Overview
Project Catalyst News is the official update page for Cardano's community grant program, where anyone can follow what the program is funding and where the money goes. It gathers written announcements, program reports, and recorded community meetings into a single place, and carries the signup form for people who want updates delivered by email. Because it is run by the program itself, it is a first-hand record rather than secondhand commentary.
Project Catalyst is the grant program behind it: builders pitch ideas for things they want to make for Cardano, and the community decides which ones receive funding1. Thousands of projects have been funded since the program started, spanning developer tools, education, and regional community work2. The news page is where the people running that program explain decisions, publish results, and announce what happens next.
Key Features
- One page for every kind of update. Written posts, downloadable reports, and meeting recordings all surface here, each with a link through to its own full archive3.
- Recorded community meetings. A weekly online gathering where the team gives updates and funded teams demonstrate their work. Every session is recorded and added to a public archive that stretches back over several years of meetings4.
- Program reports you can download. Annual and regional reports are published as PDFs, including a yearly review of the program and separate spotlights on Latin America and Japan5.
- Email updates without an account. A short signup form takes a name and an email address, and appears in the footer of every page on the site alongside links to the program's chat and social channels6.
- Named authors. Posts carry the name and role of the person who wrote them, so readers can see whether an update comes from a community manager or from program leadership7.
What to Expect
A visitor arriving here finds a summary page rather than an endless feed. The three most recent items from each stream are shown, with a link to see the rest, so getting the full picture means clicking through to the blog, the reports page, or the town hall archive.
The tone is administrative rather than promotional. Posts explain how funding rounds work, mark milestones as projects finish, and describe changes to the rules. Anyone wanting the actual rules will find them in the separate documentation site rather than here: how proposals are scored, what counts as a completed milestone, and what a submission must contain8.
For someone deciding whether to apply for a grant, this page is useful context but not the application itself. The path to funding starts with a proposal, moves through review by community members who are paid in ADA to assess submissions, and ends with money released in stages as a team hits agreed milestones1. Readers new to the program may prefer starting with a plain-English explainer of what Project Catalyst is before working through the official material. Those tracking how Cardano makes decisions more broadly will find related resources across the governance section.
