# ICYMI: Week 1 updates from Maple Finance

By [mereBuck1](https://paragraph.com/@merebuck1) · 2022-04-08

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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/](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](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](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](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](https://jobs.lever.co/maple-finance).

Key comms from this week:

Looking ahead to next week

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*Originally published on [mereBuck1](https://paragraph.com/@merebuck1/icymi-week-1-updates-from-maple-finance)*
