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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Tech

Zuzalu, Vitalik Buterin-Led Retreat in Montenegro, Inspires Grants for 'Zu-Villages'

The aim of the program is to continue the "growth of the pop-up city movement" and "support technology-driven projects,” according to a post on Gitcoin.

Discussion circle at Zuzalu, with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on the turquoise beanbag chair, listening to Asymmetry Finance's Hannah Hamilton. (Adrian Guerrera)

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: The Regulators are Here

As the crypto industry matures, regulators have indicated they will continue to focus on crypto after the spot bitcoin ETF approvals.

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Tech

Bitcoin Could See Growth in Layer-2 Ecosystem, Drawing on Ethereum's Experience: Report

The report by Singapore-based blockchain investment Spartan Group and Kyle Ellicott details how these auxiliary networks have drawn a page from the Ethereum blockchain's playbook, and could spring up as demand grows for blockspace on Bitcoin.

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Tech

The Protocol: MetaMask's Secret Weapon and Ethereum's Dencun Debacle

In this issue of CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain technology, we bring you Sam Kessler's scoop on MetaMask's in-development "intents" feature that could revolutionize how users interact with blockchains. Also: a post-mortem on Ethereum's unexpectedly ugly Dencun testnet upgrade – and a glimpse of one of the new data blobs.

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Tech

Protocol Village: Unstoppable Works With Push Protocol to Deliver Token-Gated Group Chats

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Jan. 11-17.

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

Tech

MetaMask's Secret Project Could Shake Up How Ethereum Works

MetaMask is quietly testing new tech that uses third parties to route user transactions. It will eventually be made available outside of MetaMask and will be closely scrutinized for how it manages to avoid centralization concerns.

MetaMask has quietly rolled out a limited version of its new routing tech into the new Smart Swaps feature (MetaMask, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Taproot Wizards, Bitcoin Ordinals Project That Raised $7.5M, to Sell 'Quantum Cats' Collection

The "NFTs on Bitcoin" project has capitalized on the popularity of the controversial Ordinals protocol, which has generated a flurry of interest in the original blockchain but added to congestion and higher fees.

Genesis Quantum Cats inscription from Taproot Wizards (Taproot Wizards, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Steward of Bitcoin Software Explains Why She Nixed an Acrimonious Code Debate

"All it was doing was generating noise," the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr's pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."

Modified screenshot of Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow's comment on GitHub, when she closed a controversial proposal from the developer Luke Dashjr. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)