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

Ex-Polygon Veteran Wyatt Joins Optimism Foundation Unit in Growth Role

Wyatt, who previously served as president at Polygon Labs and had a stint at YouTube, joins as chief growth officer, where he will be in charge of helping developers build across Optimism’s ecosystem of blockchains.

Nov 13, 2023

Optimism Foundation Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt (Optimism Foundation)

Podcasts

Kraken’s Potential Layer 2 Development and Coinbase’s Influence

Nov 9, 2023

Clarity, Blockchain Integration, and the Wormhole Interoperability Initiative

Web3

Crypto for Advisors: Innovating Legacy Programs with Blockchain

In this week's issue of Crypto for Advisors, learn how brands are leveraging blockchain to innovate loyalty programs.

Nov 9, 2023

Tech

Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups

The new fund will focus mainly on early-stage crypto projects, participating in seed-stage and Series A funding rounds.

Nov 9, 2023

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many

Tech

Protocol Village: Fidelity Acknowledges Risk of Bug in Bitcoin's Code

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 2-8, with live updates throughout.

Nov 8, 2023

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

Tech

Arbitrum Voters Polarized Over 'Research' Pitch With $2M Price Tag

Proposed coalition of professional researchers could help "accelerate decision-making" at the Ethereum layer-2 project, but complaints have surfaced over the cost and potential conflicts of interest.

Nov 8, 2023

Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)

Tech

The Protocol: Kraken Awakens – as Ethereum L2 Candidate

In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we look into how Kraken is reportedly considering launching its own layer-2 blockchain, following Coinbase's recent launch of a similar network, amidst a broader trend of companies creating Ethereum-based transaction solutions.

Nov 8, 2023

Tech

'Almost All of DeFi Uses the Graph' – Q&A With Edge & Node CEO Tegan Kline

The CEO of Edge & Node shares how The Graph network – sometimes called the "Google of Web3" – is supposed to help organize data for other protocols.

Nov 8, 2023

Tegan Kline, CEO of Edge & Node (Edge & Node)

Tech

New Cryptocurrencies Getting Created at Slowest Pace in 3 Years, CertiK Data Shows

Excluding memecoins, some 293 new tokens were added to the CoinMarketCap website, less than a fourth what was added during the bull market of late 2021, according to new data compiled by the smart-contract auditor CertiK.

Nov 8, 2023

The number of new tokens (excluding memecoins) added each quarter to CoinMarketCap fell in the most-recent period to its lowest since at least the first quarter of 2021. (Certik/CoinMarketCap)

Tech

The Graph, Known as 'Google of Web3,' Plans AI-Assisted Querying

The blockchain indexing protocol released a new roadmap to add features, in one of the project's biggest upgrades since a $50 million fundraising in 2022.

Nov 7, 2023