Maven's Insights

Maven's Insights - December 2022

Following the latest Ethereum All Core Developer call of November, the Ethereum developers decided during their follow-up December call that the upcoming Shanghai upgrade will prioritize withdrawals from Ethereum’s

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Maven's Insights - November 2022

After having undergone the transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, the Ethereum network turned mostly deflationary in November, with only approximately a net 500 ETH having been added to the supply. In

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Maven's Insights - October 2022

After the transition to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, excitement around the Ethereum network has not slowed down. The smart contract platform caught the attention of telecommunications giant Deutsche

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Maven's Insights - September 2022

September was marked by one of the most important moments in cryptocurrency history with the long anticipated Merge event for Ethereum. The Bellatrix 4update took place on the 15th of September, leading to the

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Maven's Insights - August 2022

August was another month in which Ethereum inched closer to the ‘Merge’ event during which the Ethereum network will undergo a transformation to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. This month the Goerli testnet

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Maven's Insights - July 2022

This month was quite saturated with events in the run-up to Ethereum’s ‘Merge’ event, during which the Ethereum network will undergo a transformation to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. The first of many

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Maven's Insights - June 2022

This month the ‘Merge’ for the Ropsten testnet took place, meaning that the Ropsten test network underwent a transformation to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. This merge event happened successfully and it’s

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Maven's Insights - May 2022

In April the announcement came out that the ‘Merge’ for Ethereum would be happening at the end of summer 2022, meaning that the Ethereum network will undergo a transformation to the Proof-of-Stake consensus

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Maven's Insights - April 2022

One of the most important technological developments in our industry, the Ethereum ‘Merge’, meaning the move towards Proof-of-Stake Ethereum, took another step this month with the first mainnet shadow fork going

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Maven’s Insights - March 2022

March saw the Ethereum network move one step closer to the much-anticipated ‘Merge’, meaning the move from Ethereum 1.0 with its Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism to Ethereum 2.0 with its Proof-of-Stake consensus

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Maven’s Insights - February 2022

February was an eventful month in regards to exploits in the industry. Firstly, the US government was able to seize 3.6 billion USD in Bitcoin that was missing since the massive 2016 hack of crypto exchange

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Maven’s Insights - January 2022

The Ethereum Foundation, which is the primary non-profit organization behind Ethereum development, announced that they would formally be renaming ETH2.0, which is the name of the long-awaited Proof-of-Stake

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Maven's Insights December

This month another milestone in the Ethereum 2.0 development was reached. The first significant merge testnet, called Kintsugi, went live. The merge refers to the fact that Ethereum 1.0 (running on Proof-of-Work)

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Maven’s Insights November

Another update regarding one of the main pillars of the crypto economy, Ethereum. This month, the amount of ETH that was burned by the new economic policy of the Ethereum network reached 1M ETH (~4.8B USD). SEC

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Maven's Insights October

Maven 11 Global Blockchain Venture Fund (Fund II) will have its second and final close on 30th November 2021.

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Maven's Insight September

In the previous edition of Maven’s Insights we provided a first update on the amount of ETH, the native currency of the Ethereum network, burned under the new economic structure of the network. While last month

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Maven's Insight August

As mentioned in the previous edition of Maven’s Insights, August 5th saw the long-awaited ‘London’ upgrade of the Ethereum network take place. The upgrade contained one of the most important improvements to the

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Maven's Insights July

This month the “London” upgrade of the Ethereum network was agreed upon to take place at block 12,965,000 (which should be the 4th of August). This will be the 12th hard fork (the way to upgrade blockchains) for

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Maven's Insight June

ARK Investments partners with 21 Shares to market a newly proposed bitcoin ETF. ARK Investments has joined the line of firms waiting for the approval of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The firm is assisting

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Maven's Insights May 2021

VanEck is moving forward with two exchange-traded products (ETPs) related to digital assets in Europe. VanEck listed its Vectors Bitcoin exchange-traded note (ETN) and Vectors Ethereum ETN on the Dutch and France

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Maven's Insights April 2021

The main theme of April was without a doubt the Coinbase direct listing on NASDAQ. The IPO took place on the 14th of April. Coinbase shares, with the ticker COIN, were given a reference price of USD 250 a share. It

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Maven's Insights March 2021

This month’s Maven’s Insights are special because we are not starting them with more institutional capital being allocated into Bitcoin. Instead, we are kicking it off with big news from the second major digital

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