Margaux Nijkerk

Margaux Nijkerk reports on the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Margaux Nijkerk

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Sam Altman’s Layer-2 Blockchain Project, World Chain, Opens to Developers

This means that select developers can apply to build, test, and give feedback to Tools For Humanity, the developer firm behind Worldcoin, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

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MetaMask Developer Consensys Releases New Toolkit for 'Seamless Onboarding'

The Delegation Toolkit will allow for instant user onboarding without needing to interact with a traditional wallet, in addition to eliminating “user friction completely,” meaning no pop-ups or confirmations when switching between a decentralized application and wallet.

Joe Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

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RedStone, Blockchain Oracle Project Pushing Into Restaking, Raises $15M

The fresh round of capital will go towards hiring new team members, according to a press release.

RedStone Oracles co-founders Jakub Wojciechowski and Marcin Kazmierczak (RedStone)

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Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M

The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing" along with other blockchain use cases including AI.

CEO of Pi Squared Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared)

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MegaLabs, Behind the 'Real-Time' Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly

The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.

(MegaLabs)

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ZKsync Developer's New 'Elastic Chain' Could Compete With Polygon's AggLayer

This Elastic Chain is composed of multiple chains in the ZKsync ecosystem, but users will feel like they are using a single chain.

Projects competing to become the dominant "layer 2" network atop Ethereum are now competing to become networks of networks. (Unsplash)

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Renzo Capitalizes on Restaking Frenzy to Raise $17M From Galaxy, Brevan Howard

Funds will be used towards expanding the project's restaking services, including adding support for ERC-20 tokens.

Renzo Founding Contributor Lucas Kozinski (Renzo)