Well money isn't leaving the crypto space, its just in other more resilient stablecoins, so its ready to pounce or “ape-in” to anything at a moment’s notice. USDC and Tether have still $130billion collectively issued. Not moving much up or down.
In which case, popular things that sold off are still worth watching. I usually miss the bottom hoping for a steeper sell off.
Look for things that extract value, and accrue it to the token.
A cross-chain flash loan bot that shares with its community of stakers (distinct from and a subset of the token holders) could be fun. I haven't really seen one that shared.
Yield optimizers are still unperfected. Opportunity to compete with a better one there, that also involves the community better.
A decade is too hard for me.
But Helium had some cheap prices and their wireless network is robust enough with all the pieces coming into places for a recurring demand model to kick in.
Node software needs much improvement. But this is slow because there isnt a compensation path at the moment, a couple gitcoin grants have gone out that have resulted in major improvements, more likely that FAANGs will start doing contributions to node software, which will be the compensation path for developers as employment.
Lots of stuff on the private equity side, if you really want longer cycles and possibility of cashing out into a more mature financial market with regulated registered shares. Bear markets are the best time to build because your investors will leave you alone. As an investor you can make more onerous conditions to companies raising.