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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ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional Starts Staking Marketplace With Allnodes, Blockdaemon, Kiln

The new marketplace comes just weeks before Ethereum’s much-anticipated Shanghai hard fork that should spur growth in staking services.

(Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Trading Tech Firm CoinRoutes Wins Patent for ‘Smart Order Router’

The invention by the father-and-son team of David and Ian Weisberger allows “clients to keep control of their own private and exchange keys to their wallets and accounts, but can execute orders across multiple exchanges simultaneously,” according to the patent document.

Schematic image from patent for "distributed crypto-currency smart router." (U.S. Patent Office, modified by CoinDesk)

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How Silvergate’s Crypto Collapse Differed From Silicon Valley Bank’s: No Bailout

A deep dive into regulatory filings shows how Silvergate Bank's collapse was, in a strange way, the ideal scenario for a failing institution. Sure, shareholders got wiped out, but depositors are made whole and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. isn't putting in a dime.

Silvergate Bank collapsed in 2023. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk)

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Coinbase Starts ‘Wallet as a Service’ Companies Can Build Into Their Own Apps

The U.S. crypto exchange says the new service could help companies “to help bring the next hundred million customers into Web3 through a seamless wallet-onboarding experience.”

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Cross-Chain Protocol Swing Says ‘No-Code’ Product to Speed Up App Deployment

Decentralized applications that straddle multiple blockchains are becoming more common, though the cross-chain “bridges” often used to move digital assets back and forth between the different networks are frequently targeted by hackers.

Despite declining Wednesday, BTC may be in a potential upswing. (Luke Chui/Unsplash)

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Polygon Rolls Out Zero-Knowledge, Privacy-Enhanced Identification Product

Under the design for Polygon ID, a bar owner could theoretically use the credential-verification system to verify a patron is of age, without ever having to look at any identification card.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

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Former Accounting Team of FTX US Auditor Armanino Sets Up Shop as The Network Firm

The episode highlights yet another chokepoint for the blockchain industry: It's become harder for crypto startups to enlist big accounting firms to do audits and asset attestations.

(Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Chainlink, TrueUSD Start Real-Time ‘Mint Lock’ Verification of Stablecoin Reserves

The key is to get information from the bank account where the stablecoin’s reserves are kept to the blockchain-based smart contract that controls issuance of new TUSD.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Pantos, a Multichain Token System Backed by Crypto Exchange Bitpanda, Starts Beta Version

The launch by Pantos, backed by the Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda, follows a $12.1 million initial coin offering in 2018.

(Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier/Creative Commons)

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Decentralized Social Media Project Nostr's Damus Gets Listed on Apple App Store

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated to Nostr and promoted the open protocol that aspires to create a censorship-resistant global social network.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)