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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First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11K

This week's Fed meeting ushered in a new regime for U.S. monetary policy, offering a reminder of just how frequently top officials change the rules.

Sep 17, 2020

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dons reading glasses prior to Wednesday's press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

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Federal Reserve Now Targets Inflation Above 2%, Bitcoin Breaks $11K

Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday they would hold U.S. interest rates at close to zero and work to push inflation above 2% "for some time."

Sep 16, 2020

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaking at virtual press conference on Wednesday. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

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First Mover: Binance's CZ Doesn't Even Dispute That DeFi Might Be Inevitable

Big crypto exchanges like Binance, Huobi and OKEx are rushing out DeFi platforms to cash in on the fast-growing industry and stanch user defections.

Sep 16, 2020

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao says the centralized exchange's BNB tokens might benefit from the decentralization trend.

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First Mover: Bitcoin Investors the Sane Ones as Federal Reserve Cheers Inflation, Price Nears $11K

Cryptocurrencies' 2020 gains are the truth gauge as markets react to the Federal Reserve's inflation goal, where Zimbabwe is the model of success.

Sep 15, 2020

Crypto investors inverting the gold-price scale is starting to seem like the sane thing to do. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

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First Mover: As Central Banks Print $1.4B an Hour, Bitcoiners Bet on Federal Reserve 'Capture'

Though no fresh stimulus is expected this week from the Fed, bitcoiners betting on money printing could just wait for the next sell-off in U.S stocks.

Sep 14, 2020

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First Mover: Ethereum Gets Unplanned Stress Test as DeFi Fever Grows

The Ethereum blockchain's soaring gas prices don't seem to have deterred customers as DeFi usage grows and tests what the market can bear.

Sep 11, 2020

DeFi is pushing up usage and fees on Ethereum, and the blockchain network so far is passing the stress test. (Flickr Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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First Mover: DeFi 'Vampire' SushiSwap Sucks $800M from Uniswap; BitMEX Basis Lags

SushiSwap, the "vampire mining" protocol, sucked more than $800 million from rival Uniswap in the latest DeFi mind-bender. PLUS: BitMEX futures distortions.

Sep 10, 2020

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First Mover: Bitcoin Acts Like a Tech Stock and Ethereum Classic Traders Shrug Off 51% Attacks

Market onlookers are scrabbling for a new narrative as some argue last week's tech rout might explain bitcoin's latest price drop.

Sep 9, 2020

The Nasdaq is the primary venue for U.S.-listed tech stocks (Shutterstock)

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First Mover: SushiSwap's Billion-Dollar 'Rug Pull' Is Thriller to Crypto Geeks

The "SUSHI rug pull" is a gripping drama in the fast-moving arena of decentralized finance, which apparently is still limited to crypto geeks.

Sep 8, 2020

The SushiSwap saga appears to have more plot twists ahead. (George M. Groutas/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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First Mover: Buying Bitcoin's Dip, Betting Against Tether and Weighing the Jobs Report

Crypto traders appeared to be buying the dip after Thursday's 11% plunge. ALSO: There's a contract for that: How to hedge Tether's credit risk.

Sep 4, 2020

There's now a credit-default swap contract on Tether, allowing traders to bet on the credit risk inherent in the dollar-linked stablecoin. (Thomas Rowlandson/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk)