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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Latest Ethereum ‘Shadow Fork’ Brings Blockchain’s Shanghai Upgrade Closer to Reality

The first set of testing has commenced for the much anticipated Shanghai upgrade, expected in March, that will enable staked ether withdrawals. Some minor glitches were reported.

Ethereum has undergone another shadow fork prior to the Merge.(bildanova/500px/Getty Images)

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Crypto Developers Grew in Numbers Amid Bear Market, VC Firm Electric Capital Says

Developers are focusing on alternative ecosystems to Bitcoin and Ethereum, helping them grow faster, the VC firm said in a report.

La cantidad de contratos inteligentes implementados en Ethereum aumentó más de 40% desde el final del primer trimestre, según Alchemy. (Getty Images)

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Polygon Completes Hard Fork to Reduce Gas Fee Spikes, Disruptive Reorgs

The software upgrade to the Ethereum-scaling project went live on Tuesday and included two proposals from December that Polygon validator teams voted to approve.

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Polygon’s Blockchain to Undergo Hard Fork

The software upgrade scheduled for Jan. 17 will address gas spikes and chain reorganization.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

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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.

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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

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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)