Bradley Keoun

Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of tech & protocols, where he oversees a team of reporters covering blockchain technology, and previously ran the global crypto markets team. A two-time Loeb Awards finalist, he previously was chief global finance and economic correspondent for TheStreet and before that worked as an editor and reporter for Bloomberg News in New York and Mexico City, reporting on Wall Street, emerging markets and the energy industry. He started out as a police-beat reporter for the Gainesville Sun in Florida and later worked as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he double-majored in electrical engineering and classical studies as an undergraduate at Duke University and later obtained a master's in journalism from the University of Florida. He is currently based in Austin, Texas, and in his spare time plays guitar, sings in a choir and hikes in the Texas Hill Country. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies.

Bradley Keoun

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Technologies

Blockchain Startup Rome Raises $9M to Serve Ethereum Layer-2s Through Solana

Shared sequencers and data availability (DA) are services that Rome could provide, as blockchain builders increasingly rely on "modular" networks to handle Ethereum's myriad components and functions.

Rome co-founders Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal (Rome)

Technologies

MetaMask Developer Consensys Releases New Toolkit for 'Seamless Onboarding'

The Delegation Toolkit will allow for instant user onboarding without needing to interact with a traditional wallet, in addition to eliminating “user friction completely,” meaning no pop-ups or confirmations when switching between a decentralized application and wallet.

Joe Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Analyses

Crypto for Advisors: Is Crypto Too Volatile?

Bitcoin’s volatility is expected to continue declining with every halving. The next one, scheduled for 2028, will render bitcoin four times as scarce as gold. Increasing retail and institutional adoption of this technology is also bound to decrease volatility structurally over time.

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Technologies

Protocol Village: DWF Launches $20M Fund for Web3 Projects in Chinese-Speaking Regions

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 27-July 3.

Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)

Technologies

The Protocol: 'Private Jet Brandization' Is One Way Polkadot Burnt Cash

Crypto twitterati showed no mercy as Polkadot published a transparency report detailing spending on $87 million of DOT tokens – a lot of it on marketing. PLUS blockchain tech news and project highlights from the past week.

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Technologies

RedStone, Blockchain Oracle Project Pushing Into Restaking, Raises $15M

The fresh round of capital will go towards hiring new team members, according to a press release.

RedStone Oracles co-founders Jakub Wojciechowski and Marcin Kazmierczak (RedStone)

Technologies

Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M

The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing" along with other blockchain use cases including AI.

CEO of Pi Squared Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared)

Technologies

Bitcoin Could Get Ethereum-Style Restaking as Startup Lombard Raises $16M

Lombard is partnering with staking startup Babylon to let users earn interest for "restaking" with Bitcoin – using the asset to secure other crypto networks.

Bitcoin logo (Getty Images)