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AW Refi 2000 Swap


Refinance Student Loans

Fixed interest rates
start
at 4.24% APR* (with autopay) and a $2000 welcome bonus for SoFi at Work partners.

Refinancing your student loan^ could help save you a ton of money, and you can get an additional $20001 welcome bonus when you refinance your student loan using this page.


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SoFi members get financial advice and more—all at no cost.


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We know student loans.

$47 billion+
in refinanced student loans

550,000+
members have refinanced their student loans

98%
of surveyed members would recommend SoFi to a friend 3

How it works

Get pre-qualified online.

We’ll let you know if you’re qualified before you complete the full application.

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Choose between saving on your monthly payment or saving on total student loan interest.

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Upload screenshots of your information, then sign your paperwork electronically. Then we’ll pay off your servicer(s) and issue you one new student loan.


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FAQs



Who should refinance?


Refinancing is a great solution for working graduates who have high-interest, unsubsidized Direct Loans, Graduate PLUS loans, and/or private loans. Federal loans do carry some special benefits, for example, public service forgiveness and economic hardship programs, that may not be accessible to you after you refinance. Check out this blog post that provide more information: When to Consolidate Federal and Private Loans by Refinancing. Or, call us for a free consultation about your particular situation.



Can I refinance both federal and private student loans?


Yes, SoFi will consolidate all qualified education loans.



Am I a good candidate to refinance my student loans with SoFi?


SoFi aims to revolutionize financial services—ultimately improving the system for everyone. Today, we’re able to offer significant savings and flexibility to US citizens or permanent residents who have graduated from a selection of Title IV accredited university or graduate programs, are employed, has a sufficient income from other sources, or hold a job offer with a start date within 90 days, have a responsible financial history, and a strong monthly cash flow.



What is the difference between consolidating and refinancing?


Student loan consolidation is when you combine multiple loans into one single loan. Student loan refinancing, on the other hand, is when you get a new loan at a new interest rate and/or a new term. You can refinance both federal and private loans. Learn more here.



What’s the difference between fixed and variable rate loans?

Fixed rate loans are loans that have an interest rate that does not change over the life of a loan, which means you pay the same amount each month. It also means you know with certainty the total interest that you’ll pay over the life of the loan. Fixed rate is a general term that can apply to different types of loans with a variety of uses, including student loans, mortgages, auto loans, and unsecured personal loans.

Variable rate loans are loans that have an interest rate that will fluctuate over time in line with prevailing interest rates. They generally have lower starting interest rates than fixed rate loans, but the interest rate and payment amounts can change over time. Sometimes they are also known as floating rate loans.

Learn more at https://www.sofi.com/fixed-vs-variable-rate-loans/




Where can I find more information about student loans in general?


Deciding how to best handle your student loan obligations can be an intimidating process. That’s why we’ve put together our Student Loan Help Center to give you guidance on payments, refinancing, budgeting, and common terminology so you can feel more confident in your journey to becoming debt free.


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Liz Looks at: Rally Breadth

SoFi’s Head of Investment Strategy looks at the recent market rally and explains why some of the indicators of strength could still be head fakes.

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Blockchain Analysis Indicators


Blockchain Analysis Indicators



Global In/Out of the Money

The Global In/Out of the Money (GIOM) classifies addresses based on if they are profiting (in the money), breaking even (at the money) or losing money (out of the money) on their positions at current price. IntoTheBlock calculates an address’ average cost based on the weighted average price at which it bought or received the tokens currently held by the address. IntoTheBlock categorizes addresses and tokens accordingly to obtain an aggregate view of profitability for a particular crypto asset.

The GIOM aggregates all addresses’ positions into clusters based on the number of addresses (or volume) that had previously bought at a certain price range. The larger these clusters, the more support/resistance is expected around these price levels.

Volatility

The Volatility indicator measures the 30- or 60-day variations in price for a particular crypto-asset. This is calculated as the standard deviation of the period’s daily returns and annualizing the variation. Since crypto markets are 24/7 the annualization formula takes into account 365 days (as opposed to the 252 trading days generally available in stock markets).

Total Addresses

The Total Addresses indicator monitors three key metrics:

Total Addresses: All addresses ever created one point have held a particular crypto-asset, including those that still do.

Total with Balance (Holders): All addresses that currently hold this particular crypto-asset.

Total Zero Balance: All the addresses that used to hold a crypto-asset but no longer do.

Put simply Total Addresses = Total with Balance + Total Zero Balance

The IntoTheBlock team has Total with Balance selected as default as it is more indicative of a crypto-asset’s on-chain ‘health’.

Number of Transactions

As the name suggests, this indicator displays the number of transactions for a particular crypto-asset on a given day. This data is based on what is shown in the blockchain, therefore transactions taken within exchanges are not recorded unless they occur on-chain.

For smart contract protocols such as Ethereum and Ontology, the number of transactions includes transactions that take place in tokens built on top of them. For example, if there are 200 LINK transactions, Ethereum will also record those 200 transactions as ETH is required to transfer ERC-20 tokens on-chain.

Transactions Volume

The Transactions Volume indicator measures the aggregate volume of transactions recorded on-chain. This version of the indicator tracks the volume in crypto terms (i.e. BTC instead USD). You can use the indicator in USD terms here.

Another version of this indicator, Large Transactions Volume, measures only the volume of transactions over $100,000, which is indicative of whale/institutional activity.

Addresses by Time Held

Since blockchains run on a public distributed ledger and all data is of public access. Numerous characteristics regarding addresses can be extracted. IntoTheBlock gathers addresses depending on the time they have held the specific asset. These addresses are divided the following way:

Hodlers – addresses that have held the asset over a period of one year.

Cruisers – addresses with holding periods between one and twelve months.

Traders – the group that have held the asset for less than one month.

Balance by Time Held

In the same way that IntoThBlock classifies the number of addresses by their holding period, this indicator takes it a step further by adding the value that each specific group has represented over time. The indicator shows the value of coins relative to each individual group (Hodlers, Cruisers and Traders) since its historic inception. This helps to keep track of the trading behaviors of each different group.

Net Flows

IntoTheBlock has built a proprietary machine learning powered classifier to identify addresses of top centralized exchanges, including their deposit addresses, withdrawal addresses, hot wallets and cold wallets. With this classifier, IntoTheBlock can measure the net volume flowing into exchanges. Through the following formula IntoTheBlock calculates Net Flows:

Net Flows = Inflow Volume – Outflow Volume

Twitter Sentiment

The Twitter Sentiment indicator uses IntoTheBlock’s proprietary classification machine learning algorithm to infer the connotation of messages discussing a particular crypto-asset and its ticker. These are plotted over time to track market sentiment and the level of activity in relation to a crypto-asset in Twitter.

The Search Trends indicator uses Google’s API to obtain the relative rank of searches performed by Google users globally for a particular crypto-asset. The relative ranks range from 0 to 100, where 0 is the lowest period of search volume and 100 indicates the peak number of searches.

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