First time we have ever applied for Catalyst funding after 5-6 years building here in the trenches and I have to say, I am genuinely impressed by how much the process has improved. This wasn’t “submit a proposal and hope for votes.” We went through rounds of feedback, revisions, edits, clarifications and challenges. I probably went back to the proposal 15 times making sure every part of it was accurate, defensible and actually made sense. And that’s exactly how it should be. From what I’ve seen, there are real people seriously reviewing these proposals now, asking questions, pushing teams to improve them and trying to make sure treasury funding goes toward projects that can actually execute. That is a massive improvement over the old perception of Catalyst being driven by popularity, bags or who could rally the most votes. So credit where it’s due huge kudos to the @Catalyst_onX team, @IOHK_Charles and everyone involved in evolving the process. It feels much more serious now. And for us, this is just the beginning. We got funded. Now we build. Atlas is going to be a fucking monster.