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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Tecnología

Vitalik Buterin reveals his bold new plan to fix Ethereum’s scaling problem

The new post reflects Buterin’s renewed focus on scaling Ethereum’s base layer, after several years in which much of the ecosystem’s scaling strategy centered on layer-2 rollups.

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin at Techcrunch London 2015

Nuevas análisis

Here is why Ethereum's bold new plan could make the blockchain giant high-speed 'internet of value' by 2029

Beneath the technical language of the 'Strawmap' is a far simpler story: Ethereum is trying to decide what kind of infrastructure it wants to be by the end of the decade.

Justin Drake (Getty Images)

Tecnología

Vitalik Buterin unveils Ethereum roadmap to counter quantum computing threat

This move comes shortly after the Ethereum Foundation established a dedicated post-quantum research team to study the issue.

Vitalik Buterin (CoinDesk)

Tecnología

The Protocol: Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT alleges Axiom employee conducted insider trading

Also: Ethereum’s “strawmap”, Robinhood chain update and OpenAI + smart contracts

Silhouette image of a hooded figure behind three screens.  (geralt/Pixabay)

Publicidad

Tecnología

A former Solana exec is taking a page out of Wall Street playbook to make global crypto trades faster

The goal is to reduce Solana’s growing geographic concentration in Europe and introduce multicast functionality.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanzas

MetaMask expands debit card across U.S. after year-long pilot

The card lets users spend digital assets directly from their self-custodial wallets at various merchants.

MetaMask's mobile app (Gabby Jones, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Crypto wallets for AI agents are creating a new legal frontier, says Electric Capital

As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.

CoinDesk

Tecnología

Bitwise's Hunter Horsley says AI Is ‘unstoppable freight train’ for crypto, while Haun’s Monica urges caution

As artificial intelligence races ahead, some crypto executives believe it could become the force that finally pushes blockchain infrastructure into widespread use. Others aren’t convinced the leap is so straightforward.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley and Anchorage Digital co-founder Diogo Monica @ NEARCON 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Publicidad

Finanzas

Crypto isn't losing to AI, its just 'capitalism doing its job,' says Dragonfly

Comparisons between AI’s explosive consumer adoption and crypto’s trajectory misunderstand the nature of the products, Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi told CoinDesk in an interview.

Haseeb Quershi (Dragonfly) at Consensus Hong Kong

Finanzas

NEAR Launches Near.com super app, touting AI capabilities and confidential transactions

The company is betting that the next big wave in crypto will come from its convergence with AI.

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)