Catalyst Onboarded Companies Playbook
  • Introduction
  • Contents
  • Part 1: Terms and conditions of your funding
    • Where your funding comes from
    • How much you got funded and how it gets distributed
    • Phase 1: Onboarding, Proof of Life and Test Transaction
      • Proof of Life (PoL)
    • Phase 2: Project Delivery and Regular Reporting
    • Phase 3: Close-out Report and Video
    • Expected return (or why you got funding)
  • Part 2: Using the funding
    • Before you start
    • Open a wallet
      • What you need to know about wallets
      • Keeping your seed phrases safe
      • Multi-signature (multisig) wallets
      • Hardware Wallets
      • Risk list: Why not to store your ADA on an exchange
      • Video links about wallets
      • The case for lace.io
    • Converting from ADA to your currency
    • Converting from ADA to a stablecoin
      • Djed stable coin
      • Converting your ADA to stablecoin on a Cardano DEX
      • List of DEXs
  • Part 3: Accounting and Reporting
    • First steps to tracking funds
    • Keeping track of your funds
    • Accounting for funds recieved
    • Tools to help with taxes
    • Plan ahead to mitigate loss due to volatility
    • Reporting
  • Part 4: Community Support
    • Technical support
    • Telegram groups
    • Challenge Teams
    • Coordinator meetings
    • Project Catalyst Team – how they can help
    • Project Catalyst Team contacts
    • Get help from the Treasury Guild
  • Part 5: Cardano Business Technologies
    • Overview
    • Understanding Cardano Blockchain Technology
    • Programming on Cardano
  • About Cardano Smarthubs
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Part 1: Terms and conditions of your funding

Cardano's Project Catalyst is an innovation program that helps fund experiments that help open-source projects improve the Cardano blockchain or get more people to use it.

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Project Catalyst gives project teams funding in the form of ADA, which is Cardano's own cryptocurrency. Each grant is an equity-free, reputation-building opportunity for you and your organisation.

After a project gets voted on by the community, the project team is expected to deliver regular updates on the project's progress and be transparent about their use of funding.

The project team is also expected to engage with Cardano and Project Catalyst community activities and contribute to the ecosystem.

To be transparent and show the community your contributions, the project team must provide detailed reports, to be received between the 1st and 20th of each month, on how the funding from the Cardano Treasury is being used.

In this section, we'll go through what's expected.

For the canonical source of truth on reporting requirements, please see:

Funded Project Reporting & Milestones Guidance