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What is Cardano?
Cardano is the first decentralized permissionless blockchain and cryptocurrency project to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach.
The platform seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed within a more balanced and sustainable blockchain ecosystem.
Based on 120+ peer-reviewed research papers
Cardano is a unique social and financial operating system based on blockchain technology.
It is built to make the world work more fairly and efficiently for everyone, by simplifying processes and improving transactions across all industries.
Cardano will create a secure, decentralized way for everyone to connect and transact safely and directly – giving power to people everywhere.
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Founding Entities: Changing Responsibilities
Is a non-profit organization that acts as a supervisory and education body for �Cardano ecosystem development to support, guide, and foster its growth.
Is a world class blockchain engineering company responsible for building the first version of the Cardano blockchain (Cardano 2020).
Was responsible for fostering commercial applications being built upon the Cardano ecosystem during the initial build out of Cardano.
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Venture Capital
Project Catalyst operates as a decentralized incubator and lets participants deploy funding to proposals that tackle challenges and capitalize on opportunities that arise in the life cycle of Cardano.
It is bringing a unique model of governance to the Cardano blockchain by allowing the community to self-determine priorities for growth.
Project Catalyst is a series of experiments that seeks to generate the highest levels of community innovation.
The fund started in Q3 2020, establishing a 12 weeks funding cycle. The available funds are increasing with each cycle and while fund 7 budget was a total of $8 million, fund 8 was $16million. Over 3300 proposals were suggested between funds 1-8 and 959 proposals were funded. Numbers that continue to grow.
The Catalyst Fund
FUND 7 SDG Related Proposals*
91.7% of proposals (266) are connected to SDGs
* the evaluation was conducted by Cardano4Climate, Sustainable ADA and Cardano AIM, all catalyst community initiatives.
Cardano4Climate is a growing community within catalyst coming together around blockchain and climate change
Cardano has the blockchain, community & bright minds to build the applications we need to regenerate our ecosystem and our economy-NOW
Our goal is to make solutions to Climate Change an inherent part of the activities of the Cardano ecosystem.
Cardano4Climate.com
Sustainable ADA is a space where you can learn more about the transformative potential and impact of Cardano & collaborate with others to receive guidance, access to tools and community support, while integrating solutions to challenges faced by you, your business or your community.
Connecting the dots between Blockchain, Cardano and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and action on the ground by showcasing case studies of positive progress and potentially valuable opportunities to be unlocked.
SustainableADA.com
Metera is a DeFi protocol built on the Cardano Blockchain that allows the community to invest and create tokenized portfolios. Each portfolio receives an impact score.
The Metera protocol rewards projects that generate impact using the $MGTK governance token.
We aim to provide financial tools to the community so that they have a more transparent, easy and accessible way to invest and diversify their capital.
Metera.io
The objective of this project is to onboard impact driven companies to Cardano & Catalyst by using a decentralized/community lead generation process. Members of the community can use their network to create such leads and get financial compensation for that.
The goal is to create a new model where community members generate leads to impact companies as well as support the onboarding process of such companies.
Impact Lead Generator
Ultimately helping meet new business needs of those impact companies and increasing their ability to create a larger impact within the Cardano Ecosystem.
To incentivize the activity, community members will be compensated for generating leads that convert to conversations with businesses.
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Our survival as a species depends on our collective wisdom, our combined passion, and our concerted efforts to co-create the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenge, Climate Change.
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