Is Decentralization the End Game?

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The internete enabled like a long tail content right? So you could have communities that might have been focused on collecting stamps from, you know, the mid 18 hundreds. By aggregating them through the internet, they can find each other and communicate. I think it offers most service if it continues to live in a middle ground between centralization and de centralization. There should be a long tale of capital markets where the scale of setting up a lending business issue is shrinking so we can have more specialized lending b es.

When centralized lending desks were blowing up from the 3AC contagion, DeFi lending protocol Maple Finance remained stable. Could DeFi have prevented the crypto blowup?

Maple Finance is an undercollateralized lending protocol where pooled capital is managed by credit experts and lent to reputable and profitable crypto-institutions.

In this episode, Co-Founder Sid Powell shares with us:

How DeFi might have prevented the recent blow-up
How Maple Finance differs from other DeFi protocols
Maple’s business model and value accrual to it’s token MPL

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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(00:00:00) – Introduction

(00:02:33) – Thoughts on recent 3AC contagion

(00:08:13) – How DeFi could have helped

(00:13:56) – Maple Finance vs DeFi 1.0

(00:20:02) – Is Maple replicable off-chain?

(00:28:05) – How pool delegates manage depositor’s money

(00:32:03) – Criticism that Maple Finance is partly centralized

(00:35:43) – Will Maple Finance pursue full-decentralization?

(00:41:03) – Maple’s business model and it’s token

(00:44:35) – Future market expansions

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