Maple vs Uniswap

Maple Finance is an on‑chain capital‑markets platform that enables under‑collateralised loans to trading firms and Web3 businesses via permissioned lending pools. Pool delegates perform credit assessment and share in origination fees, while lenders earn a fixed yield plus default protection through an insurance ‘cover’ pool. As of 2025 Maple has originated over $2.3 billion across both Ethereum and Solana deployments.

Uniswap V4 rebuilds the protocol as a ‘Singleton’ contract and introduces programmable ‘hooks’ that let pools execute arbitrary logic before and after swaps. The redesign cuts gas costs by 15‑25 % and should open the door for new order types like TWAMMs and on‑chain limit orders. V4 is expected to go live shortly after Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade, when core devs will freeze the code under a Business Source Licence.