Question Pack — Cardano Ecosystem

Pack (fixed)

Field	Value
Respondents	Cardano ecosystem actors active in candidate regions (hubs, builders, organisers, prior programme participants)
Primary gates	Adoption signals · Regions · Counterparties
Secondary gates	Use cases · Delivery model · Infrastructure · Cross-RFP handoffs

Treat insider optimism as a bias risk — seek disconfirming evidence and non-Cardano counterweights.

Assemble (fill before the interview)

Field	Value
Cluster
Use case (this play)
Play one-liner
Hypothesis status	hypothesized / desk-supported / revised
Desk claims to test
What would falsify this play
Respondent name / role
Access basis	Interviewed / Warm Access / Referred / Desk-Identified
Session goal	confirm / falsify / upgrade confidence
Date

Then run Interview Conduct opening. Keep every probe anchored to this play.

Run — primary gates

Adoption

• Which local stories about this play are Tier 1–2 (production / funded pilot with owner) vs Tier 3–4 (working group / events / LoIs without owner)?
• What evidence would upgrade or downgrade a signal you currently cite for this play?
• Where has community enthusiasm been mistaken for institutional adoption around this play?
• Propose a CASS tier and evidence rationale for each signal discussed.

Regions

• On comparative evidence — not narrative — does this cluster deserve near-term priority for this use case, or should it be monitored / deprioritised?
• Where is ecosystem presence strong but problem severity or counterparty access weak for this play (or the reverse)?

Counterparties

• Which decision sponsors, regulators, or delivery partners for this play have you actually engaged (Interviewed / Warm Access / Referred)?
• Which oft-named institutions for this play are desk-identified or hypothetical only?
• What route to decision-makers works in practice for this play in this cluster?

Run — secondary gates

Use cases

• Does this use case have non-Cardano local demand in this cluster, or mainly Cardano-advocate demand?
• Where did a promising version of this play stall — and was the blocker regional, regulatory, product, or delivery?

Delivery model

• Who can build and support a real pilot of this play locally today?
• What capacity gaps keep projects near this play at hackathon or demo stage?

Infrastructure

• Which prerequisites (stablecoin, off-ramp, wallet UX, identity, mobile) are the binding constraints for this play in this cluster?

Cross-RFP / adjacent issues

• Which findings about this play should leave RFP 05 and go to stablecoin, enterprise/RWA, delivery-partner, or product workstreams?

Capture (fill during / after)

Field	Value
Gates addressed
Play status after call	confirmed / revised / rejected / inconclusive
Counterparties named
Access basis updates
Adoption signals listed
Proposed CASS tier(s)
CASS rationale
Referrals
Notes / ingest link