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# Unique Advantages
### Why FATExDAO is different:
Many "protocols" - say: "lending/borrowing," "dex stable-coin," "synthetic asset creator," "future exchange for everything" etc. - **FATExDAO has a *****very different plan** - features like "borrowing" are implied with a "full-scale digital bank."*
The DAO is NOT TAKING TradeFi to DeFI : we are taking DeFi /DLT to Traditional Finance and its users.\
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We do not view ourselves as part of a specific blockchain eco-system, rather a part of the DeFi/DLT/tokenization "sector" and the digital transformation revolution underway. Which is still in its infancy, but is growing rapidly.
### What isn't being done in the yield-farm/dex space of DeFi/Crypto FATExDAO is:
**The DAO builds & increase member capital by inventing & investing - creating wealth through innovation in the areas of:**
**FIN-TECH/SMART-TECH PRODUCTS & SERVICES THAT MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL OF DLT:**
* **Borderless**
* Focus on the largest user countries, companies, sectors.
* **Frictionless**
* **Cooperation**
* Seek relationships with TradeFi - be "game-changing" by helping those entities transition.
* Be the **best, fastest,** and provide the **lowest cost** options, or don't do it.
* **Hardware/software/smartphones - corporate/market exchange services - integrations**
* **Easy for everyone** (low-no tech.) **& business type**
* User one-click & user choice UI.
* Seek to find/build blockchain no-bridge/easy bridge.
* **Remove the need for access to traditional banking.**
* **User Custodial -** Multi-level security features - **cheap insurance options** - replacing government need for CB.
**FATExDAO AVOIDS:**
* Adding vocabulary just to "stick-out" confuses new users & is a barrier for new adoption.
* Renaming things that are already normalized into common use.
* "Re-engineering" what already works, take pieces that: work for different things, in different ways and/or try to accomplish the same thing the DAO is but has failed to do so (or the DAO wouldn't want/need to do it better).\
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**We realize the paper has many "catch-phrases" - and that may be true** - **IF** we didn't have the exact way to go about accomplishing this.
### **What makes the "cliche" statements in the image below true...?**
#### **We are the 1st DAO/DeFi project to:**
1. Mention & indicate a plan to create a non-political, digital asset, central-peg, "reserve-currency" (we call it a *denomination* backed by real assets) - Bretton-Woods gold standard.
2. Be founded by individuals with the only background in the DeFi sector, thus far, to have non-software engineering experience in appropriate fields (finance/public service/international political economics).
3. Align ESG/CSR practice with for-profit inventions that are truly unique.
4. These components are so specific and unique, perhaps obvious when revealed, that there are literally <5 ways of using a token/dlt platform that denominates all fiat FX seamlessly, with near-zero friction (arbitrage cost) without using existing methods, or another digital asset, to attempt to do so.
### What we are building is new and realistic: FxD
We are building a non-fiat or crypto-algo-stablecoin mirror that is "black swan" proof, pro-regulatory compliant and integrates into existing financial systems in a cooperative, not competitive manner.
1. This makes the design of **FxD** (formally called FGCD)- overview can be found [here](/fatexdao/fatexdao-dapps-and-tokens/fxd-global-commodity-denomination.md), extremely proprietary, and very lucrative.
2. FxD is just the first product to get the DAO into a positive monetization model and will be used to ultimately achieve the (seemingly) lofty goals we aim to achieve.
