Ecosystem strategy by the creators of Catalyst and Intersect

Compnay Name

Radical Ecosystems

Service Details

Without an ecosystem strategy, it's unlikely for the ecosystem to thrive. We will identify key levers to dramatically improve Singularity Net's Ecosystem's ROI through rigorous data collection, analysis, and workshops with key stakeholders.

Problem Description

What is Singularity Net's Ecosystem strategy? Without getting this right we will not be able to attract the best talent and create the most powerful innovations.

Solution Description

A Rigorous Builder centric strategy, based on interviews with Ecosystem builders and innovators, and expert assessment.

Milestone & Budget

Milestone title: Research

Deliverables: Interview with different participant groups, Gather publicly available data, Review documents, Send information inquiries to various stakeholders

Outputs: Gather the experiences of key participant groups, estimate the ecosystem's current size, and collect existing governance models, incentives, and decision processes.

Documentation: Raw interview transcriptions, data, and documents.

Time: 1 month

Budget: $16,416

Milestone title: Analysis

Deliverables: Summarize insights from interviews, analyze publicly gathered data, summarize information gathered from documents and inquiries, and provide recommendations.

Outputs: All data is processed into our assessment framework in a succinct format. Review of outcomes and writing of recommendations.

Documentation: Report formatted in a Google doc and a bunch of governance and ecosystem models visualizations.

Time: 1 month

Budget: $16,416

Milestone title: Report publishing

Deliverables: Organizing all information in PDF, disseminating PDF, and sending out invites to public workshops.

Outputs: The community can read the report in a friendly format.

Documentation: A PDF, a slide deck summarizing key findings for each section.

Time: 2 weeks

Budget: $8,083 + $1000 for design.

Milestone title: Workshops

Deliverables: Organizing 2 workshops, gathering feedback on the report and workshop, and disseminating workshop recordings.

Outputs: The report is being discussed, and conclusions and next steps get decided on.

Documentation: Recording and meeting summary. Time: 2 weeks

Budget: $8,083

Marketing & Competition

The Target audience is all stakeholders that impact the ecosystems: Administrators, DAO members, founding organizations, and especially builders.

The report will be formatted as a PDF and will be disseminated through Singularity Net's Discord, Forum, relevant TG channels, and Townhall.

Workshops will be recorded, and published on Youtube, and links to them shared through community channels.

Related Links

https://radicalecosystems.com/

https://projectcatalyst.io/

https://zkignite.minaprotocol.com/

https://www.intersectmbo.org/

Long Description

Radical Ecosystems

Dor Garbash & Johnny Nguyen: Creators of Catalyst and Intersect MBO

Summary

Without an ecosystem strategy, it's unlikely for the ecosystem to thrive. We will identify key levers to dramatically improve Singularity Net's Ecosystem's ROI through rigorous data collection, analysis, and workshops with key stakeholders.

Funding Amount

$50,000

The Problem to be Solved

What is Singularity Net's Ecosystem strategy? Without getting this right we will not be able to attract the best talent and create the most powerful innovations.

Our Solution

A Rigorous Builder centric strategy, based on interviews with Ecosystem builders and innovators, and expert assessment.

Marketing Strategy

The Target audience is all stakeholders that impact the ecosystems: Administrators, DAO members, founding organizations, and especially builders.

The report will be formatted as a PDF and will be disseminated through Singularity Net's Discord, Forum, relevant TG channels, and Townhall.

Workshops will be recorded, and published on Youtube, and links to them shared through community channels.

Our Project Milestones and Cost Breakdown

Milestone title: Research

Deliverables: Interview with different participant groups, Gather publicly available data, Review documents, Send information inquiries to various stakeholders

Outputs: Gather the experiences of key participant groups, estimate the ecosystem's current size, and collect existing governance models, incentives, and decision processes.

Documentation: Raw interview transcriptions, data, and documents.

Time: 1 month

Budget: $16,416

Milestone title: Analysis

Deliverables: Summarize insights from interviews, analyze publicly gathered data, summarize information gathered from documents and inquiries, and provide recommendations.

Outputs: All data is processed into our assessment framework in a succinct format. Review of outcomes and writing of recommendations.

Documentation: Report formatted in a Google doc and a bunch of governance and ecosystem models visualizations.

Time: 1 month

Budget: $16,416

Milestone title: Report publishing

Deliverables: Organizing all information in PDF, disseminating PDF, and sending out invites to public workshops.

Outputs: The community can read the report in a friendly format.

Documentation: A PDF, a slide deck summarizing key findings for each section.

Time: 2 weeks

Budget: $8,083 + $1000 for design.

Milestone title: Workshops

Deliverables: Organizing 2 workshops, gathering feedback on the report and workshop, and disseminating workshop recordings.

Outputs: The report is being discussed, and conclusions and next steps get decided on.

Documentation: Recording and meeting summary. Time: 2 weeks

Budget: $8,083

Risk and Mitigation

The Key risk is that our recommendations would not get implemented.

Our mitigation approach is the following:

(1) Engage and involve key stakeholders throughout this process.

(2) We have greatly influenced the Cardano and Mina ecosystems in the past and we know the appropriate approach to achieve success here as well:

We use thoughtfully articulated and actionable recommendations, taking feedback from stakeholders into account and achieving alignment.

(3) Specifically our workshops will include an explicit discussion and articulation of who's responsible for implementing the recommendation

so they can be tracked over time.

(4) If for some reason a high-impact recommendation will not be followed, we will create a follow-up proposal to accelerate the implementation of key recommendations.

(5) If our proposal is accepted we will submit a follow-up proposal for tracking the impact of following the recommendation over time. (Pool budget doesn't allow to include that in scope unfortunately)

Voluntary Revenue

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Open Source

All outputs will be published with a CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)

Our Team

Dor Garbash has worked as Head of Governance in IOHK and Head of Ecosystem in Mina’s blockchain. He initiated and led the Creation and growth of Catalyst as well as the early formation of Cardano’s governance and Drep structure. In Mina, he has led the creation of Onchain governance and their Radical Innovation Fund zkIgnite. Dor also led the development of the first decentralized proposal system in Ethereum as part of his role of product manager in DAOstack.

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Johnny Nguyen was a Director at IOHK and initially responsible for the Decentralized Consortium Fund and then subsequently the Cardano Member-Based Organization.  Johnny laid much of the groundwork that resulted in what is now known as the Intersect MBO.  Johnny has a career in enterprise technology that spans nearly three decades with emphasis on software engineering, application development, and enterprise architecture.  In addition to his role and contributions at IOG, Johnny has always been a voice in the Cardano Community and is an advisor to several ecosystem projects including Charli3 and Indigo Protocol.  Johnny is an advocate for Open Source Software and Open Collaboration and has moderated panels on Open Source Development in Cardano at the Cardano Summit.

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Related Links

https://radicalecosystems.com/

https://projectcatalyst.io/

https://zkignite.minaprotocol.com/

https://www.intersectmbo.org/

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