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

A New Uniswap Feature Aims to Eliminate DeFi Pain Points

UniswapX claims to offer better prices by aggregating liquidity sources, with gas-free swaps and protection against "maximal extractable value" or MEV.

Floatie in the form of a unicorn, the emblematic mythical creature featured in Uniswap's logo and marketing materials. (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Gnosis Lets Crypto Users Make Everyday Purchases From Wallets With Visa

The crypto-based debit card will allow web3 users to use their stablecoins to pay for products in everyday life.

Gnosis Pay leadership: Martin Koeppelmann, Stefan George, Marcos Nunes, and Dr. Friederike Ernst (Gnosis).

Tech

DeFi Lender MarginFi Fuels Growth With Loyalty Points, Spurring Talk of ‘Solana Renaissance’

MarginFi’s new points program has many users convinced it's the setup for a token airdrop.

marginFi banner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Mutiny’s New Browser-Based Bitcoin Wallet on Lightning Avoids App Store Restrictions

The company says it’s the “first self-custodial lightning wallet that runs on the web.”

Mutiny wallet team. (Twitter user @SpecificMills)

Tech

What Is Ethereum’s ‘Data Availability' Problem, and Why Does It Matter?

Separate “data availability” layers could reduce congestion on the Ethereum network by making it easier for ancillary “rollup” networks to verify that transactional details exist and are available to download if needed — without actually downloading them. The concept might offer an alternative to Ethereum’s own proposed solution, seen as years away.

Avail founder Anurag Arjun. (Avail)

Tech

Layer-2 Blockchain Starknet's ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Goes Live, for Speedier Transactions

The upgrade for Starknet, a layer-2 blockchain or "rollup" to the Ethereum blockchain, went live following a community vote that overwhelmingly agreed to deploy it to mainnet.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Tech

MetaMask Developer ConsenSys Brings Layer 2 Blockchain ‘Linea’ to Ethereum Mainnet

The rollup chain from ConsenSys, known as a zkEVM, joins a growing field of projects aiming to expand access to Ethereum using zero-knowledge cryptography.

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin speaks at ETHDenver 2022 (Chet Strange/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tech

Apple May Not Like It, but ‘Zapple Pay’ Finds Workaround for Bitcoin Tipping on Damus

The new third-party payment service claims to be independent of the Damus iPhone app that Apple has tried to restrict, and lets users tip one another on any app that runs on the Nostr protocol.

Screenshot of Jack Dorsey’s Zapple Pay comment on Damus. (Frederick Munawa)

Finance

BlackRock CEO’s Turnabout on Bitcoin Elicits Cheers, Skepticism of Crypto Cred

Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s biggest asset manager, says crypto could “revolutionize finance,” endorsing an industry he once viewed with skepticism. But the very nature of an ETF is at odds with the original ideals of Bitcoin.

Larry Fink on Fox News (Fox Business)

Tech

Avail, Spun Out of Polygon, Launches Data Attestation Bridge to Ethereum

The new tech, on testnet, represents a step forward in Avail's plan to help secondary networks in the Ethereum ecosystem to speed up their processing – by giving them an alternate way to store the data, and verify its existence and availability, besides storing it on the main blockchain.

Bridge (Alex Azabache/Unsplash)