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Plan in Detail:

If growth in DeFi has so far proved to be the key to success on any blockchain, then DEXs would be the fundamental vehicles, while liquidity would be the fuel, and aggregation is the glue tying it all together.

In order to jump-start the overall DeFi growth of the entire Cardano ecosystem, it will be crucial to have all these elements present and functioning in a holistic manner.

Otherwise, Cardano risks falling further behind despite its large market cap, as other chains become more well-rounded and interoperable.

Simply put, another Uniswap clone or stand-alone DEX will not be enough to keep Cardano relevant in the DeFi race amid all the daily innovations happening across the space.

What Cardano needs is something that will put it on the map and place it head and shoulders above any other products in the marketplace.

Smartdex 2.0 is that product.

It has several innovative core functions: liquidity aggregation, cross-chain bridge aggregation, smartpools, adding together to provide one of the most comprehensive experiences among DEXs in the DeFi industry.

Our 0x protocol infrastructure will allow us to scale the Cardano ecosystem with an off-chain trading and on-chain settlement system.

Meanwhile, an instant bridge enables seamless asset transfer across multiple blockchains, which Cardano is being integrated into as we speak.

Smartpools on Smartdex 2.0 provide an intelligent risk-adjusted way to invest through AI agents to generate sustainable yields. A staking contract for single-asset Cardano vaults is already in the works and nearly ready to be utilized as a smartpool.

Further down the line, a liquidity super mesh dealing with overall cross-chain liquidity aggregation will let Smartdex 2.0 become the focal point of all assets flowing in and out of the Cardano ecosystem.

Funding:

We require a total of $50,000 to build our product, which will be used to cover the salaries of the developers, managers, and paying contract auditors:

- Full-time Haskel Plutus developer  [ Two dev @3500 each for 6 months ] =  $42000

- Code audit =  $8000

Roadmap:

Quarter 4 2021:

Testnet deployment of single asset smartpool and bridge API

Staking contract with deposit and withdraw functions for staking NIOX tokens in a single asset vault

Bridge API service that interacts with Cardano node, etherscan, and polygonscan API to lock tokens on Ethereum and Polygon and mint/burn tokens on Cardano

Quarter 1 2022:

Mainnet deployment of single asset smartpool and bridge API

Implement stakingCredentials data type in single asset smartpool contract for dynamic rewards calculation

Bridge API integration on smartdex 2.0 interface to allow users to bridge NIOX tokens from Ethereum and Polygon to Cardano

Implement Plutus PAB JS wrapper on smartdex 2.0 interface to allow users to stake their bridged NIOX tokens

Partnerships with Sundaeswap and Mirqur.

Develop Multi token smartpool vault contract

Liquidity aggregation backend architecture for Cardano to place limit orders on AMMs, research and finalize solution to resolve concurrency and liquidity aggregation on Cardano

Reach TVL of more than 2M NIOX staked on single asset smart pool on Cardano

Reach the no. of unique address interaction with the staking contract to 50 users

Quarter 2 2022:

Deploy Multi token smartpool

Integrate Multi token smartpool contracts on smartdex 2.0 interface

Deploy liquidity aggregation backend: backend system to place either on chain or off chain limit orders that will be filled by the relayer

Integrate liquidity aggregation backend on smartdex 2.0 interface

Deploy a farming contract for multi token smartpool which allows liquidity providers to farm NIOX tokens with their LP tokens

Reach trading volume of 1M conducted through smartdex on Cardano

IP:

It is going to be an open-Source Defi protocol, the IP will belong to the developers allowing further development and innovation.

Definition of Success:

3 Months

- Deploy NIOX token contract on Cardano mainnet and testnet

- NIOX Bridge v1: launch NIOX token bridge

- Support Ethereum, Polygon and Cardano in the token bridge

- Staking contract v1: Launch NIOX staking contract on testnet without Staking Credentials data type

- Implement Staking Credentials data type for on-chain reward calculation

- Staking contract v1.1: Launch NIOX staking contract on mainnet that supports on-chain rewards calculation

- Partnerships with 2 AMM projects based on Cardano for liquidity aggregation: Sundaeswap and Mirqur

- Order Relayer v1: Launch an on-chain liquidity aggregation solution where users are able to place on-chain limit orders by depositing their assets on a contract, which will be filled by a centralized back-end service

- Integrate Sundaeswap and Mirqur protocols into Order Relayer v1

- Create NIOX-ADA liquidity pool on Sundaeswap

- Integrate NIOX-ADA liquidity pool of Sundaeswap on Smartdex v2.2

- Finalize the technical architecture for Order Relayer v2 supporting off chain liquidity aggregation where users place off chain limit orders which gets filled by a set of relayer through consensus

6 Months

- Launch Order Relayer v2

- Extend Order Relayer v2 to 2 more DEXs: Cardax and Polyswap

- Launch Smartpools v2 on cardano supporting multi asset pools with basket of tokens

9 Months

- Smartpools v3: Asset managers enabled pools

- Smartdex v3: Multichain support for Cardano based tokens

Expected product public launch date:

- Testnet Beta - 31st Dec 2021 

- Mainnet Beta - 30th Jan 2022