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Margaux Nijkerk

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 a small amount of ETH and other altcoins.

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Runes | A Degenerate Casino on the Bitcoin Blockchain Creative
Runes and Ordinals ‘Artist’ Creator, Casey Rodarmor has just invented two of the most dramatically impactful protocols in the blockchain industry's history and embraces crypto...
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By Bradley KeounMargaux NijkerkSam Kessler
Apr 25, 2024 at 10:48 p.m. UTC
Apr 25, 2024
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Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
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Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync
The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.
Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 25, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Apr 25, 2024
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Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)
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Celo Chooses Optimism, Concluding Bake-Off Among Layer 2s
CLabs officially proposed using Optimism’s OP Stack for the transition. The proposal will be discussed on a couple of community calls and then go to a vote among holders of th...
Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 22, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Apr 22, 2024
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Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
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Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots
Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”
Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 18, 2024 at 7:38 p.m. UTC
Apr 18, 2024
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Screenshot from Kraken's promotional materials for its new wallet (CoinDesk/Kraken)
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Kraken Releases Own Crypto Wallet, Joining Competition With Coinbase, MetaMask
According to a blog post shared with CoinDesk, the new Kraken Wallet will be the first from a major exchange to be open-sourced.
Screenshot from Kraken's promotional materials for its new wallet (CoinDesk/Kraken)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 17, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. UTC
Apr 17, 2024
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OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)
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Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet
OKX's comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.
OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 16, 2024 at 1:40 p.m. UTC
Apr 16, 2024
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Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital
The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.
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By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 16, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
Apr 16, 2024
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Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
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Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop
A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations t...
Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 12, 2024 at 6:24 p.m. UTC
Apr 12, 2024
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Rootstock | Bringing the Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin
Rootstock Chief Scientist, Sergio Demian Lerner, regards the upcoming Bitcoin halving is a moment of celebration for the community and highlights the importance of transaction...
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By Bradley KeounMargaux NijkerkSam Kessler
Apr 12, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Apr 12, 2024
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Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)
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Ether.Fi Inks $500M Restaking Deal With RedStone Oracles
Under its deal with RedStone, Ether.Fi will dedicate $500 million to help secure RedStone's data oracles, which are used to pass information between blockchains and the outsid...
Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Apr 12, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Apr 12, 2024
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