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.

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