Tweet of the month award 🔥 I say this as someone involved in Catalyst since Fund2, the concerns outlined here are legitimate.

When Grants become Crutches, The Catalyst Funding Problem. medium.com/@minted.ventur…

Vvv good write up A must read. the data is here, it is clear Project Catalyst is not doing what it is meant to - undeniably now we need a sense of urgency from the team to fix things and from the community to diversify funding streams

Excellent data points and a lot to ponder upon #Catalyst #Cardano $ADA Treasury funds, spending and trends!!

Catalyst fund14 impressions Been in crypto since 2019. Participated in governance across chains. Early L2 adopter-won grants on Arbitrum & Optimism. Grant reviewer and approver for Hedera. Came to Cardano in May for Veridian’s digital identity framework by Cardano Foundation . Applied

Project Catalyst Juan TheOne Fayyaadh Kriss Baird Danny 🐣 🇯🇵 Input | Output 🧾 Fund 14 Final Results (Post–Cubic Adjustment) ❌ The failed experiment, things may break and indeed they are breaking for 5 years. After the Catalyst team decided to remove the cubic voting function from the final tally, Fund 14 reverted to a standard 1 ADA = 1 vote model

まったく同感です。Catalystをなくさないのなら改善することが必要です。

Catalyst should simplify its processes Immediately remove things that don't add value Avoid bureaucracy Speed up change Keep sharp focus on weaknesses

probably

Another big area of improvement I could see for Catalyst is better tracking and oversight for repeat/copy development. I was looking at a particular proposal in this category that was funded but will re-create something I have personally used (that's how I know it exists

Kat If Project Catalyst (or other Cardano sources) funded similar / related projects previously, any new project seeking funding (i.e contract mediation, etc...) should research & reference all previous ones and fully explain what is different, why previous ones failed, why more funding

The tallies and how the votes settled in Catalyst Fund 14, with yes votes and abstains, will have lasting ripple effects good and bad. The legacy benefactors on Cardano have ignored it for a long while, but they can’t anymore, as the on-chain and their own off-chain data is

Hey Project Catalyst Team It would seem there is quite a lot of discussion atm about whether Catalyst funding is being effective in launching new initiatives on #Cardano given the amount of funds going to established projects. I appreciate that you are experimenting with voting

Roots won't grow in bad soil

Fund11 19/20 Fund12 17/20 Fund13 16/20 Fund14 18/20 A success rate of Cardano proposals that have received Liqwid DAO voting power in the Catalyst funding rounds.

Good insights from someone experienced in other ecosystems. We should learn lessons or stagnate.