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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Finance

Real-Time Accounting Platform Integral Raises $8.5M in First Round of Funding

Investors included some notable names from the crypto industry, such as figures from Coinbase, Anchorage and Dapper Labs.

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Finance

Privacy-Focused Social Network MeWe Ties Into Blockchain-Powered Protocol

Using Project Liberty's protocol will make MeWe the largest decentralized social media platform.

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Markets

Crypto Investors Yanked Money From ETH Products Despite a Smooth Ethereum Merge

ETH funds saw outflows for a fourth straight week, even as bitcoin (BTC) products won inflows, according to CoinShares.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Tech

Meet 8 Ethereum Developers Who Helped Make the Merge Possible

Ethereum’s impending shift to proof-of-stake could not have happened without researchers, developers, volunteers and many, many client teams.

Featured Ethereum developers, left to right: (Top) Raoul Jordan, Sajida Zouarhi, Marius Van Der Wijden, (Middle) Justin Drake, Alex Stokes (Bottom) Tim Beiko, Parithosh Jayanthi, Ben Edgington

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Tech

The Final Countdown to the Ethereum Merge Has Officially Begun

The activation of the Bellatrix upgrade on the Ethereum blockchain triggers the beginning of the Merge, which will likely be completed sometime around Sept. 13-16.

(David Mark/Pixabay)

Layer 2

As the Gun Market Moves to Crypto, Deeply Private Owners Reveal More Than They May Know

Lobbyists don’t want the government to track guns with a registry but the blockchains driving crypto act like one. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Sin Week.

Central Texas Gun Works, in January 2014, became the first firearms retailer to accept online payment in bitcoin. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tech

Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Its Web Address Because Programmer Who Can Renew It Sits in Jail

Eth.link expired on July 26 and will be up for grabs on Sept. 5, according to GoDaddy.

GoDaddy pulled the plug on eth.link on July 26 (qimono/Pixabay)

Tech

The Ethereum Merge Has an Official Kick-Off Date

The Bellatrix upgrade, which begins the final countdown, is set to activate on Sept. 6. The Merge itself will be completed at some point Sept. 10-20.

The Ethereum Merge is ready to launch. (DARPA/Wikimedia)

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Tech

As Censorship on Ethereum Begins, Could This Open-Sourced Code Help Counter It?

Flashbots' accelerated code release comes amid U.S. regulatory crackdown on crypto mixer Tornado Cash for sanctions violations.

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Tech

Sepolia Is the First Ethereum Testnet to Get a Post-Merge Upgrade

Upgrades to Ethereum test networks – even small ones – are important steps in ensuring that the new proof-of-stake protocol runs smoothly.

Ethereum's Merge will slow demand for GPUs. (Bradley D. Saum/Shutterstock)