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The Protocol

Token Allocations, Airdrops, and Data Availability

An examination of Starknets latest moves, layer 3 networks are ready to go ‘live’ and how a students research paper turned into $345M.

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In this installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk, explore the following stories:

  • Starknet (STRK) Tokens
  • Arbitrum "Orbit" Is Now Live

PROTOCOL VILLAGE SEGMENT

  • The Celestia Launch and AirDrop

EPISODE LINKS |

Starknet Foundation Showers STRK Tokens on Contributors, Though They're Not Trading Yet

Arbitrum Foundation Says 'Orbit' for Layer-3 Networks Now Ready for Mainnet

How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'


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The Protocol has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Take Me Back” by Strength To Last.

HOSTS

Margaux Nijkerk

Margaux Nijkerk reports on the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Margaux Nijkerk
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.

Bradley Keoun