Wolfram Governance Analytics

Challenge—Fund 8—Improve and Grow Auditability
Wolfram Research​
​Wolfram Blockchain Labs ​
​Multiparadigm Data Science

Proposal Summary

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  • The growth of Catalyst will make auditing proposals increasingly difficult, which may result in limited visibility and failed oversight.
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  • Create analytics that help improve a user’s ability to audit Project Catalyst proposals with greater transparency.
  • Number of Submissions

    The total number of submitted proposals has increased from fund to fund.
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    Number of Funded Submissions

    Here is a look at the total number of submitted proposals compared with the number that were successfully funded.
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    Submitted
    Funded

    Correlation Heat Map

    This figure is a density heat map showing the number of successfully funded projects binned by the overall score (
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    axis) and the amount requested (
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    The histograms on the bottom and left-hand sides of the heat map show the distribution of successfully funded projects binned only by overall score or binned by the amount requested .

    Largest Challenges by the Money Requested

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    Proposal
    Overall score
    Votes cast
    Result
    REQUESTED $
    DApps and Integrations
    4.33
    573
    ₳129,660,770
    2500000
    Open Source Development Ecosystem
    4.67
    863
    ₳167,902,332
    1200000
    Developer Ecosystem
    4.75
    1321
    ₳218,718,469
    1000000
    Cardano scaling solutions
    4.56
    910
    ₳149,883,757
    1000000
    Business Solutions (B2B & B2C)
    4.11
    316
    ₳92,290,013
    1000000
    Nation Building Dapps
    5.0
    1097
    ₳154,725,048
    800000
    Nation Building Dapps
    4.67
    888
    ₳62,694,179
    600000
    The Great Migration (from Ethereum)
    3.75
    366
    ₳84,668,615
    500000
    Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
    4.92
    692
    ₳128,665,204
    500000
    Open Standards & Interoperability
    4.44
    403
    ₳79,226,838
    500000

    Funding Missed by Percentage

    We can look at which proposals barely missed out on funding due to fund depletion, and from that set, which were the largest projects.
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    Due to the rundown nature of how funds are awarded to approved proposals, there can be excellent proposals (based on overall score, total resulting votes or both) that miss out on getting funded because they requested slightly more than what was left. The table below lists the proposals that over-requested by the smallest amounts. The column “MissPercent” is the percent difference between the requested amount and the remaining funds, so, for example, if the proposal “Planting Roots in Africa” had lowered their request by just over 0.55% (or about $695) they would have been successfully funded.
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    Proposal
    REQUESTED $
    Result
    Overall score
    MissPercent
    MissAmount
    Trust Graphic Novel & Motion Comic
    27000
    ₳48,665,754
    3.77
    0.259259
    70.0
    Mosaic: fNFT Native Token Mint
    5000
    ₳155,508,089
    4.5
    0.32
    16.0
    Planting Roots In Africa
    125695
    ₳275,161,658
    4.5
    0.552926
    695.0
    Marketing Training for African SPOs
    8000
    ₳50,692,985
    4.44
    1.25
    100.0
    Sustainable Development Goals 2030
    102030
    ₳124,710,804
    4.15
    1.98961
    2030.0
    Implement CIP12 to Yoroi backends
    950.0
    ₳78,137,167
    —
    2.10526
    20.0
    Cardano Catalyst TV
    4000
    ₳30,050,575
    3.96
    2.25
    90.0
    Engage African students on campus
    3000
    ₳52,527,092
    3.17
    2.73333
    82.0
    LATAM Community DID
    24000
    ₳43,622,818
    4.53
    3.66667
    880.0
    Crowdano - Crowdfunding Platform
    24030.0
    ₳331,516,572
    —
    4.14066
    995.0
    Creating a Bilingual Website Hub
    12000
    ₳125,748,461
    3.33
    4.16667
    500.0
    Simple fund management DAO SDK
    16900
    ₳12,937,325
    3.17
    4.30178
    727.0
    Students dropping out of college
    19000
    ₳19,561,789
    4.19
    4.63158
    880.0
    Liquid Labor - Freelancer Contracts
    4500
    ₳11,815,629
    1.76
    6.66667
    300.0
    Cardano DID Community SPO
    9500
    ₳46,652,754
    4.11
    7.36842
    700.0
    CRITQ~Art Criticism NFT Marketplace
    20000.0
    ₳55,684,621
    4.2
    7.5
    1500.0
    Catalyst in Emerging Markets
    21500
    ₳57,719,417
    4.78
    8.85116
    1903.0
    Decentralized Certificates
    39000
    ₳47,454,893
    4.25
    9.35897
    3650.0
    Meta-Memory (Fmrly Fed. Debate)
    5000.0
    ₳114,810,912
    4.14
    9.38
    469.0
    No-Code NFT Generator [Revelar]
    13600
    ₳80,963,642
    4.5
    9.75
    1326.0
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    Funding Missed by 10% or Less

