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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Technologies

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Amps Up Pressure on Layer-2 Networks to Decentralize Further

In 2022, Buterin proposed a set of stages for rollups, to classify them in their pursuit of decentralization. The criteria is meant to showcase that rollups tend to rely on “training wheels” and deploy their protocols to users before it's ready to fully decentralize.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at the EthCC conference on Wednesday in Brussels (Margaux Nijkerk)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)

Technologies

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)