It allows consumers/investors to use and see KipOpen as a single investment platform (e.g. they only need to login once and they can search for any project in the network easily). This is necessary to facilitate user adoption.

It distributes the cost and maintenance of the network over all the individual crowdfunding sites (i.e. the network nodes). This secures the long-term sustainability of the platform.

It incentivizes the creation of new crowdfunding sites. Every new site benefits from being part of the network (e.g. access to existent users, inclusion in global search results, publicity …etc) and faces lower barriers to entry. This fuels the growth of the network.