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

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)

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.

(Pixabay)

Tech

Cloudflare Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Crypto, Renewing Push for DePIN

Some in the crypto world have called for DePIN to be more widely adopted to combat internet outage issues.

A plug disconnected from its electricity socket.

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Finance

DappRadar Shuts Down, Citing ‘Financially Unsustainable’ Market

Launched in 2018, the platform had grown into one of the most prominent analytics hubs for on-chain activity.

Civil is shutting down after three years. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

dYdX Governance Approves Buyback Increase to 75% of Protocol Revenue

The new proposal, which 59.38% of the community approved, charts a course to raise the buy-back allocation up from 25% of net protocol fees.

person casting votes

Tech

Leading Base DEX Aerodrome Merges Into Aero in Major Overhaul

Dromos Labs announced a major overhaul of its decentralized exchange infrastructure with the launch of Aero, a unified trading system that will merge its existing platforms across its networks.

Aerodrome receives $150 million in deposits (Pixabay)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 RISE Unveils RISEx and MarketCore to Build Global On-Chain Markets

The move comes as RISE’s acquired BSX Labs, a perp DEX on layer-2 Base, whose technology will underpin RISE’s new global markets offering.

Sam Battenally CEO of RISE (RISE)

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Tech

The Protocol: Sweeping Uniswap Proposal ‘UNIfication’

Also: Monad Tokenomics Unveiled, Anchorage Dabbles in BTC DeFi and Injective’s Native EVM.

Uniswap logo on phone (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Tech

Injective Launches Native EVM, Promising Faster and Cheaper DeFi

The upgrade aims to make Injective a go-to platform by combining Ethereum compatibility with Injective’s existing high-speed infrastructure.

Injective Labs CEO Eric Chen (Injective)