February 2022 – Crisis in Europe

On 24th February last month, Russia launched a full scale invasion on Ukraine. Preceded by significant troop building around the Ukraine border many monitoring groups had called this move. We would like to extend our deepest prayers to those caught in this conflict, suffering losses and forced to displace inside and outside Ukraine. We hope

January 2022 – The year outlook

This month we are putting together a follow up to our previous issue where we reflected on the trends of 2021. In this edition we will be talking about our market outlook for 2022 and the themes that we are excited about. As always we are constantly learning alongside the evolving macro and fast paced

December 2021 – The year of the Bull

First of all, we would like to wish all our readers a very warm and prosperous New Year. 2021 has been a historic year for the blockchain and a great year for us at Mapleblock as well. In this month’s coverage we will go over some of the key market trends of the past year.

November 2021 – An explainer on ‘Taproot’

Last month Bitcoin underwent one of its most major set of upgrades in the past 4 years, known as ‘Taproot’, the upgrade focused on improving cost, efficiency and to some extent privacy on the Bitcoin network. The Taproot upgrade implements 3 BIPs 340, 341 and 342. In this month’s coverage we take a look at

October 2021 – What a Bitcoin ETF means for the market?

The last month showed positive growth and signs of a resuming bull cycle in the digital asset market. The launch of ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF(BITO) marked new highs for the price of Bitcoin. BTC reached a peak of $66,930 on 20th October 2021 marking another ATH, the day after the Pro-Shares Bitcoin Strategy ETF was