Cardano Catalyst Fund

Cardano Catalyst Fund is sponsored by Cardano. A unique community-driven grant program for the Cardano ecosystem that encourages innovation and development by allowing the Cardano community to propose and vote on projects to be built on the blockchain.

Project Catalyst is the world’s largest decentralized innovation engine for solving real-world challenges. Catalyst Horizons Annual Report 2025 Project Catalyst Weekly Town Hall #220 Update from the Catalyst Team At the start of each funding round, the Cardano community proposes ideas that solve challenges within the blockchain ecosystem and the wider world.

The community then evaluates and votes on which technical, business, creative, and community proposals will receive funding. Join us and you too could make change happen. Community is at the heart of Project Catalyst.

That's why we empower every member of the Cardano community to actively participate in the development of the network. Ideas can come from anyone and anywhere within our global network, no matter their background or location. Our community has already voted on 11,233 proposals, that’s a total of 3,257,805 votes cast so far.

Everyone has a part to play. Want to solve a problem on Cardano or in the wider world? Find out how to submit a proposal.

View the proposals in the current Fund and choose the ones you think will have most impact. To vote, download the Project Catalyst voting app. Become a Community Reviewer Become a Community Reviewer and you’ll be rewarded in ada for reviewing and rating submitted ideas for quality assurance.

See the problems we solved in the latest funding round F 13 : Cardano Open: Developers Cardano Open: Developers supports development of open source technology, centered around improving the Cardano developer experience and creating… F 13 : Cardano Open: Ecosystem Cardano Open: Ecosystem helps drive ecosystem growth and education to onboard more Cardano users though a broad range of marketing, education… F 13 : Cardano Partners: Enterprise R&D Cardano Partners: Enterprise will fuel the fly-wheels of innovation to ignite premium R&D projects that benefit Cardano led by or in partnership… F 13 : Cardano Partners: Growth & Acceleration Cardano Partners: Growth & Acceleration will fuel adoption by igniting premium advertising or venture building partnerships that benefit Cardano… F 13 : Cardano Use Cases: Concept Cardano Use Cases: Concept will accept early stage ideas to deliver proof of concept, design research and basic prototyping through to MVP for… F 13 : Cardano Use Cases: Product Cardano Use Cases: Product is for established blockchain projects and teams looking to enhance existing applications and propositions by significantly… Every few months, a new fund begins with a set amount of ada budgeted.

Millions of ada is available as grants to allocate to proposals and as ecosystem rewards. Fill in your details to receive news and updates on all things Project Catalyst Thank you for subscribing We'll be in touch soon with news and updates from the Project Catalyst community.