Is Treasury Borrowing the New On-Chain Trend? | Markets Outlook
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🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The latest price moves and insights with Maple Finance CEO Sid Powell.
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Maple Finance CEO Sid Powell joins CoinDesk's Jenn Sanasie and Andy Baehr to dive deep into the evolving landscape of crypto lending. Plus, he unpacks the strategic advantages of institutional borrowing, the impact of the Genius Act on stablecoins, and what the start of altcoin season means for borrowing demand and rates.
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| 0:20.0 | As Bitcoin rises, we actually see a lot more borrowing demand. |
| 0:23.1 | So when Bitcoin goes up, borrowing demand spikes and rates start to spike. |
| 0:27.6 | So it starts to become very profitable to be lending in this kind of market. |
| 0:36.7 | Hey, everyone. This is your weekly market's outlook onDespers, where we take a look at what's |
| 0:40.7 | happened in the crypto markets this weekend, provide insights into navigating the road ahead. |
| 0:45.1 | Jen Sanassi here with my co-host, Andy Baer, and joining us on today's show is Maple Finance, |
| 0:49.7 | co-founder and CEO, Sid Powell. Hey, Sid. Hey, Jen. Hey, Andy. Thanks for having me on. Thanks for being |
| 0:55.5 | here with us. Now, we're sitting here near the end of the week. Talk to us a little bit about |
| 1:00.1 | what you've been watching in crypto markets. What are you really paying attention to? |
| 1:05.0 | It's been an interesting week so far. One of the things that really caught my attention |
| 1:08.2 | earlier in the week was we saw a point from |
| 1:11.0 | J.P. Morgan that they would consider doing Bitcoin backed loans. This is not too surprising to see |
| 1:16.7 | off the back of the Genius Act getting passed as well as some pretty meaningful progress on the |
| 1:21.8 | Clarity Act and giving regulatory clarity to the market. But I think you're going to see, as we saw |
| 1:28.9 | with stable coins, you're going to see more of these traditional players start to come in and |
| 1:33.3 | express interest in Bitcoin back to lending. We already saw Cantor come into the space last |
| 1:38.5 | year. And so I think you'll see a pretty strong friend here. I want to pick up on that a little |
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