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

Huddle01, Blockchain Video Conferencing Project That Seeks to Outdo Zoom, Targets $37M Node Sale

Purchasers of the nodes could earning rewards for contributing excess internet bandwidth to the network, which aims to reduce latency while providing "censorship-resistant real-time connectivity."

Huddle01 CTO Susmit Lavania, left, and CEO Ayush Ranjan, on a Huddle video conference call. (Huddle01)

Policy

Harris Loses 'Support' Rating from Crypto Advocacy as Grade Changes to 'NA' From 'B'

The change comes as Crypto Twitter points out that Harris doesn't have a crypto policy in her platform.

Kamala Harris (YouTube)

Tech

Sky Reconsiders Plan to Offboard Wrapped Bitcoin, After Chat With BitGo CEO

An influential adviser to DeFi lender Sky, formerly known as MakerDAO, now says its concerns have been adequately addressed regarding Tron founder Justin Sun's involvement in the custody of bitcoin backing the WBTC token.

Sky. (ELG21/Pixabay)

Tech

Blockchain Data-Availability Project Celestia's Foundation Raises $100M

The news comes as as Celestia's native token, TIA, had fallen 54% since the beginning of 2024.

Celestial bodies. (NASA/Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Election Betting: CFTC, Kalshi Both Grilled by Judges in Appeals Court

The agency appealed a lower court's decision to let the firm offer prediction markets on which party will control each house of Congress. Crypto firms are watching the case.

Kalshi is trying to launch U.S. political prediction markets ahead of the 2024 election. (Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Markets

DeFi Lender Sky Ratifies Plan to Offboard Wrapped Bitcoin, Due to Sun Concerns

The matter has been closely followed in crypto markets, since the Sky platform has $200 million of loans collateralized by the token, and since WBTC is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies, with nearly $10 billion outstanding.

Sky. (ELG21/Pixabay)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Confirm Plan to Split 'Pectra' Upgrade In Two

The decision to split up the upgrade wasn't unexpected. Developers had discussed that Pectra was becoming too ambitious to ship all at once, floating the idea of splitting it up to minimize the risk of finding bugs in the code.

The latest Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is partly named after Electra, one of the "seven sisters" in the star constellation known as Pleiades, shown in an artistic rendering here inside the ring of circles. (Wikipedia, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: Are Advisors Investing in Crypto?

Did the launch of spot crypto ETFs help bring crypto into the mainstream and encourage adoption - particularly by closing the gap between advisors and their clients?

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Finance

Solana-Based Drift Raises $25M to Build 'SuperApp' for DeFi Trading

The DeFi platform plans to build an array of financial services tools, including spot and derivatives trading and a predictions market.

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Tech

The Protocol: How Winklevii Taught Dad BTC, Wild Flight to Singapore

Forget the Federal Reserve. The Bitcoin and crypto project news flow is ample (and fascinating) enough to keep us busy. We've got the rundown plus $80M of fundraisings. In CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain tech.

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