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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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)

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)

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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)

Finance

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)

Tech

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)

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Monad Foundation Sets Nov. 24 Airdrop Date for Users

This comes after the Foundation opened its airdrop claim portal on October 14, inviting users to verify their eligibility.

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

Finance

ZKsync Proposal Aims to Tie $ZK Token to Network Revenue

The creator behind the layer-2 has unveiled a proposal to transform its $ZK token from a governance instrument into a token with real economic utility.

(Element5/Unsplash)