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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell

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Apr 25, 2025
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ANECDOTE

Sid Powell's Career Shift to Crypto

  • Sid Powell shares his journey from traditional banking to crypto lending with Maple Finance.
  • They started from peer-to-peer loans and evolved towards institutional lending.
INSIGHT

Under-Collateralized Lending Niche

  • Maple Finance focused on under-collateralized institutional loans unlike over-collateralized lending protocols.
  • They aimed to bring professional underwriting and first loss capital to on-chain credit pools.
ADVICE

Choose Business Over Consumer Lending

  • Lending to businesses is more scalable and predictable than peer-to-peer consumer loans.
  • Institutional borrowers with verifiable management accounts reduce idiosyncratic risks found in consumer lending.
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