What is Sudoswap? Learn about the decentralized NFT trading platform

• Origin of Sudoswap?
• So what exactly is Sudoswap?
• What are the benefits of using Sudoswap?
• Sudoswap is completely on-chain
• Optimizing fees
• Users have many options available
• Additional benefits from the Sudoswap . platform
• How does Sudoswap work?
• What is the current problem of Sudoswap?
• A step-by-step guide to using Sudoswap
• summary

Origin of Sudoswap?

Launched by anonymous developers 0xmons, zefram.eth and 0xhamachi, Sudoswap is the first decentralized marketplace to offer swaps between NFT and ETH. Initially Sudoswap as an OTC NFT swap service. It is known for its peer-to-peer, no-fee swaps. This means you can directly trade or sell NFTs without the middleman taking care of the transaction like an exchange or a marketplace. Sudoswap has announced a new NFT marketplace that is changing the way crypto users think on NFT liquidity and trading. This new marketplace does this, by introducing the AMM model to the NFT.

Sudoswap only launched in July 2022, so as the daily user numbers below show, the growth trajectory reflects the current state of their necessity.

What is the AMM model?

AMM is the underlying protocol that powers a decentralized exchange (DEX).

It allows assets to be traded using a crypto liquidity pool as a counterparty instead of a traditional marketplace of buyers and sellers. In this protocol, users are incentivized to become liquidity providers in exchange for a portion of the trading fees of auto market makers.

So what exactly is Sudoswap?

Sudoswap is a gas-efficient, decentralized on-chain NFT marketplace that uses the AMM model.

Using the AMM model, Sudoswap allows users to trade and exchange NFTs through the liquidity pool by buying and selling. So you can offer NFT to sell as well as ETH to buy.

In return, you will be paid a fee based on the trading difference.

Sudoswap is certainly paving the way for non-traditional financial products. The ability for buyers and sellers to exchange into customizable bonding curves created by liquidity providers distinguishes Sudoswap.

But why do we need Sudoswap in the first place? Currently, NFT markets operate on an orderbook model. That's also how traditional centralized exchanges work. While these traditional marketplaces are intended to provide decentralized services, they are not. And since none of the data is on-chain, they suffer from downtime, as well as a lack of transparency.

What are the benefits of using Sudoswap?

Sudoswap is completely on-chain.

What's really great about this benefit is that literally anyone can create a website and display NFTs listed on a cryptocurrency exchange. And in doing so, they promote further decentralization. 

When put on-chain also facilitates the participation of collectives in the chain including DAOs and multisig groups. Finally, an on-chain marketplace is less subject to censorship of any kind, a key principle of many blockchain participants.

Optimizing fees

Fees have made the NFT market structure inefficient.

The NFT market is currently dominated by centralized marketplaces like OpenSea LooksRare and a few smaller ones. These markets profit from trading by charging a platform fee every time an NFT is purchased.

Sudo AMM changes this completely. Anyone can use Ethereum to source Sudoswap-like liquidity in their applications.

Buyers frequently ask for a 10% price increase just to break even. Transactions on Sudoswap cost 0.5% instead of the standard 7.5% (2.5% + 5%) fee on other platforms, allowing for better price discovery.

Sudo AMM is designed to save gas fees for traders. Trading single NFTs is as cheap as trading the most optimized NFT swaps, and trading NFTs in bulk can save you up to 40%.

Users have many options available

Let's say you list NFT at a specific price, say 1 ETH. Then the floor price goes up, for example 2 ETH. Then your NFT has been purchased at a large discount. Sudoswap can help you avoid such shortcomings by automatically adjusting the selling price based on its floor price.

You can create buy and sell pools based on customizable alignment curves. Finally, Sudoswap users can earn platform fees by providing both ETH and NFT. 

Additional benefits from the Sudoswap . platform

• 0.5% fee will be allocated to Sudoswap treasury (0xB16C1342E617A5B6E4B631EB114483FDB289C0A4)
• Automatically adjust the selling price when the price increases
• Instant liquidity to buy/sell
• Aggregates can take advantage of Sudoswap pricing, providing unfamiliar users with better Sudoswap when available
• Possibility to earn extra income from trading fees
• Ability to automatically DCA in/out of collections
• Thicker liquidity on NFTS is a plus for the whole space as it means the NFT market becomes more efficient and the price equilibrium is more realistic than some arbitrary price floor based on low demand. best of any collection.

