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  • Introduction
    • What is Pencil Finance?
    • Why Student Loans?
    • Product Overview
  • Protocol Overview
    • Core Architecture
    • Dual Tranche Model
    • GROW Token (ERC-20)
    • EDUFI NFT (ERC-721)
    • Redemption
    • Protocol Fees
  • Risk Management
    • Defaults and Loss Handling
    • Security Measures and Partner Safeguards
  • Smart Contract Architecture
  • Product Roadmap
    • V0 – Core Architecture [Finished]
    • V1 – Protocol Optimization [In Progress]
    • V2 – Aggregated loan pools
    • V3 - Governance Integration
    • V4 – Neo-Banking for Student Financing
  • Getting Started
    • Quickstart
    • Publish your docs
  • Basics
    • Editor
    • Markdown
    • Images & media
    • Interactive blocks
    • OpenAPI
    • Integrations
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  1. Introduction

Why Student Loans?

Student loans represent a high-need, high-impact sector with underserved capital markets in many parts of the world. Financing for education is often costly, fragmented, and inaccessible to many students. Meanwhile, global DeFi liquidity is abundant but lacks exposure to real-world, impact-driven assets. Pencil Finance bridges this gap by making education-backed lending investable, programmable, and transparent.

Benefits include:

  • Creating yield for investors with a meaningful social outcome.

  • Unlocking non-dilutive funding for trusted education lenders.

  • Bringing transparency and accountability to loan performance.

Education remains one of the most effective drivers of upward social mobility, yet millions of students globally are excluded due to lack of affordable financing. Traditional financing mechanisms are often bound by regional risk models, limited underwriting data, or regulatory constraints. Pencil Finance leverages blockchain technology to unlock borderless, programmatic capital flows that are efficient and inclusive.

By tokenizing loan portfolios, Pencil enables real-time repayment tracking, transparent performance metrics, and auditable risk exposure—all while offering investors a stable and structured return. This makes student lending not just an impact-driven cause, but a viable and scalable financial product in the decentralized ecosystem.

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