Sonic's native on-chain credit scoring and the $11T unsecured lending market
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Market since$S−95%since listingHow it played out ↓Explains how Sonic plans to integrate a decentralized credit score built by running ETL over blockchain data, enabling higher credit lines without KYC. Argues this opens the roughly $11T unsecured lending market to DeFi.
Key claims
Sonic has processed over 54B transactions
Monitors 500M+ wallets with 15M+ recorded loans
Global unsecured lending market is $11T
The native 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 integration on @0xSonicLabs recently outlined by @AndreCronjeTech is not getting enough attention.
The global unsecured lending market is worth $𝟭𝟭.𝟯𝗧.
$S will be first to brings this trillion dollar industry on-chain.
𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥 ⤵️
Credit scores are key in TradFi, enabling financial products such as personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages.
More specifically, TradFi relies on the ETL (extract, transform, load) process, which cleans and analyzes financial data to generate a credit score, that is critical for lending decisions.
Understanding the importance of credit scores in decentralized finance, Sonic (already in 2021) began an ambitious project to extract, transform, and load blockchain data to create a decentralized credit scoring system.
Some of the key milestones include:
☞ 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 54 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢.
☞ 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 500 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 15 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘴.
☞ 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘺-𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘒𝘠𝘊 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Sonic will become the first blockchain to integrate this credit scoring system natively, granting developers direct on-chain access to this valuable data while preserving privacy.
In summary, a high credit score leads to a higher credit limit. Similarly, if a wallet address has strong credit ratings, it can access higher credit lines without compromising privacy.
This groundbreaking integration opens up access to the $11 trillion unsecured lending market on-chain, marking a pivotal shift in the technological and social evolution of DeFi as a whole.
Combined with Sonic's other unique features such as its unparalleled throughput, native account abstraction, and gas monetization, this will drive exponential growth in lending on @0xSonicLabs.
NFA but don't fade $S anon. 👀
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