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Nori Nishigaya
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Nori Nishigaya Proposals (61)
Mission& Vision driven SPO Networks
Solution: Create an innovative network of Catalyst-focused SPOs, work with prominent Catalyst builders & document their SPO journey.
Challenge: Boosting Diversity in Catalyst
As a community, how can we increase diversity and bring new people and communities into Project Catalyst?
OpenSource Quadratic Voting Funding
Solution: Bring GitCoin to Cardano with quadratic voting and funding to amplify trust and opportunities to build the future of open-source Cardano.
Bridge Builders Operations
Solution: Bridge Builders has been mentoring and helping the community since Fund 6. We provide events, 1 on 1 engagement, and project mentoring.
Challenge: Catalyst Culture
How might we establish and maintain inclusive and lively Catalyst Culture to explore the highest potential of human collaboration?
Challenge: Governance Praxis
What governance experiments can we try, what knowledge can we share, and what forms of organization will emerge from this collective effort?
Challenge: Climate Change: THE Challenge
Climate Change is humanity's greatest challenge going forward. How will Cardano contribute to solving this wicked problem?
Onboarded companies playbook Quick Pitch
Solution: A playbook for funded companies that guide their various teams on how to best connect their operation with the Catalyst operation - payments, admin, communication
SPO Learning Support Community DAO
Solution: We will evolve a learning DAO with our existing SPO programme incubator community that ensures their ongoing support, and codify our experience to create a knowledge-base for future DAO developers.
Challenge: Entrepreneurship Challenge Quick Pitch
How might we encourage impact companies and entrepreneurs to build use cases on Cardano in the next 6 months?
Cardano Node Management Tool
Solution: We will Open Source a tool that allows SPOs to define their network & VMs which this tool will then use to build, deploy, configure, & run Cardano Node software in a safe and reliable manner.
Getting down to business! Building the Professional Decentralised Business Development Network
Solution: A decentralised partnership creation solution that helps connect a company's business needs with trusted community members that can reach out to their networks, create partnerships, and earn revenue.
Fundraising support. Workshops, one on one sessions and a final pitch event for investors.
Solution: Web 3 VCs to guide on how to approach investors, start up coach will conduct workshops to prepare pitch-decks and one on one sessions to improve them. A pitch event with investors.
Venture Capital deal flow: Connect investors with companies building on Cardano. Establish a deal flow process that will make it easier for investors to see the opportunities within the ecosystem.
Solution: A platform for companies to update their investment information and promote it to venture investors. Matching between the right opportunity with the right investors will increase chances of funding.
Business Lead Generation on Cardano
Solution: Generate business leads to companies through a trusted network, help companies grow and support mass adoption. As a pilot, this proposal will generate business leads for 4 Cardano companies.
ODIN - Mentors Network to increase success of funded proposals
Solution: Build a diverse network of mentors to support funded projects and help them deliver on their projects and grow their business and impact.
Andamio+Identus+Mātou: Identity for Education & Economic Impact
Solution: A decentralised system where learners earn tokenised credentials through DIDs & VCs, allowing skills accumulation, credential sharing & recognition enabling seamless transition from education to work.
Empowering Cardano Governance: Project-Based Learning Modules for CIP-1694 Voltaire Participation
Solution: Develop project-based learning modules to educate the Cardano community on CIP-1694 governance roles: becoming a DRep, engaging SPOs in governance, and understanding the CC's role and election.
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In December, the dRep Education Book Club was officially launched on the Leadership Academy Discord: https://discord.gg/y8FNFek6B2 and we gained 32 new members this month due to that announcement. The Discord has been set up to host a channel per book that we discuss, and will lead up to the first face to face book club meeting in mid-January. There is also a new space for community members to add any books they are currently reading and discuss the book with the community, so the book club is not limited to just the ones selected for this proposal. There has been higher engagement since moving from Telegram to Discord, so that is a good sign that this was a positive change.
The summer has slowed down progress on our initiative somewhat, but we hope to re-engage everyone in September and continue our forward progress.
We are combining with an SPO Accelerator proposal and bringing even more value to the SPOs involved in this project. We will be launching the SPO accelerator in a few week in partnership with Harry Hellyer and his team.
We are also starting to gather SPOs that are interested in working on a certification program and will kick off our first convening on May28. We have a community Discord and Telegram group formed for better communication.
On April 25, Nori participated on a panel discussion with other block chain experts on NFTs. This second event was all about NFTs and their utility. This was an interesting conversation and one other company on the panel was already using Cardano as the blockchain for their in-game NFT assets. The utility of NFTs beyond "art NFTs" was a good learning opportunity for much of the audience. We are planning a third conversation around DAOs in late June.
Sanada continues to host bi-weekly Pacific Town Hall. In May we had sessions on governance, presentations on impact projects on Cardano and block chain (Landano, Algae Token, and Nature Blocks), and we had some discussions around stake pool best practices and a review of Fund 8 and how it went for the community. Recordings of Pacific Town Hall are available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_yYJZg5No8
We have also hosted two Pacific Town Halls in April, one a fairly deep dive into what it takes to run an SPO, and the other discussing the need for a constitution in Cardano. Recordings of the Town Hall meetings can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkzzr15NShOxhnascFCo-w
In April, as COVID restrictions have lifted sufficiently, we hosted an in-person event to teach people about and discuss NFTs. This event was attended by over 20 people and lasted just over 2 hours. One of the panel speakers is building a game on top of Cardano and using NFTs to represent in-game items.
We have partnered with Edify to offer the Sakura SPO community an Impact Accelerator to help them strengthen their business and ultimately be more successful at running a stake pool. Our kick off meeting is recorded here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG_lQc_kJQ
We have on-boarded a community manager (Jeremy Kiffiak) who will be reaching out to different SPO communities, and an SPO technical advisor (Bryan Lesiuk) who will be advising on Stake Pool best practices and creating a security audit to certify that SPOs are running good security practices.
Our discord server is here: https://discord.gg/dbuEjDPYKq
And our Telegram group: https://t.me/SakuraSPOs
We are convening our first meeting of SPOs and community projects on April 1 to launch this new network. We have partnered with Harry Hellyer and his team to offer SPOs business mentorship as the synergies between the groups seems to be highly aligned. We hope to take 15-20 SPOs through the accelerator program.
A Discord server has been set up to help build community and facilitate conversation for this group: https://discord.gg/dbuEjDPYKq
SANADA is now hosting the Pacific Town Hall. We've been holding them every two weeks, and the recordings of the meetings can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkzzr15NShOxhnascFCo-w and interested people can sign up via the Catalyst Community Meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Catalyst-Community-Network/
As the SANADA community manager, I have started networking at the KWENCH co-working space, and have connected with several local companies who are interested in building on top of Cardano, and have been attending local blockchain meetups to spread the word about Cardano and Catalyst.
I have also sat on an introduction to blockchain panel discussion and represented Cardano and explained the energy efficiency of the blockchain and how it's being used in various impact initiatives. There were 23 people in attendance and it turned into a nice conversation about blockchain in general, and Cardano in particular. It's worth noting that due to COVID, this was the first face to face event that I've been able to attend in person. It's nice to be able to meet people once again. We are now planning an NFT panel discussion for the end of April for part two of this series.