gitbook/intro/creating-value.md

Creating Value

The LUX Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Ecosystem allows investors to access services like trading, borrowing, lending, bridging, staking, and validating to earn compound interest without the use of financial institutions or middlemen (such as a centralized exchange, like Coinbase, Binance, or Gemini). By eliminating middlemen from transactions, Lux aims to provide services that are traditionally centralized, like loans, currency exchanges, fixed income products, and other interest earning investments through a more efficient, free, and decentralized platform. High net worth investors can achieve significant ROI through investment in a Validator NFT, providing transaction fee revenue for helping to secure the network.