Inspiration and Ideas
This page covers requests for apps on Aztec, designs that some teams are exploring, existing contract examples, and open source ecosystem projects.
App ideas
Finance
- Undercollateralized Lending
- Private order matching
- Hidden liquidity aggregation
- Batch Clearing
- Escrow Systems
- Private Bill Splitting
- Fee Payment Contracts (FPCs)
- Private Auction Systems
- Private Betting with Commit-Reveal Schemes
- Stablecoins
- Stablecoin Swap Portal
- L1-L2 Lending Portal (supply L1, borrow L2)
- Mint DAI on L2 via L1 ETH
- Recurring Payments with Account Abstraction
- Token Streaming
Identity & Access Management
- Private Glassdoor
- Private Yelp
- Onchain Loyalty System
- History-based Gating
- NFT Verification
- Multisig Implementation
- Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs)
- Bridge to connect Aztec with Other L2s
- L1-L2 Activity Verification, eg prove L1 degeneracy score on L2
- Storage proof libraries and tooling
- Private Creator Payment Systems
Gaming & Governance
- DAO Infrastructure
- DAO Voting via Portals (threshold-triggered)
- Private Voting Systems
- Private Airdrop Systems
Infrastructure & Tooling
- Privacy-Preserving Oracle Systems
- Privacy-Preserving RPC Proxies
There are countless other ideas. Join the developer Discord if you're interested in building any of these or more.
Design explorations
Many of these are not official resources, may be outdated, or are works in progress.
- Blog: Can blockchains and zero-knowledge help humanity survive? 47 real-world use cases
- Alpha Build: DEXes - A Google doc with a deep dive of how various DEXes could work on Aztec
Contract examples
Explore the tutorials section for some contract and full-stack project examples.
There is also a list of up-to-date contract examples in the aztec-packages Github repo.
Ecosystem projects
Explore the Aztec Network ecosystem page to discover more.
Proof of concepts
Many of these are outdated.
Noir
This is a list of open source Noir projects, libraries, or primitives that can be integrated into Aztec projects.
Independent projects with open issues
Explore independent projects on OnlyDust.