Thread by @InputOutputHK

📢💨 #ProjectCatalyst Town Hall Recap 💪

👉 Fund5 results almost in
👉 Fund6 starts next week with a special live keynote from Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles
👉 Fund6 community challenges published

🧵 #Cardano thread below 👇 #ada $ada 1/13

Welcome to the experiment 🧪

Reminder, things may:
👉 Break
👉 Lack documentation
👉 Differ greatly between iterations
👉 Disorient, overload & inspire

🎯 Our goal: a safe, lively environment for you to explore the highest potential of human collaboration 💪 2/n

Catalyst things to celebrate: 🎉

👉🏽 +33k wallets, ±31k members, 89 proposals funded (excl. F5)
👉🏽 ±3.5k total CA reviews submitted
👉🏽 1.1k insight shares & 930 total proposals submitted
👉🏽 Almost $4M in funds allocated
👉🏽 ±611k votes cast
👉🏽 Grassroots community thriving 3/n

Fund5⃣ timeline

👉🏽 Fund5 results by August 9th
👉🏽 Voter rewards during the week of August 16th
👉🏽 Projects onboarding by August 17th 4/n

Fund6⃣ begins next week 🚀

👉🏽 $4M in $ada available
👉🏽 Insight sharing starts August 12th
👉🏽 Proposal submission starts August 19th
👉🏽 Submissions via cardano.ideascale.com 5/n

Fund6⃣ community challenges worth ±$1.2M collectively 👀🔥

1⃣ NFT Business models, $200k: bit.ly/2TYy3i5
2⃣ Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption, $250k: bit.ly/37pMcIk
3⃣ Disaster: When all is at stake, $150k: bit.ly/2WWoL7j 6/n

4⃣ Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs, $100k: bit.ly/3irY5Ue
5⃣ Improve and Grow Auditability, $100k: bit.ly/3AlNZdZ
6⃣ Cardano Emerging Threat Alarm, $50k: bit.ly/3xssaYh
7⃣ Multilingual resources, $75k: bit.ly/3xtRrB6 7/n

8⃣ DeFi and Microlending for Africa, $90k: bit.ly/37oqJPZ
9⃣ DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox, $150k: bit.ly/3saxxdL
🔟 Partnerships For Global Adoption, $30k: bit.ly/3yG29G4 8/n

Catalyst Circle is now complete. 💫

👉🏽Stake pool operators - Lauris Stiglics
👉🏽Cardano Foundation - David Taylor
👉🏽IOHK - Dor Garbash
👉🏽Community Advisors - Victor Corcino
👉🏽Funded proposers - Juliane Montag
👉🏽Toolmakers & maintainers - Felix Weber
👉🏽Voters - Dean Jayes 9/n

🤔 Unsure what the Catalyst Circle is? Make sure to catch up with our blog piece here: bit.ly/3rfBhKf 10/n

Circle is here to:
👉🏽 Sense
👉🏽 Discuss
👉🏽 Define
👉🏽 Share with the Community who then proceeds to
👉🏽 Pickup
👉🏽 Prototype
👉🏽 Validate
👉🏽 and finally either Reject or Integrate proposed solutions

Initial brainstorming trello board: bit.ly/3yx2WsU 11/n

Additional updates ⭐️

👉🏽 Recurring link for Catalyst town halls
👉🏽 Register once + add it to your calendar for easy access. The next town hall is on August 11th at 18:00 UTC
👉🏽 Special live keynote by Charles Hoskinson
👉🏽 Registration link: bit.ly/3rCicSR 12/n

Additional updates ⭐️

👉🏽 Eastern hemisphere town hall experiment
👉🏽 Japanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean languages with local hosts
👉🏽 Join every Thursday at noon UTC
👉🏽 Registration link: bit.ly/3l5Y5es 13/n

🤝 We're hiring! #Voltaire UX lead, Voltaire Program manager, #ProjectCatalyst Product owner, Mobile developer, Graphic design/FE developer, Product marketing manager - not all positions are listed yet & more to come. Keep track via apply.workable.com/io-global/#jobs 14/n

ℹ️ Need help? Want to help?

⛳️ Join announcements only: t.me/cardanocatalyst
⛳️ Rewatch Town Hall:
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⛳️ Discord: discord.gg/2RnUtK8
⛳️ Ideascale: cardano.ideascale.com 15/15