NEWS
Whether you’re interested in our product, pools, or people there’s no shortage on news from Maple.
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Maple's Market Outlook Report 2023
Our first Market Outlook Report shares our collective learnings from 2022, predicts what 2023 will bring for the industry and Maple, and introduces our team. We also provide thoughts on how we as an industry can evolve and recalibrate back to its original intent and technical capabilities.
AQRU joins Maple to bring receivables financing on-chain
Managed by AQRU, a subsidiary of listed firm AQRU plc, the receivables financing pool launches with Intero Capital Solutions LLC as the sole borrower.
Open sourcing Maple 2.0
Lucas is a Smart Contracts Tech Lead at Maple and leads a team of 4 engineers. In this article Lucas shares links to the repositories, audits and test suites that brought Maple 2.0 to market safely.
Q4 2022 TREASURY REPORT
In and outside of crypto, investors were risk off and markets continued their contraction. Maple remains well capitalized through the market cycle and expects total active liquidity and revenues to bounce back with new pool launches imminent.
Looking ahead to 2023: Note from Founders
2022 offered plenty of opportunities to learn. In the midst of this it can be easy to dwell on setbacks, but there were a number of wins for Maple along the way. Sid and Joe address common criticisms and share what's next in the evolution of Maple and bringing capital markets on-chain.
Maple 2.0: New smart contracts, products and our 2023 strategy
Today, we release Maple 2.0. New smart contracts, product features and improvements, and we will take this opportunity to share our three strategic focus areas going into 2023.
Transitioning to Maple 2.0: App will be unavailable whilst we upgrade our smart contracts
The exciting transition to new modular and flexible smart contracts has been methodically planned and customers do not need to take any action. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s coming and when.
Maple severs all ties with Orthogonal Trading
As a result of material misrepresentations regarding their financial position, Maple has severed all ties with the parent entity Orthogonal Trading. Orthogonal Trading had two business arms previously associated with Maple, credit and trading, which operated separately in the roles of Pool Delegate and Borrower respectively.
Meet the Icebreaker Finance team
Meet the Icebreaker Finance team, who launched a $300M bitcoin mining and infrastructure pool on Maple.
Update from Maple and Delegates: Putting customers first
Last week, Maple and Delegates shared that adherence to the highest credit standards led to offboarding Alameda as a borrower in September 2022. Delegates also confirmed the limited exposure to FTX, FTT amongst the active borrower set and since then have taken further steps to de-risk the loan book and manage liquidity for withdrawals, pulling on many learnings from the last ‘crunch’.
Update from Maple and Delegates regarding Alameda and FTX
There are no loans to Alameda from any of the pools on Maple and the exposure to FTX, FTT amongst active borrowers is limited. The top priority of Maple and Pool Delegates during periods of volatility is to protect Lender capital and continue to operate prudently, diligently and professionally. This article shares the strength of the loan book and provides further detail on status and actions taken, along with direct and indirect exposures to provide further comfort to Lenders.
Q3 2022 Treasury Report
Maple regained momentum in Q3 and outperformed in a challenging market. Whilst we’ve a long way to go to bring capital markets on-chain, the last 3 months have proven the strength of the Maple model and we’re energized by what’s next.
ICYMI: Week 41 updates from Maple
Welcome to our ICYMI from week 41 2022. This week we introduced more liquid lending, Pool Delegates shared their September performance updates, round-up recent events, and Delphi Digital and Messari posted in-depth reports on Maple’s competitiveness.
Meet Maple: Farhaan, Smart Contract Engineer
Meet Farhaan, who has joined the Maple team as a Smart Contract Engineer.
ICYMI: Week 38 updates from Maple
Welcome to our ICYMI from week 38 2022. This week we hosted a Pool Launch Event with Icebreaker to celebrate the launch of the $300M capacity pool, Joe spent the week in Singapore and moderated a panel at Token 2049, and Sid was on a panel at Converge.