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

Bitcoin Startup Purse May Have a Lifeline After All

Purse.io says it is in "serious" acquisition talks with undisclosed bitcoin investors after announcing its dissolution last week.

Purse says an interested investor may open their wallet to save the shopping startup from the brink. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Nomics Machine-Learning Tool Offers 7-Day Price Forecast on Top 100 Cryptos

Bitcoin and other crypto assets are getting a seven-day price forecast, thanks to machine-learning technology and data provider Nomics.

CRYSTAL BALL: Nomics is rolling out a new tool for predicting crypto prices. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Openfinance Warns It Will Delist All Security Tokens Without New Funds

Openfinance says it will delist all security tokens next month if it cannot secure enough fees from issuers to cover operating costs.

Openfinance launched its alternative trading system in 2018. (Credit: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock)

Tech

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.

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Markets

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.

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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)

Tech

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)

Tech

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)

Tech

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)