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Union, a primitive built by seasoned DeFi founders including MetaMoneyMarket’s Jacob Shiach, aims to build a DAO-like credit union. Here are five that I’m interested in: Union Protocol: a Credit DAO for cryptonatives These uncertainties did not stop projects to launch, whether longtime in the making or newly arrived in the cryptosphere. Will the fiat offboard be OK for borrowers, even if it implies they are charged a fee for both receiving and paying back the money? (only 15% were paid in crypto, so this is a too small market, although Sablier could help). All loans are implicitly fiat loans, the only ones in crypto are to do investing, which margin trading already allows for the most part.

One big concern regarding this new unsecured loan market is that the TAM for unsecured loans within #DeFi seems small beyond speculation for now. The small sample size is also suspect of overfitting, as most cryptonatives probably do not have a valuable NFT to give out, for instance. This was a neat way of gauging, and we hope to fund a few of those, although it would partly be based on web-of-trust rather than a cold genuine conviction about a candidate, because I have at least second-degree connections with some of the strongest candidates. People want loans in stablecoins, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

All of those are subjective, but highly suggest that unless an unfortunate turn of events, that person is real and able to make enough money to repay. The second one revolved around identity or what I call “proof of trustworthiness”: a 3Box profile, a grant from the Maker Foundation, DAO membership, a profitable Gitcoin developer account, book author account. We can categorize them in two types: the first was all sorts of NFTs, such as ENS domains, valuable crypto art or game collectibles, backed by value, and easy to put into an escrow account.

In terms of underwriting, there was many innovative, non-financial ways people found trying to convince to lend them some funds.

Half of the respondents claim to have not consulted a bank before, either because the amount is too low to both asking, or because the rate would be too high to even consider.

Reasons range from financing crypto projects (which makes sense, as most aren’t profitable enough and widely seen as “too early” by venture capitalists), to investing, car loans, repay Maker Vaults, repay a higher-interest-rate bank loan, and even completing a Master’s degree!.

A simple calculation indicates that in principle, people are ready “pay” on average $300 for such a service. The average loan asked is $4,000, loaned for a year at a 7.5% interest rate.Including overlap, I guess we gathered wisdom on around 50 cryptonatives, all wanting to experience an unsecured loan outside of traditional finance. I received 30 DMs, then my friend Daniel helped me out & we sent out a form, receiving 30 replies. Two weeks ago, I sent out a tweet asking to chat with people wanting a loan without collateral. Learning from a small scale Crypto Twitter survey Plus, it is easy to comprehend that even in first world countries, there is a huge market for unsecured loans. The myth of “bank the unbanked as the first use case” will die off, as builders usually build products for their own (or a similar demographic). To start 2020 with the same innovation speed, the Ethereum ecosystem is already looking to build new financial services for as many people as possible - and in DeFi, that implies unsecured loans.ĭisclaimer: most of the feasible solutions in Under-collateralized DeFi are solutions for cryptonative users. In the past months, there’s been an uptick in interest for #DeFi beyond margin trading, popularized by Compound, Maker Vaults, and InstaDapp.