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Project Catalyst

Track Mesh's funded proposals, development progress, and contributions to the Cardano ecosystem through Project Catalyst.

Mesh receives funding through Project Catalyst, Cardano's decentralized innovation fund. This page shows our funded proposals and their current progress.

What is Project Catalyst?

Project Catalyst enables the Cardano community to vote on proposals that improve the ecosystem. Each funding round (called a "Fund") allocates ADA to approved projects. Mesh has received funding across multiple rounds to build and maintain open-source tools for Cardano developers.

How We Use Funding

Your Catalyst votes support:

  • Core SDK development - New features, performance improvements, and bug fixes
  • Developer tools - Transaction builders, smart contract integrations, and debugging utilities
  • Documentation - Tutorials, guides, and API references
  • Community support - Discord help, workshops, and live coding sessions
  • Ecosystem projects - Hydra integration, multi-signature platforms, and developer events

Funded Proposals by Round

Track the progress of each funded proposal. Completed items show our delivered work; remaining items indicate active development.

Fund 13

Current funding round with active development.

Hydra Tools for administrating & interacting with Hydra Heads

In Progress

Provide all the tools needed to integration Hydra on apps, to enable end-user operations like interacting with wallet, query UTXOs/balance and submit transactions.

Hydra Provider
Wallets integration
Transaction building
End-to-end working example
projectcatalyst.io

Cardano Devkit - 'Ganache' of Cardano for better DevXP

In ProgressNot Funded

An app to launch local blockchain to test and deploy transactions and smart contracts, to run tests and experiments to develop Cardano applications.

Improve devnet deployment
Desktop app to launch local blockchain
Get blockchain data e.g. UTXOs and balances
projectcatalyst.io

Cquisitor - Transaction Investigation Tool

In Progress

Enhancing Devtools with hosted Rust-based validation modules, and improving error handling to provide clearer feedback, helping developers debug and validate efficiently.

Update Cquisitor
Phase-1 validation
Phase-2 validation
Integration with Whisky and Mesh
projectcatalyst.io

Multisig Platform

In Progress

Open source multisig platform for teams and organizations to manage their treasury and participate in governance.

Full governance features
Native tokens support
Discord integrations
Fluidtokens and Minswap integrations
Plutus script multisig wallet
projectcatalyst.io

Builder Fest #2 in Asia

In Progress

Hosting Buidler Fest #2, a 2-day event for tech-savvy Cardano builders to connect, showcase and share.

Gathering of developers in Vietnam
Increase collaboration between projects for Cardano ecosystem open-source
projectcatalyst.io

Maintain Mesh and Build Developer Community

In Progress

Maintenance and operations of the Mesh open source libraries and tool suits. Growing Cardano developer community.

Provide community support
Resolve GitHub issues
Create tutorials and documentation
Create workshops and live coding sessions
projectcatalyst.io

Fund 12

Service layer framework, SDK improvements, and SaaS offerings.

Cardano Service Layer Framework for DApps

In Progress

R&D a framework to quickly spin up a service layer for specific Cardano DApps, allowing DApps to re-use all infrastructure such as contracts and MeshJS, while possible for custom protocol parameters.

Parallel Cardano Blockchain MeshJS Integration
Customized Protocol Parameters
Persistent Record & Immutability
Framework DevOps
Documentation and training materials
projectcatalyst.io

New Features to Improve Developer experience and Adoption

Closing

We will upgrade Mesh by implementing CIP 45, WebRTC wallet connect, handle multiple serialization libs, revamp to support backend transactions building, and improve error messages to improve DevXP.

Mesh application wallet
Modular CSL library
Wallet support for private blockchain networks (e.g. Yaci)
CIP 45
Improve error messages
projectcatalyst.io

Mesh Software as a Service

In Progress

We provide hosted server instances for wallet and transactions builder by restful APIs, this allow integration and interaction to Cardano blockchain from any technology stacks and systems.

Cloud infrastructure
User-defined transaction building
JSON schema for transaction
Utitlities for transaction building
Hosted wallet / private key for signing
projectcatalyst.io

Maintaining Mesh SDK, community support and content creation to onboard developers

Closing

Maintenance and operations of Mesh SDK, community support and content creation, in order to onboard developers and users to the Cardano blockchain ecosystem.

Provide community support
Resolve GitHub issues
Create tutorials and documentation
Create workshops and live coding sessions
projectcatalyst.io

Fund 11

Aiken smart contract library and core SDK maintenance.

Aiken Open-Source Smart Contract Library

In Progress

We create a collection of open-source smart contracts with Aiken (including Workspace, Mesh TX builder components) and integrate them into the Mesh SDK library on Github - open and accessible to all.

Marketplace
Escrow
Vesting
Gift card
Swap
Payment splitter
Content ownership
NFT minting machine
Bad examples
projectcatalyst.io

Sustain & Maintain MeshJS

Closing

This proposal enables implementations not limited to Voltaire features, Hydra & Aiken integration, and data providers integrations. Including bounties for issues, features, and learning materials.

Lower-level APIs completed
Technical documentation released
Resolved numerous reported GitHub issues
Active Discord engagement to help developers
Transaction building support for Hydra apps
Plutus version 3 integration
Revamped/refactored transaction and utilities class
Conway features
projectcatalyst.io

Fund 10

Open-source library foundation and developer onboarding.

Supporting Open-Source Library Development, Developer Resources & Builder Community

Closing

To guarantee and ensure sustainability of a team dedicated to maintaining and developing one of the best open-source libraries on Cardano, providing devs with something easy-to-use, fun and productive.

Lower-level APIs core functionality
Mesh PBL course content
Workshops and live coding
Community Q&A support
Demos and tutorials repository
Mesh PBL Season #1
projectcatalyst.io

Support Teams Building Cardano dApps

CompletedNot Funded

Pro-actively facilitate integration of our open source code into other Cardano Projects by directly providing financial and human resources to support and facilitate these integrations.

Provide community technical support
Provide funding for integrating Cardano
projectcatalyst.io

Impact Summary

MetricValue
Funding rounds participated4 (Fund 10-13)
Total proposals funded14+
Smart contracts released8+ (Marketplace, Escrow, Vesting, etc.)
Developer eventsWorkshops, PBL courses, Builder Fest

Get Involved

  • Vote for Mesh - Support our proposals in upcoming Catalyst rounds
  • Join development - Contribute to funded projects on GitHub
  • Attend events - Participate in workshops and Builder Fest gatherings

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