PIPX - Introduction
PIPX Vaults - a platform to create liquidity markets for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Users deposit their NFT into a PIPX Vault and mint a fungible ERC20 token (xToken) that represents a claim on a random asset from within the vault. xTokens can also be used to redeem a specific NFT from a vault.
Benefits include:
- LP and stake minted xTokens to earn yield rewards
- Better distribution and price discovery for NFT projects
- Instantly sell any NFT by minting it as a ERC20 and swapping via SushiSwap
- Increased liquidity for NFT investors and speculators
PIPX Vaults can be created by anyone for any NFT asset on Binance Smart Chain.
(ERC721 & ERC1155 Contracts).
Once a vault has been created, any user can then deposit eligible NFTs into the vault to mint a fungible NFT-backed token referred to as an "xToken".
Anyone can deposit NFTs into an existing vault (or into the one they have created) in order to mint a fungible xToken that represents a 1:1 claim on a random NFT from within the vault.
Users can then pool their minted xTokens in Automated Market Makers (AMMs) like SushiSwap to create a liquidity market for other users to trade.
With liquidity and trading volume established, the NFT-backed xToken enters into price discovery and a "floor price" is discovered.
The floor price denotes the lowest price for a particular NFT. Users establish a floor price by minting and selling xTokens in markets where they consider their NFT to be overvalued.
PIPX Vaults help to establish reliable floor price feeds for NFTs, enabling their wider application in decentralized finance on Binance Smart Chain.
For example, a user has 5 NFTs and values 2 of them highly. However, they consider the other 3 NFTs to be of lower value than the market price for the PIPX vault on Sushiswap. The user deposits these 3 NFTs and sells their 3 minted NFT tokens on SushiSwap, lowering its price and aiding price discovery.
The above process will continue until a floor price is achieved.
The PIPX vault allows any NFT to be deposited, however, other vaults use an eligibility list that only allows a specific sub-category of NFTs to be deposited. For example, the sCircle vault has an eligibility list that includes only Circles whose metadata is small Circle.
Big Circles can not be deposited into this vault.
NFTs in their basic form does not earn yield. However, when they are used to mint xTokens they can tap into the world of decentralized finance. To make it easy, collectors can use PIPX Vaults to unlock more value from their NFTs:
- Earn trading fees as a liquidity provider
- Earn fees as an inventory provider
By launching on the PIPX, content creators are able to earn trading fees in perpetuity whilst also improving the reach and fairness of distribution:
- Earn trading fees
- Distribute NFTs via an AMM in the form of xTokens
- Create instantly liquid markets for new content
NFTs are typically highly illiquid and difficult to price.
PIPXrVaults make speculating and investing in the NFT market a far simpler process:
- Access the most liquid markets for NFTs
- Track the price of particular categories of NFT
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