Project Title
Nomis
Description
Nomis is an on-chain open source credit score protocol that helps developers build better DeFi products.
Manifesto/Vision
We are passionate about crushing the entry- and adoption-barriers to DeFi loans by making them as attractive as today banks’ loans BUT for everyone.
Our mission is to help next million people go bankless by enabling fair crypto users borrow crypto with a fair collateral and APR determined on a case-by-case basis.
The long-term vision for Nomis goes far beyond credit scoring for DeFi: other dApps will be able to use existing Nomis Scores as well as building their own custom scores for any need (e.g. wallet qualifier for jobs applications, whitelists, special offerings for products, or just for inviting to a private party, etc.). In other words, our big-picture vision includes building the credential and identity infrastructure layer and empowering developers to build on top of it.
Problem
One of the most significant barriers to entry and adoption of DeFi are the over-collateralized loans. Today mainstream borrowers are either not using DeFi loans due to their unattractiveness as a financial tool comparing to banks’ ones or taking over-collateralized loans with unattractive collateral (>125%) and APR.
Banks, in their turn, overcomes this problem by hiring credit scores. Such tool may also be implemented in DeFi making crypto loans more accessible for fair users, cultivating trust and reputation culture. Moreover, credit score negatively impact the number of crypto fraud cases by disincentivizing actors to play dirty.
The problem that Nomis is going to solve is the over-collateralization in DeFi borrowing which is an entry- and adoption barrier for mainstream borrowers.
Solution
Nomis is an open-source protocol that helps DeFi developers both to build better on-chain solutions and use cases, and to balance already existing high-TVL protocols. Every lending/borrowing platform will be able to create extremely customized loan terms for borrowers by using Nomis API.
To predict the crypto borrower’s reliability on the basis of wallet’s data and transactions history, it’s proposed to hire a model of trained AI built on the hierarchy analysis and pairwise comparisons methods. This approach, from our point of view, is a balanced way of solving a quite difficult problem: credit decision forecasting with insufficient statistical data.
Nomis will help Ethereum to grow its TVL, # of active users (as a result of acquisition of mainstream borrowers), as well as # of active on-chain developers, and # of on-chain use cases (as a result of opportunity provided to develop new DeFi solutions on-top of the Nomis open-source protocol).
Product Features
Fair credit score;
Creating customized scores and users’ ID graphs;
Open source;
Protocol and algorithm are governed by Nomis DAO.
Validation
The DeFi credit score idea is validated as our competitors, RociFi and TrueFi, successfully develop their own main products—credit protocols, on top of their own credit scoring algorithms. For example, according to Defillama, TrueFi had an over $0.5B TVL (incl. borrowed) in the pre-crisis period and ranked the 36th amongst DeFI protocols as of today.
Progress
We started developing Nomis in April’22. Now we are at the working MVP stage — you can get Nomis Score of your ETH wallet. Our main success metrics at this stage is the credit score accuracy.
Differentiation from Other Projects
Nomis’ competitors are other on-chain credit scores such as Chainscore (NEAR), RociFi (Polygon), Spectral Finance (Ethereum), Project Galaxy, Cred Protocol, and TrueFi (Multichain), etc.
Nomis brings two crucial competitive advantages to the table:
- Nomis protocol is a decentralized and open-source which helps developers to build their own DeFi solutions on top of Nomis.
- Nomis offers the most robust financial snapshot of a potential borrower by hiring hierarchy analysis as a scoring method. We believe that hierarchy analysis is the most reasonable method for solving such multi-criteria problems in complex environments with both tangible and intangible factors.
Team
Every cofounder has a track record in IT- and blockchain-related products such as Kickcity (web3 event/ticketing platform on Ethereum), GoRecruit (employee scoring SaaS for HR), and L1 blockchain development.
The team also has solid technical capability: 9 experienced mathematicians and blockchain developers who are ready-to-go full-time as fast as sufficient grant funding will be received. Moreover, our spike is 15+ year experience in neural networks.
We are passionate about making DeFi under-collateralized. 
Grant Request $
$10,000 for 1 milestone.
What the Funds Are For
We want to improve our MVP by redesigning the mathematical model. More particularly, we want to expand the number of initial parameters to increase borrower’s credit score accuracy.
Milestone 1 — Credit Score Accuracy Improvement — 1 month — $10,000
We plan to extract additional on-chain and transaction history data from Ethereum and build new initial variables for credit score calculation.
Deliverables:
- Code for attribute extraction.
- Web-page with calculated attributes — user-friendly interface where you can insert your ETH adress and get your values of the variables constructed.
Further we plan to develop Nomis API and a credit score NFT minting (a non-transferable NFT with a credit score metadata minted by the wallet owner). We also plan to get the grant funding for community building.
Help Requested
Additionally, we would be glad to receive help with the following:
Full cycle acceleration / incubation;
Advisory: technical expertise, legal advice, business planning, tokenomics design;
Business model / GTM;
Fundraising;
Community building.