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Website: https://goldfinch.finance/
Dapp: https://app.goldfinch.finance/
Docs:  https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/
Telegram:  https://t.me/goldfinch_finance
Twitter: @goldfinch_fi
Today, Goldfinch is thrilled to announce an additional $25M in funding, led by @a16z: https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/goldfinch-raises-25m-led-by-andreessen-horowitz-to-double-down-on-154x-growth-in-2021-6017760f887e

This comes on the heels of the community’s tremendous progress over the past year towards solving the crucial missing piece in DeFi of loans without collateral. 

Active loans on the protocol doubled every two months in 2021, up 154X from $250K a year ago to now $39M that is financing 200K+ borrowers across 18 countries. 

This new funding will help the Goldfinch protocol achieve its mission of expanding financial inclusion with an open credit protocol.
Here are a few charts illustrating the protocol's growth in 2021.
📣Today we are introducing the Goldfinch Protocol token, GFI 📣 https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-the-goldfinch-protocol-token-gfi-e09579fd9740.

This is a major milestone for the community! The GFI token is a core component of the Goldfinch Protocol that serves many functions. The main function right now is participation in Community Governance. Other functions may soon include backer staking, auditor staking and voting, community grants, and participant incentives.

The introduction of GFI includes several significant updates:

1) The GFI token has been deployed to Ethereum at this address: https://etherscan.io/token/0xdab396ccf3d84cf2d07c4454e10c8a6f5b008d2b.

2) The protocol is now governed by the community via the Goldfinch Council and the community can actively participate in governance at https://gov.goldfinch.finance/. Snapshot voting is also live at https://snapshot.org/#/goldfinch.eth.

3) An exciting aspect of Goldfinch's governance is that it uses quadratic voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting). By using UID (an NFT for ID) to prevent sybil attacks, Goldfinch is able to be the first protocol to use quadratic voting with entirely on-chain data!

4) GFI tokens have been allocated to over 13K participants in the Goldfinch protocol, including retroactive distributions for Liquidity Providers in the Senior Pool, and Flight Academy participants. You can see and claim GFI distributions at https://app.goldfinch.finance/gfi.

5) Liquidity mining is live for the Senior Pool, effective immediately. To receive GFI distributions through Senior Pool liquidity mining, you will need to stake your FIDU. You now can do this at https://app.goldfinch.finance/pools/senior. Additionally, there will be retroactive distributions for existing Backers who have already supplied to Borrower pools. This is not yet live, but we expect the community to introduce and vote on a proposal for this in the coming months.

More details about GFI and its uses can be found in the documentation at: https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/protocol-mechanics/gfi-token
1:00 PM PST today:

Join us for our chat with Notional Finance (https://notional.finance/) at https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyKADlyzgnxb?s=20&t=W3guAWnrKBpMoiljNCLZ6g.
The Goldfinch community is excited to share that ALMA (https://www.almavest.com/) is opening its next Borrower Pool for $10M. Alma has borrowed over $23M on the Goldfinch protocol to date, and have years of experience providing debt financing to fintechs, carbon credit projects, and other social impact enterprises across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The due diligence dataroom has been open as of Tuesday 1st February, 2022, and the pool will open for funding on Tuesday 8th February, 2022 at 8AM PST. You can read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://bit.ly/3qRIq50

Please note that this offer is only available to Backers outside of the US who have minted their Unique ID NFT. You can learn more about Unique ID (UID) here: https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-unique-identity-uid-the-first-nft-for-identity-830a89207509 and follow this step-by-step guide ( https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/unique-identity-uid/for-users) to mint your UID.
The Goldfinch community would now like to share that the next ALMA Borrower Pool due diligence dataroom is now open.

