Taker Orders

Introduction

LooksRare's exchange protocol is built on a hybrid system (off-chain/on-chain), which incorporates off-chain signatures (these are called Maker Orders) and on-chain orders (named Taker Orders). The design is similar to other NFT marketplaces (e.g., OpenSea, Rarible) running on the Ethereum blockchain.

Taker Orders are executed on-chain against Maker Orders, which exist off-chain. A taker order is an active order, which triggers an execution against an existing maker order.

Since the execution of a taker order is done on-chain, network gas fees is always paid by the taker user.

Taker Orders are standardized in a Solidity struct named TakerOrder.

Overview of parameters in a TakerOrder

The TakerOrder struct contains 6 distinct parameters:

• isOrderAsk - Whether the order is an ask (executing an active order to sell an NFT against a maker bid orders) or a bid (executing an active order to buy an NFT against a maker ask order).
• taker — The msg.sender address. If the transaction sender tries to execute a taker order with a different address, it will naturally revert.
• price — The final price of the order. The price is expressed in BigNumber based on the number of decimals of the "currency". Since the currency is defined in the maker order, it is not defined explicitly in the taker order.
• tokenId — The id of the token for the order. For collection orders, this field is used in the execution (for taker ask orders).
• minPercentageToAsk — The minimum percentage required to be transferred to the Ask (seller) or the trade is rejected (e.g., 9800 = 98% of the trade price).
• params - Can contain additional parameters that are not used for standard orders (e.g., Merkle root... for future advanced order types!).

Breakdown of parameters

isOrderAsk

Like most exchange marketplaces & protocols (including non-NFT marketplaces), an order can be of two distinct types: Ask or Bid.

In the LooksRare protocol, Ask means the user is selling a NFT whereas Bid means the user is buying a NFT (with a fungible currency like WETH).

Bool	Description
true	Taker order is a Ask
false	Taker order is a Bid

taker

This is the sender address (msg.sender). If the transaction sender tries to execute a taker order with a different address, it reverts.

price

The price for the order. It is a uint256 value, which doesn't contain any decimal. Ethereum does not support float numbers. Price must be displayed as a number in "BigNumber" formatting.

Price	Value displayed in the signature
0.1 ETH	100000000000000000
1 ETH	1000000000000000000
100 ETH	100000000000000000000

Converters can be useful to convert WETH (or other assets with 18 decimals) to wei.

For strategies such as Dutch Auction, the taker price is used as the final settlement price (and valid only if greater than the current auction price at the timestamp of the block where the taker order is included).

tokenId

The tokenId that the taker is looking to purchase/sell.

For collection orders, this field is used to determine what item matches the collection (maker) bid.

minPercentageToAsk

The minPercentageToAsk protects ask users from potential unexpected increase in fees prior to the trade being matched. It acts as a protection that the trade would revert if a specific percentage of the platform gross price does not go to the ask users when the trade is executed on-chain.

params

This field is used for additional parameters specific to complex orders that are less frequent (e.g., complex order types). The set of additional parameters is represented as bytes, where parameters are concatenated.