- Maple Finance expanded its yield-bearing stablecoin, syrupUSD, onto Solana through platforms Kamino and Orca, injecting initial liquidity of US$30M.
- Maple’s expansion into Solana aims to leverage its high-speed environment, growing its user base and placing it in direct competition with major Solana lending protocols.
Maple Finance is expanding beyond Ethereum, deploying its yield-bearing stablecoin, syrupUSD, onto Solana-based platforms Kamino and Orca, the company announced on June 5.
With an initial liquidity injection of US$30M (AU$46M), Maple’s entry into the Solana ecosystem aims to establish robust liquidity conditions, enabling enhanced lending, trading, and collateral activities.
This expansion was facilitated by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), activated on Solana’s mainnet in May. CCIP provides seamless communication between Ethereum and Solana virtual machines, therefore streamlining Maple’s cross-chain deployment.
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Strategic Expansion
Maple CEO and co-founder Sid Powell described the expansion as a strategic move to tap into Solana’s “high-speed, high-capacity environment”, allowing Maple products to attract a wider user base ranging from institutional investors to advanced DeFi traders.
“Expanding to Solana unlocks a high-speed, high-capacity environment where Maple’s products can reach a broader class of users, from institutions to advanced DeFi participants”.
Now on Solana, Maple Finance—valued at around US$1.3B (AU$2B)—is in direct competition with some of the network’s high-profile lending protocols, including margin.fi, Rain.fi, and Port Finance.
Solana may be growing rapidly but Ethereum remains dominant with nearly US$60B (AU$92B) in total value locked (TVL), although this figure represents a 43% decline from its peak in 2021, as per data from DefiLlama.
Much of Maple’s success this year is tied to its aggressive strategy in tokenising private credit, positioning it as the third-largest protocol in the real-world asset (RWA) sector. Currently, Maple oversees more than US$3B (AU$4.61B) in loans across Ethereum, Base, and now Solana.
Assets under management (AUM) have similarly exploded, soaring from roughly US$470M (AU$723M) at the start of 2025 to nearly US$1.9B (AU$2.9B) today, further cementing Maple’s rapid ascent.
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