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

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BitMEX's Receding Market Share Might Have Spared Bitcoiners Bigger Sell-Off

When BitMEX announced its "perpetual bitcoin leveraged swap" four years ago, few traders could have anticipated the major impact it would have on the digital-asset trading landscape.

2020年10月1日

BitMEX's website, accessed from the U.S. Thursday, was explicit that its "100x" trading products are prohibited in "restricted jurisdictions."

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First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final Months of (Awful) 2020

Bitcoin is outperforming pretty much every other asset class this year, with a 50% YTD gain. Analysts are bullish heading into 4Q.

2020年10月1日

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First Mover: Chainlink’s Sorry September Returns Shows DeFi Hysteria Deflating

Chainlink's LINK has been the worst-performing digital asset in September in the CoinDesk 20, during an ugly month across cryptocurrency markets.

2020年9月30日

September brought DeFi-related tokens (and most other cryptocurrencies) to the ground after a powerful run in August.

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First Mover: Binance CEO Sees Future in DeFi While Bitcoin Volatility Turns Minuscule

Binance CEO isn't ashamed to discuss DeFi's future – and how the fast-moving arena might represent the future of his industry-leading crypto exchange.

2020年9月29日

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First Mover: Bitcoin Low Exchange Balance Looks Bullish but Chart Looks Bearish as $11K Nears

Bitcoin balances on exchanges hit two-year low, seen as a bullish sign that traders are holding for the long term, or tokenizing for use in DeFi.

2020年9月28日

Blockchain provides uncanny transparency into crypto-market data, lately indicating that investors have taken their bitcoin off of cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Voyager CEO Says Revenue Growth Accelerates 8-Fold as DeFi Trading Surges

CEO Steve Ehrlich says this quarter's revenue is on track to double what the company produced in all of its last fiscal year.

2020年9月25日

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First Mover: Tron's Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Congestion

Competition builds in market for tokenized bitcoin, used to get extra profit off holdings of the cryptocurrency recently denigrated as a "pet rock."

2020年9月25日

Bitcoin has been likened to a "pet rock," but tokenization allows it to be deposited for interest in DeFi applications on the Ethereum blockchain - and now Tron too.

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First Mover: Federal Reserve, Congress Play Game of Chicken Over Stimulus as Market Lurches

Markets from stocks to bitcoin have groaned amid dimming prospects for more U.S. stimulus, and neither Congress nor the Fed are taking the lead.

2020年9月24日

As traders look for fresh stimulus to keep markets buoyant, neither Congress nor the Fed appears ready to blink.

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First Mover: Bitcoins Hit Exchanges as Bloomberg Touts Crypto and DeFi Hedge Fund Seeks $50M

Bloomberg hails crypto as top 2020 asset, bitcoin hits exchanges, options traders see calm around U.S. elections, hedge fund seeks $50M for DeFi.

2020年9月23日

Wall Street sees U.S. November presidential elections injecting chaos into stock markets, but cryptocurrency options traders see nothing but calm ahead in the bitcoin market.

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Crypto Hedge Fund Looks for $50M to Buy DeFi Tokens Amid Market Pullback

Panxora, a cryptocurrency hedge fund manager, seeks $50 million to buy digital tokens associated with decentralized finance, known as DeFi.

2020年9月23日

Panxora is raising money for a hedge fund focused on DeFi tokens.