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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Finance

Crypto Lending Platform Moon Mortgage Raises $3.5M Seed Round

The platform will allow investors to use their crypto as collateral for financing real estate investments.

Moon’s CryptoMortgage products allows people to use their crypto as collateral for real estate. (Getty Images)

Tech

Ethereum Scaling Tool Polygon Launches its zkEVM Public Testnet

The company continues to be targeting the mainnet going live sometime in early 2023.

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Tech

What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?

Flashbots' block relayers continue to dominate the Ethereum validator ecosystem. And with them, censorship continues to grow.

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Tech

Etherscan Set to 'Deprecate' Ethereum’s Ropsten and Rinkeby Testnets

Developers should migrate to Goerli and Sepolia networks ahead of tomorrow’s shutdown.

Dandelion flower plant blowing wind breeze (Bellazza87/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Banking Platform Juno Raises $18M in Series A Funding

Alongside the fresh capital, the company will be introducing its loyalty token, JCOIN.

Varun Deshpande, CEO y cofundador de Juno, en la silla. (Juno)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Anchorage Digital to Be Preferred Custodian for Layer 1 Blockchain Aptos Labs

The partnership signals the growing institutional adoption of crypto.

Anchorage co-founders Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley (Anchorage)

Tech

Aragon Network Holding Votes on Key Parts of Shift to a New DAO Structure

Community members have until Oct. 5 to cast their votes

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Finance

Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub

The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.

No one knows exactly what the fallout from the Tornado Cash sanctions will look like. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Finance

Nasdaq Joins BlackRock as TradFi Defies the Bear Market and Embraces Crypto

The down market hasn’t stopped traditional finance's push into crypto as large players continue to pile into the industry, following Warren Buffett’s famous rule "be greedy only when others are fearful."

Bitcoin superó máximos de un mes, pero analistas advierten sobre la volatilidad. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

Play-to-Earn Gaming Platform Vulcan Forged Raises $8M in Series A Funding

The funding round was led by investment firm Skybridge Capital.

Los videojuegos basados en blockchain están al alza. (Fredrick Tendong/Unsplash)