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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Ex-Polygon Veteran Wyatt Joins Optimism Foundation Unit in Growth Role

Wyatt, who previously served as president at Polygon Labs and had a stint at YouTube, joins as chief growth officer, where he will be in charge of helping developers build across Optimism’s ecosystem of blockchains.

Optimism Foundation Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt (Optimism Foundation)

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Blockchain Staking Firms Update Best Practices Amid 'Increased Scrutiny'

The new “staking principles,” published by the Proof of Stake Alliance, aim to ensure consumer protections and promote innovation. Signers include Lido, Coinbase, Rocketpool, Blockdaemon.

(Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

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'Almost All of DeFi Uses the Graph' – Q&A With Edge & Node CEO Tegan Kline

The CEO of Edge & Node shares how The Graph network – sometimes called the "Google of Web3" – is supposed to help organize data for other protocols.

Tegan Kline, CEO of Edge & Node (Edge & Node)

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Lukso Blockchain Releases Universal Profiles on Mainnet

The feature went live on main network blockchain two months after it was released on testnet.

Fabian Vogelsteller and Marjorie Hernandez, co-founders of Lukso. (Lukso)

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Nil Foundation Plans New Ethereum Rollup With Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Sharding

The foundation claims that this will be the first ZK rollup that enables sharding, combining two popular scaling technologies.

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

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Kraken Said to Seek Partner to Help Build It a Layer 2 Blockchain Network

The crypto exchange is still considering which blockchain developer should build its network, with Polygon, Matter Labs and the Nil Foundation in the mix, according to people familiar with the situation. Rival crypto exchange Coinbase blazed the trail with Base.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell (CoinDesk)

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Crypto Venture Funds Variant, 1kx Lead $6M Funding Round for ZK-Meets-AI Startup Modulus

The funding will be used for the company’s ambitions in zero-knowledge machine learning, combining aspects of zero-knowledge cryptography with artificial intelligence or AI.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Arbitrum Foundation Says 'Orbit' for Layer-3 Networks Now Ready for Mainnet

Orbit is a program for developers to spin up their own layer-3 blockchains atop Arbitrum, which in turn is the largest layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain.

Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder, Offchain Labs and Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk reporter (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)