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

Ripple Begins Testing XRP Ledger Sidechain That’s Compatible With Ethereum Smart Contracts

This is the first step in a three-part process to introduce an EVM-compatible sidechain to the XRP Ledger mainnet.

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Technologies

Censored Ethereum Blocks Hit the 51% Threshold Over the Past 24 Hours

Censorship has been a growing concern within the Ethereum ecosystem, especially since the advent of MEV-Boost after the Merge.

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Technologies

Flashbots Reveals New Version of Its Key Ethereum Software

Development of SUAVE, as the project is codenamed, has been going on for a year.

(Getty/Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao)

Finance

Crypto Lending Platform Moon Mortgage Raises $3.5M Seed Round

The platform will allow investors to use their crypto as collateral for financing real estate investments.

Moon’s CryptoMortgage products allows people to use their crypto as collateral for real estate. (Getty Images)

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Technologies

Ethereum Scaling Tool Polygon Launches its zkEVM Public Testnet

The company continues to be targeting the mainnet going live sometime in early 2023.

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Technologies

What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?

Flashbots' block relayers continue to dominate the Ethereum validator ecosystem. And with them, censorship continues to grow.

(Pete Linforth/Pixabay)

Technologies

Etherscan Set to 'Deprecate' Ethereum’s Ropsten and Rinkeby Testnets

Developers should migrate to Goerli and Sepolia networks ahead of tomorrow’s shutdown.

Dandelion flower plant blowing wind breeze (Bellazza87/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Banking Platform Juno Raises $18M in Series A Funding

Alongside the fresh capital, the company will be introducing its loyalty token, JCOIN.

Varun Deshpande, CEO y cofundador de Juno, en la silla. (Juno)

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Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Anchorage Digital to Be Preferred Custodian for Layer 1 Blockchain Aptos Labs

The partnership signals the growing institutional adoption of crypto.

Anchorage co-founders Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley (Anchorage)

Technologies

Aragon Network Holding Votes on Key Parts of Shift to a New DAO Structure

Community members have until Oct. 5 to cast their votes

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