As Fund6 of Project Catalyst with a 4 Million $ budget starts, that's a good idea to analyze the winners of the previous Fund. Not only you can learn from the winners, but it's also useful to know what's going on in the Cardano ecosystem in general.

For people new to Cardano it's still not so easy to figure out the process, even the voting results are not so easy to find. Moreover, it's so much information so it's easy to get lost, and we can't expect that people will read every proposal. In past (and I'm in Project Catalyst since the Focus group, since Fund1) I read all the proposals and there were periods when I read all the communication in the telegram. Even though it didn't help my proposals, it was still interesting. All my proposals were not supported in Fund5. It was sad that in the category "F5: Catalyst value onboarding" there was enough budget, but probably more people voted against it (I can't see their results). But anyway, I think it's better not to give up, and come with another proposal in Fund6, and then maybe in the future funds.

One more reason to study the winners is that after checking the project - you might decide to contribute. Sometimes you contribute as a tester, and sometimes as a part-time (or even a full-time job). Such opportunities will only increase with future Funds.

So here are Voting results for Catalyst’s Fund5 (link to PDF)

And here are the winning proposals. Firstly I thought to comment on some of them, but this would keep this article too long, so I decided to limit to the proposal and proposer names, link and budget. Proposals are presented by categories.

I. Developer Ecosystem Category

Testnet Cardanoscan Explorer https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352606-48088

Proposer: Ashish Cardanoscan

Budget: $7500

Cardano Rust SDK update for Alonzo https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352480-48088

Proposer: sebastiengllmt, nicoarqueros

Budget:$50,000

C# SDK for Blockfrost API https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352764-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries (Blockfrost.io)

Budget:$9,000

Elixir SDK https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350635-48088

Proposer: Richard Nystrom

Budget:$12,000

Cardano JS API https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350707-48088

Proposer: RAY Network

Budget: $15,000

Cardano Wallet Flutter SDK https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352623-48088

Proposer: Richard Easterling

Budget: $10,000

Metadata oracle endpoint in Yoroi https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352229-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries

Budget: $1,200

Websocket link for Blockfrost API https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352757-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries

Budget:$18,000

NFT Key https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352020-48088

Proposer: CardanoDan, Chris

Budget: $50,000

Cardano IPFS chronicles https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352787-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries

Budget: $10,080

Glow Formal verification https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352760-48088

Proposer: Alexander Smart , François-René Rideau , Gauthier Lamothe

Budget: $60,000

Free Commerce payment gateway https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350766-48088

Proposer: Jeronimo Backes

Budget: $52,500

Localize Yoroi for Slovak market https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352235-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries

Budget: $2,500

End-to-End No-code Cardano Apps https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352756-48088

Proposer: Marian Filipovici

Budget: $25,400

Localize Yoroi for Czech market https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352236-48088

Proposer: Five Binaries

Budget: $2,500

Arnot - iOS SDK https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350625-48088

Proposer: fragkiskos.katsimpas , Greg

Budget: $12,980

NFT Guaranteed Storage https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350731-48088

Proposer: Kiriakos [SPEC]

Budget: $14,550

Quality-Assurance-DAO https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351678-48088

Proposer: Stephen Whitenstall

Budget: $5

NFT-DAO EZ-Pay API wallet connector https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352126-48088

Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)

Budget: $69,945

Artificial Intelligence/ML API https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351501-48088

Proposer: Francisco

Budget: $80,000

Step-by-Step Guide: Off-Chain Code https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350599-48088

Proposer: quinn

Budget: $5,000

NFT-DAO EZ-On Interop NFTs https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352132-48088

Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)

Budget: $8,200

NFT-DAO EZ-Name https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352159-48088

Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)

Budget: $59,842

Tokenizing GitHub Pull request https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350780-48088

Proposer: Max

Budget: $12,000

II. DApps & Integrations

Cardano Connector (Metamask-like) https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352482-48088

Proposer: sebastiengllmt, Robert Kornacki, nicoarqueros

Budget: $30,000

The Quest for ADA https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351663-48088

Proposer: Marcin Kugla, aikkahn, Christian Hayungs

Budget: $100,000

nft-maker.io -> Full NFT platform https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351653-48088

Proposer: Patrick Tobler

Budget: $40,000

DaPassword - a password manager https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350773-48088

Proposer: Jeronimo Backes

Budget: $54,600

iGIVit - The Future of Giving https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351711-48088

Proposer: David Poulin, Ludovic

Budget: $20,416

III. Distributed decision making

NFT-DAO EZ-Honor contribution token https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352773-48088

Proposer: NFT-DAO (the whole team)

Budget: $29,000

Catalyst Community Tools https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350981-48088

Proposer: Philip Khoo, Victor Corcino, Lucio Baglione, Adagov.org

Budget: $4,600

Catalyst Site: Project tracking https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350699-48088

Proposer: lovegrovegeorge, Jakob Dickhaut, Ben Stokes

Budget: $8,400

Open Ideas and Data For Cooperation https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351825-48088

Proposer: Adagov.org

Budget: $33,470

Tutorial for Community Advisors https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350904-48088

