Vulnerability & Friction Surface
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs), known globally as chit funds, tandas, and susus, mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars across two billion people, yet informal physical circles suffer from unpenalized late-stage defaults, opaque manual ledger fraud, 0% yield on idle cash, and 5–9% remittance drag. Conversely, institutional DeFi lending demands >125% over-collateralization, pricing out the exact communities that rely on cooperative credit.

