CEO & Co-Founder @maplefinance π₯
Joined March 2017
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Jun 9
Awesome new dashboard from @Blockworks on @maplefinance
Jun 9
NEW: Now tracking @maplefinance, the leader in onchain asset management.
Track Maple's financials, SYRUP token, deposits, loans, and yield in a single place.
ALT Dashboard displaying Maple Finance metrics, including total deposits, supplied assets, outstanding loans, pool utilization, and yields.
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Jun 5
Defaults don't kill credit markets. They stress them, force them to adapt and ultimately get stronger.
Grateful to @Yield_Summit for letting me make the case.
(1/3) Onchain credit has scaled quickly, and a meaningful default may be inevitable. Sidney Powell (@syrupsid), Co-Founder & CEO at @maplefinance, argues that a visible default could be constructive: a forcing function for better underwriting, transparency, and risk pricing.
Digital Asset Yield Summit is the ultimate forum for capital allocators to discover the latest advancements in digital asset yield. Every attendee is reviewed. Every session is relevant. Every introduction is intentional.
Next event: DAYS Singapore, October 6
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Jun 1
Join us for the Q2 @maplefinance Investor Call on July 8, 2026.
We'll share the latest on Maple's performance and what's next.
Drop in your questions ahead of the call: form.typeform.com/to/BKjCk9Vβ¦
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Sid Powell π₯ retweeted
syrupUSDC from @maplefinance is now available on STRATO with yields up to 19.81%.
Users can bridge syrupUSDC to STRATO for extra yield and to earn points ahead of our TGE.
We're sitting down with Maple on May 28th to talk credit yield, syrupUSDC, and what comes next for DeFi.
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Sid Powell π₯ retweeted
DAYS Miami Recap: Panels. Part 3
β The next panel discussion was on "Why Vaults Became Institutional Infrastructure," led by Matt Casto (@mcasto_), Head of DeFi at @CMT_Digital, with Sid Powell (@syrupsid), Co-Founder & CEO at @maplefinance, Jonathan Han (@0xJHan), CEO at
@eulerfinance, Reid Simon, President of Digital Assets at @Figure, and Jonathan Man, Head of Multi-Strategy Solutions & DeFi Strategies at @Bitwise Asset Management.
Digital Asset Yield Summit brings the right people in the right room. Next event: DAYS New York on 11 June!
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Apr 30
Great article by @serotonin_hq on Onchain Credit.
Features in depth analysis of @maplefinance's growth and position as the leading lender to institutional borrowers
Apr 28
Average lending rates have dropped to 2.9% - lower than the 3-month U.S Treasury rate.
Onchain credit is filling the gap, providing $300Bn in stablecoins with yield-generating opportunities.
@solofunk dove into the data in our first research report on Onchain Credit.
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Apr 30
$SYRUP arrives on @Revolut
Millions of users can now participate in the fastest growing institutional lender in crypto.
Apr 30
Big news: SYRUP is now available on @Revolut in the UK and EU.
One of the world's largest fintechs, with 70M users across 39 countries, just opened the door for millions to access Maple in a few taps.
Onchain institutional credit yield meets mainstream finance.
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Apr 23
Onchain lending comes in many forms, as @KYDLabs points sporting and entertainment events are effectively a form of private credit
βTicketing companies act as banks.
Whenever a show goes on, a venue typically signs a deal where they get capital upfront to pay the artist and the production.
Service fees are interest rates for that loan that the venue has taken from the ticketing company.β
@KYDNimale on @CBSNews discussing ticket prices for the 2028 LA Olympics.
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Apr 22
Great read from my co-founder @joe_defi on @maplefinance response to rsETH.
This highlights the opportunity we see in Maple's hybrid approach to overcollateralized lending, tailored for institutions. Maple can offer borrowers triparty vaults at qualified custodians. Over the past 72 hours we've seen $500m in inbound borrow appetite.
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The advantage of @maplefinance is flexibility. When risk changes, we can concentrate on institutional-quality yield beyond DeFi and keep lenders positioned in opportunities with stronger fundamentals. That matters in markets like this.
Apr 20
(1/7) Update from Maple
Maple has no active DeFi positions. We assessed risk exposure across DeFi and proactively removed all allocations. Through active risk management, Lenders have no exposure to rsETH or other indirect exposures, and the Maple platform operated as expected.
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Apr 18
syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT have zero exposure to the rsETH exploit.
All capital was removed from Aave v3 mainnet before any impact. No exposure remains.
Maple has no loans backed by rsETH.
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Apr 18
Best takeaway in this piece by @Dune : permissionless composability is itself a distribution channel.
@maplefinance syrupUSD across @aave , @Morpho , and @kamino shows what happens when institutional credit becomes usable collateral inside DeFi.
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Apr 17
Had a blast chatting with @srimisra about the incredible growth in DeFi Lending over the last 12 months, culminating in @maplefinance largest ever loan of $500m to round out 2025
From yield farming gimmicks to $500M institutional loans - DeFi lending has finally found its product-market fit.
@maplefinance is at the sharp end of that shift - purpose-built for borrowers who need size, structure, and a 24-hour margin call window instead of instant liquidation.
Spoke to @syrupsid on alpha un#.
Link in commentsπ
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Sid Powell π₯ retweeted
Apr 14
Maple Finance CEO @syrupsid is speaking at @consensus2026 Wealth Management Day on May 6 in Miami.
As institutional adoption of onchain yield accelerates, Sid will share how Maple is bridging the gap between DeFi infrastructure and traditional allocators.
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Apr 1
Big Beautiful Bitcoin Bond.
First Bitcoin-backed municipal bond hits market with a Moody's rating, and the first crypto-backed mortgages get Fannie Mae backing.
The bridge between TradFi and crypto is built on overcollateralized lending. @maplefinance thesis is that traditional capital markets will quickly adopt BTC backed fixed income.
@MoodysRatings
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Full details on the Moody's rated Bitcoin bond here: coindesk.com/markets/2026/03β¦
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Great report by @GLC_Research
Mar 30
Maple's active loans were naturally affected by $BTC price performance and broader market conditions throughout Q1, but they're closing the quarter on a strong note with $350M in new loans issued in a single day.
When we started covering them, they had way less than $350M in total active loans. Now they can deploy that same amount in under 24 hours.
@maplefinance now stands at $1.2B in active loans and $4.6B in AuM, with syrupUSDT just crossing the $1B deposits mark.
The largest onchain asset manager now has two overcollateralized billion-dollar assets generating yield at scale.
Our Q1 report is dropping soon, and it's coming in a new format.
Maple.
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Mar 30
Congrats @ValinorDigital! Onchain credit is the next trillion dollar layer sitting on top of stablecoins!
Mar 30
Valinor announces a $25M seed round led by @CastleIslandVC to reshape credit for the digital era.
Read more about what this means for the future of credit markets in Fortune.
fortune.com/2026/03/30/valinβ¦
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Mar 27
Massive capital is moving onchain. @maplefinance is joining the first @obexincubator cohort as a Sky Agent to scale institutional DeFi.
$1B being deployed to bring real-world yield onchain and we are ready to drive this forward alongside @SkyEcosystem. Let's build!
Mar 25
Maple is joining the @obexincubator inaugural cohort as a Sky Agent.
Obex is deploying up to $1B across 8 projects bringing real-world yield onchain across structured credit, fintech lending, AI infrastructure, energy finance, and more.
Excited to build alongside @SkyEcosystem and help accelerate the next era of institutional DeFi.
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