Cross-Chain Collaboration

Fund Size: 900,000 USD paid in Ada

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Challenge Brief #

Background #

Why is this Challenge needed?

• Tribalism & maximalism are harmful.
• We are in the multi-chain future.
• Interoperability is the key.
• We need initiatives to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains.
• We have common challenges. Let’s solve those together.

Common challenges for all blockchain communities #

You could buddy up with someone from outside Cardano ecosystem and address one or more of these common challenges:

• Awareness & Understanding
• Organisation & Governance
• Culture, Diversity & Inclusion
• Innovation & Decision-making
• Collaboration Tools & Platforms
• Incentivized Participation
• Cost & Efficiency
• Regulation & Compliance
• Security & Privacy

Examples of proposals you can submit to this challenge #

This is an open-ended challenge that welcomes any proposal geared for cross-chain collaboration, co-innovation and interoperability. These can be any community-led projects, initiatives, solutions, tools or services. These could be, for instance:

• New technical implementations connecting Cardano to other blockchains and vice versa (SDKs, APIs, bridges etc)
• Governance ideas from other chains implemented as part of the Voltaire road map
• Already successful projects expanding from other chains to Cardano
• Expansion of Cardano-based projects into other chains
• Oracles and other tools to interpret and interact with cross-chain data
• Catalyst-created solutions adopted by other chains and communities
• Common research, education, outreach and innovation projects with other chains and communities (e.g. podcasts, hackathons, webinars, communication hubs, educational resources)

Who to collaborate with? #

Any chains and their communities are welcome but here are some ideas of where to prioritize:

• Algorand
• Avalanche
• Arweave
• Casper
• Celo
• Cosmos
• Elrond
• Ethereum
• Fantom
• Harmony
• Holochain
• ICON
• NEAR
• Nervos
• Polkadot
• Polygon
• Terra
• Zilliqa

Why is it important? #

We can be a catalyst for multi-chain awareness and interoperability of blockchains which guarantees shared success in the cryptoeconomy.

What does Sucess look like? #

Collaborative value creation between Project Catalyst and other communities, through both technical and non-technical initiatives alike.

Key Metrics to measure #

To evaluate the success of the challenge, we can track:

• On-chain activity growth due to new cross-chain implementations
• Number of proposals including participants from other blockchain communities
• Number of technical implementations connecting Cardano to other blockchains
• Ideas from other chains implemented by Catalyst
• Projects and dApps from other chains implemented on Cardano
• Catalyst-created solutions adopted by other chains/communities
• Number of events / workshops / sessions arranged with other communities
• Number of permanent initiatives with cross-chain teams (members from different blockchain communities together)