60 Portfolio Project Ideas for DeFi Developers

Build a Uniswap V2-style AMM from scratch with liquidity provision, swaps, and fee collection.

Implement Uniswap V3-style concentrated liquidity with range orders and position management.

Build a router that finds optimal swap paths across multiple pools and DEXes.

Create an on-chain order book exchange with limit orders, matching engine, and partial fills.

Build a Curve-style stableswap with the StableSwap invariant for low-slippage stable asset swaps.

Implement a time-weighted average price oracle using cumulative prices from your AMM.

Build a basic lending protocol with deposits, borrows, interest accrual, and liquidations.

Create a Silo-style isolated lending market where each asset pair is a separate pool.

Build a simulator that models different interest rate curves and their effects on utilization.

Build a bot that monitors lending protocols and executes profitable liquidations.

Implement Aave-style credit delegation allowing users to delegate their borrowing power.

Create a dashboard that monitors positions across lending protocols and alerts on low health.

Implement the ERC-4626 standard for tokenized vaults with deposit, withdraw, and yield distribution.

Build a vault that automatically harvests and compounds yield from underlying strategies.

Create a Yearn-style vault that allocates funds across multiple yield strategies based on APY.

Build a dashboard comparing yields across protocols with TVL, APY, and risk metrics.

Implement a strategy that uses recursive lending to achieve leveraged yield positions.

Deep dive into vault share calculation edge cases including donation attacks and rounding.

Implement a simplified perpetual futures contract with funding rates and liquidations.

Build a basic options protocol with call and put options, strike prices, and expiration.

Create a protocol that mints synthetic assets backed by collateral with a stability mechanism.

Build a prediction market where users can bet on binary outcomes with market-based pricing.

Create a bot that identifies funding rate arbitrage opportunities between perpetual venues.

Build a vault that maintains delta-neutral positions while earning yield from funding rates.

Build an interactive calculator showing IL for different price movements and fee scenarios.

Create a dashboard tracking fee revenue across major DeFi protocols over time.

Build a modular flash loan executor that can chain arbitrary DeFi operations.

Create a contract that manages complex multi-protocol positions with one-click rebalancing.

Build a multicall contract optimized for batching DeFi operations with minimal gas overhead.

Build a simulator that shows how positions change under different market scenarios.