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<aside> ☝ Key points:

• All NFT marketplaces have ‘makers’ (creators of asset orders) and ‘takers’ (those who fill these orders)
• New marketplaces are launched every few weeks leading to order fragmentation
• Fragmentation results in a substantial drop in the overall liquidity of NFTs
• Fragmentation will get worse with native marketplaces i.e. in-game marketplaces
• Solution: Immutable X’s global protocol-level orderbook will collate these orders into one cohesive marketplace </aside>

One of the key benefits of the Immutable X protocol is the global shared orderbook. Click on the blog post below for a deep dive into the issue of fragmentation, how it can affect you as a user, and how to use the orderbook yourself:

Immutable X Protocol Orderbook - Solving Order Fragmentation

This is what ‘order fragmentation’ looks like across multiple marketplaces without Immutable X. It’s a poor experience for everyone — marketplaces, NFT creators, and NFT traders.

This is what the NFT ecosystem looks like when marketplaces use the Immutable X global orderbook

Your marketplace will be able to fill the orders you receive from other marketplaces in turn

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