Institutional lending protocol Maple Finance announced Thursday that crypto asset management company Bitwise has begun using its platform to lend to other organizations.
Maple co-founder and CEO Sidney Powell told Decrypt that Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is one of Bitwise's first investments in the secured lending space, which has been under scrutiny after a series of high-profile collapses culminating in the 2022 FTX crash.
Maple's lending strategy, managed on-chain with smart contracts According to Powell, who has invested more than $1 million in one of the cryptocurrencies
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the U. S. Strategic
#Cryptocurrency Reserve, which will be announced Friday, earns about 9.5% return on funds that would not otherwise be used.
#Bitcoin is planned to have its own status and other cryptocurrencies will be treated differently. Speaking to Pavlovich Today, Mr. Lutnick said: Bitcoin's strategic reserve is something the president is interested in. It's a commercial ...
They're hoarding money while they wait for a new fund manager to be selected, he said, calling the scheme completely self-service and completely transparent.
#Maple is at the intersection of
#DeFi and traditional lending. The company is responsible for vetting borrowers, negotiating terms and collecting payments, but the service relies on a decentralized infrastructure that ultimately disburses the loans Maple DAO manages the project's finances, and the mechanism is managed through an associated SYRUP token.
Unsecured loans are traditional for DeFi, where borrowers are required to pledge cryptocurrency with a value greater than the amount they want to receive. This practice reduces liquidation risk, and Bitwise has chosen the strategy of accepting only Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral.
We have always tried to utilize cryptocurrency investments that generate dynamic and uncorrelated returns, said Bitwise's Alpha Strategist.
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