ArtFi Products

[FUTURE PRODUCT] Invest and speculate on art indices that are powered by LiveArt’s market-leading data product.

As we move towards our 2025 objective, LiveArt is pioneering the integration of DeFi technologies into the art market, an area still in its nascent stages of financial development. Our focus is on launching an array of DeFi products that include structured products, indices, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), derivatives, and art-backed loans. These innovative financial tools are designed to enhance liquidity, accessibility, and investment opportunities within the art sector, leveraging cutting-edge blockchain technology to ensure security and transparency. Through these efforts, LiveArt is set to transform how art is valued, traded, and invested in, paving the way for a more dynamic and democratized art market.

Advanced Secondary Trading

As we’ve seen, the trading tools for art investors are very limited. The only option is to purchase an entire artwork and hold until an exit. With the fractionalization protocol LiveArt disrupts this status quo by introducing more advanced trading instruments.

1. Index Trading

   1. Composite Vaults: By combining multiple fractions from different artworks Liveart creates aggregate indices that investors can bet on. Eg: Contemporary artists index, Great masters Index .. This is akin to a mutual fund. In the early stage of the protocol these funds are managed by Liveart. At a later point this feature will be opened for external manager

   2. Synthetic Indices: Powered by our on-chain art data feed, user will be able to bet on art synthetic indices.

2. Simplified Derivative Trading Experience

Futures trading is in most markets the largest source of volume, however that requires advanced trading experience for the users. Similarly to Tensor.trade marketplace on Solana, Liveart will propose a price lock feature on the secondary marketplace. These price locks will be funded by Web3 yield farmers type of users. This combined with a Fiat / Crypto payment will allow for the first time easy derivatives trading on art assets in a simple UI.

1. DeFi Composability

Fractions being normal NFTs, they can leverage the ever grown NFTfi ecosystem. Lending/borrowing, ERC-20 fractionalization and dual standard tokens. Possibly using ERC-404 (or similar)

1. Dual Token Standard

Each LiveArt fraction contract can enable the dual standards token at any time.This is particularly helpful for major collections that reach higher fraction price to get access to more liquidity.