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An informal network bringing together the Cardano Audit Community
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Background

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2020

Accountability in Funding from Voltaire

Charles Hoskinson - 7 Oct 2020

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2021

Catalyst Auditing working group

Since October 2021 community members with an interest in auditing and oversight initiated research into reporting and participated in the Catalyst Auditing working group ( see https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-auditing/admin/meetings ).

2022

Catalyst Audit Hub Proposal

The Catalyst Audit Hub's objectives were :

  • Listen to problems around auditability including use of the reporting system, confusion in the process and identifying bad actors.
  • Prioritize proposal audit issues with the help of the community. Looking at the complexity, implementation effort and relevant concerns to guide what to solve first.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with the community to investigate and develop potential solutions to auditing issues. Any solutions developed can go through the Catalyst funding process.

Legitimacy - the Fund 7 proposal together with the team listed were successfully voted for in February 2022.

Transparency - meetings, proposal reporting and deliverables are all documented in this GitBook.

Accountability - Catalyst Audit Circle is accountable to ADA holders who voted for it's proposal to deliver surveys, retrospectives and a final report by June 2022.

Open Source - Catalyst Audit Circle is committed to using Open Source tools to document and

track its activities. This GitBook is stored on this repository with an Apache 2.0 license.

Auditability Workgroups

In August 2022, Danny Ribar sent out a call for regular work group meetings for audit/oversight of projects on Cardano’s Project Catalyst.

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2023

Challenge Team Roundtable

Two Challenge Team roundtable sessions took place on February 16th 2023.

Auditability Workgroup

An Auditability Workgroup continued community work in March 2023.\