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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Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live

The team had originally planned for Ink to go live in early 2025, so the launch of the main network is ahead of schedule.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell

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Ethereum's ENS Identity System Picks Consensys' Tech for Its Layer-2

The Ethereum Name Service's forthcoming Namechain will be based on Linea, a zero-knowledge rollup.

William Gottlieb/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk

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Avalanche Blockchain’s Largest-Ever Upgrade, 'Avalanche9000,' Is Live

The technical changes are designed to attract developers to the ecosystem and let them create their own customized blockchains, known as subnets.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Solana Was the Biggest Draw for New Crypto Developers in 2024: Electric Capital

Ethereum remained the blockchain with the most devs, and the overall population of software builders in crypto was flat, the VC firm said in its annual survey.

Developers at work at a Solana hacker house in Salt Lake City in February 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Optimism’s Jing Wang and the Widely Adopted OP Stack

With Uniswap, World, Kraken, and Sony’s Blockchain Labs all adopting Optimism technology, Optimism was a clear winner in the Ethereum scaling race this year.

(Pudgy Penguins)

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Ethereum's Justin Drake Sees No Threat From Solana, Says Its ‘Golden Era’ Will End

Ethereum's Beam Chain "is all about improving the long-term health and security of the consensus layer," says Drake. “Solana has no consideration for health."

Justin Drake introduces his proposed Beam Chain upgrade roadmap (Ethereum Devcon/YouTube)

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Union Labs, a Connector of Blockchains, Raises $12M in Series A Round

The firm, which aims to bridge the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems with its interoperability layer, now wants to build links to Bitcoin too.

CoinDesk

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Coinbase Plugs Apple Pay Into Its Fiat 'Onramp' for Third-Party Crypto Apps

The integration means self-custody wallets and the like can now let users pay for crypto purchases with the popular app included by default on every iPhone.

Coinbase Onramp integrates with Apple Pay (S3studio/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto Staking Goes Live on Starknet in First for Top Ethereum L2 Blockchains

Now, anyone with 20,000 STRK ($12K) can make money as a validator, and users with smaller holdings can delegate tokens to validators to stake on their behalf.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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Avalanche Blockchain's Largest-Ever Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet

Avalanche9000 is meant to cut the cost of sending transactions and running validators, making it easier to build apps on the network, crypto's eighth-largest.

Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)