Margaux Nijkerk

Margaux is a DeFi reporter at CoinDesk, focusing on the rapidly evolving decentralized finance landscape with a particular emphasis on the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems. Prior to that, Margaux was on CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols team covering the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she holds a master’s degree in International Affairs and Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Fox, Polygon Release Blockchain-Powered Tool 'Verify' to Weed Out Deepfakes

"Verify" is an open-source protocol built on Polygon's PoS blockchain, specifically used to establish the origin and history of registered media.

Screenshot from the new "Verify" tool showing a successful authentication – with transaction hash – of a Fox News article. (VerifyMedia/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum Validators Forced to Wait Days to Unstake Amid Celsius Withdraws

This means there is now a 5.6 day wait for validators to exit the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum has a backlog of validators waiting to exit the chain. (Koushik Pal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Ethereum Developers Target January for First Testnet Deployment of Next Big Upgrade, 'Dencun'

Developers also penciled in the end of February as a soft target for the upgrade to hit the main Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist, namesake for "proto-danksharding," a major component of Ethereum's upcoming "Dencun" upgrade. (Bradley Keoun)

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Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up

Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in conjunction to create new application chains or "appchains."

Avail founder Anurag Arjun (Avail)

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Metis, Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Creates $100M Fund as Decentralized Sequencer Launch Nears

The distribution of funds is planned for the first quarter of 2024, and supposed to occur a week after Metis' decentralized sequencer will go live.

Los rollups no tienen la seguridad de Ethereum. (Luigi Pozzoli/Unsplash)

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Chainlink Data Feeds Available on Polygon zkEVM

Developers building on Polygon’s zkEVM will be able to incorporate these data feeds into their on-chain applications.

Sergey Nazarov Chainlink Co-founder (Chainlink Labs)