LendingRobot is Moving Its Records to the Public Ethereum Blockchain
Alternative lending platform LendingRobot has taken its first step toward moving the assets it currently manages to a blockchain. As part of its newly launched LendingRobot Series of investment products, the platform – which has $120m worth of assets currently deployed – will begin to post detailed accounts of some of its investments to the public ethereum blockchain. The investments themselves will still be conducted off-blockchain using the P2P lender’s existing infrastructure. But the process of hashing detailed, anonymized accounting records to a blockchain marks the beginning of a....
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