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# Funding

We call our smart contract to allocate a space for this person. To do that any amount of ethers can be transferred inside the contract. That transfer will count as a registration confirmation for the person to become a lender. 

Then a set of balances is defined to track all ethers movement within the protocol for any particular lender.

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