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

How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight

This week's launch of the new "data availability" network Celestia came with an airdrop of the project's TIA tokens, one of the most anticipated giveaways in the crypto industry of the past year.

According to the Celestia Foundation, this photo was taken shortly after Celestia CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam (then a Ph.D. student) published the "LazyLedger" research paper in 2019. Al-Bassam is on the right, with Celestia executives Ismail Khoffi (left) and John Adler (center). (Celestia Foundation)

Finance

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Might Have Trading Support of Heavyweights Like Jane Street, Jump and Virtu: Source

Amid the crypto crackdown, a BTC ETF, if approved, would open a new pathway for U.S.-based firms to get a piece of the crypto action – in a way that plays to their conventional strengths.

BlackRock HQ

Tech

Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet

The foundation, formed in November 2022 after the initial developer StarkWare minted 10 billion STRK tokens, is now awarding early contributors to the Ethereum layer-2 network – even though they're locked for trading at least until next April.

Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva

Tech

Arbitrum Foundation Says 'Orbit' for Layer-3 Networks Now Ready for Mainnet

Orbit is a program for developers to spin up their own layer-3 blockchains atop Arbitrum, which in turn is the largest layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain.

Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder, Offchain Labs and Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk reporter (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: ETH Futures ETFs and What’s Next

Today in Crypto for Advisors Roxanna Islam from VettaFi discusses the current crypto ETF market with a focus on Eth futures performance.

(mostafa meraji/ Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Dominance Hits Fresh 30-Month High as Ether, Altcoins Lag in Rally

Bitcoin's bullish momentum could prove a harbinger of an altcoin rally, one analyst noted.

Bitcoin Dominance Rate (TradingView)

Tech

Protocol Village: Clearpool, DeFi Credit Market, Expands to Optimism's OP Mainnet

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 16-25, with live updates throughout.

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

Tech

All of a Sudden, It’s All About Bitcoin

Bitcoin's tech development is buzzing with innovations that could help it keep pace with Ethereum

(Ahmad Odeh/Unsplash)

Tech

This Cybersecurity Pro Gets Paid to Hack Ethereum – for the Good of the Network

One of the techniques that his team deploys to protect the blockchain is “fuzzing,” a term borrowed from the software-development industry that’s become a common way of checking to make sure a system is secure and resilient.

Ethereum Foundation security researcher David Theodore's Airstream, parked in Colorado (David Theodore)