Where the money goes
Seven kinds of borrower
Named for what the business does rather than for a risk band: nobody browses for “senior secured”, they browse for comics.
BSV development
Teams building on the ledger: most of them started as a weekend hackathon entry and are now looking for the runway to turn it into a product.
- Loans
- 14
- Open
- 3
- Lent
- $94k
HardwareDevices with a bill of materials, a production run and a warehouse. The most straightforwardly secured lending on the platform.
- Loans
- 2
- Open
- 0
- Lent
- $59k
Publishing
Print titles bridging the gap between paying a printer and collecting from readers. Short terms, real subscribers, measurable renewal.
- Loans
- 3
- Open
- 2
- Lent
- $18k
Events
Conferences and exhibition stands, where every cost lands months before a ticket is sold. Lending here is lending against an operator's history.
- Loans
- 3
- Open
- 2
- Lent
- $35k
Food & drink
Producers with a harvest, a season and a shelf. Classic trade finance, with the collateral in a cold store rather than a repository.
- Loans
- 1
- Open
- 1
- Lent
- $16k
GamesStudios and arcades with live players and live revenue, borrowing against what the catalogue already earns.
- Loans
- 1
- Open
- 0
- Lent
- $34k
RetailShops and limited runs: stock bought up front and sold to a community that has bought the last one.
- Loans
- 1
- Open
- 0
- Lent
- $13k