Catalyst Fund13 Week 1 Recap

Ikigai Technologies
2 min readOct 2, 2024

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Hello everyone!

It has been an exciting week in the world of Project Catalyst! As you all know, Fund13 launched last week with ₳50,000,000 up for grabs to the strongest, most innovative and helpful ideas in the space. Since opening more than 95 ideas have been submitted. Competition is heating up, so get your applications in early! But enough talk, let’s take a look at the landscape.

Fund13 Week 1 Overview

Fund13 is divided into six main categories to ensure a targeted and streamlined approach to project development:

  1. Developers (₳8,000,000)
  2. Ecosystem (₳5,000,000)
  3. Concept (₳5,000,000)
  4. Product (₳8,500,000)
  5. Enterprise R&D (₳15,000,000
  6. Growth and Acceleration (₳5,000,000)

Each of these categories provides a focused direction for developers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to submit proposals. Whether it’s about creating new use cases for Cardano, promoting open development tools, or sparking enterprise-level partnerships, Fund13 aims to build upon the previous successes and address the community’s needs.

During the first week, the Catalyst community has already made strides with 95 proposals submitted across the various categories. These ideas range from blockchain use cases in various industries to infrastructure development tools that can help streamline processes for developers on the Cardano blockchain. We’re witnessing a strong start, with many projects aligning with Cardano’s vision of creating a decentralized future.

Below is a Breakdown of the categories and how many proposals have been submitted thus far along with a couple of our favorites!

Harmonic Labs Un-embed Plu-ts & Fluid Swaps

Proposal Link: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/126985
Proposal Link: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/127591

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