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.

Margaux Nijkerk

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Tech

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)

Tech

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.

Ethereum Logo

Tech

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)

Markets

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

Tech

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)

Tech

Sunrise Debut Streamlines Solana Token Imports as Monad Goes Live

The platform introduces a unified gateway that allows issuers and users to move tokens from any ecosystem into Solana.

The sun rises from behind some mountains.

Tech

World App Starts Virtual Bank Accounts Pilot for USDC Payroll Deposits

The feature issues unique virtual account numbers, allowing users to receive direct deposits, like payroll payments, straight into the World App.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

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Tech

The Protocol: Hyperliquid Introduces Proposal to Cut Fees

Also: Aerodrome Overhaul, Cloudflare Outage and dYdX Buyback Increase Approved.

Ripple engineer Nik Bougalis has published a proposal for shielding XRP transactions. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

SafePal Brings Hyperliquid Perpetuals to Wallet in Major DeFi Push

The wallet provider is deepening its bet on decentralized derivatives trading with a three-part integration.

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