A default is not a scandal. Being unable to see your own money is.
Roughly ₹8.85 crore is stuck across 580 lenders in a single P2P lending product, and most of them cannot tell you where that money went.
The product was MobiKwik Xtra, run through Lendbox, an RBI-registered NBFC. The pitch was familiar: returns of up to 12-14%, withdraw anytime, a regulator's tag sitting behind it. For a while it worked. Repayments arrived on schedule, withdrawals cleared.
Then the RBI tightened the rules in 2024. The repayments thinned to a trickle, and for many, to zero.
Defaults are normal in unsecured lending. Anyone who lends to strangers should expect some of them not to pay.
The failure here runs deeper. Lenders were never shown which borrowers they funded, and their money was blocked and redeployed into fresh loans without consent.
DeFi answers this with onchain lending. The record lives on a shared public ledger anyone can read, instead of inside one company's database. Every deposit, loan, and repayment lands there, and no one can rewrite it. A borrower can still default and you can still take the loss. What you do not lose is sight of your own money. You see where it went and what it is doing, every step.
That is the gap MobiKwik Xtra exposed. Not the defaults. The fact that 580 lenders had no way to watch their money move.
@narendramodi Please do something on the @MobiKwik XTRA scam,
A lot of middle class people are going to lose their hard earned money because of that .
We are a community of ~900 people losing an aggregate of around 15CR and counting.
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