Another banger as usual rekt 🥞
Most people still see crypto as tokens.
The real transformation is the financial infrastructure underneath.
Faster settlement. Global access. Transparent markets. Programmable assets.
That’s why protocols building real businesses onchain matter
Maple isn’t competing with other DeFi protocols for attention. It’s positioning itself to compete with traditional credit giants in a world where capital, collateral, and credit increasingly live onchain.
The rails are changing. The institutions that adapt will thrive.🥞
Another banger as usual rekt 🥞
Most people still see crypto as tokens.
The real transformation is the financial infrastructure underneath.
Faster settlement. Global access. Transparent markets. Programmable assets.
That’s why protocols building real businesses onchain matter
It is important to zoom out and take a 30,000 foot view of crypto at times like this...
And to remember that ultimately, what will lead to crypto's success is not Saylor (or lack of Saylor), or $MSTR or $STRC, or even $BTC itself, or any one regulatory regime in any one country, or any specific macro liquidity profile in any one year...
But rather 1) blockchain's inherent superiority as financial rails, and 2) the generational shift globally as the gerontocracy which currently benefits from those anachronistic rails is forced to cede power as they pass on...
As Mishima wrote:
"...all artistic creations are born of a resistance to one's era..."
And such it is with crypto.
After decades upon decades of this calcified, ossified legacy financial system laboriously slogging onward- and after the increasingly cynical sacrifice of future economic prospects within that system to benefit those currently in charge of it- a new generation of technological pioneers (or 'artists', to channel the above quote) ushered in the arrival of a wholly new, vastly superior, blockchain-based financial system.
It is truly beautiful when you think about it.
And we are currently smack dab in the middle of that evolution.
@maplefinance co-founder @syrupsid gave an absolute masterclass on this subject in a recent interview with @Genfinity...
In relation to Maple's own trajectory within the broader evolution noted above, he states:
"Our ultimate competitor over the next 10 years is the Ares', the KKR's, the Blackstone's of the world...
And we think we have an advantage over them that will expand over time because they don't understand how to use stablecoins... they're not going to be lending stablecoins... they don't know how to accept tokenized collateral...
More assets are gonna be tokenized... there's going to be more stablecoins in the world... and ultimately that's kind of the oxygen for us..."
Its a really incredible interview- even if you aren't interested in Maple specifically- as it outlines as thoroughly and cogently as I have seen a description of where we are currently at in that overall evolution to blockchain-based rails...
Am going to include several more clips below and highly recommend watching all of them as a well as the full interview!
And then disclaimer as always I own tons of $SYRUP and am insanely bullish on it and work with the team (hence the Nikita tag on this) so I am admittedly very bias :)
Indeed there is no team in crypto I trust more to execute and take advantage of the above shift than the Maple team - and when I watch clips like those below it just makes the long-term success of crypto seem even that much more inevitable...
It is important to zoom out and take a 30,000 foot view of crypto at times like this...
And to remember that ultimately, what will lead to crypto's success is not Saylor (or lack of Saylor), or $MSTR or $STRC, or even $BTC itself, or any one regulatory regime in any one country, or any specific macro liquidity profile in any one year...
But rather 1) blockchain's inherent superiority as financial rails, and 2) the generational shift globally as the gerontocracy which currently benefits from those anachronistic rails is forced to cede power as they pass on...
As Mishima wrote:
"...all artistic creations are born of a resistance to one's era..."
And such it is with crypto.
After decades upon decades of this calcified, ossified legacy financial system laboriously slogging onward- and after the increasingly cynical sacrifice of future economic prospects within that system to benefit those currently in charge of it- a new generation of technological pioneers (or 'artists', to channel the above quote) ushered in the arrival of a wholly new, vastly superior, blockchain-based financial system.
It is truly beautiful when you think about it.
And we are currently smack dab in the middle of that evolution.
@maplefinance co-founder @syrupsid gave an absolute masterclass on this subject in a recent interview with @Genfinity...
In relation to Maple's own trajectory within the broader evolution noted above, he states:
"Our ultimate competitor over the next 10 years is the Ares', the KKR's, the Blackstone's of the world...
And we think we have an advantage over them that will expand over time because they don't understand how to use stablecoins... they're not going to be lending stablecoins... they don't know how to accept tokenized collateral...
More assets are gonna be tokenized... there's going to be more stablecoins in the world... and ultimately that's kind of the oxygen for us..."
Its a really incredible interview- even if you aren't interested in Maple specifically- as it outlines as thoroughly and cogently as I have seen a description of where we are currently at in that overall evolution to blockchain-based rails...
Am going to include several more clips below and highly recommend watching all of them as a well as the full interview!
And then disclaimer as always I own tons of $SYRUP and am insanely bullish on it and work with the team (hence the Nikita tag on this) so I am admittedly very bias :)
Indeed there is no team in crypto I trust more to execute and take advantage of the above shift than the Maple team - and when I watch clips like those below it just makes the long-term success of crypto seem even that much more inevitable...
FF - 5 More Wonderful Accounts To Follow 💪
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- @reisnertobias - the absolute best in food, nature, and $HYPE poasting :)
- @royal1dd - extremely smart + earnest lad who shares my taste in defi protocols
- @celestineia - gigawholesome schizo-maxxing, one of my favorite accounts on here
- @nech_n_ - very smart defi poster + nascent fitness poster and overall good dude
- @LouisCooper_ - I feel like Louis has lived ten lifetimes in the last 5 years here on CT (something I empathize with as I always feel 1000 years old myself) and now has an insanely high WIS score with reams upon reams of excellent advice
Will link to something from each of them below :)
Fintechs hold stablecoin balances every day.
They stay idle with zero yield, just sitting there.
@maplefinance just changed that.
Maple is now live on @tempo bringing institutional-grade yield to fintechs building payments and payouts on their network.
Instead of stablecoin balances doing nothing while transactions settle, fintechs can now plug into Maple and put that float to work.
No credit desk or custom code needed.
Just managed yield, ready to integrate.
Every loan behind it is underwritten and actively managed by Maple credit team, so the risk work is already done.
Fintechs get an earn product.
Their users get yield, Maple handles the rest.
🥞 🥞
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Great to see @TheiaResearch highlight @maplefinance as one of their best buys of 2025.
Their analysis nails our core thesis: being "counter-positioned" against both banks and other DeFi protocols.
Banks can't lend against BTC due to regulatory capital requirements. Other protocols chose to be platforms, not lenders. This allowed Maple to carve out a niche in institutional lending
Great to be on with @EleanorTerrett and @jacqmelinek in Hong Kong!
The trillion dollar private credit market is sitting there, ripe for the picking. @maplefinance is building a home for it onchain!
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
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