Maple taps Tether-backed Plasma for first syrupUSDT expansion off Ethereum

Maple Finance has deployed syrupUSDT on Tether’s Plasma chain. This first major move off Ethereum directly fuels the on-chain asset manager’s ambitious drive toward $5 billion in total assets under management.

According to a press release shared with crypto.news on September 15, Maple Finance has deployed its syrupUSDT product on Plasma, the payments-oriented blockchain backed by Tether.

The rollout represents Maple’s first move beyond Ethereum, opening access to yield opportunities through Midas vaults that also tie into Plasma’s upcoming mainnet launch and token generation event.

Venturing onto Tether’s own blockchain represents a significant credibility boost for the nascent Plasma network while simultaneously giving Maple a first-mover advantage in courting a potentially massive, payments-focused liquidity pool.

Why Plasma Matters for Maple’s expansion

Maple CEO Sid Powell framed the deployment as a strategic step toward diversifying stablecoin yield infrastructure while reinforcing its year-end goal of managing $5 billion in assets.

“Plasma’s high performance and focus on USDT align naturally with Maple’s mission to deliver sustainable, curated and high-quality dollar yield at scale. We believe this deployment will strengthen liquidity across the ecosystem while advancing Maple’s goal of reaching $5 billion in AUM this year,” Powell said.

Plasma is unique among Layer 1 networks in that it was purpose-built for payments and stablecoins, a departure from the generalized execution environments of Ethereum or Solana.

That focus allows it to function as a high-throughput, low-latency settlement layer tailored to stablecoin flows, a characteristic Maple views as critical for embedding yield products into everyday financial activity.

Maple’s deployment on Plasma follows a string of ecosystem expansions this year, including launches on Solana and Arbitrum, capped by syrupUSDC surpassing $1 billion in supply.

Each move has widened Maple’s distribution, but the Plasma integration carries a different weight. By anchoring syrupUSDT to a chain backed directly by Tether, Maple is betting that stablecoin-native networks will be the next major frontier for yield-bearing products.