# Maple Finance (SYRUP) — machine-readable summary

> FORTUNA SIGNAL · FORA-01 evidence dossier · Researched 2026-09-15 · https://ron-delhaye-studios.github.io/fortuna-signal-live/tokens/syrup.html

## Definition
Maple Finance is an onchain asset manager for institutional credit, and Syrup is its permissionless DeFi extension letting anyone deposit stablecoins (syrupUSDC/syrupUSDT) to earn yield sourced from overcollateralized loans to large crypto institutions.

## What the holder owns (FORA-01 Q1)
SYRUP is the governance token of the entire Maple ecosystem (Maple + Syrup.fi); it replaced MPL at 1:100 via governance proposal MIP-010 in 2024 and can be staked as stSYRUP for rewards.

## Verification verdict
Class A (Class A) — FORA-01 scale: verification, not a quality ranking.
q1 VERIFIED · q2 VERIFIED · q3 VERIFIED · q4 VERIFIED · q5 VERIFIED

## Plain-language utility
Governance token for Maple Finance — holders vote on protocol decisions.

## Key risks & notes
No official whitepaper exists; summary grounded in official docs and project announcements. Core risk is borrower credit/default risk (Maple previously offered undercollateralized loans), plus smart-contract risk, centralized pool delegates, dependence on institutional borrowing demand for yield, and regulatory exposure for lending products.

## Primary source
- (no whitepaper found — drawn from official project documentation)

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