There are many smart and experienced people behind Cardano who are committed to delivering a cutting-edge project. There is nothing to stop this effort. The team is very well internationally diversified and balanced. As we could notice, the bonds between the Cardano Foundation and IOHK work very well and the right people are in the right places.

You can also watch the video from the event: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRyWh7uhAfg&feature=youtu.be

Building the community

Let’s take a quick look at the importance of building a community for projects in general and the challenges they will face.

Blockchain is still at the beginning, yet we have seen many projects in this sector in the past. These projects often failed to deliver what they promised. Some projects have been able to run main-net, but might be struggling with adoption. The blockchain environment is and increasingly will be a competitive environment. To survive economically and socially, the project must build a strong community.

The team must listen to the community’s voice to deliver what people want or need to use. The community feedback thus becomes an aid to adoption if teams are able to handle it properly and the project can easily become more popular. Project owners and teams may have visions, but the question is whether people share those visions. For something as new as blockchain and decentralized networks, it is difficult to get feedback, as most of the population does not yet know exactly what these terms mean and what is good for them. This makes it all the more important to share the project’s vision with people and get feedback. A project must communicate its vision, which often means educating people and showing them how new technologies can be beneficial to them.

Social media is a good tool for building a community in the digital era. However, projects can have a difficult task here, as many other projects are trying to do so and the media space is flooded to some extent. Everything is complicated by price speculation, which is a common topic of social media instead of describing the fundamental qualities of individual projects and their visions. Blockchain and all the terms associated with it make it difficult for ordinary people to understand. However, people are often not interested in the technical solution itself, but rather in real use. Often you can find quality technical articles, but rarely good articles that target the general population. Despite all that, educating the community and efforts to adopt the project should be one of the priority objectives of each project. New technology is always best adopted through people who use it and recommend it to their friends.

A strong community for every project is a blessing and a guarantee of future existence. This is difficult to achieve it in a blockchain environment that is natively global. Often there may be language or cultural barriers. For projects, it can be quite expensive to do global marketing. In addition, it can be difficult to see how successful this marketing has been in each country. Ordinary people do not want to look at the project somewhere on Telegram or Reddit, but just want to use it or possibly read about it on some popular article. Unfortunately, routine use of the project today means having at least a basic understanding of the basics of cryptography and keep basic security behavior in a network environment. Because of the lack of information and skills, people may lose their property or suffer other harm. It will be a great challenge for projects to find out how to communicate with people and how to gather feedback from them.

Who are the members of the community? In the case of smart platforms, we are talking about developers who will build decentralized applications on the platform and the users of these applications. We must also not forget the people involved in keeping a decentralized network running. Furthermore, there are small and large investors. The biggest and probably the most important group are ordinary people who will somehow use the platform or payment options on a daily basis. However, these people do not necessarily need to adopt a platform, but just applications built on it. In this case, adoption will be in the hands of application developers.

Dealing with feedback is always necessary and sometimes it is extremely difficult for teams to decide on a thing. On the one hand, there is a requirement to do everything in the most decentralized way. On the other hand, this approach can be sometimes unfair in some sense. It shows how important it is to base decision-making on communicating with the community and how important it is to introduce some form of voting. The project team should almost always satisfy the majority of the community and do not just do the things they think is best or simpler. Opinions may also vary across the community, so there is a need to manage the debate and communicate the outcome of the decision transparently.

Cardano ambassadors

Cardano Foundation and IOHK know very well that building a community is extremely important. There is, therefore, the possibility of becoming a Cardano ambassador. This activity is under the umbrella of the Cardano Foundation. Every active member of the community can become a Cardano ambassador if he or she can offer regular, consistent, and positive contributions to the project.

Everyone can find a role that fits him the most. You can choose from these categories.

• Meetup organizer.
• Moderator.
• Content creator.
• Translator.

Ambassador status is not for free and it is something that must be earned by the activity. If you want to help build Cardano, don’t hesitate and do it. Surely someone will notice your work and can nominate you. However, you can register yourself.