Let's take a closer look at how Sudoswap works below.

How does Sudoswap work?

Sudoswap provides several services to NFT users. But the ingenuity behind the platform is that 0xmons took a look at what worked in the DEX and extended the model to include NFTs.

That's why Sudoswap allows users to use liquidity pools to buy and sell NFTs. Specifically, users can provide liquidity to pools to earn trading fees. Users can also create new groups for the purpose of buying or selling specific NFT collections. Note that a pool is created and operated by a single liquidity provider.

Let's use the popular Azuki collection as an example to consider. When browsing through Sudoswap's collections, under the blue "Make Collection Offer" button, you'll see a tab labeled "Pool" in the lower right-hand side.

When you click on it, you will see a list of different groups. Let's use the top group as an example. The team's highest balance is 16 Azuki NFT, with 27,644 ETH. The current price of one Azuki NFT in the pool is 6,639 ETH. The swap fee is 2.5% (i.e. a percentage of the total NFT value that a user earns each time NFT is bought or sold).

The delta level is 4%, which means that every time someone buys an Azuki NFT from the selected pool, the price will increase by 4%. Conversely, every time someone sells an Azuki NFT from the same pool, the price automatically adjusts, down 4%.

Users can create three types of pools: Sell-only, buy-only, and liquidity pools to earn platform fees.

Let's say you have 5 NFTs, but you don't want to list them all at floor price. In that case you can create a group where the price adjusts the way you have it configured. Doing so allows you to exit the NFT collection that has been set to semi-automatic mode without having to check the price all the time.

If you want to create buy pools instead, you can create them with ETH and set up your purchases on a bonding curve. This way, the price decreases with each purchase, and you can average the cost into an NFT position, scanning through the price ranges that you have reserved.

If you were wondering if Sudoswap has a governance token, it would be SUDO. XMON holders will be able to redeem SUDO in the future when it is released.

What is the current problem of Sudoswap?

Let's discuss royalty payments to creators. How can Sudoswap provide these low fees to users? The platform eliminates creator fees. Despite what you've read, creator royalties aren't actually included in smart contracts.

Instead of eliminating royalties entirely, we will need to develop a new standard that will be adopted. Without royalties to creators, projects have no source of income after the initial mint. This can slow down or stop project development.

Some critics have convincingly argued that eliminating creator fees would have adverse effects. Removing creator fees while attempting to charge the platform empowers the platform, not the creator. 

A step-by-step guide to using Sudoswap

There are many ways to use Sudoswap, so let's start from scratch.

• Access to Sudoswap.
• Connect your wallet in the upper right corner.
• Click on “Your Pools”.
• On a new page, click “Create New Pool”. In this interface, you will see several options.

These extra options are used to buy NFT with tokens or sell NFT for tokens and earn protocol fees

Clicking on any of the options will take you to a new page. For tokens, there is currently only ETH. When it comes time to choose an NFT, you can just choose the NFT that you already hold in your wallet.

On the next page, you set up your team. Here, what you need to pay special attention to is the Bonding Curve and Delta. Bonding Curve is Linear or Exponential, Linear is expressed in ETH and Exponential is expressed as a percentage value. Delta means the amount of change in price per NFT sold or bought.

In the final step, all you need to do is review your information and then click “Create Pool”. then you're done.

Sudoswap is extremely user-friendly and intuitive. And its ingenuity lies partly in its simplicity. The platform took what worked with DEX and applied the same model to NFT.

summary

Sudoswap has seen tremendous growth since its NFT market launch in July 2022. And it shows no signs of slowing down. With the rapid proliferation of NFT pools, combined with the removal of creator fees, Sudoswap is having a noticeable impact on the ecosystem.

Whether the cumulative impact will be positive or negative remains to be considered. One thing is for sure: Sudoswap has done wonders for NFT liquidity and empowering NFT collectors.

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