Bringing Institutions and Businesses to DeFi: Maple Finance's Sidney Powell
The Defiant18 Apr 2023

Bringing Institutions and Businesses to DeFi: Maple Finance's Sidney Powell

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 more. We begin our conversation with Sidney giving us an intro to Maple Finance.

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