Click here to view and sign the ALMA Non-Disclosure Agreement, and gain instant access to the dataroom and the Telegram group where you can connect with the ALMA team: (https://bit.ly/3qTKt8y)

The Borrower Pool will open for funding on Tuesday 8th February, 2022 at 8AM PST

NOTE: This pool will only be open to Backers outside the US. And only Backers who have minted their Unique ID NFT will be able to participate. Read about the Unique ID here: (https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-unique-identity-uid-the-first-nft-for-identity-830a89207509)

ALMA (https://www.almavest.com/) has been working hard to put this deal together, are looking forward to answering your questions.
This is a reminder that the ALMA Borrower Pool #6 will be opening tomorrow (Feb 8 at 8AM Pacific Time). You can read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://bit.ly/3qRIq50

After the pool opens, you can add USDC by going to (https://app.goldfinch.finance/earn) and clicking on the appropriate pool.

NOTE: This Borrower Pool will only be open to Backers outside the US. And only Backers who have minted their Unique ID NFT will be able to participate. Read about the Unique ID here: (https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-unique-identity-uid-the-first-nft-for-identity-830a89207509)

Click here to view and sign the ALMA Non-Disclosure Agreement, and gain instant access to the dataroom and the Telegram group where you can connect with the ALMA team: (https://bit.ly/3qTKt8y)
The Goldfinch community is excited to share that Stratos (https://www.stratos.xyz/) is opening a Borrower Pool for $20M. Founded in 2016, Stratos has achieved 5 years of consistent, strong returns since inception through credit investments to fintech and other venture backed companies primarily focused in the United States.

The due diligence dataroom will open tomorrow - February 8 2022, and the pool will open for funding on February 11 2022 at 8AM PST. You can read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://stratoslp.notion.site/Stratos-Borrower-Pool-Preview-3d0a009ada2b496cbd0db78435b4bdbc

Please note that this offer is only available to Backers outside of the US who have minted their Unique ID NFT. You can learn more about Unique ID (UID) here (https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-unique-identity-uid-the-first-nft-for-identity-830a89207509) and follow this step-by-step guide (https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/unique-identity-uid/for-users) to mint your UID.

There will be another announcement tomorrow once the due diligence dataroom opens.
The Stratos Borrower Pool due diligence dataroom is now open!

Click here to view and sign the Stratos Non-Disclosure Agreement, and gain instant access to the dataroom and the Telegram group where you can connect with the Stratos team: https://bit.ly/stratosNDA

The Stratos Credit Team has also prepared a Borrower Profile which can be found here: https://bit.ly/stratos-borrower

Key highlights of the Stratos Borrower Profile include:
• Rennick Palley, the Founding Partner of Stratos, is also a Founding Team Member of Warbler Labs and helped design and set strategy for the Goldfinch protocol;
• Stratos has never had a late payment, missed payment, or default in 5 years (60 months) of operation;
• Since inception in 2016, the Stratos Evergreen Structured Credit Fund ("SCF"), our longest running credit focused strategy, has generated gross annualized total returns of 18.95%;
• Of the 21 companies that Stratos has lent to since inception, each has grown considerably, with multiple unicorns created in partnership with Stratos credit facilities;
• Stratos has not had a business fail during or after financing since inception in 2016.
• Stratos is targeting to fund at least $100 million in opportunities on the Goldfinch protocol over the next 2 years, across 4 or more deals per year.

The Borrower Pool will open for funding on February 11, 2022 at 8AM PST. Additional information about the Borrower Pool can be found here: https://stratoslp.notion.site/Stratos-Borrower-Profile-2988f06ad366444780c3b1a8fc704cd2

NOTE: This pool will only be open to Backers outside the US. And only Backers who have minted their Unique ID NFT will be able to participate. Read about the Unique ID here: (https://bit.ly/UID-goldfinch)
The ALMA Borrower Pool is open! You can now access the Borrower Pool here: (https://bit.ly/ALMA-pool)

Please note that this Borrower Pool is only open to Backers based outside of the US who have minted their Unique ID (https://app.goldfinch.finance/verify).

If you are experiencing any technical issues, please get in touch using Discord: https://discord.gg/jBVb2cfW
The Goldfinch Community is excited to share that Cauris (https://www.caurisfinance.com/) will be opening its next Borrower Pool for $10M on Wednesday February 16, 2022.

Cauris has borrowed over $5M on the Goldfinch protocol to date to provide debt financing to fintechs across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This pool will focus primarily on leading African fintechs across many sectors such as mobility, supply chain and SME financing.

