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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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)

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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.

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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)

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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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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)

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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)

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Uniswap Proposes Sweeping ‘UNIfication’ With UNI Burn and Protocol Fee Overhaul

The proposal, called “UNIfication,” would activate protocol fees, burn millions of UNI tokens and consolidate the project’s key teams under a single strategy.

CoinDesk

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Monad Unveils Tokenomics Ahead of Nov. 24 MON Token Airdrop

A public sale of the MON token will begin on Coinbase’s Token Sales platform on Nov. 17 for 7.5% of the initial supply.

Hot-air balloons in the sky. (Ian Dooley/Unsplash)

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Securitize, VanEck Bring VBILL Tokenized Treasury Fund To Aave

The integration, powered by Chainlink’s NAVLink oracle technology, represents another leap in bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance together.

(VanEck)

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The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model

Also: The First AI Agent App Store, ETH Devs Lock In Fusaka Mainnet Date and Edge & Node’s Ampersand.

Playing cards and poker chips. (Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)