Pencil Finance completes $1M onchain lending cycle for 6.6K students in Southeast Asia
Cointelegraph· Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai· Sep 3, 2026 · 10:59 AM
Pencil Finance said that its first-of-a-kind loan offered financing to 6,600 students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional lenders.
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