In DevRel, one question we hear all the time from builders interested in building with Stacks is: “What should I build?”
It’s one of the most common questions we get asked at hackathons, conferences, and from anyone interested in diving into the world of building on Stacks.
We sometimes have a few ideas here and there but we wanted to create a go-to place to send people when they ask this question, a community-driven idea bank that anybody interested in building can go to for information, knowing that everything they see there is something that someone in the community wants to see exist.
So, with that goal in mind, let’s hear 'em.
What are your top “I want this to exist right now” ideas that talented builders ready to make their mark on the ecosystem should build?
I’d be interested in seeing more development around oracles — it feels like that area’s been abandoned for a while, and there hasn’t been much discussion lately. Also, DID and account abstraction, P2P trading solutions, and applications of zero-knowledge proofs would be awesome to explore. Just tossing out some ideas, anyway — I think Stacks is growing organically at its own pace, which is great :)))
sBTC type versions of Runes and Ordinals assets from the Bitcoin L1.
There’s a growing amount of creativity on the OG L1 but the technology still holds it back in term of UX and fees.
Can we take the same technology that exists to produce sBTC to Rune and Ordinal assets?
Magic Eden unlocked a heap of usage with their centralised offering, but a decentralised one would be better.
More liquid staking tokens (LSTs). Not just for STX but also for the miner part of the validation. having some way to tokenise the Bitcoin miner contribution would be something very interesting for a lot of people I think.
How feasible that is I don’t know though
More DIY tools for creators.
Token and NFT creation and management tools that anyone can pick up and create decent assets on chain with basic liquidity.
The more you can let people express their ideas on chain the more chances you have of attention coming over to Stacks
