Monaco RFP Program: Build on the Wall Street-Grade Trading Layer

Written by Cody Garrison, Core Contributor at Monaco

Monaco is the high-frequency trading layer powering efforts to build a decentralized Wall Street on the Sei network. With <1ms execution and sub-second settlement on Sei EVM, Monaco offers institutional-grade infrastructure for builders to launch the next generation of onchain trading platforms.

Today, Monaco Research is opening targeted Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for builders who want to leverage Monaco’s high-performance liquidity layer and revenue-sharing model. Each RFP represents a high-conviction opportunity for a world class team to ship, with hands-on support from Monaco Research and Sei Labs.

Let’s Rebuild Wall Street: 

The following RFP tracks are specific opportunities for teams and developers that align with Monaco's technical capabilities:

Pro Trading UI:

A sleek, professional-grade trading interface for sophisticated traders to deploy and test strategies along with plug-and-play quant tooling, directly connected to Monaco. Revenue share baked in.

Fully Onchain CEX: 

A full lifecycle trading platform that gives users a launchpad (asset creation), hybrid AMM (for  trading long tail assets), and seamless integration into Monaco’s CLOB for trading once the asset matures. 

RWA Trading Platform:

Markets for tokenized stocks, indices, and commodities. Bring real-world assets into Monaco’s high-speed engine.

Social Trading Apps:

Plug-and-play tools for retail, copy-trading, discovery, and community-driven markets - on desktop and mobile. Social meets high-performance trading.

Cross-Chain Trading Platform:

Trade any asset from any chain, with settlement and token generation events happening natively on Sei. One platform, fully chain-abstracted.

Short-Duration Options Markets:

Options that settle in 1–60 minutes with up to 1000x leverage. High-frequency derivatives, built on Monaco’s liquidity layer, composable with the rest of DeFi.

Decentralized Market Maker Vaults:

Strategy vaults that let retail deposit capital, provide liquidity to Monaco, and earn yield while strengthening the protocol.

Institutional-Grade Prediction Market:

Yield-bearing position, parlays, and OTC flows - all settling on Monaco. Prediction markets with institutional muscle, purpose built for hedge funds and financial institutions to begin safely building out event trading desks.

Delta-Neutral Vaults:

Automated vaults that balance exposure to generate stable yield on any token. Risk-managed yield at scale for both retail and sophisticated institutions.

Portfolio Margin Yield Platform:

Deposit spot assets or USDC, and earn yield through Monaco’s portfolio margin system. Any token with both spot + perps markets can capture returns.

Why Build on Monaco?

• Speed: <1ms execution on Monaco’s transaction engine, <400ms settlement onto the high-performance Sei EVM L1. 
• Unified Liquidity Layer: Shared access to deep institutional liquidity, no need to bootstrap your own liquidity. 
• PitPass Revenue Share: Frontends can plug into Monaco and monetize from day one with PitPass, which gives builders programmatic fee splits of protocol revenue. 
• Composability: Easily deploy your frontend on top of Monaco’s developer friendly SDK. 
• Sei Giga: Proposes a 50x performance improvement on the EVM. Onchain trading infrastructure will need to mature in line to keep up with the chain's performance.

How to Apply

If you’re building in DeFi, trading infrastructure, or agentic markets - the foundation has never been stronger. Follow and DM @MonacoOnSei to receive early access to docs and to connect with the team about grant funding to complete an RFP. 

See you in Monaco ⭕️