Selasa, 27 Maret 2018

LENDINGBLOCK - SECURITIES LENDING FOR THE CRYPTO ECONOMY

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Lendingblock is an open exchange for borrowing and lending cryptocurrencies and digital assets. It allows borrowers and lenders to enter into fully collateralized crypto vs crypto lending agreements. Lenders can earn incremental interest income on their long term investment in digital assets, while borrowers can use their digital assets as collateral to enable borrowing to support shorter term trading, hedging and working capital needs. Lendingblock is creating a parallel financial service for the crypto economy to securities lending in traditional capital markets.

Lendingblok Mission
Lendingblock is a protocol and platform designed to enable and encourage borrowing and lending within the crypto financial system, bringing the economic benefits of lending (increased spending and growth, connecting capital supply and demand) to the distributed blockchain economy, but minimising the need for inefficient intermediaries that are unnecessary in the cryptographic asset environment.
Lendingblock will be the first exchange for crypto asset backed loans that meets the needs of institutional and individual borrowers and lenders in the cryptoeconomy.
Platform definition
Lendingblock is creating an open exchange for borrowing and lending cryptoassets. Holders of digital assets will be able to generate stable and secure returns without sacrificing the benefits of ownership, and borrowers who hold digital assets will be able to use these digital assets as collateral to borrow at market rates to support funding, hedging or investing strategies.
1.     End Users
The end users of Lendingblock will be entities looking to borrow or lend cryptocurrency assets. These entities, whether retail or institutional will fall under two categories - lenders and borrowers.
  • Lenders
Lenders using Lendingblock will include institutional lenders, such as asset managers, hedge funds, and family offices; and individual participants in “crowd lending” who can gain access to lending opportunities not currently available to them directly;
  1. will be able to generate incremental interest income from their portfolio of assets without sacrificing the long-term benefits of ownership,
  2. will have the security and protection of full collateralisation and automatic application of lending default terms.
  • Borrowers
  1. will be typical of users of existing securities lending, including hedge funds, investment managers, market makers, and proprietary traders;
  2. will have a need to borrow digital assets for mutiple purposes, which may include
  • hortselling- if a trader wishes to take a short position in the belief that the price of an asset will fall, they will borrow the assets and sell them at the current market, then buy those assets back in the future at a (hopefully) lower price to repay the loan;
  • Hedging- a derivatives market-maker, for instance, may need to sell assets that it does not own to hedge a linked derivatives position, then borrow digital assets to meet its settlement obligation;
  • Arbitrage- a trader may sell assets short against an offsetting derivatives position to take advantage of dislocation between cash and derivatives markets.
  • Fails-driven borrowing- if a broker or custodian has a settlement obligation but does not have the assets in place, it may borrow assets to ensure that it can meet its obligation and thereby avoid incurring settlement fail penalties.
3.                  will be able to access borrowing services that do not currently exist in the crypto economy at a price and fee structure that is transparent and based on market supply and demand.
Process
The Borrower process has five stages :
  1. Registration, in which prospective borrowers create an account and complete identity verification and screening;
  2. Specification, in which borrowers complete profiles specifying details of the loan they are seeking, e.g. loan principal asset and amount, duration, maximum interest payable, and collateral to be pledged. After verifying that the collateral is available to prevent spurious offers, this borrowing request is then automatically matched to lending offers;
  3. Initiation, in which the borrower places collateral into the LND smart contractmand waits for lenders to place principal into the smart contract until the loan total is reached;
  4. Servicing, in which the borrower makes scheduled payments that are distributedmto the lenders by the LND smart contract, and as required adjusts the amount of collateral to reflect any change in value; and
  5. Finalisation, in which the borrower completes repayment of the loan principal which is returned to the lenders, and the collateral is returned to the borrower by the LND smart contract, or in the case of default by the borrower the collateral is distributed to the lenders to cover their investment.
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The Lender process has five stages:
  1. Registration, in which prospective lenders create an account and complete identity verification;
  2. Specification, in which lenders first complete profiles specifying what they are looking for, e.g. how much they wish to lend, for what duration, desired minimum interest rate, and acceptable collateral. After verifying that the principal is available to prevent spurious offers, this lending offer is then automatically matched to loan profiles that meet their requirements;
  3. Initiation, in which once borrowers have submitted collateral, lenders place loan principal into the Lendingblock smart contract, at which point the principal is sent to the borrower;
  4. Operation, in which the lender receives scheduled interest payments from the LND smart contract; and
  5. Finalisation, in which the lender receives repayment of their principal, or in the case of default by the borrower receives the collateral to cover their investment.
Access
Access to the Lendingblock platform can be made in three different ways:
  1. Direct, in the form of dedicated web and mobile tools aimed at individual and institutional users;
  2. Integrated, allowing individual users to borrow and lend directly from within popular wallets or exchange clients once they have completed registration with Lendingblock;
  3. As a service, in the form of Lendingblock APIs allowing developers to create customised end user tools or integrations into applications.
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Functional components
The primary functional components of the Lendingblock architecture are organised into six logical groupings:
  • User registration and maintenance services , which are responsible for
  • Creating and verifying new user accounts, including completion of KYC and AML processes, and
  • Maintaining user permissions, in particular where there are multiple users from a single client organisation.
  • Order book management services , which are responsible for
  • Exposing the current contents of the order book, allowing users to view current borrowing offers and lending requests
  • Adding an order, allowing authorised users to submit a new lending offer or request;
  • Updating of an order, for example allowing an order to be withdrawn or to mark an order status as filled.
  • Matching service
which is responsible for identifying borrowing requests and lending offers that will form the basis of a lending agreement. This service is invoked when new orders arrive, for example receipt of a new borrowing request will result in existing lending offers being allocated using price then precedence prioritisation, and vice versa.
  • Lending agreement initiation , which is responsible for
  • The creation of a smart contract identified by the matching service.
  • Recording acceptance of the legal terms of the agreement by all parties;
  • Confirming initial collateral payment from the borrower;
  • Confirming initial principal payment from the lender(s); and
  • Releasing loan principal to the borrower once all parties are ready.
  • Lending agreement maintenance , which is a smart contract responsible for
  • Managing receipt and distribution of interest payments from the borrower to the lenders as defined by the payment schedule and individual lender contributions;
  • Managing the synchronised distribution of repaid principal to lenders and the release of collateral to the borrower at the conclusion of the loan;
  • Initiating the liquidation of collateral and distribution of the proceeds to lender(s) in the event of borrower default, for example where a payment condition has been breached by the borrower; and
  • Managing the level of collateral provided by the borrower, including requesting additional collateral should the value fall below the floor threshold or releasing collateral should the value rise above the ceiling.

OFFICIAL LINK
WEBSITEhttp://lendingblock.com
TELEGRAMt.me/lendingblock
TWITTER:https://twitter.com/lendingblock
FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/lendingblock/
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