Hi @yutazzz, We appreciate you engaging with our proposal titled: Catalyze Africa: Building Scalable Projects from CATS 2026. Below is our response to your concerns and we hope that in good faith, it's able to help change your stance from "NO" to "YES". The application of the C8 criterion and the reference to the /tx-roi backend highlight an important concern regarding historical funding outcomes. Our 27 previous Catalyst proposals, beginning from Fund 4, were intentionally focused on human infrastructure, regional outreach, and foundational Web3 education. As a result, these initiatives were not designed to produce identifiable tx_label metadata footprints on-chain. This explains the absence of visible signatures in standard db-sync aggregations for those funds, despite substantial on-chain activity emerging from the African region that was not systematically documented in a measurable attribution framework. This Intersect proposal represents a clear transition from broad community building to targeted, measurable venture creation. It directly addresses the historical gap in on-chain attribution through a set of technical accountability mechanisms embedded within the 12-month framework. First, we will explore cryptographic transaction attribution methods to make ecosystem impact auditable on-chain using defined metrics. One proposed approach is the introduction of a standardized transaction metadata label unique to the “Catalyze Africa” program, to be integrated across supported projects for smart contract interactions and native asset minting. This would allow transaction volume, wallet activity, and contract usage to be transparently tracked through db-sync tools such as ADAtool, effectively resolving future C8 attribution concerns. Second, milestone approvals will no longer rely solely on attendance or event metrics. As reflected in the updated Milestones 3 and 4, payouts are tied to public GitHub repositories under open-source licenses containing compiled validator code, transaction schemas, and live testnet or mainnet contract addresses. Finally, Work Package 2 will establish a public Alumni Portfolio Registry to track project retention, live dApp deployments, and post-incubation funding outcomes, providing the measurable ecosystem impact metrics being requested. We agree that ecosystem funding should move beyond process-based reporting. This proposal is intentionally designed to convert Wada’s established human network into a verifiable deployment engine for measurable Cardano utility, and we respectfully ask for reconsideration based on these milestone-driven accountability measures. Proposal: hydra-voting.intersectmbo.or… --- xitter.cf/yutazzz/status/2053898…