Nodar Janashia
DeFrag
Published in
3 min readNov 19, 2021

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Our core beliefs

We are spending more of our lives online. As global citizens of the internet, we must have two fundamental building blocks — financial sovereignty through DeFi and digital private property through NFTs. We believe Web3 will manifest itself by leveraging these two components. As native Web3 assets proliferate, they will require an intricate yet fluid relationship between DeFi and NFTs.

Who we are

Introducing DeFrag, a lending protocol for NFT owners to access instant liquidity. DeFrag allows you to use your NFTs as collateral. We rank the creditworthiness of your NFTs based on several factors to determine your collateral ratio.

Why we are different

The protocol automatically insures your NFT assets with a financial instrument called a Put Option. In other words, to receive a loan against your NFTs, the protocol purchases insurance on your behalf via Put Options.

Peer To Pool

DeFrag uses a Peer To Pool model which allows for borrowers to get instant liquidity on their NFT assets without having to wait for a counter-party to enter into a contract. Underwriters provide liquidity and earn premiums through the insurance fees collected from the sale of Put Options.

Raising the Underwriting Pool via Minting our Metamatician NFTs

In order to provide a frictionless borrowing experience, the protocol needs to raise liquidity to jump-start the liquidity pool that will underwrite the loans.

This is why we created the Metamatician NFT.

Metamaticians are randomly generated NFTs based on famous mathematicians. Minting proceeds will be deposited into the initial NFT underwriting pool giving each Metamatician a proportional stake in the LP. Subsequently, the NFT will be generating fees that are collected from the sale of Put Options (insurance on your NFTs).

Minting Details

In phase one, 3,141 Metamaticians will be available to mint for a set price of 1.618 ETH each and serve as an entry ticket into the DeFrag universe of NFT collateralized loans.

Each Metamatician features unique attributes including the name of a famous mathematician, a randomly generated 8 digit number, and a greek symbol associated with risk in pricing out financial instruments.

DeFrag has integrated Chainlink Verifiable Random Function (VRF) on the Ethereum mainnet. By integrating the industry-leading oracle solution, DeFrag now has access to a tamper-proof and auditable source of randomness required to assign attributes to Metamatician NFTs during the minting process in a fully transparent and unpredictable manner. Through Chainlink VRF, we can help ensure participants have a fair and equal chance at obtaining NFTs with the rarest traits.

The 8 Digit Number | Pi π

The randomly generated 8 digit number is your place in the number Pi following the decimal.

The proximity of your number to “3” will determine the rarity of your NFT. Which in turn will boost your abilities in our financial ecosystem. A few examples include improving your collateral ratio in other words the ability to borrow more. Another example is increasing your stake in a liquidity pool.

Learn more

Website: https://defrag.fi

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefragFinance

Discord: https://discord.gg/defrag

Docs: https://docs.defrag.fi

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or reading the documentation at docs.chain.link. To discuss an integration, reach out to an expert.

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