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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Markets

Origin Protocol Loses $7M in Latest DeFi Attack

Stablecoin project Origin Dollar (OUSD) sustained a re-entrancy attack at 00:47 UTC Tuesday resulting in a loss of funds worth $7 million.

OUSD suffered a flash loan attack.

Tech

Uniswap May Re-Up Rewards as SushiSwap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield Farmers

A new governance vote would continue liquidity mining rewards for certain asset pairs as the original allocation ends.

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Tech

MakerDAO Loans Can Be Gamed to Hold Out Funds From Liquidation, Startup Finds

A loophole in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt market enables positions to be closed far more leniently than intended due to an oversight in the auction process.

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Tech

Developers Debate Disclosure Protocols After ‘Accidental’ Ethereum Hard Fork

Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.

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Tech

DeFi Project Akropolis Drained of $2M in DAI

Decentralized finance platform Akropolis’ yCurve pools have been drained resulting in the loss of $2 million.

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Brent Crude Oil Futures Now Tradable on DeFi Exchange Synthetix

One of two global oil benchmarks, Brent Crude Futures are now available through DeFi exchange Synthetix.

DEFI OIL: Brent Crude Futures value the production of crude oil in the North Sea, one of two major oil benchmarks.

Tech

FTX Looking to List ‘Beacon Chain’ Ether as Deposit Contract Goes Live

Exchanges may consider markets for “Beacon chain ether” – that is, ether that’s been staked in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract.

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Tech

Ethereum 2.0 Countdown Begins With Release of Deposit Contract

Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract is now live, heralding the imminent unveiling of the "world computer's" second act.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver 2020.

Tech

Tron Blockchain Stalled for Hours by 'Malicious Contract,' Justin Sun Says

A “malicious contract” caused a Tron blockchain super representative to suspend block production for a few hours on Monday.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus (CoinDesk Archives)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Pencil In January for Eth 1.x 'Berlin' Hard Fork

Ethereum developers are eyeing January for the Berlin hard fork. The backwards-incompatible upgrade of the existing Eth 1.x blockchain was first set for July.

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