Maple Finance (MPL)

Basics

• Started in / Announced on: 2019
• Mainnet release: scheduled for 4-2021, got released on 15-5-2021.
• Based in: Australia (18-12-2020).
• From CoinDesk (18-12-2020):

"[A] platform for institutional lending at extremely competitive collateralization terms and fixed rates that won’t change for borrowers in good standing."

Audits & Exploits

• The Maple Finance team has hosted a competition on Code Arena with a cash reward of up to 100k. It is however no longer active (29-9-2021).
• Scored 92% on DeFi Safety (29-9-2021):

"Three audits were conducted on Maple, two of which were before the deployment of V1."

Governance

Admin Keys

• From DeFi Safety (29-9-2021):

"There is a security section in the wiki of the Maple Finance GitHub repository, but it takes a bit of looking. All of the Maple Finance v1 contracts are immutable as described in the security section of their GitHub wiki. This is backed up by the immutable functions in their source code, as well as the use of the Constructor functions. Pause controls are mentioned extensively in the Maple docs. A "fire drill" test of the Maple Pause Control will take place with DeFiSafety in the near future."

Token

Launch

• From EthHub (20-4-2021):

"Maple will be distributing its governance token MPL through a Balancer Labs Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool on April 28, 2021."

Token allocation

• From CoinDesk (18-12-2020):

"The total supply of MPL tokens will be fixed at 10 million, with approximately 30% going to liquidity mining."

Utility

• Has a governance token.
• From their introduction (10-2-2021):

"Holders of the Maple Token (MPL) participate in the following ways:

1. Passive MPL Holders earn a portion of establishment fees
2. Savvy MPL Holders can earn additional yield by selecting Liquidity Pools to stake. Staking provides a reserve covering loan defaults in return for a share of the ongoing fees
3. As Maple moves towards full decentralization, MPL Holders will be able to submit proposals and vote on changes such as adding Pool Delegates and adjusting fees and staking parameters"

Technology

• Whitepaper can be found here.
• Code can be viewed here. From DeFi Safety (29-9-2021):

"At 768 commits and 19 branches, Maple Finance's development history is Shakespearean in quality and richness."

• Built on: Ethereum

How it works

• From CoinDesk (18-12-2020):

"On Maple, a good firm would pay one rate for the life of the loan, could collateralize with as little as 40% of the loan’s value and the initial collateral deposit would not need to be revisited.

“With ours, it’s a set-it-and-forget-it solution,” Joe Flanagan, co-founder, said. “As long as you remain a paying borrower and meeting your obligations there will be no further calls on your collateral.” Maple is able to offer better terms based on the reputation of borrowers. It will make offers only to institutional customers. That said, Flannagan noted, as this market matures and evolves, Maple would definitely be interested in serving crypto-native organizations, such as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that don’t have traditional legal structures. That “expands the addressable market for Maple,” he said.

Maple will be organized by pools, with each pool managed by a “Pool Delegate” who will make decisions about loans in that pool. Pools will specialize in certain areas where the delegate has expertise, such as a region of the world, a category of borrower or a risk profile.

Its first pool will be small, to demonstrate the model. It will have between $10 million and $15 million in funds available for lending, with loans in the $1 million to 2 million range. Maple will initially aim for a pool with a diverse array of borrowers, but all well-established and carefully selected.

One or two pools will be co-managed by Maple Finance and its first Pool Delegate, Orthogonal Trading, a crypto firm, also out of Australia, starting in the first quarter of 2021."

Liquidity Mining

• From CoinDesk (18-12-2020):

"Once the first pool opens, it will be open to participation from across Ethereum up to the maximum amount that a pool ultimately sets. That capital will then be deployed to make the loans. “We assume it will be a combination of both individuals and degens and institutions and corporates,” Flanagan said.

Additionally, those liquidity providers will earn MPL tokens under a liquidity mining scheme whose precise terms have not yet been worked out. The total supply of MPL tokens will be fixed at 10 million, with approximately 30% going to liquidity mining."

Oracle Method

• Uses Chainlink, among others (6-12-2021).

Compliance

• From CoinDesk (18-12-2020):

"“Our intent is not for the token to be considered a security,” Powell said, noting Maple is taking advice on legal matters. There are no plans currently to shut out U.S. residents from holding the MPL token."

Roadmap

• Can be found [Insert link here].

Team, Funding, Partners

Team

• Full team can be found here.
• Sidney Powell; CEO and co-founder
• Joe Flanagan; co-founder

Funding

• From Paradigm (12-2020):

"Maple Finance raised a $1.3 million seed round for its MPL governance token from Framework Ventures, Alameda Research, Aave founder Stani Kulechov, Synthetix founder Kain Warwick, FBG, The LAO and others."

• From CoinDesk (18-3-2021):

""Closed a $1.4 million funding round led by Framework Ventures and Polychain Capital."

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