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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Tech

Popular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi's dYdX

Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract out of private alpha on Wednesday, bringing a key BTC derivatives product to DeFi.

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Tech

Vitalik Buterin Clarifies Remarks on Expected Launch Date of Eth 2.0

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin: “I defer to the client devs on timelines and if they are now saying ‘Q3’ more broadly then I believe them.”

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver 2020.

Tech

Trust No Dapp: Chainlink Launches Oracle for Provable Randomness

Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications.

Providing a provably random string of numbers is not as easy as you may think. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Schlesi Testnet Is Latest Step in Long Road Toward Eth 2.0

Ethereum clients are beginning to sync and validate a new Eth 2.0 testnet, Schlesi, ahead of the network's prospective launch in July.

The Schlesisches Tor U-Bahn station in Berlin (Credit: Phaeton1 / Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

The CoinDesk 50: Binance Eyes the Whole Pie

Binance, #1 on the new CoinDesk 50 list, continues to move aggressively after the biggest opportunities in crypto.

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Tech

The CoinDesk 50: Cosmos and the Dream of Anti-Maximalism

In an industry known for tribalism and infighting, Cosmos is banking on everyone else’s success. That's why it's on the new CoinDesk 50 list.

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Tech

'Very Near Launch': Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Markets

Amun Launches Token Tracking the Inverse of Bitcoin's Price

The Swiss ETP provider's new token lets traders make gains whenever bitcoin's price falls.

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Tech

NEAR Protocol Launches Following $21M Token Sale Led by Andreessen Horowitz

NEAR announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale involving a16z, Pantera and others. It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of the NEAR mainnet on April 22.

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at Developer Week 2020.

Tech

Tezos Becomes Latest Blockchain to Tap Chainlink for Oracle Services

Chainlink has integrated with yet another blockchain, this time Ethereum rival Tezos.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov