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

High Ethereum Fees Push Tether to Its Eighth Blockchain, OMG Network

Tether’s USDT is now live on scaling blockchain OMG Network in a bid to decrease pressure on its parent blockchain, Ethereum.

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Tech

Chainlink to Provide Data for Farming Insurance Startup Arbol

Chainlink will provide climate data for insurance startup Arbol’s weather derivatives. Small to medium sized firms can use the Ethereum-based dapp for hedging natural events.

an honest yield farmer

Tech

Lending Protocol Aave Eyes Tokenized Mortgages With Launch of V2

Tokenized mortgages may be coming to decentralized finance (DeFi) following Aave v2’s specification announcement Friday.

Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, speaks at Consensus 2019.

Tech

How DeFi 'Degens' Are Gaming Ethereum's Money Legos

From first heartbeat to last breath, YAM lasted less than 48 hours. But those are the rules of DeFi’s newest toy: “minimally viable monetary experiments.”

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Markets

DeFi Meme Coin YAM Succumbs to Fatal 'Rebase' Bug, Makes Plans for 'YAM 2.0'

DeFi meme coin YAM has lost control of its on-chain governance feature following a reported bug.

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Markets

Decentralized Finance Frenzy Drives Ethereum Transaction Fees to All-Time Highs

Average transaction fees broke all-time highs as median fees hover just below its high.

Average and median Ethereum transaction fees since July 2015

Tech

Deposits in 'Monetary Experiment' Meme Token YAM Break $460M

YAM, DeFi’s latest farm-fresh product, has never been audited. Yet, that’s not holding back traders from pumping the token’s price to a high of $138 since it launched Tuesday.

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Tech

How Much Ether Is Out There? Ethereum Developers Create New Scripts for Self-Verification

Ethereum and Bitcoin advocates have engaged in spirited exchange since Friday to answer an ostensibly simple question: What’s the total supply of ether?

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Tech

Ethereum Classic's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Ethereum Classic suffered two 51% attacks in the same week. One week later, exchanges, investors and developers are split on the implications.

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Tech

Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable 'Parachains'

Polkadot has released its first testnet, Rococo, for its parachain network. The testnet will commence with three parachains, Parity Technologies said.

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