Goldfinch Joins the Celo Alliance for Prosperity
Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol for crypto loans to real businesses, joins the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, an organizations supporting prosperous communities, and making digital assets more accessible in the real world.
Goldfinch community joins the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, a network of Celo mission-aligned organizations committed to growing global and local ecosystems in service of creating the conditions of prosperity for all.
Alliance members work to help digital assets be share in faster, less expensive, and more transparent ways. While expanding financial access and inclusion to digital currencies for the un and under-banked. The network joins the ranks of many of the Goldfinch community’s existing participants, borrowers, and investors within the Alliance, including Cauris, Mercy Corps Ventures, a16z, and Coinbase Ventures, alongside other members such as the Grameen Foundation and Deutsche Telekom.
Management Quote
“DeFi offers a new economic paradigm to advance financial inclusion, especially for people who are often excluded from traditional financial systems,” said Nikhil Raghuveera, Celo Foundation’s Head of Strategy & Innovation. “With an eye towards people’s needs and real-world use cases. The Celo Alliance for Prosperity and its partners can support financial empowerment. Together with the help of Goldfinch’s vision to bring crypto-powered lending to people and businesses around the world.”
“The Goldfinch whitepaper was create with the vision of creating a more fair, transparent. Accessible financial system, owned by those who participate,” said Blake West, Goldfinch Co-Founder and Warbler Labs CTO. “I’m glad that the community will be working alongside other Alliance members to create real impact and opportunity. Using DeFi to break down the barriers to financial access faced in most of the world.”
Re-imagining how financial systems work, from the ground up
Celo’s carbon-negative, permissionless, layer-1 platform helps to expand access to financial services to anyone in the world with a smartphone. The Celo Alliance for Prosperity will bring mission-aligned organizations together. To collaborate on Web3 technologies that help create the conditions of prosperity for all.
Goldfinch shares this vision and is proud to be unlocking the benefits of DeFi every day, with over 1 million people and businesses reached with crypto capital across 20+ countries via the protocol’s borrowers.
Goldfinch’s mission is to build a decentralized, globally accessible credit protocol that brings the world’s credit activity on-chain, expanding access to capital and fostering financial inclusion. The protocol’s foundational belief that everyone can participate, and that access and opportunity should be equal for all to take part in the global economy of the future, is closely aligned with the Alliance’s work collaborating on integrated solutions that better serve the needs of users around the world.
About Goldfinch
Goldfinch is a decentralized, globally accessible credit protocol. With a mission to bring the world’s credit activity on-chain while expanding access to capital and fostering financial inclusion.
About Celo Alliance for Prosperity
Celo’s mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity—for everyone.
Celo Alliance for Prosperity, a network of Celo mission-aligned organizations committed to growing global and local ecosystems in service of creating the conditions of prosperity for all.
SOURCE
https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/goldfinch-joins-the-celo-alliance-for-prosperity-9b89880a6d99
