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11 Applications of The DeFi NFT Toolkit

Rafael Hoekstra

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Charged Particles

6 min readApr 3, 2023

There are literally endless applications of the DeFi NFT Toolkit. Here’s just 11 to spark ideas.

1. Music Royalties

A revolutionary business model for music distribution royalties!

0 % fees for musicians, a sound alternative to the competition.
This business model is sound, as royalties are converted to stablecoins, which earn interest for the distribution service until claimed by the musician. A radical shift from the status quo.

See Unchained Music to see this in action!

2. Gift Baskets

Gift Baskets or Bundles are a no-brainer application of CPs. Why gift a single token, wen you can send an entire bundle?!

Our creative community has come up with a bundle of ideas for these already — here’s a taste:

Cryptmas Stockings

Christmas pressies packed with both DeFi tokens and NFTs. 3 variations: Tough Turtles, Groovy Afterlife and Matrix tokens.

NFT NYC Bundle

Epic treasure chest full of tokens and NFTs as the prize for the NFT NYC scavenger hunt winner. See the NFT here.

NFT Swag Bags at Blockdown

Blockdown conference attendees received NFT Swag Bags filled with NFTs, tokens, and goodies…

90’s Forever Superbundle

“The #1 Nineties Nostalgia NFT pack” — NFT Bundle giveaway for the NFT NYC afterparty.

3. Wearable/Phygital Savings Accounts

Memphis Mural Charging Up Children’s Charity

A Supercharged “EnDAOment” Capsule, with $100k USD directing interest to charity. As a “Phygital” NFT mural, the fund is governed by the local community.

Steve’s $20,000 T-shirt

A wearable earning compounding interest. See the NFT here

The Banana Stand

A comedic NFT with prestigious “ape artworks” and $100k USDC compounding inside. See the NFT here

4. Financial Magic

Trust Accounts

Transfer a multitude of assets in a single transaction.

Escrow Capsules

NFTs for Peer-to-Peer OTC trades. A single Escrow Capsule NFT can exchange multiple tokens between parties in one trustless transaction.

Index Funds

An Index Fund can be created by Energizing an NFT with a basket of digital assets, and then fractionalizing it.

Crypto Estate Sales

Ready to exit crypto? Sell your portfolio in one stroke!

Fractionalized Cryptopunk Wrapper

Fractionalized a Cryptopunk, then nested shards in a Charged Particle NFT. See the NFT here.

5. Nested Art Collections

Pass the Particle

A collaborative ‘Russian doll’ of 20 artworks by 20 artists, wrapped like onion layers. Read more here and here. See the NFT here.

Birds for Sofia

A charitable NFT co-created by almost 1000 artists. An image of Sofia Darbinyan — the charities insipiration is Nested inside. See the NFT here.

Gigi Buffon’s Nested NFT

Five iconic football moments captured inside 1 NFT. See the NFT here.

Pandora’s Box

14 unique NFTs from 14 artists all locked inside a single NFT. See the NFT here.

6. Energizable PFPs

Particlon

Particlon is the first Generative- Energizable (“Genergizable”) PFP drop! They contain Particlon Utility Tokens ($PUT) at mint, with the unlimited capacity to hold further tokens.

Blue Chips

The Blue Chip NFTs are 200 hand drawn CC0rn chips have been minted onto the Ethereum blockchain. As a fork of the Proton contract, they can hold unlimited tokens inside. The Dip DAO is discussing release of $SALSA, $QUESO, and the highly prized $GUAC tokens.

Now, with regular community DAO votes to “Allowlist” further NFT collections, more and more projects are becoming Energizable. Reach out to Charged Particles if you’d like to see your favorite PFP collection made Energizable!

7. Crowd Funding Campaigns

Esto Perpetua

A three-part story, with chapters that unlock once the Chapter NFT itself receives a threshold level of community donations. This example utilizes mintgate.io. See the NFT here.

8. Vesting Capsules

Nest and time-lock tokens in an NFT for a vesting period. This NFT can be immediately traded or collateralized without the tokens hitting the market. Read all about Vesting Capsules here

Paragons DAO

Vesting vouchers from the launch of $PDT are inside Vesting Capsules. In lieu of a time-lock, the team has elected that the Capsules function as a “Governance Vessels”, as long as the vesting vouchers remain within the Vesting Capsule. Each Vesting Capsule is individually customized for each of the 17 founders of Paragons DAO. (Proton token IDs 685–701, 703). 16.8 million $PDT vested inside, for a Total Value Locked of $25.2 million (at time of issue).

Fraktal

10% of the Total Supply of FRAK tokens has been locked in Charged Particles Vesting Capsules.

9. NFT Gaming

Book of Alchemy

Cybertooth Kat, founder of the Charged Particles Gaming Guild, has been shifting perspectives about how Web 3.0 gaming can work, via fun creative games.

Hot on the heels of the Ultimate Trash Panda, Rogues & Ronin, and Polygorn games, Book of Alchemy uses the composable tools of the Charged Particles protocol, challenging players to nest assets such as NFTs, tokens, custom weapons, and more inside their in-game characters. Tokens, weapons, points, and upgrades can now be stored inside the NFT itself, leading to brand new layers of value for in game items.

10. Regenerative Finance

Basin DAO

Basin DAO is the regenerative finance platform that scales climate, nature and carbon real estate projects. Basin unlocks carbon value in land ownership, carbon markets, and and emerging credit class to create absolute returns and climate resilience.

Basin DAO was recently allowlisted for Charged Particles functionality.

11. Onchain Publications

Cortex

The Cortex Network is a scalable network for publishing, finding, and updating Web3 content. Like a Wiki, Cortex allows users to create pages to publish to Web3 with decentralized domain identities, own them, organize them, then search and navigate to them, as well as write about any other page. First Generation are minting .ape domains to publish on.

Cortex was one of our first SDK early adopters and partners.

Charged Particles: One DeFi Toolkit, infinite applications.
And we haven’t even mentioned Web3 Packs yet…
Look out for a supernova in 2023!

About Charged Particles

Charged Particles is a protocol that allows users to deposit ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 tokens into NFTs. A scarce NFT (e.g. Art, Collectible, Virtual Real Estate, In-Game Item, etc.) can now be transformed into a basket holding a number of other tokens. The Principal amount can be time-locked inside the NFT, and through integration with Aave’s aTokens, the programmable yield from these DeFi yield-generating assets is just a few clicks away.

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