Maple Finance

Adequate Risk Analysis Makes the Protocol Go Round, Even If Risk Is Minimized by Design — Recently I have been captivated by Maple Finance, which is positioned at the frontier of the undercollateralized lending sector. Maple provides value as an on-chain corporate credit market, enabling borrowers to access undercollateralized loans through pools managed by credit assessors. For any lending environment, assessing credit risk is a top…

Crypto lending system Maple Finance shifts away from uncollateralized lending toward offering yield-generating real-world assets to crypto investors following defaults and a significant revamp. Wednesday saw the launch of a new liquidity pool of trade receivables by blockchain-based credit marketplace Maple Finance. …

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Undercollateralized Lending to Institutions Intro: Maple is a lending platform that sits in between centralized institutional demand for cheap capital and decentralized lenders demand for yield. Exclusively lending to these institutional parties allows Maple to evaluate the credit risk of that party and rate their trustworthiness. This ultimately allows for undercollateralized…

Orthogonal Credit, a delegate firm that managed lending pools for Maple Finance, made an early decision not to lend to the sister company of FTX Exchange, Alameda Research. The Maple lending protocol offers loans to parties without providing any initial collateral. To ensure that the borrowers are in a position…

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September performance — Market Commentary (USDC & wETH) In September, the cryptocurrency market failed to reverse the losses seen in August. With inflation far above target the U.S. Federal Reserve continued their trend with the fastest and most aggressive hiking cycle in more than three decades to curb it with another 75 bps…

Flexibility — Risk Management — Transparent Credit Markets Credora reduced the lock-up period for the Maple Solana pool following recent Maple support for open-term loans, making it one of the most liquid, diversified, and transparent credit pools in DeFi. The reduced lock-up period, from 90 to 30 days, allows lenders…

September 9, 2022 — UXD Protocol has established an insurance pool of over $55m, and will now utilize Credora’s Maple USDC pool on Solana to deploy $7m of that capital to earn a sustainable yield from a diversified set of creditworthy borrowers, whose financial positions are monitored in real-time. …