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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Flashbots Makes Privacy-Enhanced Block Builder Open Source on Ethereum Testnet Sepolia

Research shared by the team details that block builders will be able to build blocks without accessing private data of users' transactions.

bots robots (Shutterstock)

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ConsenSys, Developer of Ethereum Software, Says zkEVM Public Testnet to Go Live March 28

Zero-knowledge, or ZK, a type of cryptography, is seen as one of the year's hottest blockchain technologies. ConsenSys launched a private zkEVM testnet in December but is now opening it up for anyone to join.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Shanghai + Capella = 'Shapella': How Ethereum Devs Now Refer to Upcoming Upgrade

Technically the Shanghai upgrade is only on the execution side of Ethereum. Capella is the simultaneous upgrade happening on the consensus side. Hence the merging of the two names to “Shapella.”

Shanghái. (Unsplash)

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Ethereum Developers Target March 14 Date for Shanghai Upgrade on Goerli Testnet

The event will be the last “Shapella” dress rehearsal for Ethereum’s upcoming hard fork.

Ethereum is getting closer to its Shanghai software update. (Getty Images)

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Ethereum Says ERC-4337 Deployed, Tested, Beginning Era of Smart Accounts

The news of the deployment of ERC-4337 will be shared at an ETHDenver-related event, known as WalletCon.

Yoav Weiss, a security fellow at the Ethereum Foundation, announces the launch of account abstraction on Ethereum at WalletCon 2023 (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Wallet Provider Safe Launches Developer Stack Enabling Account Abstraction

The open-source stack will allow developers to build Web3 apps that enable account abstraction while maintaining a Web2 user experience.

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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Upcoming Upgrades That Will Shape the Ethereum Ecosystem

Here are some approaching dates and launches that Ethereum followers and observers should keep an eye on.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Second Ethereum Testnet Successfully Simulates Shanghai Hard Fork

The Sepolia testnet was able to successfully process staked ETH withdrawals. There is one more test on the Goerli testnet that is planned before Shanghai goes live.

Shanghai (Unsplash)

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Crypto Con Artists Leave Trail of ‘Rip Deal’ Victims From Amsterdam to Rome

They invite you to a restaurant to ink an investment in your project, and then they vanish – with the contents of your crypto wallet. Scams have popped up over the last few years targeting crypto companies. European authorities are investigating.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)