Bradley Keoun

Managing Editor, Tech & Protocols

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.

Latest from Bradley Keoun

Tech

MegaLabs, Behind the 'Real-Time' Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly

The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.

Jun 27, 2024

Opinion

Crypto for Advisors: Decoding the Ether ETF Filings

For fans of crypto, ETFs, or both, the potential spot ether ETF launch has carried on the excitement that began earlier this year with the spot bitcoin ETF launch.

Jun 27, 2024

Tech

Tezos, Smart-Contract Blockchain of ICO Fame, Reveals Roadmap to Rejuvenate

The decade-old blockchain's development plan, which goes out through 2026, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate "canonical rollup" that would support multiple programming languages.

Jun 27, 2024

Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman (Bradley Keoun)

Tech

The Protocol: Blast's $3B Airdrop and Bitcoin's Mt. Gox Moment

In this week's issue of CoinDesk's weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we're covering $100 million of fundraisings, project updates from Solana and other teams, complaints over LayerZero's "pay-to-claim" airdrop and nervousness surrounding the Mt. Gox bitcoin distribution.

Jun 26, 2024

Tech

Ora, Aiming to 'Unlock Design Space for AI Dapps,' Raises $20M

The blockchain project, founded in 2022, aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its "on-chain AI oracle."

Jun 26, 2024

Ora co-founder Kartin Wong (Kartin Wong/Ora)

Tech

Protocol Village: Algorand Foundation Positions New 'LiquidAuth' as Decentralized WalletConnect

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 20-26.

Jun 26, 2024

Tech

Solana Adds 'Blinks' and 'Actions' so Users Can Trade Crypto on Their Favorite Social Apps

The epicenter of the latest "meme coin" hype, Solana is introducing new tools designed to make crypto trading more accessible

Jun 25, 2024

(Matt Cardy/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

ZKsync Developer's New 'Elastic Chain' Could Compete With Polygon's AggLayer

This Elastic Chain is composed of multiple chains in the ZKsync ecosystem, but users will feel like they are using a single chain.

Jun 25, 2024

Projects competing to become the dominant "layer 2" network atop Ethereum are now competing to become networks of networks. (Unsplash)

Tech

Tether to Stop Minting Stablecoin USDT on Algorand and EOS

The circulating supply of the dollar-linked stablecoin on the two blockchains represents only about 0.1% of the total USDT supply.

Jun 24, 2024

Tether cited "usage" and "community interest" as factors in its decision to discontinue support for the USDT stablecoin on the EOS and Algorand blockchains. (Creative Commons)

Opinion

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Trends

The digital asset market has begun transitioning from early adoption to mass adoption. A sea change in industry leadership, product development and fiduciary commitment swept crypto in 2023 and early into 2024.

Jun 20, 2024