Proposer: Dominik Tilman

Budget: $10,850

IdeaScale Improvements https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352809-48088

Proposer: Erik Siebert , Rob Hoehn

Budget: $10,000

IV. Proposer outreach

Developer Evangelist Japan https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352484-48088

Proposer: sebastiengllmt , Robert Kornacki , nicoarqueros

Budget: $19,000

Catalyst Site: Collaborators list https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350653-48088

Proposer: lovegrovegeorge, Jakob Dickhaut, Ben Stokes

Budget: $11,600

FREE MONEY Direct Marketing https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352114-48088

Proposer: rich

Budget: $43,827

WADA Media Funnel for Proposers https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352499-48088

Proposer: WADA , Megan Hess

Budget: $12,000

Hands-On Marketing in Addis Ababa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351941-48088

Proposer: Jonathan W., Nebiyu, mearaftadewos and 2 more

Budget: $4,570

ALDEA Wiki - Cardano Encyclopedia https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352436-48088

Proposer: Matias Falcone

Budget: $5,960

V. Catalyst value onboarding

Inner-View with KEWW Video Series https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350672-48088

Proposer: Ken Adams, Chad Dickson

Budget: $8,900

WADA Uni Students Catalyst Registry https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352611-48088

Proposer: WADA , jaycidiq

Budget: $11,000

PCDiscord - Bot to Assign Roles https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352779-48088

Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R

Budget: $500

ALDEA Catalyst Spanish Support Site https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352422-48088

Proposer: Matias Falcone

Budget: $9,080

Barriers to Entry = Proposals https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352744-48088

Proposer: James Dunseith

Budget: $10,000

Catalyst Site:Improve proposal data https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350686-48088

Proposer: lovegrovegeorge , Jakob Dickhaut , Ben Stokes

Budget: $8,400

PCDiscord Miro board for Onboarding https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352801-48088

Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R

Budget: $900

Catalyst Site: Education resources https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350675-48088

Proposer: lovegrovegeorge , Jakob Dickhaut , Ben Stokes

Budget: $5,200

PCDiscord - Bot to create channels https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352780-48088

Proposer: Tevo , Q U A S A R

Budget: $479

Charles Hoskinson in Russian https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350835-48088

Proposer: Evgeniy Sereda

Budget: $6,500

VI. Metadata challenge

Control your data - privacy ledger https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350680-48088

Proposer: Michiel Van Roey , Shawn Jensen , Ipek Sahiner, Luke Bragg

Budget: $19,200

Graph DB Sidechain with Fluree https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352531-48088

Proposer: Dmitri Safine [DDAY] , Michael Yagi , bplatz

Budget: $12,500

Oracle Performance Metrics

Budget: $3,000

Blockchain Authentication Mechanism https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352005-48088

Proposer: gargiulo.gianni

Budget: $6,000

C64 NFTs Minter(on-chain+identity) https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352588-48088

Proposer: Caso

Budget: $6,500

VII. Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

Africa Opensource Pharma & Medicine https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352738-48088

Proposer: Andre.Chagwedera, startupsnyc, kusters.rem

Budget: $45,000

No-Code For Creative Africa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351502-48088

Proposer: tobrien, WADA

Budget: $20,000

Introducing Empowa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352666-48088

Proposer: Phil Lewis , Glen Jordan , Marie-Odile Zanders and 1 more

Budget: $60,000

Cardano Student Clubs in Ethiopia https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351822-48088

Proposer: Nebiyu , Jonathan W. , mearaftadewos and 1 more

Budget: $19,350

ADA news in African languages https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352267-48088

Proposer: Rik, Renemacarthur, Unofficialbydesign and 2 more

Budget: $42,720

Networking events https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351854-48088

Proposer: nathansamson, Nebiyu, Jonathan W. and 1 more

Budget: $24,000

Paper wallet terminal for in a shop https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350836-48088

Proposer: Maarten Menheere

Budget: $12,000

Cashout and Buy ADA in Ethiopia https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/350836-48088

Proposer: mearaftadewos , Nebiyu , Jonathan W. and 1 more

Budget: $9,000

VIII. Scale-UP Cardano's DeFi Ecosystem

Liqwid Protocol Security Audit https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352039-48088

Proposer: Liqwid Labs, MLabs Consulting

Budget: $119,000

Liqwid x Credmark R&D on Loan Risks https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352081-48088

Proposer: Liqwid Labs, Neil Zumwalde, MLabs Consulting

Budget: $25,000

MinSwap - Multi-pool DEX https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352679-48088

Proposer: Long Nguyen

Budget: $37,500

Dandelion: Cardano API market https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352562-48088

Proposer: rcmorano [PEACE]

Budget: $24,300

Smart Contract Audit Token SCAT DAO https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/351387-48088

Proposer: Eric Helms

Budget: $35,000

In Challange setting, the following proposals won: NFT Business models, Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption, Disaster: When all is at stake, Scale-UP Cardanos Community Hubs, Improve and Grow Auditability

One more proposal was funded with leftover funds:

ErgoDex Plutus Port https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/352410-48088

Proposer: Ilya Oskin

Budget: 91000

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