Catalyst Choose 12 Cardano Teams, Grants Go Depend How Users Take Use Their Products

Project Catalyst pick 12 teams from 117 applications on September 24, na the first time dem dey fund projects since October 2025. The Pilot get 2.5 million ADA fund wey cover base grants, performance bonuses, and support activities. Selection mean say the team don enter the program; payment go depend on onboarding, delivery, and how people take use the new integrations.

Twelve Teams Wey Dem Choose Through Community and Panel Review

Community curators first reduce the applications reach 31 proposals. One panel of 35 reviewers, wey include 28 community members and seven Cardano Foundation representatives, come assess the finalists. Business criteria carry 70% of the score and technical criteria carry 30%. ADA holders no vote for the selections.

The Pilot dey target four areas: stablecoins, oracle data, programmable tokens, and on-chain identity. Six of the selected proposals include open-source commitments, while three promise say dem go share part of future platform or protocol fee revenue give the Cardano treasury.

Wetín the 12 Cardano Projects Go Build

SyncAI’s anyqr go allow customer pay existing merchant QR code with USDCx from Cardano wallet while the shop receive local currency. The team wan bring the flow enter mainnet and support QR payment systems across ten countries. Na those merchant payments be the proposed product, no be activity wey don already happen for Cardano mainnet.

VIA Labs’ AnyToAny combine cross-chain transfers and swaps into one route to Cardano tokens. VIA don already operate messaging infrastructure; the Pilot go fund the new routing experience wey go connect assets for other networks or exchanges to the Cardano asset wey user choose.

Cexplorer Pay currently dey provide payment links for ADA. The selected proposal go add stablecoin invoices and checkout links, including way for businesses to match confirmed payments with orders. The existing ADA service and the proposed stablecoin checkout na separate stages of the product.

PagFinance dey aim to connect Cardano assets with Brazilian reais through PIX. Businesses go gain route between on-chain funds and local settlement. The company activity for other networks no mean say its Cardano integration don already live.

For trading, House of Titans’ ATLAS dey develop perpetual markets wey go use stablecoins as collateral and Pyth feeds for pricing. The selected work na production integration; trading with real funds for Cardano no be part of the current announcement.

Dano Finance dey propose single-transaction collateral swap, wey go allow borrower replace the asset wey dey back loan without first closing the position. E also intend to open liquidations to independent participants, to extend its existing lending product with new transaction paths.

Liqwid Labs go work on verifying signed Pyth prices inside lending transactions. Liqwid don already operate Cardano lending market. The grant cover the additional oracle path for actions like borrowing and liquidation, no be creation of new lending protocol.

L4VA Technologies dey add Pyth data and stablecoin settlement to its tokenized asset vault work. Its proposal also describe AI-assisted strategies wey go operate within limits wey vault governance set. Na those specific functions be the funded integration and make we separate am from L4VA existing vault development.

Aline Health dey focus on medical travel. Its verifiable credentials go allow participants check identities and qualifications without putting patient records on Cardano.

Nucast’s nuhuman bring the identity theme enter export supply chain. E propose digital identities for processing robots and shrimp batches, with signed production records wey link equipment and goods to traceability data.

Anvil dey build issuer-defined transfer rules for real-world assets for its Wayup marketplace. Conditions like buyer eligibility go dey checked when asset dey change hands. The marketplace dey already; this controlled settlement function na the new work.

GreenSun Tech’s OriLife propose tokens wey tie to agricultural produce, with programmable rules for verified transfers between growers and buyers. The Pilot go fund the transfer mechanism, wey must move beyond product records enter transactions for Cardano mainnet.

Grant Payments Go Follow How People Take Use the New Integrations

Once onboarding succeed, e go unlock the first 40% of a grant. Up to another 40% go depend on adoption against the target wey dey each team proposal. The final 20% require make activity continue for about two months after the main measurement period. Teams get up to three months from the Pilot launch to demonstrate their integrations for Cardano mainnet.

Catalyst go count qualifying network fees from external users wey dey interact with each declared integration. Team-controlled wallets no go count, and results go dey published for public dashboard. Mainnet demonstration go show say function dey work; na the subsequent record go determine whether people really dey use the QR payment flow, new lending actions, credentials, and controlled asset transfers, and how much of each grant the team go earn.