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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Технології

Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Celo Chooses Optimism, Concluding Bake-Off Among Layer 2s

CLabs officially proposed using Optimism’s OP Stack for the transition. The proposal will be discussed on a couple of community calls and then go to a vote among holders of the project's CELO tokens, under the chain's governance rules.

Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)

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Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Kraken Releases Own Crypto Wallet, Joining Competition With Coinbase, MetaMask

According to a blog post shared with CoinDesk, the new Kraken Wallet will be the first from a major exchange to be open-sourced.

Screenshot from Kraken's promotional materials for its new wallet (CoinDesk/Kraken)

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Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet

OKX's comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.

OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)

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Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

Puffer fish (Stelio Puccinelli/Unsplash)

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Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop

A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a "leak."

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Технології

Ether.Fi Inks $500M Restaking Deal With RedStone Oracles

Under its deal with RedStone, Ether.Fi will dedicate $500 million to help secure RedStone's data oracles, which are used to pass information between blockchains and the outside world.

Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)

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Ethereum's Next Upgrade, 'Pectra,' Could Include Relief for Institutional Stakers, Wallet UX Improvements

Developers' aim with Pectra is to make some minor code changes while simultaneously working on a bigger code change, Verkle trees, for the following upgrade.

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