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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Finance

Bermuda Digital Bank Jewel Issues ‘Fully-Backed’ Stablecoin

The Jewel USD stablecoin will be launching on Polygon.

(Wikimedia Commons, modificado por CoinDesk)

Tech

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)

Consensus Magazine

Ethereum Pulled Off The Year’s Biggest Blockchain Event

It was no small task for the hundreds of developers and client teams to build, coordinate, and successfully swap out Ethereum’s core from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. That’s why Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum developers are among CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

"The V God" (Federico Solmi/CoinDesk)

Tech

The Ethereum Foundation Commences Shutdown of Ropsten Testnet

Developers should move their applications over to either the Goerli or Sepolia testnets.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Blockchain Protocol Komodo Offering Three-In-One Wallet, Cross-Chain Bridge and DEX

Named AtomicDEX Web, the service is intended to be accessed through any internet browser.

(Getty Images)

Learn

Dogechain: Dogecoin’s Tag-Along Sidechain

They may be nominally related, but Dogechain is a different breed altogether.

Portrait Of Shiba Inu Dogs Traveling In Car (Getty Images)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Agree on What Could Be Included in the Next Upgrade – but Not When

Staked ETH withdrawals made the cut – but the timeline for when that will happen still isn't any clearer.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Tech

Ethereum R&D Firm Flashbots Shares Details About Its Next-Gen Block Builder

After teasing Suave at this year’s Devcon, Flashbots outlines how the plug-and-play solution will transform the way validators earn MEV.

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Tech

Anxious Ethereum Stakers Question When They’ll Be Able to Access Funds

Developers are determined to include staked ETH withdrawals in Shanghai, the next Ethereum update, but the timeline is still vague.

(Tim Mossholder/Unsplash)