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

Tune.FM, Music Streaming Project on Hedera Blockchain, Gets $50M Capital Commitment

The news comes just eight months after Tune.FM shared it had raised $20 million in a funding round.

Music (Pexels/Pixabay)

Tecnologia

PayPal, Venmo to Accept ENS's Human-Readable Blockchain Names

The news could signal a renewed interest from traditional payment platforms in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson (ENS)

Tecnologia

Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, which is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon's AggLayer.

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon)

Tecnologia

Snapshot, Popular DAO Voting Platform, Finally Moves On-Chain, Atop Starknet

Snapshot X, the new governance protocol, makes use of storage proofs – a cryptographic feature that StarkWare, the primary developer of Starknet, has helped innovate and embraced.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tecnologia

Ethereum Foundation's Main Wallet Down to About $650M, Top Official Says

As recently as March 2022 – when the price of Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), was higher – the foundation's treasury held about $1.3 billion of ETH.

Screenshot from Justin Drake appearance at the Ethereum conference Devcoin in 2022. (Devcon/YouTube)

Tecnologia

Polygon Begins Token Swap, in Move to Allow More Issuance

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

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron (Polygon Labs)

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)