TrustLines

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# People Powered Money In the Trustlines Network every user is acting as a bank by granting credit lines to friends they trust. This allows to issue people powered money between friends and facilitate secure payments between strangers, by sending payments along a chain of trusting friends.

People Powered Money is a forthcoming conference that we will be running at various locations around the world on financial systems that are currently operating, or in the process of being created that offer an alternative to mainstream economic thinking.

#Technology

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# Custom Complementary Currencies Communities or businesses can create their own interoperable complementary currencies. Communities pursuing a local circular economy can for example disable interest or global interoperability, while business networks might customize access criteria to conform with regulatory requirements.

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# Rethinking Money Most of today’s money is created by commercial banks when they issue loans. Their core service is to basically keep a verifiable record of credit relationships. As blockchain technology is particular good at accounting, it provides an opportunity for communities and enterprises to exchange goods and services in people powered money based on mutual-credit.

# Open Protocol for Collaborative Finance The Trustlines Network is built as a decentralized platform hosting customized and interconnected IOU based currency networks. Contrary to present centralized collaborative finance platforms, this enables secure, transparent and permissionless P2P transactions. The platform comes as an open protocol and API supporting interoperability with other smart contract based services on the Ethereum platform. Developers worldwide can therefore build collaborative finance applications on top of the platform.

# Applications Permissionless Mobile Payments The main application is permissionless mobile payments denominated in traditional fiat, unit or time based currencies. The ease of getting started makes mobile payments accessible to the unbanked, i.e. people without ID, cash or a bank account. All needed is a phone, internet and a friend.

# Cross-Currency Payments The Trustlines Network supports cross-currency payments by users automatically accepting the best achievable conversion rate offered from other users. In effect this makes everyone capable of sending worldwide payments with next to no cost or settlement time.

# P2P Crypto Exchange Seller and buyers can securely trade crypto currencies for fiat money or credit without having to know or meet each other. This feature removes the current centralized gateway barriers for acquiring and using cryptocurrencies

# Loans & Saving The ability to give out loans and save up for the future is a crucial necessity for the proper functioning of our economies and something that is not possible in many parts of the developing world. Credit lines are at the core of the Trustlines system and trivially allow users to lend money. Smart contracts can be used to encode the specific terms (e.g. interest rate) of an agreement. Saving is implicitly supported by taking the opposite side of a loan.

# 3rd Party Applications The Trustlines Network is an open platform extendable by smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. 3rd party application developers can easily build on top of new or existing currency networks. Please see the white paper for further ideas on future applications.

# See also - People Powered money - Trustlines on medium - Sputnkik release on medium - Community hangout - youtube