Miscellaneous room

Video

About the challenge

The Fund 8 Miscellanous challenge has a total challenge budget of $500,000 in ADA, and there are 14 ideas posted.

The key question of the challenge is:

How do we create a space for ideas and projects that do not fit any of the other current Challenges?

Note: This event took place on 5th March 2022. Some of the proposals mentioned may not have finally been submitted in this funding round.

Summary

0:00 start

0:28 Presentation about the challenge

6:11 StudyBuddy 3.0. Facilitating learning experiences; peer validation, decentralised assessment (not submitted in Misc)

6:55 The Future of Democracy – understanding user requirements for smaller community groups to function as a business. Not building* for* the community, but *with* the community.

8:24 Decriminalisation of psychedelics via selling NFTs https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/396926 ; and NFTs of conversations where the price is higher for more productive conversations to encourage more productive dialogue

9:16 Creating a better version of Ideascale; upgrade from web 2 to web 3

10:25 Oversight of Catalyst Circle https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/399108 – making Circle meetings more accessible through transcription and summary, to enable the community to have oversight of Circle

11:26 NFT for farmers, linked with carbon neutrality https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/402050

12:00 Cardano for Seniors, in Scale Up Community Hubs – educational system for elders

14:20 What Miscellaneous is about

15:00 Considering a proposal to bring Axie Infinity onto Cardano. Should it be in Misc, Gamers On-Chained, or Cross-Chain Collaboration challenge?

17:43 Misc is sometimes the home for a first taster of something the proposer will go on to develop further

20:39 New blockchain category, Learn to Earn

22:05 Framing Misc proposals as foundational research or scoping, needs analysis, or finding collaborators

24:34 The different audiences for a proposal: the community, the CAs, the voters

26:17 What is visible to voters in the voting app

27:10 Making comments on proposals in Ideascale

30:38 NFTs to give value to conversations – technically how would it work. Using an AMM, with conversation participants as tokens within a liquidity pool?

35:26 How would you ensure the market was moving because of the specific variable you want (productiveness of the conversation)

37:54 Wolfram Blockchain Labs – DeFi research proposal, complementary currencies https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/400295

42:17 Universal basic income

44:52 Is Misc the right category? It is about DeFi, but it’s also research and community-building

47:32 Blockchain technology can be the “missing piece” applied to old ideas to make them workable

49:01 CA assessment criteria

50:34 End