## Cardano & Polkadot Marketplace Digital Factory

### Proposal Template

#### [GENERAL] Proposal title

Cardano & Berachain - NFT Swap Concept

#### [GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Main Proposer: Watson Lewis-Rodriguez

#### [GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Not Incorporated)

#### [GENERAL] Requested Funds in Ada

100,000 Ada

#### [GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

4 months

#### [GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

#### [GENERAL] What is the exact problem you want to solve? (200-character limit including spaces)

Existing infrastructure can be greatly improved to standardize NFT swaps between Cardano and Berachain.

#### [GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

An open-sourced guide and NFT standard that gives creators and developers opportunity to swap and sell in other blockchains.

#### [GENERAL] Website/ GitHub repository, or any other relevant link

https://kingdomly.app/
https://github.com/EthanRife

#### [GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

#### [GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

#### [GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

#### [GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

The concept which aims to be developed through this proposal will be fully open sourced.
We will licence the concept upder a CCO1 licence. Later development of the MVP/Product will be fully open sourced under a Apache 2.0 licence

#### [METADATA] Themes:

#### [METADATA] SDG rating

\-

#### [SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

This Proposal focuses on the enhancement of bridging Berachain and Cardano together. This includes several guides, documents and resources to enable NFT swapping between the two eco systems, with no code for creators. We are mainly following the approach of

1) Fund 12 - Concept
2) Fund 13 - MVP
3) Fund 14 - Product

The main issue is that there is minimal and complicated tooling for this solution. Berachain is growing to over half a million users, and we want to bring people together from Cardano and Berachain together.

So, we're proposing a concept of bridging a standardized NFT tokens between Cardano & Berachain (which allows for other EVM chains to join with the open sourced architecture). Why Berachain, and why Cardano? Because Berachain is moving fast, creating life time holders and interested members, with a strategic opportunity through Kingdomly, we can bring the NFT enthusiasts together, which can also be a prime success story of bridging into EVMs.

The concept, ideally will provide a fully fledged building plan on which we then further develop the MVP, further Product, then adding cool features etc :)

Regarding the Cardano & Berachain bridging, we are exploring the following:
1. What infrastructure is available - how is it limited and we can extend it for a better developer experience?
2. Can we still maintain a no code design system for anyone to simply follow a guide to create cross chain NFTs?
3. Can we utilize this infrastructure for RWA to bring new assets into Cardano and Berachain?

Including;
- On / Off chain data
- Oracles
- TX Metadata

The solutions and answers to these are getting directly involed in our next stage, where we then implement and integrate the infrastructure for cross chain marketplaces.

#### [IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

The postive impacts for the Cardano Ecosystem are the following:

1. Fully open sourced. Devleopers are given guides and resources to replicate and utilize it for their own NFT purposes.
2. a part of 500,000 potential users can interact and particpate in the Cardano NFT ecosystem, bringing volume and long lasting relationships through this.
3. Build a alliance between Cardano and Berachain developers to build great infrastrcture that any developer can utilize.

#### [CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

To clarify, I'm Watson - but I am applying for my good friend Ethan Rife; the founder of Kingdomly, which hosts the largest NFT marketplace in Berachain at the moment, managing millions inside Smart Contracts and NFTs.

Ethans Founder Experience:
1. [Incubator program](https://www.texasblockchain.org/incubator) - Developed and scaled his NFT marketplace from tens of thousands into millions over 3 months.
2. **Media Presence** - Grew his businesses social precense to 5,000 collective NFT collectors over 2 years.
3. **Project Management** - Leads a full time team of 7 developers and 2 marketing people.

Additional support from uniFire members, Berachain developers, Kingdomly and Arthur Labs ensures that the project has all needed connections, knowledge and skills to successfully implement and produce the proposal.

#### [Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?
At the end of the proposal we developed a fully functional concept

*Milestone 1* - **Research**
*Milestone 2* - **Analysis**
*Milestone 3* - **Summarize**
*Milestone 4* - **Finalize**

Funding 13 - Apply for MVP: Utilize Finalized research milestone & implement into MVP (Which is boilerplate with 5 use cases)

##### Milestone 1

Milestone Name: Research
Milestone Budget: 22,000 Ada
Milestone delivery month: August 2024
Milestone Progress in %: 25%

###### Milestone Outputs:

- Research existing NFT standards between Cardano and Berachain
- Research existing NFT standards between Cardano and EVM chains, determine problems and successes.
- Establish basic requirements for NFT standards.
- Research document available under CCO1 License & publicly accessible.
- Links are accessible and provided in the Milestones PoA. (Proof of Achievement)

###### Milestone Acceptance criteria:

- Published Cardano and Berachain NFT standards document via uniFires & Kingdomly public documents
- Create documents available in a blogpost like scenario to replicate and share with others.
- Document issued under a CCO1 license.

