AELIP-15: NFT collection whitelist

Simple Summary

This AELIP proposes to add the ability to create pools which only non-fungible token (NFT) collections may access. Instead of a size-limited address-based whitelist or a deal that is open to the public, sponsors may now create pools specifically for one or multiple NFT collections.

Pools may consist of one or many ERC-721 collections, or one or many ERC-1155 collections, but both ERC-721 and ERC-1155 collections are not allowed together in the same pool. Additionally, due to their historical significance, cryptopunks are supported with the same functionality as if they were an ERC-721 collection.

Abstract

The purpose of Aelin protocol is to allow protocols to raise money from the community instead of a small number of VCs. However, which community are you raising from when using Aelin? The answer is not always clear. Allocating deal tokens to holders of specific NFT collections will allow protocols and DAOs to target specific groups of investors, which can improve the process of building and growing their community.

For ERC-721 collections (including cryptopunks), sponsors may allow each wallet holding a qualified NFT to deposit an unlimited amount of investment tokens, a certain amount of investment tokens per wallet holding any number of qualified NFTs or a certain amount of investment tokens per qualified NFT held.

For ERC-1155 collections, sponsors may allow each wallet holding a qualified Fungible or Non-fungible Token to deposit an unlimited amount of investment tokens. For fungible tokens (e.g. 10,000 of the same sword) the sponsor may require the investor to hold a certain amount of tokens to participate.

Motivation

NFT projects and communities are viral in their behavior. When a project launches a successful collection, innovates on intellectual property, creates a novel token, or builds an open virtual world, others look to copy this successful outcome. By serving NFT communities, Aelin is hoping to start a new trend of protocols providing seed deals to these communities.

Specification

Overview

In order to achieve the functionality outlined in this AELIP the contracts will need some additional logic in order to allow a sponsor to add one or multiple NFT collections and their allocation rule when creating a pool.

Rationale

Aelin protocol is a reflexive system. The more deals on the platform, the more investors will come, which will increase the number of people willing to join the ecosystem to sponsor and find deals to make with protocols.

With the update of v1 website and the creation of the pool incentives AELIP, it has been clear that Aelin still needs to find a mechanism to bootstrap this reflexivity and kick start the protocol to the next level of growth.

Technical Specification

In the createPool method called by a sponsor, there will be an array of NFT collection based structs passed into the method as a single argument, which defines which collections can access the pool and the Investment token rules for each collection.

When an Investor calls the purchasePoolTokens method on the contract, the function will loop over all the structs and determine if this is a NFT deal and how many Investment tokens the investor may deposit.

For an ERC-721 collection pool, there are 3 potential rules that may be created for an investor holding a NFT:

1. Sponsors may allow each wallet holding a qualified NFT to deposit an unlimited amount of Investment tokens
2. A certain amount of Investment tokens per wallet regardless of the number of qualified NFTs held
3. A certain amount of Investment tokens per qualified NFT held

Under scenario 1, any investor holding a qualified NFT may participate in the pool but the NFT they participate with is blacklisted after the deposit event. If an investor holds multiple NFTs they must select the one they want to use before a deposit event. The remaining NFTs they hold remain eligible for participating in the deal at a later point in time.

Under scenario 2, an investor has access to a specific allocation per wallet no matter how many qualified NFTs they hold and all the tokens in their wallet will be blacklisted at the end of the transaction.

Under scenario 3, an investor gets a specific allocation per NFT held. Each time they participate they must select the NFTs they are using for their allocation and they may invest up to the allocation per NFT times the amount of NFTs they hold. At the end of a transaction the contract will blacklist each NFT they have minted against even if they have not used their full allocation for that NFT.

For blacklisted NFTs, Aelin contracts will track which NFTs they have minted against so if anyone aims to use the same ones on a different address it can be blocked. The remaining rules of the Aelin pool function as normal.

For ERC-1155 contracts, the logic works a bit differently since it is a collection of both fungible and non-fungible tokens. For these collections we are limited in the number of NFTs we can support since the IDs need to be passed in as an array.

ERC-1155 contracts may be used to support deals where investors holding a small amount of qualified NFTs or certain minimum amount of a fungible token to participate. E.g. only investors with at least 3 swords in their wallet from a collection of 10,000 identical swords may participate in a deal.

Since it is not always possible to distinguish between an ID of a NFT and a fungible token in an ERC-1155 contract, we do not blacklist tokens once an Investor has participated, otherwise a fungible token with many holders could be blacklisted by a single investor. Therefore, in order to make it fair for everyone in an ERC-1155 pool without a blacklisting option, investors can always deposit as much as they want per pool as a qualified investor. If too much is invested, every investor in the pool will be deallocated as per the current Aelin Pool logic.

Additionally, an event must be fired when the createPool method is called by a sponsor for every NFT struct passed. This will allow the subgraph to read the rules of the NFT collections and makes it easier for the clients to show which NFT projects are able to access a pool and how much the rules of the pool.

Test Cases

TBD

Copyright

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