MEGATHREAD 📢💨 on today's epic #ProjectCatalyst Town Hall. Ready?

👉 Fund 3 voter registration ended today 🥲
👉 Voting begins: March 5 @ 7PM UTC 💪
👉 Voting ends: March 24 @ 7PM UTC
👉 Winning projects funding: ± April 4 🚀

🧵 More via thread below 👇 #Cardano $ada 1/18
Welcome to the experiment..! 🧪

A few reminders. Things may:
👉 break
👉 lack documentation
👉 differ greatly between iterations
👉 disorient, overload and inspire

🎯 Our goal: a safe, lively environment for you to explore the highest potential of human collaboration 💪 2/n
#ProjectCatalyst – now 🌍's largest #decentralized innovation fund...

👉2.5B value $ada registered
👉10,159 unique wallets registered
👉12,000 platform members
vs.
👉 Dash voters ± 1,000 wallets
👉 100 DAOs on #eth combined ± 1,100 wallets
👉 Gitcoin Round 8: ±2,946 wallets 3/n
📢💨 Fund 5 announcement:

👉 $1.5M - $2M worth of $ada 👌
👉 all challenges repeat from Fund 4
👉 new metadata application challenge
👉 community choice challenges voted in by the community 4/n
🏭 How a regular company works... 🤔

👉 can hardly pivot
👉 'explore & exploit' does not work
👉 slow to hire, risky to fire
👉 slow to build consensus 5/n
#ProjectCatalyst is not a regular 'company'💡

👉 can innovate quickly
👉 hundreds of experiments a year
👉 crowds can explore without cuffs
👉 can mobilise 000s in weeks
👉 no need for consensus - results speak for themselves! 6/n
So what will you be voting on in this Fund 3 round? 🗳️

💡 #dApp creation challenge worth $250,000

👉 76 proposals trying to identify what dApps should be built to drive user adoption

🔗 https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/campaign-home/25797 7/n
💡 #dev ecosystem challenge is worth $250,000

👉 47 proposals (47 already!) exploring how to encourage #developers to build #dApps on top of #Cardano

🔗 https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/campaign-home/25805 8/n
💡 #cardano community choice challenge is worth $400,000

👉 27 challenges suggested to get launched during Fund 5 in order to fulfil #cardano's mission

🔗 https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/campaign-home/25800 9/n
What can you do as a voter? 🤔

👉 review community broadcasts, videos, etc
👉 engage & talk with proposers
👉 read comments + advisor rational in IdeaScale Fund 3 section
👉 65 community advisors submitted valid ratings in Catalyst Voting App 👏 10/n
👩‍🚒 Community Advisors (CAs) also addressing:

💡 How might we improve decision-making and onboarding for Catalyst – while managing explosive growth across all participant types?

👉 Check the summary of work done https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTpLay8dlYETUaBQeE9PH24W-EpptmBh/view 11/n
🗳️ Voting: the Basics..!

👉 Vote for one proposal – or for them all. Or anything in between!
👉 Full voting power towards each vote (think about it as firing a 🔫 - not amount of bullets in it).
👉 Vote can be YES vote, NO vote, or ABSTAIN (not vote for proposal at all). 13/n
Decisions, decisions:

👉 Change vote if you change your mind 🤔
👉 Once you upvote/downvote - cannot abstain anymore - only change between 2 options
👉 No transaction fees are incurred 🎉 14/n
Funding Logics:

👉 15% more YES votes than NO votes for any project to be approved for funding
👉 most voted projects get funded first until we run out of funds for this round
👉 cannot exceed fund money available 15/n
Help us get better & better:

💡 Did something break for you during the onboarding/registration process?

👉 Help us fix it for the next round
👉 Feature requests/ideas/broader feedback

🔗 https://iohk.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new 16/n
ℹ️ Need help? Want to help?

📍 Rewatch Town Hall: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fund4-3 
📍 Join TG group: https://t.me/ProjectCatalystChat
📍 TG announcements only: https://t.me/cardanocatalyst 
📍 Discord: http://discord.gg/2RnUtK8 
📍 Ideascale: http://cardano.ideascale.com  17/18
That's it. Whew. If you are still with us, we hope you enjoyed this new format. Better still...

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