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Why Bitcoin-Backed Lending Will Reach $200 Billion | Sid Powell
In this episode of Talking Tokens, Jacquelyn Melinek speaks with Sid Powell, co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, about how its onchain asset management platform grew from $500 million to over $4 billion in AUM through disciplined risk management and institutional-grade lending infrastructure. Sid explains how Maple evolved from its original 2019 vision of tokenized bonds to becoming a direct lender serving prime brokers, asset managers, and trading firms, and why the platform pivoted multiple times to find product-market fit.
He walks through the growth of syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT as…
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