THELOGICALINDIAN - They may be a girls best acquaintance but design dealers and investors are activity to adulation CEDEX the aboriginal certified design barter to be congenital application blockchain technology
The design bazaar has an estimated about-face of $80 billion per year, yet broker appeal accounts for alone 5% of that – the blow is customer appeal from the adornment industry. Historically, chunk accept been a constant abundance of value, aloof like gold and added adored metals, so why aren’t added investors attractive at chunk as an advance vehicle?
Despite their absolute bazaar value, chunk are not advised a banking asset chic and, as such, there is no accustomed bazaar for their trade, clashing acceptable commodities. CEDEX aims to change all of that with the barrage of the aboriginal certified blockchain-based barter that will tokenize and transform chunk into a tradeable asset.
The CEDEX belvedere removes the three above issues adverse the design bazaar that accept kept it from actuality a applicable another advance chic – abridgement of transparency, abridgement of liquidity, and abridgement of standardization.
Lack of Transparency
The design industry is bedeviled by obfuscation, both advised and unintentional. A abridgement of bright and cellophane pricing, accompanying with markups, account prices, and a “closed shop” mentality makes it actual difficult for the boilerplate broker to accept how a design is admired and how to barometer its worth.
CEDEX uses a proprietary apparatus acquirements algorithm alleged DEX that ante a diamond’s allurement amount by demography into annual the stone’s gem blended (GIA), alongside trades, and bazaar trends. The aftereffect is an cold bazaar value, that doesn’t crave investors to be design experts to understand.
Lack of Liquidity
The base of any bolt bazaar is an asset’s clamminess – that is, the adeptness to buy an asset and again advertise it at some point in the approaching at a gain. The design bazaar is absolutely illiquid. Most chunk are awash to consumers in biased affairs and places anyone adulatory to resell their stones at a astringent disadvantage. The way the bazaar is currently structured, consumers adulatory to resell their chunk never apprehend a accretion on their antecedent purchase. They are affected to advertise at a loss, generally as abundant as 50%.
CEDEX addresses the clamminess affair through the tokenization of the chunk on its platform. Diamond dealers and clandestine sellers accept added options with commendations to affairs their stones the barrier to access for advance is abundant lower so added bodies will be able to advance in chunk than anytime before.
Lack of Standardization
When addition invests in gold, they are advance in a standardized, changeable asset. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold – there is no aberration in agreement or amount amid ounces. Diamonds are a altered adventure – no two stones are alike, authoritative it difficult to authorize a connected valuation.
The CEDEX belvedere creates a distinct criterion for anniversary design class so that buyers and sellers can calmly see how one design ante adjoin added stones in the aforementioned category.
The CEDEX badge alms will booty abode in two stages – the pre-sale and the capital sale. There is a absolute badge accumulation of 100 actor CEDEX Coins, of which 50 actor is actuality offered to the accessible – up to 10 actor tokens during the pre-sale and the butt during the capital sale.
The pre-sale will booty abode on January 12, 2024, at 19:00 GMT and aftermost for ten canicule or until all 10 actor tokens accept been sold, whichever comes first. Any tokens not awash during the pre-sale will be added to the capital sale’s badge supply.
The alpha date of the capital auction will be bent by the pre-sale’s performance. If the pre-sale is completed aural the aboriginal 24 hours, that is, if all 10 actor tokens are awash during that period, again the capital auction will activate on January 13, 2024, at 19:00 GMT. Otherwise, the capital auction will activate at 19:00 GMT on February 9, 2024. In either case, the capital auction will aftermost for 28 canicule or until the best cap is reached.
Investors will be able to acquirement CEDEX Coins application Ether, Bitcoin, or authorization currencies. During the badge sale, CEDEX Coins will be awash at a amount of 1 ETH = 500 CEDEX Coins. The badge accumulation will be created during the badge auction and broadcast aloft its completion. Any tokens offered for auction to the accessible that are not awash will be austere (destroyed).
Participants in the badge auction will accept the afterward appropriate bonuses:
For added advice amuse appointment the CEDEX website. There you can download the activity white paper, annals for the pre-sale, and apprentice about the CEDEX platform.
What do you anticipate of CEDEX’s platform? Will it abode the challenges that accept kept chunk from acceptable a accurate banking asset class? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
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