Margaux Nijkerk

Margaux is a DeFi reporter at CoinDesk, focusing on the rapidly evolving decentralized finance landscape with a particular emphasis on the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems. Prior to that, Margaux was on CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols team covering the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she holds a master’s degree in International Affairs and Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Solana’s Drift Launches v3, With 10x Faster Trades

With v3, the team says that about 85% of market orders will fill in under half a second, and liquidity will deepen enough to bring slippage on larger trades down to around 0.02%.

Drift (b52_Tresa/Pixabay)

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Axelar Unveils AgentFlux to Bring AI Agents OnChain, Without Cloud Risks

Developed by Interop Labs, AgentFlux lets financial firms deploy “agentic” automation without sending sensitive information to external infrastructure.

Axelar co-founder Sergey Gorbunov (Interop Labs)

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Ethereum Activates Fusaka Upgrade, Aiming to Cut Node Costs, Speed Layer-2 Settlements

At the center of the upgrade is PeerDAS, a system that lets validators check small slices of data rather than entire “blobs,” reducing both costs and computational load for validators and layer-2 networks.

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Solana Mobile to Launch SKR Token in January With 10B Supply

Distribution is designed to go to the ecosystem, With 30% to airdrops, 25% to growth initiatives, and 10% for liquidity and launch support.

Solana Mobile's second generation phone Seeker (Solana Mobile)

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The Protocol: Ethereum Preps For Upcoming Fusaka Upgrade

Also: Anthropic On DeFi AI Agents, ETH Devs Push ZK Protocol, and Bitnomial

The forthcoming Ethereum upgrade, Fusaka, is partly named after Osaka, a city in Japan (Wikipedia)

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Ethereum Developers Prep for Fusaka, Second Upgrade of 2025

The goal of the upgrade is to enable Ethereum to handle the large transaction throughput from the layer-2 chains that use the blockchain as their base layer.

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The Protocol: Monad Airdrop + Blockchain Go Live

Also: Celestia’s Matcha Upgrade, Fidelity on Fusaka and World’s New Payroll Pilot.

Hot-air balloons in the sky. (Ian Dooley/Unsplash)

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A New Crypto Project Vowed to Transform Stablecoins. Then Its Token Crashed 90%

The stablecoin infrastructure hopeful is trading nearly 90% below its early peak, with thin usage, supply pressure and sparse communication fueling uncertainty about whether the sell-off has truly run its course.

Plasma ball (Kellen Barnes/Unsplash)

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Celestia’s TIA Token Rises as ‘Matcha’ Upgrade Preps Network for Cross-Chain Future

The event is being called its biggest software upgrade yet, which boosts the network’s capacity and improves token economics.

Matcha powder

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Monad Blockchain Goes Live With 100B Token Supply and Airdrop

The total supply of MON is 100 billion tokens, with 10.8% currently unlocked and in circulation.

Hot-air balloons in the sky. (Ian Dooley/Unsplash)