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The price of (enter your favorite) cryptocurrency seems to be the main topic these days, so let's skip that and talk about Cardano and its future. As you've probably noticed the voting, funding and challenges to create ideas have arrived and things are getting heated.
A wise man wrote: " It can be argued that a large part of the value of a cryptocurrency is derived from its community, the way it uses the currency, and its level of engagement in the currency’s evolution. "
To add to that: without passionate devs (non IOHK and Emurgo), vibrant users and community, DApps and smart contract builders, native multi-assets issuance, interoperability, businesses and projects created by the dc-fund, the "project Cardano" will become irrelevant and fail.
However, in order to make the right decisions (the wisdom of the crowds) we have be informed and the people that you're trying to attract too. So, to answer the fund2 challenge: " How do we encourage developers and entrepreneurs to build businesses and applications on top of Cardano in the next six months?"
Do we have the right info and do the devs that want to build DApps have this info too?
Let's check and compare https://ethereum.org/en/developers/ vs. https://cardano.org/ -> Developers
I challenge anyone on this subreddit to find the following links about Plutus (designed to enable the creation of smart contracts on Cardano):
https://docs.cardano.org/projects/plutus/en/latest/ (found it via google "plutus docs" and not via docs.cardano.org and this is just copy-and-paste from https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/tutorial/#intro)
https://hydra.iohk.io/build/3793507/download/1/plutus.pdf (The Plutus Platform: An IOHK technical report , I found the link via Goguen presentation at Shelley summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjFUYD5FOkE)
https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/ (April 2019 info!) and https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/tutorial/
Again, let's compare it to https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.1/ and https://ethereum.org/en/developers/ ? There's a (big) difference, right?
Via cardano.org you can only see a "hint of Plutus" here (https://roadmap.cardano.org/en/goguen/ by scrolling deeply to "Goguen Work scope" and here https://testnets.cardano.org/en/plutus/overview/ with a nice welcome that basically says "we're working on it"). Right now, you would think that Marlowe is the way to go with the lack of Plutus walkthoughs, examples, docs, videos, etc.
To attract people (devs, businesses, new users) to Cardano they need to know:

Why Cardano, and what is Cardano but rephrased for crypto "roaring twenties" period
Cardano's advantages over other blockchains like Ethereum and don't be afraid to kill it "it's not bragging if can you can back it up"
- https://docs.cardano.org/en/latest/README.html#
- Functional Blockchain Contracts : The seminal smart-contract platform, Ethereum, uses an imperative and object-oriented model of accounts. Ethereum has been subject to numerous exploits,often linked to its use of shared mutable state by way of its imperative and object-oriented features in a concurrent and distributed system. Coding a distributed application for Ethereum requires two languages: Javascript to runoff-chain,which submits transaction written in Solidity to run on-chain. Plutus brings the inherent benefits of functional programming – such as reduced ambiguity and easier testing – to smart contracts. During the Goguen era, Plutus will set the stage for smart contracts that are capable of modeling enterprise-level business and finance scenarios. Not only that, but Plutus and Haskell enable the use of the same code base both on and off-chain, whereas other smart contract implementations often require developers to use two or more different languages, reducing efficiency and increasing the likelihood of costly mistakes.
- Native Custom Tokens in the Extended UTXO Model : User-defined tokens—both fungible ERC-20 and non-fungible ERC-721 tokens—are central to the majority of contracts deployed on Ethereum. User-defined tokens arenon-native on Ethereum; i.e., they are not directly supported by the ledger, but require custom code. This makes them unnecessarily inefficient, expensive, and complex. On Ethereum, ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens are fundamentally different from the native crypto-currency, Ether, in that their creation and use always involves user-defined custom code — they are not directly supported by the underlying ledger, and hence are non-native. This makes them unnecessarily inefficient, expensive, and complex. Although the ledger already includes facilities to manage and maintain a currency, this functionality is replicated in interpreted user-level code,which is inherently less efficient. Moreover, the execution of user-code needs to be paid for (in gas), which leads to significant costs. Finally, the ERC-20 and ERC-721 token code gets replicated and adapted, instead of being part of the system, which complicates the creation and use of tokens and leaves room for human error... The alternative to user-level token code is a ledger that supports native tokens. In other words, a ledger that directly supports (1) the creation of new user-defined token or asset types, (2) the forging of those tokens, and (3) the transfer of custom token ownership between multiple participants.
- UTXOma: UTXO with Multi-Asset Support : A prominent use case of Ethereum smart contracts is the creation of a wide range of user-defined tokens or assets by way of smart contracts. User-defined assets are non-native on Ethereum; i.e., they are not directly supported by the ledger, but require repetitive custom code. This makes them unnecessarily inefficient, expensive, and complex. It also makes them insecure as numerous incidents on Ethereum have demonstrated .
- Extended UTXO Model : https://docs.cardano.org/projects/plutus/en/latest/reference/glossary.html
To have decent tutorials and examples of smart contracts ("grandma version" for beginners, intermediate "wanna-be ADA-hero" version and "all-in" advance version) including podcasts/videos etc.
Make engineering talks (IOHK and Emurgo engineers pick one topic) on different topics and Cardano eras: see for example https://www.youtube.com/c/StellarDevelopmentFoundation/videos
Make summaries of research papers for devs/users and videos from Shelley summit, put them on iohk.io/blog (just like you did for Hydraand Ourobors)
Clean up github repositories, docs, and avoid information duplication and outdated info to make it easy for learning and also for accountability
Explain clearly and transparently to the devs (current and future) what's IOHK/Emurgo building right now to avoid overlaps. For example, I just watched Project Atlas video again where it is stated that this is gonna be a "DApps store" while Charles clearly stated during his AMAs that he sees Daedalus as a DApps store:
- With Atlas all users can:
  - Explore the blockchain
  - Access Dapps.
  - Cast ballots and vote.
  - Interact with the light wallet.

I recommend to watch video on Goguen (see below) because it tells you basically what kind of devs are they looking for, just skip from slide to slide to speed up the process.
"The key elements of Goguen and the high-level deployment plan for the rest of 2020. Goguen represents the next major roll out of functionality for the Cardano ecosystem, bringing multi-asset standards and smart contracts. Shelley is laying the ground work to establish a robust, decentralized network, powered by stake pools and delegation. Targeting Q4 2020, Goguen will start to empower developers and app builders to create further value and utility on Cardano, to drive further adoption. Our bespoke languages Plutus and Marlowe make it easy to create secure smart contracts, without extensive blockchain knowledge. Goguen will enable you to:

Build decentralized applications, smart contracts and new businesses
Define, forge, and transfer new assets on the Cardano blockchain
Explore the Cardano development environment."

Other videos to watch are on Adrestia (also try to find any info about Adrestia on cardano.org if you can), Plutus, Goguen: Tokens, DApps and More, Project Atlas: Navigating blockchains, Project Catalyst: implementing Cardano's Governance model (our Bob Ross with PhD :))
Another docs worth mentioning are https://iohk.io/en/research/library/ sorted by SMARTCONTRACTS and/or PLUTUS.
Finally, to figure out what's coming and what you can do on Cardano:

Other topics on reddit regarding funding ideas:

This is basically a long TL;DR version ;)! It's important to see what others are doing (like Ethereum), what's missing on our side, what community is thinking and how to engage them and how to get more people into our ecosystem.
So, today, if you ask me: "can you easily start building on Cardano today"? The answer is definitely maybe.
Anyway, let me know your comments or your TL;DR version :-)!

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