William Foxley

Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

William Foxley

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How Much Ether Is Out There? Ethereum Developers Create New Scripts for Self-Verification

Ethereum and Bitcoin advocates have engaged in spirited exchange since Friday to answer an ostensibly simple question: What’s the total supply of ether?

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Ethereum Classic's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Ethereum Classic suffered two 51% attacks in the same week. One week later, exchanges, investors and developers are split on the implications.

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Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable 'Parachains'

Polkadot has released its first testnet, Rococo, for its parachain network. The testnet will commence with three parachains, Parity Technologies said.

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NBA's Spencer Dinwiddie, Andre Iguodala and More Join Dapper Labs $12M Funding Round

Dapper Labs raised $12 million in its newest funding round led by NBA stars Spencer Dinwiddie, Andre Iguodala, JaVale McGee, Aaron Gordon and Garrett Temple.

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DeFi Traders Are Gaming Ethereum for Higher Profits, Researchers Say

DeFi trading bots create "walls of executions," resulting in higher rewards for Ethereum miners, higher profits for traders and higher fees for everyone.

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Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Medalla Goes Live With 20,000 Validators

Medalla, the final testnet before the anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 later this year, is now live, the Ethereum Foundation announced Tuesday.

Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi (CoinDesk archives)

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Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do

Five years later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for self-executing code. Eth 2.0 is quite close, but for real this time.

Ethereum art

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DeFi Lender Aave Rolls Out Governance Token on Path to Decentralization

Aave will transfer ownership of the protocol to a “genesis governance” built and approved by LEND token holders. It will also swap LEND tokens for AAVE.

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5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2

Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network.

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Markets

Polkadot Raises $43M in 72-Hour Private Sale: Source

A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) has netted some 3,982.07 BTC worth an estimated $43.3 million as of press time, according to sources.

(BitInfoCharts Block Explorer/CoinDesk Research)