Creditcoin is a permissionless, public blockchain created to facilitate a borderless credit investment network. At its most basic level, Creditcoin connects fundraisers/borrowers with lenders, who register stating their loan condition requirements, such as maturity dates and interest rate. The public blockchain of Creditcoin Network creates a credit lending infrastructure that provides microfinance providers and fintech lenders with better access to capital.

Cryptocurrency still lacks a developed market for credit-based borrowing or lending. Creditcoin resolves this issue by building a blockchain that facilitates an efficient, borderless, and open market for credit. Moreover, Creditcoin serves the millions of under-banked and unbanked people in the developing world. The transaction history of Creditcoin is stored objectively to allow transacting parties to screen potential investments and audit risk.

Some of the main features of Creditcoin include instantaneous settlement of lending and borrowing. The decentralized solution of Creditcoin allows seamless creation of lending markets by offering fast closing of bid/ask spreads. Immutable credit history and scoring are some of the notable characteristics of Creditcoin. Creditcoin facilitates immutable records of transaction data.

According to its whitepaper, the Creditcoin ecosystem has two distinct tokens representing the same underlying asset. The main net token of Creditcoin, CTC, is used for transaction fees and mining rewards. G-CRE is the trading and vesting token of Creditcoin. G-CRE is token-based, on the ERC20 Ethereum network standard. The proprietary utility token of CTC enables the recording of transactions on the Creditcoin Network. CTC facilitates transactions between lenders and borrowers in a smooth and secured manner.

Creditcoin bootstraps transparency into its ecosystem to facilitate the trust and market information required for efficient lending markets. Further, it bridges the gap between cryptocurrencies and the real-world lending economy. The goal of Creditcoin is to connect blockchain assets with a straightforward protocol to design an inter-blockchain lending market, bringing the crypto ecosystem closer to a sound currency. 

Creditcoin was developed jointly by two companies, Aella and Gluwa. Aella is the initial distributor of Creditcoin and Gluwa is the technology provider. Tae Oh is the CEO and founder of Gluwa. Vladimir Kouznetsov is the lead blockchain architect of Gluwa. Akin Jones is the CEO of Aella, and Wale Akanbi is the CTO.