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

The Protocol: Crypto Spring Is Airdrop Season With Tokens From Starknet, LayerZero

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're covering Worldcoin's latest update, airdrop season, the new Bitcoin wallet from Jack Dorsey's company and the "data availability" network Celestia's market-moving plan to plug into Polygon's blockchain development kit.

Dec 13, 2023

Tech

Chainlink Staking Program Quickly Pulls in $600M, Hitting Limit; LINK Jumps 12%

The blockchain-oracle project's "v0.2" staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LINK token surged in price.

Dec 8, 2023

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Policy

Binance Founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Stuck in U.S. Until Sentencing

Zhao pleaded guilty to a federal charge last month.

Dec 8, 2023

Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

This $28K Pixelated Avocado Could Add to Bitcoin's Raging Censorship Debate

The NFT-like Ordinals inscriptions are anathema to some Bitcoin purists who want to preserve the blockchain for financial applications. But a few of the images are fetching eye-popping sums in the in-real-life art world.

Dec 7, 2023

Screenshot of BitcoinShrooms website showing items from the collection. (Bitcoinshrooms.com)

Podcasts

Ethereum's Whispered Woes and Crypto's Influencers—For Better or Worse?

Dec 7, 2023

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: On-Chain Investment Tools and Vehicles

What are on-chain index products and how do they work? In today’s Crypto for Advisor newsletter Jordan Tonani from Index Coop takes us through the topic.

Dec 7, 2023

Tech

Protocol Village: EOS Network Ventures Invests in Spirit Blockchain Capital, Gets Board Seat

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 30-Dec. 6, with live updates throughout.

Dec 6, 2023

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

Tech

The Protocol: Bitcoin Censorship, or Just 'Spam Filtering?'

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're highlight blockchain developers named in CoinDesk's Most Influential list just out, including Blockstream's Lisa Neigut, Polygon's Jordi Baylina, Base's Jesse Pollak and Optimism's Karl Floersch.

Dec 6, 2023

Tech

Worldcoin Foundation $5M Grants Program Focuses on 'Equitable Systems'

The grants are supposed to give developers a “focus on building resilient technology and more equitable systems.”

Dec 6, 2023

Tech

Elon Musk-Backed X.AI Files With SEC to Raise Up to $1B in Equity Offering

The filing says the company has already sold $134.7 million of the securities.

Dec 5, 2023