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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Technologies

Multi-Chain DeFi Protocol Raises $750K in Token Sale With Framework Ventures

DeFi fund Framework Ventures has purchased roughly 5 percent of Kava Labs' outstanding token supply ahead of the CDP platform's launch next month.

The kava plant

Marchés

Weekend Attack Drains Decentralized Protocol dForce of $25M in Crypto

dForce appears to have lost control of $25 million in bitcoin and ether held in its decentralized lending protocol.

dForce's Lendf holdings appear to be completely drained. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Startup Purse to Shut Down After 6-Year Run

Bitcoin shopping startup Purse will shut down after six years in the space, according to an email sent to customers Thursday and confirmed by CoinDesk.

Zip

Finance

Swiss Crypto Firm Closes $14.5M Series B to Help Secure Brokerage License

Crypto Finance AG's $14.5 million funding round will go toward international expansion and courting institutional investors.

Crypto Finance AG CEO Jan Brzezek. (Credit: Crypto Finance AG)

Technologies

Chinese DeFi Platform dForce Raises $1.5M From Multicoin, Huobi Capital

One of China’s largest DeFi platforms has raised $1.5 million from Multicoin Capital, Huobi Capital and CMB International to expand its product lineup.

Multicoin Capital principal Mable Jiang. (Credit: BlockBeats/Odaily)

Technologies

MakerDAO Users Sue Stablecoin Issuer Following 'Black Thursday' Losses

A lawsuit against the Maker Foundation claims the DeFi platform “intentionally misrepresented the risks associated with CDP ownership.”

Maker Foundation CEO Rune Christensen (CoinDesk archives)

Technologies

Wrapped Bitcoin Aims to Kick-Start DeFi on Tezos Blockchain

Bitcoin Association Switzerland is partnering with the Tezos Foundation and others to create tzBTC, a bitcoin-pegged token meant to power DeFi applications on Tezos.

Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman speaks in 2017. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Technologies

Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant 'Identity Layer' for Polkadot

Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network.

Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg speaks at Consensus 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

'They Have the Users': Binance CEO Explains Why He Bought CoinMarketCap

"Even though their money generation mechanism is not as strong as Binance, they do have the users," CEO CZ tells CoinDesk. "It's a very valuable platform."

DOUBLING DOWN: Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is pinning his hopes on a mass audience of individual investors. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Technologies

IoT App Nodle Moves From Stellar Blockchain to Polkadot

IoT platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to a custom build on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network.

polkadots