Fund 12, CEX Listings & Apes' Exit

GM Frens,

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Deliberations around Project Catalyst Proposals for Fund 12 have been making a wave across social media platforms this week. The Catalyst adds a new category for Real World Integration with an allocation of 8,000,000 ADA! Meanwhile, a couple of Cardano native tokens go live on CEXs this week. Finally, The Ape Society finds a new Base, and Charles wishes the Best of Luck!

All we need mainstream adoption!

Project Catalyst Fund 12 invites established projects to integrate $ADA for real-world use cases. The Catalyst team has introduced a new category “Cardano Partners and Real World Integrations” which aims at marketing, advertising, and media collaborations. Apply here!

1. The deadline for submitting proposals to five of the six categories in Fund 12 was on May 13th. The Real Integration category submission's last date is June 6th.

2. The community-led review starts on May 23rd, and the voting begins on June 27th.

3. How to Become a Community Reviewer for Catalyst:  

   • Go to your Innovation platform account 

   • Click on Update your profile fields

   • Answer the first question: Would you like to participate as a Reviewer in the Fund12 Community Reviewer stage? 

   • Answer the rest of the questions, 

   • Press Submit!  

Get rewarded in Ada for your reviews!  

Sign up here!

Tokenisation platform NMKR & Fluid Tokens bet on CEXs!

• NMKR is now listed on three centralised exchanges (CEXs) and all Cardano-based decentralised exchanges (DEXs). These three CEXs are MEXC, Bitrue, and LCX

• NMKR simplifies Non-Fungible Token (NFT) minting for creators and mainstream businesses, led by Cardano Smart Contract. NMKR platform is automated with a no-code feature, and a non-tech person can create their assets' NFTs

• NMKR has also partnered with one of the founding entities of Cardano, EMURGO, to grow the adoption of real-world asset tokenisation services

• Fluid Tokens ($FLDT) has debuted on CEX, after getting listed on the MEXC exchange

• The DeFi protocol has recently made a big move, by going live on Bitcoin

• CoinMarketCap, a Binance-owned data aggregator, has also listed $FLDT
  
  

TAS Ditches Cardano For Base!

The Ape Society, one of the largest CNFT communities, migrates to Coinbase's Layer-2, with a tagline - Your Web3 Country Club. Powered by Base.

On Wednesday, 15th May, The Ape Society (TAS) posted on X (Formerly Twitter) - “It’s time for a new Base.” While reacting to this decision, the Cardano community called it a DeGod NFT moment when the DeGod NFT community moved to Ethereum and Polygon from Solana.

TAS left the original community members with a bitter taste. However, it was not a silent exit. TAS was in pursuit of exiting from Cardano. There were rumours of Apes moving to Solana earlier, but they have finally settled for a centralised exchange-owned L2 chain. Read TAS's official blog here!

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