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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Technologies

Starknet Blockchain Plans Much-Awaited Airdrop of New STRK Tokens Next Week

The airdrop will happen on Feb. 20, and eligible users have until June 20 to claim their tokens

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (StarkWare)

Technologies

Ledger, Coinbase Pay Integrate to Give Users Direct Access to Buy, Sell Crypto

Bringing Coinbase Pay into the Ledger Live app is supposed to benefit Ledger users, making it easier to receive their crypto purchases from Coinbase directly on their Ledger hardware wallet, without any additional fees.

Ledger Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers (Ledger)

Technologies

Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s

The Cairo Verifier, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (StarkWare)

Technologies

Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin

The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to "all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum itself,” Polygon said.

Brendan Farmer, Co-Founder of Polygon (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Technologies

Ethereum Developers Target March 13 for Milestone 'Dencun' Upgrade on Mainnet

The timing for the long-awaited Dencun upgrade, with its much-touted "proto-danksharding" feature, was announced Thursday on a call with top developers for the Ethereum blockchain.

Digitally rendered Ethereum logo (Unsplash)

Technologies

Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade Reaches Final ‘Holesky’ Testnet, Starting Countdown to Data 'Blobs'

The test simulated “proto-danksharding,” a technical feature aimed at reducing the cost of transactions for rollups as well as making data availability cheaper.

Ethereum (Unsplash)

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Technologies

Web Registry GoDaddy, Ethereum Name Service Connect Domain Names With Crypto Wallets

Users will be able to link their internet domain names to their ENS addresses.

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson (ENS)