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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Nil Foundation Plans New Ethereum Rollup With Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Sharding

The foundation claims that this will be the first ZK rollup that enables sharding, combining two popular scaling technologies.

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

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Kraken Said to Seek Partner to Help Build It a Layer 2 Blockchain Network

The crypto exchange is still considering which blockchain developer should build its network, with Polygon, Matter Labs and the Nil Foundation in the mix, according to people familiar with the situation. Rival crypto exchange Coinbase blazed the trail with Base.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell (CoinDesk)

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Crypto Venture Funds Variant, 1kx Lead $6M Funding Round for ZK-Meets-AI Startup Modulus

The funding will be used for the company’s ambitions in zero-knowledge machine learning, combining aspects of zero-knowledge cryptography with artificial intelligence or AI.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Arbitrum Foundation Says 'Orbit' for Layer-3 Networks Now Ready for Mainnet

Orbit is a program for developers to spin up their own layer-3 blockchains atop Arbitrum, which in turn is the largest layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain.

Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder, Offchain Labs and Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk reporter (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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This Cybersecurity Pro Gets Paid to Hack Ethereum – for the Good of the Network

One of the techniques that his team deploys to protect the blockchain is “fuzzing,” a term borrowed from the software-development industry that’s become a common way of checking to make sure a system is secure and resilient.

Ethereum Foundation security researcher David Theodore's Airstream, parked in Colorado (David Theodore)

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DYdX, Decentralized Crypto Exchange, Open Sources ‘V4’ Code for Upcoming Cosmos Chain

This marks the first step in initiation of the v4 upgrade, where the DEX is transitioning away from its layer-2 network atop Ethereum onto its own standalone blockchain.

dYdX founder Antonio Juliano (dYdX)

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Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Lead $6M Funding Round For Privacy Protocol Firm Nocturne Labs

Other investors included Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures and HackVC.

Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)