🗞️ Catalyst Weekly - And that's a wrap for 2021 🔥
Hello There, Beautiful Soul!
Hope this message finds you well.
You've made it. 50 town halls later - this is it - the very last town hall of 2021 took place this past week. What a year, huh? Let's wrap it up then!
Town Hall
Missed it? No worries. Rewatch the recording with timestamps. Too busy to watch the entire thing? Skip over presentation slides for key themes.
We had a great presentation by true Catalyst OGs - friends from Gimbalabs that presented their Fund2 project completion:
Also, make sure to rewatch Dor Garbash's (Head of Governance at IOG) closing notes on 2021 as he talks about where we are and a bit of 2022 outlook. Thank you Dor for your words.
IMPORTANT: There is going to be a two-week holiday break and no town halls will take place through the end of the year. We will resume in January.
💡 Wish to join live next time? Register now via this link & save the spot already for Jan 5 @ 18:00 UTC & every week following.
All the Community Advisor reviews are in. What now?
Do you think Community Advisors did an amazing job during Fund6. Well, they just invalidated that assumption with another heroic effort during Fund7. There was a 90% growth fund to fund. As always - Victor Corcino has kept entire CA class up to date with his updates. This is the final output. What a beauty.
It is also the first time we reached at least 5 assessments across all proposals. This is amazing and all the respect goes my way to Community Advisors. Thank you for all the hard work done on this front.
In total, we've seen 9,820 assessments submitted by 559 individual CAs on 944 proposals that made it onto this stage so far. However, all this work is now going to enter the Assess QA stage to ensure it's up to the community standards.
Not all CA work will be accepted and there are likely going to be adjustments. More on that in the next section.
Ideascale - what's happening there this week?
Catalyst is now officially in Assess QA stage that generally consists of two distinct parts. In the first one - Proposers come forward and flag any substandard assessments made on their proposals. This starts today and will go on for about 5 days. The second part will be dedicated to Veteran Community Advisors that review these flags and try to find consensus whether these are legitimate or not. These begin next week on Thursday and should last for about 14 days (taking into account holiday season).
- If flags are approved by vCA consensus (equal or greater than 50% of participating vCAs in review of any assessment), those CA comments and associated scores will be removed from final aggregate score that will be displayed in the Voting App next to the proposal
Note: If you are a Proposer and haven't received invitation to flag assessments yet - please reach out to me and I'll fix it for you. But do check spam first, please.
Why are we doing this?
- To add a layer of quality assessment to the review process
- To filter out biased or substandard assessments
- To highlight and reward high quality assessments
If you wish to understand full timeline of the Assess QA stage we're in right now - please reference this document for clarifications and detailed timeline over the course of next weeks.
Community Events
For general timeline of key events - check this out.
If you are looking to mingle and network, check out the upcoming schedule of Catalyst related events here.
IdeaFest Fund7 - THIS WEEKEND
This is place where Fund 7 Proposals are going to be presented to the Cardano Community. And your chance to participate in it.
- For the Builders ( Proposers )
- Connect your Idea to Voters and let them meet the people behind your project
- Present your Project and connect with other Proposers
- For the Voters
- Meet the people behind the Ideas which shape the future of Cardano, ensure a good vote
- For the Lurkers
- Get inspired from Projects and Ideas to start your own Project
- When?
- This weekend
- Day One: Saturday, Dec 18 & Dec 19 at 15:00 UTC
- Where?
- Zoom - catch the link here
- More event details here
Voter registration for Fund7 ongoing!
Don't forget to register if you are planning to participate in Catalyst for the first time.
- Jan 6, 2022 @ 11:00 UTC - SNAPSHOT for all wallets
- Jan 13, 2022 @ 11:00 UTC - VOTING START
- Jan 27, 2022 @ 11:00 UTC - VOTING END
- ± Feb 10, 2022 - TALLYING & RESULTS
Catch all the details on how and where to register in this ‘All-You-Need-To-Know’ reddit post for you.
Fund6 Feedback
As usual, we took time to reflect upon Fund6 exit survey results. Thank you everyone who took part of it. Catch the presentation of key findings in this slide-deck.
Here are our key core metrics on Fairness, Usability and Impact and their fund to fund change. Key takeaway? We've grown from 50 pioneers a year ago to 40k+ registered governance wallets - yet there's been no significant variation in the results. That's quite extra ordinary. Catalyst certainly won't stop iterating and improving. The journey continues and you are playing key role in it.
What else has caught my attention?
Cardano AIM team (building all the amazing voter, ca, other tools for Catalyst) wins the day for me personally. The raddest $handle drop catch possibly? #thingsmaybreak
Note: If you are unsure about the context - check out our traditional intro slide to every town hall here.
Closing notes
And that is it. I will be catching up on family time through the end of the year. So this also marks our last Catalyst Weekly update for 2021. I hope you have found value in these lines throughout past months. When I reflect upon where we were one year ago to date - I get goosebumps. I cannot even imagine what another year will turn this experiment into.
Thank you for being patient with the process. Thank you for showing respect to one another. Thank you for treating each other right! Thank you for believing in the experiment. Thank you for being here with me and us. Thank you for being YOU.
Cherish this holiday season and I will be looking forward seeing you once more next year. ❤️
Get in touch about Catalyst
Have questions or any doubts about Catalyst? Comment below or DM me directly here on reddit, or follow me via twitter or telegram - and let's have a conversation. I will get back to you as soon I am back. I'm out, fam. See you in 2022.
Enjoy your weekend ahead!
Danny
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Posted Dec 17, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC · edited