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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Tech

Is Ethereum’s Censorship Problem Taking a Turn?

New relayers and community efforts have contributed to a decline in censorship on the blockchain

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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)

Tech

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)

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)