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Bringing Institutions and Brick & Mortar Businesses to DeFi: Maple Finance's Sidney Powell
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Sidney Powell is the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance. Maple is a DeFi platform that offers uncollateralized loans and facilitates interactions between institutional borrowers and lenders. In our conversation we dive into Sidney’s background, how uncollateralized loans work, how the bear market affected Maple, the benefits of blockchain based financial systems and much more. We begin our conversation with Sidney giving us an intro to Maple Finance.
00:00 The basics
00:43 What is Maple Finance?
02:15 How Maple Finance differs from Aave and Compound?
04:29 How collateral is managed?
11:46 Sidney’s perseverance in DeFi
19:59 Managing risk and improving efficiency on Maple
25:21 Overview of the platform and its strategies
33:31 Reducing costs and saving time
39:20 Understanding the user base
42:08 Challenges and opportunities in the DeFi space
46:54 Treasury bill pool
51:07 The financialization of everything
55:59 Will there be a new type of DeFi summer boom?
57:55 What makes you defiant?
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