We are happy to announce the release of our White Paper on GitHub. Feel free to contribute and help us making ETHLend even greater!

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Pioneers in the fintech industry, we want to develop something important and to break the process-heavy and unfair lending market we all know. We want to make lending available on global scale. Instead of relying on local banks and lenders, we believe that borrower should have the possibility to obtain a loan from anywhere in the world. We believe that Canadian borrower could obtain a loan from Sweden, China, Brazil, Japan or Germany and vice versa.  

What is ETHLend?

ETHLend is a peer-to-peer lending platform for Ether tokens on the Ethereum network, where anyone has the ability to participate in a fair and pure lending market. Interest rates and conditions are solely decided by the participants. ETHLend eliminates the need for intermediaries that maintain control over the agreement. Smart Contracts enable security and the automatized exchange of Ether tokens for ECR20 tokens or Ethereum Name Service domans as collaterals. Credit Tokens (short: CRE) will be mined for any successful transaction and represent a Credit Reputation System to the users. CRE can also be used as collaterals for borrowing Ether.

 

Why is ETHLend disruptive?

Less control for the banks. Banks lend money that is deposited by account holders. This liquidity is lend to the market. Practically it means that banks charge 5-12% interest on loans and compensate you 0-1% for holding your assets at the bank. Since the rise of crypto-currency, you can become your own banking institution. With ETHLend, you become your own lending institution. You decide whom you lend to, on which interest rate securely or insecurely. All of this is available thanks to blockchain technology, on which ETHLend relies on. 

Who can benefit from ETHLend? 

Anyone can benefit from the great advantages of a fully decentralized lending platform! Specifically, those who have limited access to finance due to country specific regulation or unfavorable financial circumstances, such as enormous interest rates differences or limited access to banking.  ETHLend brings democracy to lending and the possibility to receive funds without being restricted by governments, banks or bureaucracy. A true lending market should not judge personal circumstances and should not be effected by central banks monetary policy, creating financial distress throughout the global economy. 

What is the Token Sale for?   

Providing value and finance. To provide a workable Reputation system on ETHLend that holds value, ETHLend is creating its own native Credit Token (CRE) crowdsale. Thanks to the token sale, there will be more participants on ETHLend providing additional value for CRE. Theoretically, CRE will hold the value of the lending market since small amount of additional CRE is minted on successful loans. Therefore, the value of CRE is affected by the current value of lending market, the default rate to be precise.

Here is our roadmap:   

1. ETHLend DAPP v. 1.0 on May 2017
2. White Paper on ETHLend on June 2017
3. Implementing ENS Domain Collateral on June 2017
4. Implementing CRE for Repayments on June 2017
5. Token Sale Smart Contract Testing on July 2017
6. Token Sale on August-September 2017
7. User Experience Upgrade September 2017
8. Swiss Foundation or Swiss LLC on October 2017
9. On-Demand Lending on October 2017
10. uPort Integration during October 2017
11. CRE Trading on Exchanges on November 2017
12. Relocation to Zug, Switzerland on January 2018
13. Second User Experience Upgrade on January 2018
14. New Recruits on the ETHLend Team on February 2018
15. Lending Bitcoin and Litecoin on March 2018
16. Opening Proposition Forum for Token Holders on May 2018
17. KYC on-board implementation during May 2018
18. Lending Other Altcoins during August 2018
19. Creating and Testing Democracy DAO on November 2018
20. Voting on Proposition Deployed on May 2019
21. Vesting for CRE Ends on August-September 2019

Endorsing early purchase. The price on CRE is determined in different tiers based on timing and quantity of the purchase. We want to endorse token buyers that are amongst the first by reducing the token sale price. However, to retain democracy on token sale, the reduced price is restricted to certain amount of tokens. This would avoid the situation where few persons would buy within a certain time limit all the available tokens, and on discount. Next, we will introduce our preliminary structure on Token Sale. The structure is subject to change and final terms and conditions are released early before the Token Sale launch. 

For more information, read the full White Paper here.  

Author: @ethlend , @sergej.stein

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