The due diligence data room will open tomorrow - Thursday February 10, 2022, and the pool will open for funding on Wednesday February 16, 2022 at 8AM PST. You can read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://www.notion.so/Cauris-Borrower-Pool-2-Live-Information-c3c930579445406285ebae6aca9cbbc1
📣This is a reminder that the Stratos Borrower Pool will be opening tomorrow, February 11 at 8AM Pacific Time. You can read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://bit.ly/stratos-borrower-pool-overview

Additional information regarding Stratos can also be found here: https://bit.ly/Stratos-borrower-profile.

Key highlights of the Borrower Profile include:
✏️ Rennick Palley, the Founding Partner of Stratos, is also a Founding Team Member of Warbler Labs and helped design and set strategy for the Goldfinch protocol;
✏️ Stratos has never had a late payment, missed payment, or default in 5 years (60 months) of operation;
✏️ Since inception in 2016, the Stratos Evergreen Structured Credit Fund ("SCF"), Stratos's longest running credit focused strategy, has generated gross annualized total returns of 18.95%;
👉 Of the 21 companies that Stratos has lent to since inception, each has grown considerably, with multiple unicorns created in partnership with Stratos credit facilities;
👉 Stratos has not had a business fail during or after financing since inception in 2016;
👉 Stratos is targeting to fund at least $100 million in opportunities on the Goldfinch protocol over the next
2 years, across 4 or more deals per year.

After the pool opens, add USDC by going to (https://app.goldfinch.finance/earn) and clicking on the appropriate pool.

NOTE: This Borrower Pool will only be open to Backers outside the US. And only Backers who have minted their Unique ID NFT will be able to participate. Read about the Unique ID here: https://bit.ly/UID-Goldfinch.

📝Click here to view and sign the Stratos Non-Disclosure Agreement, and gain instant access to the dataroom and the Telegram group where you can connect with our team: https://bit.ly/stratosNDA
The Stratos Borrower Pool is open! You can now access the Borrower Pool here: https://app.goldfinch.finance/pools/0x00c27FC71b159a346e179b4A1608a0865e8A7470.

Please note that this Borrower Pool is only open to Backers based outside of the US who have minted their Unique ID (https://app.goldfinch.finance/verify).

If you are experiencing any technical issues, please get in touch with the Goldfinch team in the #support channel in Discord: https://discord.gg/sxSjsM6P
The ALMA Borrower Pool #6 is almost fully funded! This pool will close on or about 8am PST on Saturday, February 19.

Please Note: ALMA expects to increase the $10,000,000 limit on the ALMA pool to accommodate additional junior (backer) capital that will be invested by ALMA itself. Please see the ALMA Telegram Group for more discussion on this increase in the pool limit.

The Borrower Pool is here:
(https://app.goldfinch.finance/pools/0x418749e294cabce5a714efccc22a8aade6f9db57).

Read more about the Borrower Pool here: https://bit.ly/3qRIq50

Please note that this Borrower Pool is only open to Backers based outside of the US who have minted their Unique ID (https://app.goldfinch.finance/verify).
Just a reminder that the Cauris Borrower Pool will be opening tomorrow (Wednesday, February 16th) starting at 8AM PST.

After the pool opens, you can add USDC by going to https://app.goldfinch.finance/earn and clicking on the appropriate pool. Please make sure to use the same Metamask account you used for registration.

You can reread the high level terms of the Borrower Pool here:
https://www.notion.so/Borrower-Pool-Snapshot-c3c930579445406285ebae6aca9cbbc1
or access the dataroom here https://docsend.com/view/s/hbhpdkjv63kgwi47

In order to participate in the Borrower Pool, you will need to verify your identity by minting a Unique ID NFT. You can read more about this here https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/introducing-unique-identity-uid-the-first-nft-for-kyc-830a89207509 and can begin the process of minting your UID here https://app.goldfinch.finance/verify.

Please note that you may still be required to go through this process even if you have already completed KYC on the Goldfinch protocol. You can read the step-by-step guide for minting your UID here https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/unique-identity-uid/for-users.

We hope you'll consider joining Cauris on their mission to promote financial inclusion and economic development everywhere in the world.