Margaux Nijkerk

Margaux Nijkerk reports on the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Margaux Nijkerk

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Technologies

Polygon’s Blockchain to Undergo Hard Fork

The software upgrade scheduled for Jan. 17 will address gas spikes and chain reorganization.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

Technologies

Ethereum Upgrade Could Make It Harder to Lose All Your Crypto

Account abstraction – a concept recently embraced by Visa – could make Ethereum wallets significantly more user friendly.

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Technologies

Ethereum in 2023: Here’s What to Look Forward To

Staked ETH withdrawals, scalability and more cool events are on the horizon for Ethereum.

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Technologies

Is Ethereum’s Censorship Problem Taking a Turn?

New relayers and community efforts have contributed to a decline in censorship on the blockchain

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Finance

Web3 Infrastructure Firm Blocknative Raises $15M for Ethereum Block Building Market

The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group and several other venture capital firms.

Celestia Labs is betting on a modular blockchain future. (Shutterstock)

Technologies

Web3 Domain Provider Unstoppable Domains to Integrate With Etherscan and Polygonscan

The integration will make it easier to trace domain addresses on the two blockchain explorers.

Unstoppable Domains' Matthew Gould, founder and CEO (left) and Braden Pezeshki, co-founder and principal engineer (right) (Unstoppable Domains)

Finance

Ethereum Name Service DAO Votes on Stewards for Three Working Groups

The stewards will be responsible for the Meta-Governance, ENS ecosystem, and the Public Goods working groups for 2023.

Power Protocol is designed to improve governance of decentralized organizations. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bermuda Digital Bank Jewel Issues ‘Fully-Backed’ Stablecoin

The Jewel USD stablecoin will be launching on Polygon.

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Technologies

Ethereum Developers Target March 2023 for Release of Staked Ether

Staked ETH withdrawals are coming in the spring, while "proto-danksharding" will follow in the subsequent hard fork in the fall.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Technologies

Privacy-Focused Gnosis Chain to Undergo Its Own Proof-of-Stake ‘Merge’

This will mark the second time in blockchain history that a chain swaps out its old model for proof-of-stake.

Activist investor reported to have been pushing Riot to move into HPC. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)