###### Milestone Evidence:

- Published Cardano & Berachain NFT standards, licensed under a CCO1 licence & publicly accessible
- Links are accessible and provided in the Milestones PoA

##### Milestone 2:

Milestone Name: Analysis
Milestone Budget: 22,000 Ada
Milestone delivery month: September 2024
Milestone Progress in %: 50%

Milestone Outputs:

- Have finalized standards and analysis document on use cases and user onboarding, build a walk-through. Licensed under a CCO1 license.
- Publish the architecture analysis document through public documents via Kingdomly and uniFire public documents.

Milestone Acceptance criteria:

- Finalised analysis on use cases as a public document
- Issued under a CCO1 license.
- Published through public documents via Kingdomly and uniFire public documents.
- Have unpublished blogs prepared for marketing material.

Milestone evidence:

- Finalized and published analysis of the supported use cases as a public document
- Links to be provided in the Milestone PoA

##### Milestone 3

Milestone Name: Summarize
Milestone Budget: 22,000 Ada
Milestone delivery month: October 2024
Milestone Progress in %: 75%

Milestone Outputs:

- Summarize research and analysis into publicly accessible documentation, collecting the relavant standards
- Inside publicly accessible documentation provide concerns and opportunities for potentially existing infrastructure.
- Create a series of articles, focusing on specific topics and potential options.
- Publish summary document and articles via Kingdomly and uniFire public documents.
- license summary document and articles under CCO1 licences

Milestone Acceptance criteria:
- Completed, published and licensed summary report.
- Completed, published and licensed series of blogs and articles.
- All published information is licensed under CCO1.
- Links to be provided in the Milestone PoA.

Milestone evidence:

- Published documentation via uniFires & Kingdomly public blogs.
- Links are provided in the Milestone PoA.

##### Milestone 4

Milestone Name: Finalise
Milestone Budget: 22,000 Ada
Milestone delivery month: November 2024
Milestone Progress in %: 100%

Milestone Outputs:
1. Complete and publish finalised Cardano & Berachain NFT standards, guideline and prepare for implementation into Kingdomlys NFT standards.
2. Publish the blogs through uniFires and Kingdomly.
3. Finalized and published proposal close out reports
4. Create a draft document explaining technical implementation into Kingdomly, find use cases and existing infrastructure that can that be utilized - like how will this information be useful for EVMs.
5. Prepare to continue the NFT standard and implement it at scale into the future Catalyst Funding round.

Milestone Acceptance criteria:
- Finalised and submitted concept.
- Finalised and submitted Proposal Close Out Report.
- Finalised and submitted Proposal MVP draft document.

Milestone evidence:
- Public link to finalised concept.
- Licensed Concept under a CCO1 license.
- Links to be provided in the Milestone PoA.

#### [RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Lead: Ethan Rife
Colead & Applicant Proposer: Watson Lewis-Rodriguez

uniFires Support:
**Frank** - Senior developer, JavaScript, Rust, German, English. Stuttgart, Germany. I will sell you a shirt with Holograms.
**Felix** - Cardano Ambassador, Governance, Open Source & grass roots, often being punk, doing great things with people smarter then me and usually having great fun :)
**Mark** - Software Engineer, has years of professional experience in Cardano smart contract development, functional programming and applied formal methods engineering

Kingdomly Support:
Several smart contract designers and developers under Kingdomly will be involved in the design and curation of the NFT standard -- Most with high level and senior experience in blockchain development.

Additional Support
**Obo** - Backend developer, blockchain engineer and smart contract developer.

#### [BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

22,000 total per month
Research: 8,000 Ada
Operational Budget: 5,000 Ada
Prototyping: 3,000 Ada
Advisory: 2,000 Ada
Content Creation: 2,000 Ada
Publishing & Outreach: 2,000 Ada

TOTAL - **Ada 22,000** per Milestone / per Month
4 Milestones X 4 months = 88,000 Ada

Tho, We will be seeking out additional support from the Berachain team.

#### [VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

**Value creation:**
1. Ideation - Any NFT creator can participate in two blockchains seamlessly without needing to spend much additional time learning about bridging.
2. More access to NFTs - Anyone holding ADA can access Berachains 1.7 Million different NFTs.
3. Go to market - Developers don't need to waste time building infra when it's already available through this marketplace.
4. RWA - Anyone holding Ada can swap between Cardano and Berachain, which then can be implemented with various RWA marketplaces.

This project would expand on enabling assets transferring from blockchains, NFTs are the initial use as it is most commonly known. But with the existing development inside of uniFires, Kingdomly, Arthur Labs, Berachain, Polkadot and Cardano, it allows for anyone to create a listing and cross interaction between all 3 blockchains, creating alliances between industry leading technologies. The biggest value with this is that it connects leading developers cross chain, share resources and infrastructure, creating a no code experience for any marketplace built between the chains.

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