Witness the fierce competition in the NFT marketplace as Binance challenges leaders like Blur, OpenSea, Magic Eden, and LooksRare, intensifying the race for dominance.
Platforms like Blur have raised the standard in the extremely competitive NFT marketplace scene this year, forcing other markets like OpenSea, Magic Eden, and LooksRare to contend for relevancy. With its entry, Binance now seeks to ratchet up the competition for supremacy.
Binance has been actively enhancing its NFT offerings throughout this year and experimenting with various ideas, such as generative AI. Binance has released a feature that directly competes with the top platforms in the market as part of a calculated strategy to cement its presence in this fast-paced environment.
More Practical
On May 25, Binance announced a new tool on its platform that enables users to arrange loans using NFTs as collateral. This marked Binance’s entry into the NFT lending industry.
By enabling users to borrow cryptocurrency using their assets, the new function, named Binance NFT loan, hopes to increase the utility of NFTs. The function was introduced soon after NFT marketplace juggernaut Blur debuted its Blend NFT Lending protocol earlier in May.
Contrary to Blur, Binance employs a “Peer-to-pool” system in which its platform serves as a pool of loans.
Only “Blue Chip” NFT collections, such as Bore Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), Azuki, and Doodles, will initially be supported by Binance. According to the exchange, additional services will be added in the future to make Binance the “one-stop shop for NFT trading and DeFi.”
Head of product at Binance, Mayur Kamat, stated in a news statement.
Binance NFT loan feature will provide new liquidity options for holders, allowing them to participate in the market without having to let go of their precious NFTs.
Initial interest rates are set at 3.36% annually, but Binance will later raise them to 11%. The loan-to-value ratio ranges from 40% to 60%, according to the site.
On the other hand
- 70% of the $3 million worth of NFTs that were stolen, according to Peck Shield, were sold on Blur in April.
- The cryptocurrency community’s comments to Blend, Blur’s new lending mechanism, were hazy. They were both dubious about the platform’s auctioning system.
Finally the new functionality from Binance might upend the market and alter how NFTs are used. With the addition of the new NFT loan capability, NFTs are transformed from common ‘jpegs’ into assets that can be used as collateral. Moreover this is a significant development for NFTs and may inspire other platforms to adopt a similar strategy.
