number of posts, likes, comments, video views, to track engagement and will make all data available to the public with full transparency.

The community will be able to watch the progress by referring to the links in this proposal to the TAP library.

What does success for this project look like?

Success for this project would have major impact on the reach of Cardano's message by making more educational materials open to the world. Expanding the scale and scope of the Alexandra Project by onboarding more people to Cardano means success.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

Elements of this proposal were previously proposed in fund 8, but there was no more available funds in the proposed category. This proposal is brand new and tailored specifically to the current category by experienced Cardano users and community members.