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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Finance

The CoinDesk 50: Binance Eyes the Whole Pie

Binance, #1 on the new CoinDesk 50 list, continues to move aggressively after the biggest opportunities in crypto.

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Tech

The CoinDesk 50: Cosmos and the Dream of Anti-Maximalism

In an industry known for tribalism and infighting, Cosmos is banking on everyone else’s success. That's why it's on the new CoinDesk 50 list.

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Tech

'Very Near Launch': Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Markets

Amun Launches Token Tracking the Inverse of Bitcoin's Price

The Swiss ETP provider's new token lets traders make gains whenever bitcoin's price falls.

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Tech

NEAR Protocol Launches Following $21M Token Sale Led by Andreessen Horowitz

NEAR announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale involving a16z, Pantera and others. It also revealed the stealth-mode launch of the NEAR mainnet on April 22.

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin speaks at Developer Week 2020.

Tech

Tezos Becomes Latest Blockchain to Tap Chainlink for Oracle Services

Chainlink has integrated with yet another blockchain, this time Ethereum rival Tezos.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Tech

Arweave 2.0 Gets File Storage Project One Step Closer to Its 'Library of Alexandria' Dreams

Arweave operates on the same idea as other blockchain-based file storage services such as Filecoin or Storj, but with far larger ambitions backed by new technical developments unveiled Wednesday as Arweave 2.0.

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Tech

Network Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi Taps Libra Member Bison Trails for Staking Services

DeFi protocol Keep Network has tapped Bison Trails to provide non-custodial staking services for tBTC, an ERC-20 representation of bitcoin (BTC) deposits.

Archives and record keeping

Tech

OpenLaw Launches First 'Legal DAO' for Distributed VC Investments

OpenLaw’s LAO, or “Limited Liability Autonomous Organization,” opened Tuesday for investors looking to compliantly earn returns on the next wave of Ethereum-based projects.

OpenLaw CEO Aaron Wright speaks at Ethereal 2019. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Policy

The Netherlands’ AMLD5 Interpretation Appears to Be Killing Crypto Firms

The announced closure of one-man bitcoin startup Bittr may be the first of many in the Netherlands as contentious new AMLD5 regulations come into effect.

The Hague. (Credit: Shutterstock)