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.

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Tecnologia

Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC

The migration to POL from MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

Tecnologia

Cardano’s Chang Hard Fork Goes Live, Introducing On-Chain Governance

The highly anticipated upgrade turns Cardano's ADA cryptocurrency into a governance token.

(CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

Blockchain Developer Alchemy Buys BWare, Pushing Into Europe, Adding About 25% to Staff

Company officials told CoinDesk this was its biggest acquisition to date, bringing on 41 developers and engineers from the Bware team and increasing Alchemy's headcount to 190.

Alchemy introduced its AI tool suite, AlchemyAI (Alchemy)

Tecnologia

Solving Fragmentation Is Next Blockchain Race as Layer 2s Multiply, ZKsync Developer Says

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski told CoinDesk in an interview that fragmentation among layer-2 networks is the next big challenge the blockchain space needs to tackle.

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

Cardano Blockchain Heads for 'Chang Hard Fork,' Biggest Upgrade in Two Years

The main feature of the upgrade is to give Cardano the ability to introduce on-chain governance features.

(CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

Sony, Electronics Pioneer Behind Walkman, Starts Own Blockchain 'Soneium'

The new project, "Soneium" will be a layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain, using technology from Optimism's OP Stack.

Sony Block Solutions Lab Director Sota Watanabe (Startale Labs)

Tecnologia

NEAR Blockchain Gets Major Upgrade to Add 'Stateless Validation'

The upgrade, known as "Nightshade 2.0," has been on the NEAR roadmap for years, with the first version introduced in 2022.

NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin (CoinDesk/The Protocol podcast)

Tecnologia

Ethereum Set for Overhaul of Crucial Programming Standard With 'EVM Object Format'

The EOF proposal is a series of planned changes aiming to update the ubiquitous Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) – the programming environment that executes smart contracts on the blockchain, and an evolving industry standard in its own right.

Artistically modified screenshot from code describing new EOF "containers" (Ipsilon/GitHub, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

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Optimism Pushes for 'Interoperability' Between Affiliated Blockchains

Optimism-affiliated networks, including Coinbase's Base, that are part of the Superchain rely on Ethereum to communicate with each other in order to move assets, which tends to make such moves slow and expensive. To address that, Optimism is releasing its own interoperability roadmap.

Co-founder of OP Labs Mark Tyneway (OP Labs)

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NEAR Pushes 'Signatures' on Mainnet, in Growing Trend of Chain Abstraction

The feature was introduced in testnet in March, and allows users with a NEAR account to sign transactions on blockchains it supports, without the need for cross-chain bridges.

NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin (CoinDesk/The Protocol podcast)