Design objective DO8: Provision point mechanism
The provision point mechanism is a common practice in crowdlending platforms to address the free-rider problem, where investors wait and observe what others do before investing. Thus, our platform needs to include a parameter for minimum funding, which needs to be reached before funding is provided to a student (Agrawal et al. 2014).
Source paper
This design objective is proposed by Unchaining Social Businesses - Blockchain as the Basic Technology of a Crowdlending Platform (Andre Schweizer, Vincent Schlatt, Nils Urbach, Gilbert Fridgen, 2017).