https://blog.populous.world/2019/02/18/populous-worlds-invoice-finance-platform-pip-has-officially-transitioned-from-beta-to-live-mode/

Populous World’s invoice finance platform (PIP) has officially transitioned from beta to live mode.   

That's awesome information about Populous. Do you also see or know about any downsides? Is there serious competition in this field?

If you look at traditional instruments of economy and their interest rates then this 9% will justifies itself. We are entering in an era of blockchain and investing in reliable project or asset for 9% of interest without doing anything is very good. Big investors want state of peace in their mind and for them this is very good rate to attract them in my opinion.

I think that soon we will see a good growth of PPT coin. To the maximum values ​​of $75 we must return in bull market.

Great development here. Strange how little of these big steps are marketed out there. Seems like an underground project...

And more weird to notice that old hodlers (checking the latest transactions) are dumping their holdings now, when it should have been the opposite and accumulate.

Works like this, you buy a Populous Gold Crypto Coin. You will buy it for 9% less than market price.
If Gold is at 1090usd you will pay only 1000usd as example.
After 12 months you get the actual price of one Gold Coin back* on you Populous Account or you can decide to take delivery of one physical once of Gold.

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Found it on there Website they say:

"If the Gold price drops below the current price in which you purchased the XAUp, you will not be affected by the fall in price. Likewise, if the price of Gold rises above the purchase price of the XAUp, you will gain the benefit of the increase in the price of Gold.
This is achieved via the invoice financing operations and hedging of Gold prices."

This is pretty good, so you protected against lower Gold Prices and you get 9% interest(paid upfront) per year. To me this offer would also be a great offer with 3% aslong I am protected against falling Gold Prices and at the other hand I can get the gain off higher Gold Prices.  

https://populous.world/invoice-finance/what-are-gold-pokens.html

Gold pokens is really interesting and more its not only in crypto but in real gold. Much more in than a crypto the gold it was the best way of making crypto that some of us knows that this papermoney will be out of the way someday in the next decade or a few years from now. Those who not knows this will be in panic to buy when this is on the market.

The project has great potential for the next five-seven months via roadmap. If the market also moves into a growth phase, the profit will be very good. Do not forget that the project started with a price less than a dollar and in the growing market at the expense and hard work of the team and large investors began to cost more than 50$.
There are almost no invoice projects on the market so there is where to grow.

Agree with you, but to restore investor confidence again in the project needs a great effort. This is due to the rumors that have affected the reputation of the Populous project CEO.