The Catalyst School

Catalyst School is a place to leverage the impact of Catalyst as a whole by introducing and improving the contribution of all its different players and roles.

Funding Cycle

Insight Sharing

Proposal Submission

Proposal Refinement

Proposal Finalizing

Proposals Assessment by PAs

Assessment Review by Proposers

Assessment Review by vPAs

Tallying & Community Voting

1 week

1 week

1 week

1 week

2 weeks

~5 days

~15 days

~3 weeks

A member of the Catalyst community who is expected to:

• Assess Proposals
• Provide feedback to Proposers
• Support the Community Voting phase by giving scores to each proposal

Everyone can be a Proposal Assessor. Sign up at https://cardano.ideascale.com/ and check the checkbox that will show (Started on the 23th June)

What is a Proposal Assessor (PA)?

• PAs are anonymous
• PAs scores cannot be seen by other PAs during the assessment phase
• PAs can choose which proposals they assess
• A person can be a proposer and a PA in the same fund, but not in the same Challenge
• A person can be a PA and a vPA in the same fund, but not in the same Challenge

Some fact about Proposal Assessors

• Website where proposals are officially submitted
• Community members can provide feedback to proposers
• Information is checked by IOG
• Link: https://cardano.ideascale.com/

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What is IdeaScale?

• Three criteria:
• Impact
• Feasibility
• Clarity / Auditability
• Assessment:
• 1 to 5 stars score
• Rationale or explanation justifying �the score given

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How to assess a proposal?

See assessment examples using the Voter Tool

Check out the Proposal Assessor Assessment Guide

Assessment criteria

Clarity / Auditability

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- How can the community audit the project progress?

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- Are there KPIs, roadmap, milestones?

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- Are the delivery dates clearly defined?

Feasibility

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- Success likelihood?

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- Is the proposer or team experience aligned with the proposal objective?

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- Is there a plan or timeframe?

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- Is the budget explained?

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- Are risks taken into consideration?

Impact

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- Added value to Cardano Ecosystem?

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- Challenge alignment?

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- Local or global impact?

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- Ability to scale?

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• In Fund 9, a total of $640,000 will be distributed to Proposal Assessors
• Assessments will be classified as ‘excellent’, ‘good’ or will be ‘filtered out’ by Veteran Proposal Assessors in the Quality Assurance phase
• Excellent assessments will be rewarded 3 times more than the Good assessments
• Exact rewards cannot be determined in advance, but they can be estimated:
• $60 for each ‘Good’ assessment
• $180 for each ‘Excellent’ assessment
• Values may increase or decrease depending on bonus rewards or total number of assessments

Proposal Assessors Rewards

• Positive feedback-loop
• PA contemplation of their own ability to assess a proposal
• PA scoring against Challenge criteria
• PA opinion on the proposal overall
• Accountability to the Community

How assessments are reviewed by vPAs

• Main Project Catalyst Discord server: https://discord.gg/ugG6pZKm
• Project Catalyst Telegram Group: https://t.me/ProjectCatalystChat
• Proposal Assessor Telegram Group: https://t.me/CatalystCommunityAdvisors
• Catalyst School Discord server: https://discord.gg/nqxRY59TSp

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• Resource: PA Tool by AIM https://cardanocataly.st/ca-tool/#/

Where is the Catalyst community?

DISCORD

TELEGRAM

EMAIL

STAY TUNED WITH

CATALYST SCHOOL

WEBSITE

LINKTREE