Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on $36 million of loans on crypto lending protocol Maple Finance after the investing firm’s funds became tied up on bankrupt exchange FTX.
The default at one of Maple Finance’s key ecosystem players affects some 30% of active loans on the protocol. In response, Maple Finance has severed ties with Orthogonal Trading, the parent entity that runs both a crypto hedge fund and a credit business, according to a statement.
It is removing Orthogonal Trading as a borrower on the Maple Finance platform, while removing Orthogonal Credit as a delegate and shutting down its own lending pools.
The majority of the defaults — some $31 million — are in the M11 USDC pool, run by a separate company called M11 Credit, according to a Maple Finance spokesperson. This will lead to a roughly 80% hit for the remaining investors in that pool. The remaining $5 million is in Maven’s M11 WETH pool — a 17% hit. Other pools are not impacted.
Maple Finance expects to recover at least $2.5 million to be used to reduce the damage, according to a Maple Finance spokesperson.
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