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# Idol Marketplace

### Official marketplace

At launch, the Idol Marketplace will be the only official marketplace where Idol NFTs are traded. The Idol Marketplace provides the following benefits to the protocol:

* Decentralized, Open, Immutable place to trade Idol NFTs
  * Regardless of how other NFT marketplaces may evolve, Idol NFTs will have no "exchange failure" risk. 
* No third-party external market fees
* 100% of commissions are paid to the community with no additional external market fees
* Consolidated source of liquidity
  * We expect the Idol Marketplace to always remain the most liquid source of trading for Idol NFTs
* Ensures that $VIRTUE stakers receive all commissions due
  * $VIRTUE stakers are important members of the ecosystem as post The Offering, the Bonding Curve is the only avenue for new stETH to enter the protocol.