Team other-protocol involvement history
Maple Finance's assessment for RD-F-113 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No prior rug or exit-scam affiliations for Powell or Flanagan. Both have verifiable TradFi/fintech employment histories pre-Maple. Orthogonal Trading default (Dec 2022) was a borrower default — not a team-executed rug. Team rebuilt protocol to $1.7B TVL.
Detail #
Sid Powell prior background: financial services / private credit. Joe Flanagan: PwC Australia consultant, CFO of ASX-listed fintech Axsesstoday (IPO + $400M debt/equity). No search hits linking either founder to a prior rugged or exit-scam protocol. REKT DB shows zero smart contract exploits by the team (data-cache rekt.incidents = []).
Sources #
- URLMaple Finance Severs Ties with Orthogonal TradingOrthogonal Trading default — CoinDeskretrieved 2026-04-27
Methodology #
Document current or prior protocol roles for team members (conflicts of interest, prior rugs, prior successful launches).
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