Cr3dentials

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Who's building unsecured credit using stablecoin rails? We want to work with 🫵

Cr3dentials is building the verification infrastructure that changes lives, starting with the digital economy that has always had to prove more to get basic access. cr3dentials.xyz

Everyone is so focused on overcollateralized lending but who is looking at uncollateralized. We want to work with folks trying to build this.

@defyneric @FlexSuperApp onchain private credit needs privacy & freedom to verify proof of identity, income, and assets offchain hints... @Cr3dentials

@sandeepnailwal Are you thinking about adding uncollateralized lending? If so we have some really good ideas on how to build this with @Cr3dentials

Free to borrow, free to earn, free to lend. @Cr3dentials is opening the doors to financial access for the digital economy globally.

“The businesses that need capital most are not going to come to you because your tech is impressive. They are going to come because you made the path to funding shorter than anything they have seen before.” That is the bar we are building to. Full conversation with Ali on the CR3POD. open.spotify.com/episode/2sOYmO…

@SemudaraAbayomi @Metachaser24 @Cr3dentials wow this is superb , immediately an idea pops in your mind you had better act on it asap. I am coming first let me check my notebook of ideas

At @Cr3dentials we’re optimizing for UX. zkTLS is known to have some friction in this sector, and as a B2B2C company that’s something we take seriously. Plaid set the gold standard here, and we’re building toward it. Looking for someone who can show off our UI/UX to the public. A motion designer is preferred.

In today’s newsletter, we featured @Metachaser24 and @Cr3dentials. We first met in Kenya, and I’ve been following the startup from the sidelines. It’s finally great to tell their story. Read the full feature here startupin60.substack.com/p/b198a4d2-7f3…

The clients already using it tell the full story. KasiMoney is issuing cash advances to 100,000 Uber drivers in South Africa who would never have qualified for credit. Droplinked is underwriting merchants in MENA with loans ranging from $50,000 to $10 million. This is not micro-lending. This is serious credit infrastructure.

@Cr3dentials plugs directly into platforms like Uber, YouTube, Shopify, PayPal, and Upwork. It verifies a borrower's income, assets, and activity on behalf of lenders. Privately. Cryptographically. Instantly. No payslip. No salary letter. Just proof of what you actually earn.

435 million people earn through gig work globally. Most of them are credit-invisible. Not because they are broke. Because the bank has no way to see what they earn. Elo Mukoro saw this gap and built the bridge.

You earn on Uber, YouTube, Shopify. You have a track record. You have receipts. Then you walk into a bank and ask for a loan. They ask for a payslip. Application denied. One founder decided to fix that. Full story: shorturl.at/xreq4

SMEs and SMBs represent close to 70% of global GDP. And the process for underwriting most of them is still manual. Slow. Fragmented across data that lives in too many places to pull together cleanly. Expensive enough that lenders regularly decide the lift is not worth it. Ali Sammour said it plainly: even reaching 20% of that addressable market is massive. These are the businesses that are the economic lifeblood of their countries, developed and emerging markets alike. That is the market Cr3dentials and @droplinked are focused on. The businesses that keep economies moving and consistently get left behind by financial infrastructure that was not built for them. Full conversation with Ali on the CR3POD. Link in comments. open.spotify.com/show/00st9XAKY…

Ali Sammour, founder of @droplinked put it simply: putting data on-chain does not make it genuine. Most on-chain credit solutions are built for consumers. FICO scores, draw lines, personal wallets. Clean, familiar, easy to pitch. Business credit is a different problem entirely. SMEs and SMBs represent close to 70% of global GDP. And yet the underwriting process for most of them is still manual, slow, fragmented across siloed data buckets, and expensive enough that lenders often decide it is not worth the lift. Full scoop : open.spotify.com/episode/2sOYmO…

From a Nigerian American kid in Houston being pushed toward chemical engineering, to winning hackathons, landing at the Ethereum Foundation, and now building verifiable income rails using Zero Knowledge Proofs and blockchain. Elo Mukoro, Co-Founder and CEO of Cr3dentials, sat down with Business Spotlight to break down why freelancers, gig workers, and digital entrepreneurs across Africa, LATAM, and beyond are being locked out of credit, and what it actually takes to fix broken infrastructure at the root. The path was not straight. The mission is forever! Watch the full feature youtu.be/wT12ZkpoCuU?si…

Onchain Credit. That’s it, thats the tweet.