S12 Planning: Ecosystem Strategy & Innovation

Announcements Season Planning
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Hi everyone,

Hope you’re all well! Nikhil here from what was formerly known as the Research, Strategy, and Innovation circle. We’ve chosen to rename our circle Ecosystem Strategy and Innovation because our work is primarily focused around supporting you: the ecosystem on Celo

As part of Season 12 Planning, I’m sharing our upcoming plans as well as seeking feedback. In case you’re unfamiliar with the Season Planning process at the Celo Foundation, you can look at the forum post introducing the Season Planning Process.

Working Group Purpose

The Ecosystem Strategy and Innovation team serves to support and accelerate the growth of web3 projects on Celo in four key verticals: DeFi for the People, Connect the World, Social Impact Collective, and the Creator Collective. In particular, we look to catalyze launches and scale innovative new use cases on Celo.

Goals for the upcoming Season 12

Our last season (Season 11) can be found here. For Season 12, we continue to build on this by focusing on growth in transaction volume and monthly active users. Our goals for Season 12 across the four verticals are the following:

DeFi for the People

  1. Support launch of 5-10 top growth potential DeFi projects by end of the quarter
  2. Support the integration and launch of multiple DeFi primitives and tools
  3. Enable increase in overall on-chain liquidity for accessing LP capital and cross-chain liquidity

Connect the World

  1. Continue supporting the launch of new CICOs on FiatConnect and enable on and offramps in at least 15 countries with FiatConnect
  2. Support the launch of 2-3 new wallets on Celo

Social Impact Collective

  1. Support the launch of 3-5 new social impact projects/use cases on Celo
  2. Publish the revised Theory of Change to include Planetary Impact

Creator Collective

  1. Support launch of 5-10 top growth potential NFT projects, partnerships, or infrastructure by end of the quarter
  2. Support the integration and launch of multiple NFT primitives and tools

Your feedback

As always I’d love to get your feedback on our ongoing work and any ideas for collaboration. Please do share any thoughts, suggestions for what we should be doing more or less of, and any other ideas for improvement

With much love,

Nikhil Raghuveera

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Creator Collective

  1. Support launch of 5-10 top growth potential NFT projects, partnerships, or infrastructure by end of the quarter
  2. Support the integration and launch of multiple NFT primitives and tools

Wow, interesting. As a web3 enthusiast and a creative from Lagos Nigeria transitioning to web3 ecosystem, would love to collaborate in building on awesome projects like this and equally get creatives from my region to join in building on projects like this as well

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