

Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell
59 snips Apr 25, 2025
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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.
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.
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.