Collectibles are about to have their moment on-chain.
As the collectible market continues to evolve, most platforms are still operating with limitations that prevent true cultural liquidity from emerging.
Here's how ACES mainnet brings liquidity to collectible culture.🧵
First, here's what's happening with gacha style games.
These platforms are selling digital lottery tickets instead of building markets. Users get lottery mechanics that reward them with 0.13-15% jackpot odds with generated prizes rather than the ability to trade them in open markets.
This is game of luck vs a game of skill (where users have an edge)
Others run one time raffles where one person wins a static digital prize. The event ends in a flash, leaving no ongoing market for the community to participate in.
Revenue model depends on token speculation with limited markets.
You have a chance to win, but no power to trade it. No provenance. No cultural weight.
The Burn Problem.
Asset destruction creates artificial scarcity.
$150 average user revenue. 62% market decline. No ongoing liquidity. Zero-sum games where one asset dies so another appears.
Net cultural value: neutral.
If you’re reading between the lines, the pattern is clear.
Most platforms treat collectibles as games of luck rather than markets of skill.
They're building entertainment, not infrastructure for cultural assets.
So what happens for the $2 trillion collectibles seeking liquidity?
Naturally, ACES chose to create derivative markets for collectibles instead.
Derivatives create perpetual liquidity where none existed.
You don't need $500K to trade a KAWS sculpture.
You need $500 to trade its derivative.
This unlocks the $2T collectibles market for anyone to participate with institutional-grade tools.
The Liquidity Game Mechanics.
When a collectible gets its derivative created, $ACES locks to enable trading.
Traders use $ACES to trade against the derivative.
If the item 2x's, traders make 2x on their $ACES when they sell.
Derivative holders earn commission when the physical item sells.
This means users can trade cultural assets without needing full purchase capital.
By using $ACES to capture price movements on collectible derivatives, liquidity is encouraged.
Alternatively, if users choose to hold derivatives to earn commission from eventual physical sales, liquidity is maintained in the ecosystem.
The Mainnet Infra.
Built on BASE with 150M+ Coinbase wallets, mainnet enables derivative markets for tokenized collectibles.
This infrastructure ensures all collectibles have a derivative where all trades flow through $ACES pairs.
Every pair locks $ACES into liquidity pools creating deflationary pressure.
What Mainnet Unlocks.
More grails equals less circulating supply with real yield from trading fees versus manufactured scarcity through destruction.
For the first time, users can trade cultural hype before auction sales in perpetual markets that never close.
With this model, the collectibles market marks-to-market in real-time.
The question is, will you trade cultural narratives with true liquidity or continue playing digital lottery games?
This is where crypto meets culture.
This is the ACE of BASE.
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