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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Technologie

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

Technologie

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.

(Mike Pellinni/Shutterstock)

Markten

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)

Technologie

Chainlink Integration Brings Data Feeds to Binance’s DeFi Project

Binance is building out a DeFi platform with its Smart Chain protocol and has integrated Chainlink as a pricing solution.

Binance BSC, Binance app

Technologie

Ethereum 2.0 Developers Announce ‘Final’ Testnet Before Network Launch

Medalla, the final testnet before Ethereum begins its long-awaited, gradual transition to proof of stake (PoS), has been announced.

(Preston van loon, Prysmatic labs/CoinDesk Archives)

Markten

Conflux Blockchain Announces Ecosystem Grants Program

Development grants will be paid in the platform's native token, CFX, in values up to $15,000 and $50,000 for both projects and firms respectively.

(Conflux)

Technologie

OpenEthereum Supported 50% of Ethereum Classic Nodes. Now It’s Leaving the Project

Two of Ethereum Classic’s largest clients are walking away from the project. That leaves only 30% of the network to support future updates.

(Ryan Oswick/Unsplash)

Technologie

Whale Alert Identifies 1.125 Million BTC as Satoshi's Stash

New on-chain analysis from Whale Alert suggests Satoshi Nakamoto mined an estimated 1,125,150 in bitcoin, now worth an estimated $10.9 billion.

(Whale Alert)

Technologie

Twitter Hacker Is a BitMEX Trader, On-Chain Data Suggests

Whoever is responsible for Wednesday's Twitter hack was deep into the cryptocurrency space, with the BitMEX receipts to prove it.

(CoinDesk Research)

Technologie

Zcash Latest Hard Fork 'Heartwood' Makes Mining Private

Privacy coin zcash has successfully hard forked at block height 903,000 in a planned network update known as “Heartwood.”

Zcash Foundation Executive Director Josh Cincinnati speaks at ETHDenver 2020. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk)