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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Ethereum Upgrade Could Make It Harder to Lose All Your Crypto

Account abstraction – a concept recently embraced by Visa – could make Ethereum wallets significantly more user friendly.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum in 2023: Here’s What to Look Forward To

Staked ETH withdrawals, scalability and more cool events are on the horizon for Ethereum.

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Tech

Is Ethereum’s Censorship Problem Taking a Turn?

New relayers and community efforts have contributed to a decline in censorship on the blockchain

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Web3 Infrastructure Firm Blocknative Raises $15M for Ethereum Block Building Market

The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group and several other venture capital firms.

Celestia Labs is betting on a modular blockchain future. (Shutterstock)

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Web3 Domain Provider Unstoppable Domains to Integrate With Etherscan and Polygonscan

The integration will make it easier to trace domain addresses on the two blockchain explorers.

Unstoppable Domains' Matthew Gould, founder and CEO (left) and Braden Pezeshki, co-founder and principal engineer (right) (Unstoppable Domains)

Finance

Ethereum Name Service DAO Votes on Stewards for Three Working Groups

The stewards will be responsible for the Meta-Governance, ENS ecosystem, and the Public Goods working groups for 2023.

Power Protocol is designed to improve governance of decentralized organizations. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bermuda Digital Bank Jewel Issues ‘Fully-Backed’ Stablecoin

The Jewel USD stablecoin will be launching on Polygon.

(Wikimedia Commons, modificado por CoinDesk)

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Desarrolladores de Ethereum estiman que en marzo de 2023 se podrá retirar el ether en stake

Los retiros de ether en stake llegarán durante la primavera de 2023, mientras que el proto-danksharding será el paso siguiente en la bifurcación de otoño.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

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Ethereum Developers Target March 2023 for Release of Staked Ether

Staked ETH withdrawals are coming in the spring, while "proto-danksharding" will follow in the subsequent hard fork in the fall.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Tech

Privacy-Focused Gnosis Chain to Undergo Its Own Proof-of-Stake ‘Merge’

This will mark the second time in blockchain history that a chain swaps out its old model for proof-of-stake.

Activist investor reported to have been pushing Riot to move into HPC. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)