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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Tech

Ethereum Proposal Could Increase Throughput by 50%

The proposal, designated EIP-7781, would reduce slot times to eight seconds from 12 and has already earned some key supporters.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon's Anduro Unveils Tokenization Platform, Starts With Whiskey

Anduro has developed the real-world assets (RWA) project Avant alongside tokenization platform Vertalo, and they will tokenize whiskey barrels in a pilot project.

Whiskey (eitamasui/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto as a Growth Driver

For wealth managers, crypto presents a key opportunity for growth – especially with rising mainstream interest after the approval of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs earlier this year.

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Tech

Protocol Village: Firoza Finance Launches $2M Pilot Program for Shariah-Compliant DeFi With 'Mudarabah Smart Contract'

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 26-Oct. 2.

Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Bounce Above $62K Quickly Fades; Ether, XRP, ADA, LINK Lose as Torrid October Continues

The largest cryptocurrency's price is currently retesting its "Bull Market Support Band" trend indicator, where prices often rebounded from pullbacks during uptrends.

Bitcoin price on 10 02 (CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Inside North Korea's Campaign to Put Crypto Developers on Payroll

In this week's issue of CoinDesk's weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we've got names, details and anecdotes on crypto companies' unwitting hires of North Korean developers. PLUS month-end rankings for bitcoin, ether and other digital assets in the CoinDesk 20 index during a strangely bullish September.

"Naoki Murano," one of the suspected North Korean IT workers identified by ZachXBT, provided companies with an authentic-looking Japanese passport. (Image courtesy of Taylor Monahan)

Tech

How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry

More than a dozen blockchain firms inadvertently hired undercover IT workers from the rogue state, incurring cybersecurity and legal risks, a CoinDesk investigation found.

To the untrained eye, forged documents submitted by North Korean job applicants look indistinguishable from authentic passports and visas. (Image courtesy of Stefan Rust, modified by CoinDesk.)

Finance

Digital-Asset Manager Kin Launches $100M Tokenized Real Estate Fund on Chintai Network

Fund tokenization is one of the frontiers of bringing real-world assets (RWAs) to blockchain rails in pursuit of greater efficiency, lower costs and faster settlements.

Kin Capital principal Adam Menconi (Kin Capital)

Tech

The Protocol: When Trump Bought Red-Meat Bitcoin Burgers, He Called It 'Crypto'

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump won chits from the Bitcoin community for reportedly purchasing smash burgers at a Bitcoin-friendly New York pub. But in a way, the whole episode was about damage control.

Trump burgers

Tech

Protocol Village: BitcoinOS, Bitcoin Layer-2 Project, Open-Sources 'BitSNARK' Verification Protocol

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 19-25.

Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)