Prepared by: Stephanie Nwankwo, A full stack blockchain developer Github Profile: https://github.com/GoSTEAN Telegram Handle: @GoSTEAN Email: iamtechhunter@gmail.com Live Site: https://recurr-tau.vercel.app/
recurr is a decentralized protocol designed to solve the liquidity crunch for subscription-based businesses and startups. It creates a trustless ecosystem for Verified Revenue-Based Financing (VRBF).
Unlike traditional banks that require physical collateral, recurr acts as a transparent credit oracle and capital formation bridge that allows businesses to unlock upfront capital from their future recurring revenue without giving up equity (dilution). It specifically bridges the gap between a business's real-world cash flow and on-chain liquidity, starting with the Mantle Network.
recurr is built around the idea that Revenue is the new Collateral. The platform simplifies high-end financial auditing into an automated, on-chain process:
- Revenue Verification: The protocol's extraction engine validates bank statements to generate a tamper-proof "Proof of Revenue".
- Credit Anchoring: Business health metrics—MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) and a Stability Score—are anchored on the Mantle blockchain.
- Capital Formation: Businesses mint their verified revenue into "Revenue Bonds".
- Escrow-Backed Funding: Investors deposit funds into decentralized vaults, which are then released to the business and repaid automatically through protocol-monitored cash flow.
- KYC & Compliance: Businesses undergo a one-time Know Your Customer (KYC) verification to ensure regulatory compliance before funds can be withdrawn from the protocol.
recurr is focused on providing seamless, automated financial workflows. Here is the user flow:
Business Owner X comes to recurr and connects their wallet (MetaMask). They upload their financial statements (CSV/PDF) to our extraction engine. recurr analyzes the cash flow and anchors a "Stability Score" and MRR proof on-chain. Based on this proof, the business can mint a "Revenue Bond" and open a capital pool. To access the raised funds, the business completes a KYC verification process. Once verified, funds held in the secure Escrow Vault can be withdrawn, and repayments are automated based on a percentage of verified revenue.
Investor Y explores the recurr dashboard to find verified businesses with high Stability Scores. They deposit USDC into the business's vault to earn fixed-yield returns (APY). The investor’s capital is protected by the protocol’s automated escrow logic and on-chain revenue monitoring.
The Protocol (Smart Contracts) handles the heavy lifting: verifying the revenue data via the oracle, managing the bond lifecycle, and ensuring that repayments are distributed to investors according to the agreed-upon terms, without any manual intervention or centralized gatekeepers.
he startup ecosystem faces a critical financing challenge: despite having consistent revenue and growth, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle to access non-dilutive capital. Traditional lending remains centralized, slow, and heavily reliant on physical collateral or personal guarantees. This fundamental gap prevents businesses from scaling efficiently.
Current Challenges:
- Centralized Credit Bias: Traditional banks often reject digital-native businesses (SaaS, Content Creators, E-commerce) because they don't understand digital cash flow.
- The Liquidity Gap: Startups often have to wait 12 months to collect the revenue they've already "earned" through subscriptions, causing growth-stifling cash flow gaps.
- Opaque Private Debt: The current private lending market is slow, paper-heavy, and inaccessible to the average decentralized investor.
- Dilution: Founder equity is often the only way to get early-stage cash, forcing entrepreneurs to give up ownership unnecessarily.
The lack of accessible, transparent financing has repeatedly led to the failure of promising businesses and the stifling of innovation:
- The "Cash Flow Gap" Failure: Thousands of subscription-based companies fail every year not because they lack revenue, but because of timing—running out of cash while waiting for monthly receivables.
- Predatory Lending (The 2008 Echo): In many regions, startups forced into high-interest (30%+) short-term loans often enter a "debt spiral" that leads to bankruptcy.
- TradFi Gatekeeping: Historically, over 70% of small business loan applications are rejected by major banks, purely due to a lack of "traditional" collateral (like real-estate).
recurr addresses this by transforming Revenue into Collateral, ensuring that healthy businesses can always access the liquidity they need to survive and thrive.
recurr addresses these challenges by creating a decentralized platform for revenue verification, reporting, and capital management.
Platform Features (V1):
- Trustless Reporting: Automated parsing of bank statements ensures contributors (businesses) provide accurate, non-manipulated data.
- Automated Vault Management: Smart contracts handle escrow and distribution, eliminating repayment disputes.
- Community-Driven Verification: On-chain metrics ensure a fair and transparent evaluation of business health.
- Immutable Audit Trail: All activity is recorded on-chain, creating a transparent history of fiscal responsibility.
- Integrated KYC Verification: Seamless onboarding for businesses to verify their identity, ensuring the protocol remains compliant with global financial standards.
Future Features (V2):
- AI-Enhanced Credit Analysis: Faster, more predictive stability scoring.
- Secondary Liquidity: Trading revenue-backed debt positions.
- Multi-Chain Expansion: Connecting liquidity across the broader blockchain ecosystem.
recurr leverages blockchain technology for four crucial reasons:
- Trustless Operations: Eliminating centralized intermediaries removes the "gatekeeper" bias in financial approvals.
- Immutable Records: Once a revenue proof is anchored, it creates indisputable evidence of business performance.
- Automated Escrow: Smart contracts guarantee that funds are only released and repaid according to hardcoded rules, removing human error.
- Global Accessibility: recurr allows a business anywhere in the world to access capital from global investors without borders.
recurr is optimized for the Mantle Network because:
- Scalability: High throughput allows for the frequent updates needed for real-time revenue monitoring.
- Low Cost: Ensures that the cost of capital isn't eaten up by massive gas fees.
- Developer Focus: Mantle’s robust DeFi ecosystem provides the perfect growth environment for a protocol focused on Real-World Assets (RWA) and revenue bonds.
| Contract | Address |
|---|---|
| BondFactory | 0x27A95ACcD4D98575D30C7B9a886d95901bACB974 |
| RevenueOracleConnector | 0x15dAcCFA99d50A0c71eE93552318400eFCc09BAB |
| KYCRegistry | 0xF884DD00A433B37457F9EaBabB79253f5e64C7F5 |
| RiskTierManager | 0xaDb76Cf8F935814095D2bDe7E83139d62907752e |
| InsurancePool | 0x5965fcaf415dB7A350FA736E8bD8c135eb6905b7 |
| MockUSDC | 0xf9B2F4eCA69eEB7aA3B885d839D9985299A80535 |
- Business Onboarding Guide
- Project Technical Overview
- Contribution & Implementation Guide
- Project Roadmap
- Troubleshooting & FAQ
recurr decentralizes the smart contract of business lending. By making revenue-based disclosures faster, safer, and more transparent, we are empowering a new generation of founders to scale on their own terms.
Through an immutable, transparent, and automated protocol, recurr bridges the gap between real-world performance and on-chain liquidity. This is the future of sustainable, non-dilutive startup growth.