Voting power
21,304ADA trusted to them
Voting power by dRep. Delegating 1,234 ADA. Bailly Silver, 617 ADA, 50%. Kofi Mensah, 370 ADA, 30%. Maya Reyes, 247 ADA, 20%.
| Segment | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bailly Silver | 617 ADA | 50% |
| Kofi Mensah | 370 ADA | 30% |
| Maya Reyes | 247 ADA | 20% |
Bailly Silver50%
Kofi Mensah30%
Maya Reyes20%
Handing your vote to someone you trust
Project Catalyst is Cardano's community fund. People who hold ADA, Cardano's currency, vote on which ideas get money. Between late 2021 and mid 2022 it gave more than $31 million to almost 1,000 projects.
Voting well takes hours. You have to read hundreds of proposals. So Catalyst planned delegation: you pick people you trust, called dReps, and they vote for you. I designed how that works on screen.
Getting started
Before you can vote, Catalyst needs to know which wallet holds your ADA. It takes two short steps: connect your wallet, then set a PIN.
Connect your wallet
Your voting power comes from the ADA in your wallet. We never move it.
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VesprBuilt for your phone
Set a PIN
You’ll use it every time you vote in the Catalyst app. Try typing one.
PIN
Finding your people
The list shows each dRep and what they care about. You can search, filter by topic or sort. Tick a few and your voting power splits between them straight away.
dReps
Choose who votes for you. Your voting power is split evenly between the dReps you pick.
6 of 115 dReps
Getting to know a dRep
You wouldn't hand your vote to a stranger. Each profile shows how much voting power a dRep already holds, how many people trust them and what they've done for Cardano.
dReps
Choose who votes for you. Your voting power is split evenly between the dReps you pick.
6 of 115 dReps
Kofi Mensah
@kofi · Smart contract auditor
Delegators+3
9people chose them
About
I audit smart contracts for a living, so I read the code behind a proposal, not just the pitch.
Contributions to Cardano
Found and reported two critical bugs in funded projects before launch.
Recent votes
- Open-source wallet for market traders in AccraYes
- Solar-powered node kits for rural schoolsYes
- Carbon credit marketplace on CardanoNo
Splitting your vote
You don't have to back just one person. Drag a slider and the others make room. The total always stays at 100%, so you can't give away more than you have.
Split your voting power
Give more to the people you trust most. It always adds up to 100%.
Voting power by dRep. Delegating 1,234 ADA. Bailly Silver, 617 ADA, 50%. Kofi Mensah, 370 ADA, 30%. Maya Reyes, 247 ADA, 20%.
| Segment | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bailly Silver | 617 ADA | 50% |
| Kofi Mensah | 370 ADA | 30% |
| Maya Reyes | 247 ADA | 20% |
Making it count
Delegating moves real voting power, so the last step asks you to hold the button, not just click it. A slip of the finger can't send your vote somewhere you didn't mean.
When the wallet drops out, the screen says what went wrong and that nothing was sent. Then it gives you one way forward.
- Choose dReps, Completed
- Split your power, Completed
- Confirm
- Bailly Silver617 ADA
- Kofi Mensah370 ADA
- Maya Reyes247 ADA
In your pocket
Most people check in from their phone. The same steps fit one column. Your picks wait in a bar at the bottom, and every dRep gets a page of their own.
Maya Reyes
@mayar · Business owner
- Voting power
- 12,890
- Delegators
- 6
I run a payments business in Manila and care about tools real shops can use tomorrow.
Voting power by dRep. Delegating 1,234 ADA. Bailly Silver, 617 ADA, 50%. Kofi Mensah, 370 ADA, 30%. Maya Reyes, 247 ADA, 20%.
| Segment | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bailly Silver | 617 ADA | 50% |
| Kofi Mensah | 370 ADA | 30% |
| Maya Reyes | 247 ADA | 20% |
- Bailly Silver50%
- Kofi Mensah30%
- Maya Reyes20%
You can change your dReps or your split at any time.
Press and hold for 1.4 seconds to confirm. With a keyboard, hold Space or Enter.Coming back
After you delegate, the home screen shows your vote at work: how your power is split and how your dReps have voted. If you stop agreeing with someone, you can change your dReps at any time.
Good morning
Fund 9 voting closes in 4 days. Your dReps have already voted on 42 proposals.
- Ideas, CompletedClosed 12 Jan
- Community review, CompletedClosed 3 Feb
- VotingCloses in 4 days
- Results, Not startedFrom 1 Mar
Voting power
1,234 ADAFrom the ADA in your wallet
Delegated
100%Split between 3 dReps
Votes cast for you+6
42This fund
Your dReps
Bailly Silver50%
Kofi Mensah30%
Maya Reyes20%
Latest votes
- Open-source wallet for market traders in AccraYes
- Haskell bootcamp for 200 students in LagosYes
- Carbon credit marketplace on CardanoNo
- Solar-powered node kits for rural schoolsYes
- Cardano explainer videos in SwahiliYes
Light and dark
Every screen works in both. Drag the handle to wipe between them.
dReps
Choose who votes for you. Your voting power is split evenly between the dReps you pick.
6 of 115 dReps
dReps
Choose who votes for you. Your voting power is split evenly between the dReps you pick.
6 of 115 dReps
The parts
The screens share one small kit of parts. Switch the theme or the colour and every part follows, because they all read from the same list of colours and sizes.
Search and filter
Status
Not delegatedReadyDelegatedFund closingFailed
Funded projects
989Funds 6 to 9
Your share
Actions
People
Picking
Community manager
DeFi strategist
Confirming
Press and hold for 1.2 seconds to confirm. With a keyboard, hold Space or Enter.Given out
31m+US dollars, late 2021 to mid 2022
Voting split
Voting power by dRep. Delegating 1,234 ADA. Bailly Silver, 617 ADA, 50%. Kofi Mensah, 370 ADA, 30%. Maya Reyes, 247 ADA, 20%.
| Segment | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bailly Silver | 617 ADA | 50% |
| Kofi Mensah | 370 ADA | 30% |
| Maya Reyes | 247 ADA | 20% |
dReps
| Bailly Silver | 27847 | 10 |
| Kofi Mensah | 21304 | 9 |
| Adam Sampler | 18210 | 7 |
| Maya Reyes | 12890 | 6 |
| Austin Copper | 9433 | 4 |
| Brendon Don Alt | 6120 | 3 |
Fund 9
- Ideas, Completed
- Review, Completed
- Voting
- Results, Not started
Progress
Kofi voted for you
Yes on the open-source wallet for market traders in Accra, with 370 of your ADA.
Where it led
This was one of the most fun projects I've worked on. A whole community deciding together where millions of dollars should go, and my job was to make that feel simple and safe.
It stayed with me. The ideas about voting, trust and showing where money goes became part of the inspiration for Kwanda, a community fund I built as a side project.