The grants program supports dedicated builders working on a wide range of projects, including technical infrastructure, developer tools, community growth, educational initiatives, and more.

We've put together some ideas to fit what Archway needs right now, aimed at guiding you on what to build.

Note: The following areas of interest are a partial list, but we welcome any and all ideas that fall within the scope of the Archway mission.

💰DeFi

DEXs: Concentrated liquidity AMM, standalone stable swaps, perps


DEX Aggregator: Cross-chain ****1inch, Matcha


Borrow + Lend: Non-custodial liquidity, fixed and variable interest rates


Stablecoins: Experimenting with different flavors of stablecoins


Prediction Markets: Allow users to predict and earn in unique ways (e.g. Hedgehog)


Streaming Payments: Think salaries, subscriptions, rentals, royalties, public goods, grant funding, etc (e.g. Superfluild)

🖼️ NFTs

NFT Aggregator: Blur, Uniswap (Genie), Magic Eden


No-Code NFT Launchpad: Allow anyone to quickly and easily launch NFTs


NFT Ticketing: Unlock access, permissions, special perks, rewards, and more


X-to-Earn: Tap into new verticals and incentive models for rewarding end-users


NFT Integrations: Integrating NFTs in gaming, identity, subscriptions, IRL experiences, DeFi, payments, etc

🤝 DAOs

DAO Launchpad: Tools for anyone to create basic DAO (mint and distribute tokens, configure governance, etc)


Incentivized Voting: An incentivized voting model that allows for more engaged governance and participation


DAO Treasury Management: Set of tools for payments, voting, risk management, reporting, etc

🌱 Ecosystem Growth


Events: organize major events, meetups, hackathons, and/or workshops to expand and energize the community


Content: comprehensive content programs such as in-depth research, educational materials, video series, podcasts, etc.


Quests / Campaigns: creative marketing strategies and designs to amplify awareness and reach new audiences


Wildcards: radical growth ideas that completely break the mold!

🛠️ Developer Tooling

Recursive Royalties: Implementations to redistribute royalties fairly among previous owners of an asset


Reward Redirects: Contracts and tools to automatically redirect rewards (e.g. https://www.0xsplits.xyz/)


Identity Solutions: NFT verification, on-chain reputation system, account abstraction (e.g. 0xpass)

📊 Analytics

Rewards Dashboard: Monitoring and tracking for various reward sources


Wallet Dashboard: Allow users to track their wallets and follow other wallets (e.g. Zapper)


Analytics Dashboards: Flexible data queries and visualizations, similar to Dune Analytics


Validator Dashboards: Monitoring and tracking validator activity and stake across the network

🧱 Infrastructure

Wallets: Native mobile, browser extensions, smart contract wallets, integrations (e.g. Web3Auth)


Auto-Compounding: Tooling to auto-compound staked rewards

<aside> 📌 If you don't see your idea listed above, no worries! Please still feel free to apply here.

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