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Grant Application

Draft

This page is a structural placeholder for a grant application. The Problem and Solution/Innovation sections are drafted from what the product actually does today and the technical Implementation links to real docs; Market Opportunity, Milestones, Budget, and KPIs need real numbers from the team before this is usable – none of the placeholders below should be submitted as-is.

Problem​

Onboarding to a new blockchain testnet is historically painful: manually adding an RPC endpoint, switching networks, funding a wallet from a faucet, and juggling separate dApps for swapping, staking, and messaging before you can do anything meaningful. This friction is a real barrier to testnet adoption and developer/user feedback loops.

Solution​

Cat Wallet is a single interface that removes that friction on Ritual Testnet: email/social login with an auto-configured embedded wallet (no manual network setup), and swap, send, staking, identity, and end-to-end encrypted chat (including 10+ features) in one dashboard instead of several disconnected dApps. An AI assistant lets users express intent in plain language ("swap 0.5 RITUAL for rUSD") and get a pre-filled, reviewable transaction rather than hand-building one.

Innovation​

  • Unified wallet abstraction supporting both embedded (Privy) and external (wagmi/ConnectKit) wallets behind one interface, so the rest of the app doesn't fork behavior per connection type.
  • Real end-to-end encrypted messaging built directly into a wallet interface, tied to on-chain identity (.ritual names) rather than a separate messaging app.
  • An AI assistant that proposes structured reviewable transactions rather than either a plain chatbot or fully autonomous execution.

Technical Implementation​

See Security for the trust model and Smart Contracts for what's deployed.

Market Opportunity​

TBD — needs real market sizing/positioning from the team.

Milestones​

TBD — should mirror the Roadmap once that has real dates.

Budget​

TBD.

KPIs​

TBD — candidates to define with real targets: active wallets, transactions per user, chat messages sent, retention.