    Here are the largest (by requested amount) proposals that missed out on funding by less than 10%.
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    Proposal
    REQUESTED $
    Result
    Overall score
    MissPercent
    MissAmount
    Planting Roots In Africa
    125695
    ₳275,161,658
    4.5
    0.552926
    695.0
    Sustainable Development Goals 2030
    102030
    ₳124,710,804
    4.15
    1.98961
    2030.0
    Decentralized Certificates
    39000
    ₳47,454,893
    4.25
    9.35897
    3650.0
    Stackable Learning Pathways
    32900
    ₳56,956,504
    4.46
    9.9696
    3280.0
    West Africa Decentralized Alliance
    31885.0
    ₳141,598,593
    —
    9.89493
    3155.0
    Trust Graphic Novel & Motion Comic
    27000
    ₳48,665,754
    3.77
    0.259259
    70.0
    Crowdano - Crowdfunding Platform
    24030.0
    ₳331,516,572
    —
    4.14066
    995.0
    LATAM Community DID
    24000
    ₳43,622,818
    4.53
    3.66667
    880.0
    Catalyst in Emerging Markets
    21500
    ₳57,719,417
    4.78
    8.85116
    1903.0
    CRITQ~Art Criticism NFT Marketplace
    20000.0
    ₳55,684,621
    4.2
    7.5
    1500.0
    Students dropping out of college
    19000
    ₳19,561,789
    4.19
    4.63158
    880.0
    Simple fund management DAO SDK
    16900
    ₳12,937,325
    3.17
    4.30178
    727.0
    Data traceability and verification
    15000
    ₳57,988,207
    4.5
    10.0
    1500.0
    No-Code NFT Generator [Revelar]
    13600
    ₳80,963,642
    4.5
    9.75
    1326.0
    Creating a Bilingual Website Hub
    12000
    ₳125,748,461
    3.33
    4.16667
    500.0
    University/College Outreach
    10000
    ₳91,291,853
    2.87
    9.97
    997.0
    Cardano DID Community SPO
    9500
    ₳46,652,754
    4.11
    7.36842
    700.0
    Marketing Training for African SPOs
    8000
    ₳50,692,985
    4.44
    1.25
    100.0
    Meta-Memory (Fmrly Fed. Debate)
    5000.0
    ₳114,810,912
    4.14
    9.38
    469.0
    Study and Pilot in Colombia
    5000
    ₳21,114,402
    3.67
    10.0
    500.0
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    Growth of Requested and Disbursed Funds

    We can look at how the total requested amount of funding grows with each new fund cycle and how much the dispersed amount of funding grows.

    Core Team

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  • About Us

    About Wolfram Blockchain Labs​
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    Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) is the four-year-old subsidiary of the 35-year-old Wolfram Research that is exclusively licensed with high-performance Wolfram blockchain technologies and specifically designed to extend ecosystem tools for application development for distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). WBL provides four distinct areas of ecosystem support for DLTs: computational intelligence for blockchain-based smart contracts, direct access to blockchain data through blockchain integrations, blockchain educational programs and crypto asset analytical tools.
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    WBL often uses additional expertise in specialized areas like machine learning from both Wolfram Research and Wolfram Technical Consulting. The latter is an organization that has completed over three hundred consulting projects in the past decade.
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    The Catalyst Fund 8 projects serve WBL’s overall long-term mission of ecosystem collaboration, enabling blockchain-based commerce and business model innovation for the Cardano ecosystem.
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    ​Wolfram Project Catalyst Proposals​
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    WBL plans to use its position in the Cardano ecosystem—as a builder of tools and business operator—to assist with mentorship and collaboration within the Cardano ecosystem. We can take our experience in both working on opportunities and technical work to help accelerate the vision of members in the Project Catalyst Community. At times, people have reached out to us for assistance on Cardano projects and making sure there is a uniform criterion for outreach will help our ability to assist everyone who is interested.