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.

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Ethereum Validators Forced to Wait Days to Unstake Amid Celsius Withdraws

This means there is now a 5.6 day wait for validators to exit the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum has a backlog of validators waiting to exit the chain. (Koushik Pal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Ethereum Developers Target January for First Testnet Deployment of Next Big Upgrade, 'Dencun'

Developers also penciled in the end of February as a soft target for the upgrade to hit the main Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist, namesake for "proto-danksharding," a major component of Ethereum's upcoming "Dencun" upgrade. (Bradley Keoun)

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Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up

Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in conjunction to create new application chains or "appchains."

Avail founder Anurag Arjun (Avail)

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Metis, Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Creates $100M Fund as Decentralized Sequencer Launch Nears

The distribution of funds is planned for the first quarter of 2024, and supposed to occur a week after Metis' decentralized sequencer will go live.

Los rollups no tienen la seguridad de Ethereum. (Luigi Pozzoli/Unsplash)

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Chainlink Data Feeds Available on Polygon zkEVM

Developers building on Polygon’s zkEVM will be able to incorporate these data feeds into their on-chain applications.

Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)

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Arbitrum Throws Hat In Ring for Celo's Migration to Layer-2 Blockchain

Celo originally planned to build its Ethereum layer-2 network with Optimism's OP Stack. Then Polygon and Matter Labs pitched their stacks. Now, Arbitrum, the biggest layer-2, wants in on the bake-off.

Arbitrum booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)