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.

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Tecnologie

The Protocol

In this week's abbreviated issue of The Protocol, we're chronicling the apparent doxing of 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli as the driver behind the recently-but-no-longer mooning $DJT token, plus the SEC's apparent retreat on probing the Ethereum developer Consensys.

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Tecnologie

Protocol Village: Arcana Announces 'Chain Abstraction Protocol' to Remove 'Complexities of Bridging'

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 13-19.

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

Tecnologie

Marathon's Layer-2 Chain, Anduro, Plugs In 'Portal to Bitcoin' for Atomic Swaps

The publicly-traded bitcoin miner Marathon began incubating Anduro in February as a "platform built on the Bitcoin network that allows for the creation of multiple sidechains."

16:9 Portal, wormhole (jw210913/PIxabay)

Tecnologie

Sonic, Gaming-Focused Layer-2 Chain on Solana, Raises $12M

The Sonic project's Series A round was led by Bitkraft and joined by investors including Galaxy Interactive and Big Brain Holdings.

Chris Zhu, CEO and founder of Sonic (Robin Huang/Mirror World Labs)

Tecnologie

Renzo Capitalizes on Restaking Frenzy to Raise $17M From Galaxy, Brevan Howard

Funds will be used towards expanding the project's restaking services, including adding support for ERC-20 tokens.

Renzo Founding Contributor Lucas Kozinski (Renzo)

Tecnologie

ZKsync Airdrop of 'ZK' Token Puts Initial Market Cap Near $800M

The layer-2 blockchain ZKsync, has kicked off its highly anticipated airdrop of its ZK token, with 45% of the tokens already claimed.

A C-17 Globemaster III from the 437th Air Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., air delivery pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, Jan 21, 2010 to be distributed by the members of the United Nations.  Department of Defense assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort  following a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the city on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.)

Finanza

Drake on Brink of $1M Bitcoin Loss as NHL and NBA Bets Sour

A series of unfortunate sports losses have left Drake very close to losing $1 million worth of bitcoin bets.

Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics drives around Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks during the fourth quarter in Game Two of the 2024 NBA Finals in Boston. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Tecnologie

Protocol Village: Aethir, for Sourcing GPUs, Launches Decentralized Cloud on Ethereum

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For June 10 - June 12.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tecnologie

The Protocol: How Optimism Filled in Its Missing Tooth

In this week's newsletter, we delve into the Ethereum layer-2 network Optimism's delivery of "fault proofs," a piece of functionality that was glaringly missing even though it was at the heart of the project's security setup.

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