Kirill Kostin
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@kosfukyc
Content Creator @getoro_xyz - Operator lvl 4 @inconetwork - Circles @RialoHQ - Club Member @upshift_fi - Research Analyst
The $1.7T+ US unsecured consumer credit market is starting to move beyond credit scores alone. For decades, lenders mostly relied on systems like FICO to decide who should get a loan, how much they should get, and at what rate. That is changing: newer lending systems, including those used by @SoFi and @CashApp, use signals ranging from education and employment history to cash flow and platform-specific behavior to make those decisions. The next step is to upgrade the lending stack and move key components onchain. Rialo makes this possible by connecting onchain credit systems to real-world data, providing infrastructure to automate servicing workflows onchain, and enabling seamless tokenization of real-world assets, including private credit and consumer loans. That opens up three opportunities: - Richer credit assessment: Lenders can use alternative signals to determine creditworthiness by tapping into real-world data through Rialo. - Efficient servicing: Lenders can run loan management and repayment workflows on Rialo’s transparent, programmable blockchain rails, reducing overhead and improving transparency. - Loan packaging: Lenders can tokenize loans and bundle them into risk-weighted vintages, or loan pools organized by risk profile, with clearer visibility into risk and performance. The opportunity for lenders is not just to make better loans. It is to use infrastructure that enables them to assess, service, and package loans in a single integrated system. Get Real about credit. Get Rialo.
The current system of DeFi is reaching its limit. When 93% of stablecoins earn under 5%, it’s a sign that our system is simply recycling the same speculative capital. To scale to trillions, we have to move beyond the echo chamber. We are investing in the shift from crypto-native leverage to onchain private credit. By connecting stablecoins to real-world economic activity we are replacing volatile "yield farming" with sustainable, spread-based returns. DeFi is finally growing up and Rialo will be the bridge to bring in new building blocks.
BFT consensus protocols in production blockchains suffer from two problems: Upgrading them is a nightmare involving complex coordination and expensive downtime They can't handle a complete committee swap without disrupting network operation Rialo solves both with Gauss. Gauss lets Rialo hot-swap consensus protocols and validator sets without a second of downtime. It introduces a clean separation between a consensus protocol's inner log and a sanitized outer log. It allows committee membership, failure thresholds, and the consensus protocol itself to evolve independently. The Gauss paper has been officially accepted. Take a sneak peek at the paper written by Subzero’s very own @allenclement, @natachacrooks, @neilgiridharan, and @aleak 👇
