#465: Sid Powell, CEO of Maple, on Bitcoin Yield, Onchain Private Credit, and the Growth of Tokenized Private Credit

Sid Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Maple, the leading on-chain asset manager for institutional credit. With a background in debt capital markets and structured lending, Sid co-founded Maple in 2019 to build the rails for institutional lending on-chain. Prior to Maple, Sid worked on over $3 billion in corporate bond issuance and served as Treasurer at an Australian commercial lender. Today, Maple has originated over $7 billion in loans and currently manages $2.4b in assets across lending, structured products, and yield strategies. The firm’s mission is to make institutional-grade yield accessible globally while enabling borrowers to access capital with greater speed, transparency, and efficiency than ever before.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The convergence of tradfi and crypto
- What is private credit
- On-chain private credit
- How rich people use private credit to stay rich
- Bitcoin right now is the same as boomer’s borrowing equity in their houses
- BTC will surpass $150,000 this cycle
- Institutions are rushing in, and this will be a boon to DeFi
- The growth of Bitcoin DeFi
- The 4 ways to earn BTC yield
- Current regulatory landscape of crypto

Maple
Website: maple.finance
X: @maplefinance
Telegram: t.me/maplefinance

Sid Powell
X: @syrupsid
LinkedIn: Sid Powell

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