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.

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Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds

Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit.

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'Flash Loans' Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections

BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process.

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This Paradigm-Backed Startup Is Offering DeFi's First 'T-Bill'

Newly launched DeFi lending project Yield Protocol is offering stable interest rates for investors.

DEFI T-BILL: Yield Protocol's programmatic money market offers stable interest rates just like a Treasury bill.

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Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M 'Bank Run' in Latest DeFi Exploit

Harvest Finance has seen its total value locked drop by more than $500 million in the 12 hours since being hit by a flash loan attack.

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Harvest Finance Token Plummets 65% After Attack Saps DeFi Site of TVL

A possible exploit in DeFi protocol Harvest Finance has caused the site's TVL to drop sharply, along with the price of its FARM token.

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Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Release Kicked Back Until November

Researchers are waiting on a final audit of a critical crypto library before releasing the deposit contract, Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan said.

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Validators Drop Off Ethereum 2.0 Testnets as Mainnet Release Looms

Participation on both the Zinken and Medalla testnets has fallen as developers prepare for the deposit contract’s release.

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DeFi Audit Firms Seeing 'Overwhelming Demand' Even Amid Token Price Slump

Overbooked audit firms are “rejecting” DeFi projects for code checks as the young sector wallows in its first bear market.

DeFi projects are lined up out the door for code audits as 'DeFi Summer' dies down.

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Validator Vote Transitions NEAR Protocol to Proof-of-Stake Mainnet

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed blockchain project successfully transitioned to Phase 2 of Mainnet after a suprise validator vote.

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Ethereum's Top Dapps Are Increasingly Turning to 'Rollups': Here's Why

A majority of the top Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dapps) are switching to rollups, a layer 2 for increasing throughput.

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