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Sidney Powell, Maple Finance | Why the Next Phase of Crypto Is Credit
“The wave that we're catching is that all of this is going to shift on-chain and be done with stablecoins over the next 10 years.”
In this episode of Searching for Mana, Lloyd Wahed is joined by Sidney Powell, CEO of Maple Finance, to explore how on-chain credit is evolving into a serious capital markets category.
Maple now manages around $4bn in AUM and has originated more than $20bn in loans since launch. But the deeper story is how crypto lending has changed since 2022: less frontier excess, more risk management, more institutional structure.
Sidney explains how Maple lends to institutions…
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