Request for Projects: Monad Metropolis Just sharing a few ideas I’d like to see people build during @monad's Metropolis. I’m judging and mentoring so thought I’d put some of the things I’ve been thinking about into a Request for Projects format kind of like YC. These are personal interests so feel free to take an idea from here and change it according to your direction. 1/ Onchain Finance & Trading Very interested generally to see something build around undercollateralised lending. Real businesses with customers always struggle to get working capital, all due to waiting on invoices and vendor credit, but they cannot wait to pay their team so I think there’s an opportunity to connect businesses like this with onchain capital willing to take credit risk. A few directions: - Take all the filings/income reports in a secure dump from the business and based on that, issue a credit against that keeping in mind a healthy LTV for the business. Definitely matters on the type of business but inference is intelligent enough to do the calculation on the go and maintain risk. - A revolving line of credit is definitely interesting idea to build around, basically a business gets a limit, takes what it needs, repays and can borrow again. This is very useful for recurring expenses when revenue arrives unevenly for the business. - An aggregator of undercollateralised lending venues. Borrowers are good in assessing risk and have their needs clear so this will help them make a qualified decision on their requirements. Kind of also like an RFQ for loans. - 2/ Consumer Products & Payments I think tokenised stocks are one of the strongest consumer use cases evolving lately onchain. The rails have gotten significantly cheaper and so there’s more room to connect ownership to everyday spending and usage. - Subscriptions that buy you stock, so every time you renew a subscription (on or offchain), an amount you choose goes towards that company's stock. Lately a lot of projects seem to work around this direction, it's super personalised so worth exploring: Example: > Pay for Spotify, buy a little Spotify. > Pay for Netflix, buy a little Netflix. I’d like to see someone make that so I can use it haha! - A portfolio around your evolving AI stack, this can be fun! For example, you set up a Meta Muse model, the agent adds some Meta stock. If you run models on NVIDIA hardware, it will add NVIDIA. If you play GTA VI, it gets some Rockstar stock. This can obviously be pretty configurable but builds a portfolio around your AI journey, which can be fun. - A neobank specifically for entertainment. I’d maybe start with one situation where let's say you go to a festival with friends where it requires collecting money, buying tickets for all of them, pay for things from one place and easily settle at the end within the app, and it could become a neobank specifically for plans! 3/ Social, Attention & Culture I think the reason @fomo is winning is due to the shareablility it commands with all the visual cues. My request here is fairly specific - perps + social, directly on the chart. - Drag and drop positions on the chart, your friends can directly interact, suggest TP/SLs and create their own position directly on top of yours. All with PnLs. - AI has made generic UI so much easier to produce so I think there’s a lot of room for products with a different visual language. Trading is a great place to experiment because of its fast nature and instant returns. -- Those are the ideas I feel would be interesting to build, so if you choose to build around these directions at Metropolis, feel free to reach out with questions or feedback!