A fair and sustainable micro-lending protocol
Growr helps micro-entrepreneurs build their self-sovereign credit record and receive fair productive loans
Growr helps micro-entrepreneurs build their self-sovereign credit record and receive fair productive loans
Growr helps micro-entrepreneurs build their self-sovereign credit record and receive fair productive loans without over-collateralization, bringing real-world yield to the decentralized finance protocols in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Growr creates a global decentralized marketplace to match supply and demand at the best possible price. This open free market creates fair conditions by enforcing the same rules for everyone.
Local players can use the protocol to facilitate access to credit by understanding the risk context and defining the right risk model, and social circles play an important role in referring borrowers and supporting them throughout the loan lifecycle.
Investors across the globe can deploy their excess capital through the protocol and generate yield from real economic activity according to their risk appetite.
Local suppliers and buyers can grow their business volume by facilitating value chain credit facilities for their micro-enterprise partners, participating in the origination and collection within the community.
Growr enforces sustainable micro-lending policies by embedding financial health incentives for borrowers, and enables end-to-end transparency of how investor’s capital is deployed down to the level of each individual borrower.
Instead of relying on risk data locked within proprietary databases, Growr provides an open credit record model, which also preserves the privacy of the borrowers through a self-sovereign identity.
Wallets, financial institutions, FinTech companies and non-financial providers such as merchants, telcos and gig economy platforms, facilitating access to the protocol through a simple and secure way for borrowers to easily apply and obtain fair loans.
Trusted parties (such as value chain partners, financial providers, telcos, merchants, NGOs) issue cryptographically verifiable credentials to the borrowers about their financial and non-financial life that are stored in their self-sovereign financial identity.
Risk assessors are third parties trusted—and most often owned—by the lenders that perform verification of borrowers’ credentials and assert their eligibility to receive a loan. Risk assessors produce a credit score for each project that is used by the lenders in their automated decisions, and that investors receive yield from real economic activty.
A decentralized infrastructure for lending and borrowing on top of the Bitcoin network, with open access for everyone. The key differentiators of the Growr protocol are that loans are provided against verified credentials from borrower’s self-sovereign financial identity and credit record, instead of requiring over-collateralization.
A traditional finance institution or a FinTech that is providing micro-lending through the decentralized marketplace with specific conditions and eligibility criteria. Lenders make their financing decisions based on the credit record of the borrower, provided by the risk assessors.
A decentralized finance protocol, institutional or individual investor pooling funds who deploy capital as senior tranche and delegate the actual lending activity to the lenders. Investors get rewarded with yield from real economic activity based on the pool profitability. Generally, a pool yield will tend to be lower that the project yield due to the wholesale lending nature of the pools.
The Peseta app was designed for El Salvador, as a simple and secure way for consumers and merchants to easily apply for loans on top of the Bitcoin network.
Link account
Link your bank account and social profiles to Peseta to create your personal financial identity.
Apply for loans
Use the Peseta app and your financial identity to apply for a loan and get an instant response.
Pay
Through integration with the Lightning network, Peseta enables instant payments to any merchant in El Salvador.
Manage your loans
The Peseta app has all the tools to manage every aspect of your loan transactions, withraw the amount to your Chivo wallet and easily pay it off to build your credit score.
Learn and earn
Learning the features and benefits of Bitcoin through short tutorials earns you fractional bitcoin to build wealth and pay off loans.
Growr’s whitepaper is a short non-technical description of how the protocol works and the main concepts behind it.
Growr’s documentation provides in-depth details about the different components of the protocol—distribution & identity, risk management, liquidity, payments and governance.
Visit Growr’s GitHub page to view our open source repositories and contribute.
For an visual overview of Growr, its concepts and borrowing and lending apps, check our playlist on YouTube.