I heard about some special platforms that monitor the price changes on the global market, choosing the right one and you're able to make some profit on the differences of the price and so on.
Is your project the same one?
Hey Mr.Jovetic,
Good question ! Those are something called arbitrage platforms. Basically they monitor different exchanges for different markets. Say one exchange is selling BTC at $8,000 USD and another is selling BTC at $7,998. These type of platforms let you buy from the $7,998 platform and sell on the $8,000 USD platform, and you make profit through the price spread.
Our platform is not an arbitrage platform. The part of our platform I believe you are unclear about is our decentralized derivatives market. Our market operates in a similar way that an exchange works. Users can execute actions similar to 'buy' and 'sell' on an exchange. On our platform they are called 'Over' and 'Under' (for our first speculation contract O/U) or 'long' and 'short'.
Users directly trade, speculate and bet on the prices of different underlying assets (like BTC etc.) against each other. An example of how this would work on our first speculation contract and the general concept is:
The price of BTC is at $8,000 USD. Dave believes in 5 minutes the price will be below $8,000. He creates an O/U contract on our platform and sets the price at $8,000, chooses the option to bet 'Under' and sets the price contention period for 5 minutes. Alexa has a contrasting price view or goal to Dave. She believes the price will be above $8,000 USD. So she joins the contract Dave created and chooses to bet on the 'Over' option. Now when the 5 minute contract duration is up our smart contracts retrieve the current price of BTC and either Dave or Alexa will make profit, depending if they chose the correct option.
This is different from an exchange in many ways. The main difference is users do not actually buy or sell the assets our platform supports. They only bet on the price of the underlying assets. This makes our platform lightweight, cheaper, faster, more convenient, secure and scalable. Functionality this supports includes shorting (betting the price will go down), hedging (protecting your portfolio from possible losses, if you hold any coin ex. BTC, believe it is going down in price, and don't wish to sell because you believe in the project or future or because its cheaper to hedge on our platform then sell on an exchange, you can short it on our platform, making profit to cover possible loss from your actual portfolio), longing (betting the price will go up).
We are releasing our O/U contract later today as well as a video on how it works, so you can more easily try it out or watch if this explanation was not clear. If you have further questions on how it works please do ask!