ICYMI: Week 1 updates from Maple Finance

Maple Finance
3 min readJan 10, 2022

Happy New Year!

One of our New Year’s resolutions is to share updates from inside Maple with you each week. Here is our first ICYMI update from Week 1 2022, and it was a busy one. We hope you enjoy the read! #WAGMI.

Co-Founder Joe shared our 2022 commercial goals and the product developments that will get us there, check them out and let us know what you think: https://maplefinance.ghost.io/q1-maple-product-roadmap/

We shared our 2021 results and detailed Q4 performance. TL;DR — Revenues continue to grow rapidly as we grow our active participants: https://discord.com/channels/576728229449170954/638580951324033034/927846230883713044

Our Signal Request with MakerDAO has closed and we’re excited to move ahead with the governance process: https://forum.makerdao.com/t/signal-request-maker-accessing-pools-of-institutional-loans-through-maple-finance/12349

We made important front and back-end updates to our web app including edits to the Pool Delegate pages, adding connected wallet status and fixed bugs.

The Bankless DeFi Innovation Index (GMI) for small-cap tokens launched yesterday and is tracking MPL. GMI is a new index from the Index Coop x Bankless aiming to capture emergent themes in DeFi. Here is everything you need to know: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/1b7b21f3-4ce5-4391-ad8e-dedeecf909eb

We integrated with with Anchorage Digital so institutional investors can now safely custody MPL. We are proud to be alongside blue-chip projects Celsius, MakerDAO, and more!

We continued and closed our competition to win MPL with AscendEX — we wish the 60k+ entrants the best of luck in winning a share of $50k MPL, winners will be announced in 2 weeks.

We welcomed a shiny new front-end developer team — welcome Julia!

We reached 10.5k followers on Twitter, help us get to 11k?

We continue to hire for developers, engineers, credit analysts and a marketing exec, https://jobs.lever.co/maple-finance.

Key comms from this week:

  • Sid featured on the $GMI rollercoaster

Looking ahead to next week

  • MPL will list with BitMart on Monday
  • Sid is attending CfC in St Moritz a digital assets and blockchain conference for sophisticated investors and decision makers.
  • We’re excited to welcome our first Legal Counsel to the team

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