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The federal gasoline tax was introduced to build the interstate highway system That system is now built We should now repeal the federal gasoline tax and let each state maintain its portion of the interstate highway system—with its own revenue—as was the plan from the beginning

2026 Maple Q1 Report Today we're releasing our Maple Finance Q1 2026 Report. We've been covering Maple for over a year now, started when few were paying attention and this quarter gives us something meaningful to document. Q1 threw everything at the protocol: a -20% crypto market drawdown, geopolitical shocks, and two distinct redemption waves. Here's how Maple came out the other side: → AUM closed at $4.66B (+517% YoY) → Maple's revenue: $6.51M (+451% YoY) → Zero forced liquidations. 70+ margin calls resolved in a few hours at peak stress. Enjoy the read. Some excerpts below, with the link to the full PDF and spreadsheet with historical data. @maplefinance ethereum:0x643c4e15d7d62ad0abec4a9bd4b001aa3ef52d66

The owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company in WI who mourned the shooter missing is running as a Democrat for State Assmebly. He also just pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges for harassing a local business owner Voters, beware! Don’t let this maniac anywhere near office

Newsom Orders Reservoirs Emptied In Preparation For Fire Season buff.ly/8E9yYYy

To any red states that think this can't happen to you… Less than 10 years ago, Virginia Republicans had a 64 seat majority in a 100 seat state house and 7 of the 11 congressional seats were Republican. Stop treating the current fight like it’s business as usual and start acting like it is culturally existential. Because it is.

$MSTR now holds more Bitcoin than $IBIT, the most successful ETF in history. Let that sink in.

$1,000,000,000. A year ago, Maple assets weren't on @aave. Total inflows have now crossed $1B for the first time. syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT are becoming the yield layer for DeFi's biggest protocol.

The future of capital markets is being built onchain. @keyrock and @Securitize name @maplefinance as a defining force in that shift in their latest report.

March was a big month for Maple. - Over $440M in net new deposits - syrupUSDC & syrupUSDT hit new supply ATHs - Cross-chain expansion continues

$350M in new loans issued in a single day. Great recap by GLC:

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you? This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

syrupUSDT surpassed $1B in deposits. Maple now has two overcollateralized billion-dollar assets generating yield 24/7.

The assets under management for @maplefinance reached $4.2B, up over 450% year-over-year. A metric to follow 👇

Buy #Bitcoin

This is the best 3 minutes of preaching on HELL that you will ever see. R.C. Sproul 👇

@tokenterminal $SYRUP

AAVE & MORPHO are both valued at ~$2B. Looking at the data: Aave has ~$14B more in active loans & generates $100M+ in annual revenue, while Morpho has yet to turn on the fee switch. A development to follow 👇

New ATH for syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT: the total deposits have exceeded $2.5B. Maple's yield dollar assets continue to scale in all market conditions.

🚨 James Talarico just won the Dem primary in Texas. Still, many people still have no idea who he is or how his campaign was built on the intentional distortion of scripture. Watch this *full* episode of the Live Free Podcast to learn how to spot a wolf in sheep's clothing 👇

@maplefinance @syrupsid @alextapscott @defidecodedpod LFG

Our CEO @syrupsid joined @alextapscott on the latest @defidecodedpod to discuss how Maple has grown into a $4B on-chain credit juggernaut! They explored our approach to risk management, institutional adoption, and the future of tokenized assets!

Everyone should read the book, “When Children Became People” by historian OM Bakke. In it, he explains how the ancient pagan world justified the slaughter and mistreatment of children. Scholars believed at the time that a person’s worth was determined primarily by their possession of the “logos” or their ability to reason. Only the adult free male were thought to have the fullness of rational capacity, so women, slaves, and children were seen as inherently less-than. Children got the worst of it, as they were considered in the same category as animals and barbarians. Thus, children were, without qualm, aborted, murdered, trafficked and objectified. Unwanted newborns were left to die on what were called “exposure hills.” Babies would be left there —alive and screaming— to be exposed to the elements until they died. But about 2,000 years ago, the perspective on children started to change. Eventually, the practice of infanticide was stigmatized, then criminalized, then replaced— with orphanages, hospitals, and other means by which desperate parents could ensure their babies were cared for. Children became people. Slowly but surely, they went from a class of sub-humans to be discarded and oppressed to a special category of vulnerability deserving of love. Those of us in the West consider this sentiment the norm. Even with our raging debates on abortion and other child-centered issues, the Western instinct is still to show compassion for the child above and beyond the compassion we show for adults. But it was not always so, and it is not so in most of the world today. The game changer for children— and the impoverished, the sick, the elderly, slaves, and women— two millennia ago was Christianity. Christians changed how the world saw children. This strange and persistent group worshiped a man named Jesus, whom they claimed to be God. Yet unlike the pagan gods of the day, their God came to earth in weakness and meekness. In fact, He arrived first as an embryo. He was heralded by the kicks of a newborn John the Baptist. He was worshiped by angels and wise men as an infant. And, against the protestations of His disciples, insisted: “Let the children come to me, for such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.” This Jesus had another name— one with which the pagan scholars at the time would have been familiar: Logos. The Word. Pagan scholars said “logos” determines a person’s worth. But the Logos said, “Your worth is defined by me.” Christians popularized the concept of the Imago Dei — that all people are equally valuable just because they are people. And they preached this radically equalizing gospel that said that all people are dead in sin apart from Christ but all can be made alive in Him. Christians, through this message, because of Jesus, completely changed how the world saw people. You cannot have all the things we cherish in the West: compassion, dignity, human rights, and forgo the foundation upon which these things are built. Look to the non-Western world today and see the unbroken chain of oppressing women and children. Perhaps so-called “Christian nationalism” isn’t the bogeyman you should be most afraid of. Something to consider.