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Pooled lending

The Builders Fund

One position, spread across every loan on the platform, with a first-loss tranche underneath it. For lenders who want the exposure without reading two dozen credit memos.

Target coupon
9.40%

Senior tranche, net of fees

First-loss buffer
8.0%

Absorbed before senior is touched

Loans covered
All

The whole book, weighted by size

Minimum
10 BSV

One position, one decision

Two tranches, and who takes the hit

The fund lends into every loan on the platform, weighted by loan size. What makes it a fund rather than an index is the split underneath it.

The first-loss tranche absorbs the first 8% of any loss across the book before a senior lender loses a satoshi. It is subscribed by BitBacker itself and by a small number of borrowers who have repaid twice, which is the point. A platform that grades its own loans should be exposed to those grades being wrong, and this is the mechanism that makes that true rather than stated.

The senior tranche is what a lender buys. It is paid first, it takes a lower coupon for that privilege: 9.40% against a book weighted at 12.35%, and it is only touched once the first-loss layer is exhausted.

On the current book that buffer is worth about 1,157 BSV. The one loan in default represents roughly 5.0% of principal, so on today’s numbers the first-loss tranche absorbs it entirely and the senior tranche is unaffected. That will not always be true, and the fund does not promise it will.

What you give up

  • About three points of coupon. That is the price of the buffer and of not having to choose.
  • The choosing. You cannot exclude a category, a borrower or a grade. The fund takes the book as it is.
  • The vote. The fund votes its own positions in arbitration. You do not vote individually.
  • Liquidity, for eighteen months. The fund redeems quarterly with 60 days’ notice after an initial lock.

Fees

A 1.25% annual management fee on committed capital, and nothing else: no performance fee, no entry fee, no exit fee. The coupon quoted above is already net of it. BitBacker earns its origination fee from borrowers as usual, and the first-loss subscription means the platform loses money before you do.

Who this is not for

If you want to read the memos, argue with a borrower in the chat and vote on a workout, lend directly. That is the better product and it is the one this platform is actually built around. The fund exists because some people want the exposure and will not do that work, and pretending otherwise just means they lend badly instead.