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.

Bradley Keoun

Dernières de Bradley Keoun


Marchés

Decentralized Exchange dYdX Launches Public Testnet on Cosmos

The DEX said users can now trade bitcoin and ethereum on the public testnet.

dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Technologies

Chainlink ‘Proof of Reserve’ Proves Little Beyond Data Going In, Coming Out

Projects like TrueUSD and Paxos are turning to Chainlink to give users transparency into their reserves, but their numbers remain difficult to verify.

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink Labs)

Finance

Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss Tweets $1.5B 'Final Offer' in Debt Talks Over Crypto Firm Genesis

Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis propose a package $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated in dollars, bitcoin and ether, according to a term sheet posted on Twitter by the Gemini co-founder.

Gemini co-founders Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss, seen in colorful tuxedos,  announced in June that they will expand their Singapore headcount to more than 100 employees, about 20% of the total worldwide staff.

Finance

Three Arrows Founders to Donate Future Earnings to Creditors in Spirit of 'Karma'

The hedge fund that filed for bankruptcy last year has been roasted by victims and crypto-industry observers in the wake of its epic collapse, but one partner, Kyle Davies, says "karma" motivates the founders to give back.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Technologies

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

Refiled application by Nasdaq to list a BlackRock bitcoin ETF follows a report last week that the SEC deemed earlier proposals "inadequate" since they didn't specify the name of the underlying market in so-called surveillance-sharing agreements.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Marchés

Coinbase, Microstrategy Shares Rally After Cboe Refiles Bitcoin ETF Applications

Shares in Coinbase, chosen as the market for the surveillance-sharing agreements in ETF applications, rose above $80 at around 11:30 ET on Monday.

(Unsplash)

Technologies

Liquid Staking Frenzy Spreads to Solana as Drift's 'Super Stake' Offers One-Click Leverage

Drift Protocol’s “Super Stake” is a hit among traders trying to get extra yield on their staked SOL tokens.

Solana's offices in New York (Danny Nelson)

Technologies

Polygon 2.0 Roadmap Calls for ‘Unified Liquidity,’ Restaking, New Chains on Demand

Polygon, a staking solution for Ethereum, says its new architecture will include a shared bridge and a “coordination layer” that connects all of Polygon’s chains, with an emphasis on zero-knowledge technology that has become one of this year’s hottest blockchain trends.

Brendan Farmer, Co-Founder of Polygon (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Technologies

Compound Founder Forms 'Superstate' to Create Bond Fund With Ethereum for Record-Keeping

The new fund will invest in short-term U.S. government bonds, relying on a traditional Wall Street transfer agent for keeping track of holders but using Ethereum as a secondary record-keeping source.

Compound founder Robert Leshner speaks at Token Summit 2019. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Popular Standard for Issuing Tokenized Securities Gets Makeover

Republic Crypto and Upside are debuting ERC-1404 Prime as a future forward token standard.

(simoncarter/ Getty)