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

Tech

OG Bitcoin L2 Stacks Is Getting a Major Overhaul

The Nakamoto update will decouple block production from Bitcoin itself, solving the problem of network congestion Stacks has had since it launched its mainnet in 2021.

Apr 16, 2024

Tech

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

Apr 16, 2024

Puffer fish (Stelio Puccinelli/Unsplash)

Tech

Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions

Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic sat."

Apr 15, 2024

16:9 Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash)

Podcasts

Rootstock | Bringing the Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin

Apr 12, 2024

Tech

Ethereum's Next Upgrade, 'Pectra,' Could Include Relief for Institutional Stakers, Wallet UX Improvements

Developers' aim with Pectra is to make some minor code changes while simultaneously working on a bigger code change, Verkle trees, for the following upgrade.

Apr 11, 2024

Markets

Crypto for Advisors: Are ETH ETFs Coming?

Market odds of approval in May are dwindling, but David Lawant and Purvi Maniar of FalconX say we’ll likely see an ETH ETF approval over the next 12-18 months.

Apr 11, 2024

Tech

The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own

Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts of monetary strategies.

Apr 10, 2024

Tech

Protocol Village: Nomic Unveils Bitcoin Liquid Staking Token 'stBTC' Using Babylon Technology

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 4-10.

Apr 10, 2024

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tech

EigenLayer, Crypto's Biggest Project Launch This Year, Is Still Missing Crucial Functionality

The "restaking" protocol with $15 billion in deposits won't pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical "slashing" feature.

Apr 10, 2024

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Venture Firm A16z Releases Jolt, a 'Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine'

The release is the product of a16z's first foray into deep tech research.

Apr 9, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)