Olivier Acuna

A breaking news reporter and generalist at Coindesk, Olivier has been a journalist since 1984. He worked for UPI, AP, the Guardian, ITV News and several other major news organizations, covering everything from sports, finance, business to global affairs, politics, elections, economy and organized crime. He dove into crypto and Web3 in 2018 and has been intensely involved in the space since. He holds a MA in Broadcast Journalism from U.K.’s Birmingham City University and a postgraduate marketing diploma from King’s College London. He holds XION and AP3X.

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Finance

How a five-second trick let traders drain millions from Polymarket

After months of public warnings from onchain analysts, the prediction market is moving to time-weighted prices to make artificial price pushes too costly.

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket (CoinDesk/Jesse Hamilton)

Policy

Russia cracks down on unlicensed crypto exchanges it claims are linked to Ukraine

The FSB said at least 20 individuals were arrested in connection with a ring that scammed an undetermined number of Russian citizens.

Russian police in Moscow. (Ivan Lapyri/Unsplash)

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Live updates: 'This can't last forever': Mulling bitcoin's lame price action as risk markets rally

The U.S. lost 23,000 in July, the first such loss since February. Expectations had been for a gain of 80,000 jobs.

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Finance

Crypto firm RedotPay says it will defend itself ‘vigorously’ against Binance lawsuit

Binance alleged RedotPay poached customers from the crypto exchange in a lawsuit filed in Hong Kong.

Lawsuit. Court gavel book and money. (Sasun Bughdaryan/Unsplash)

Finance

Yellow Card raises $40 million to link banks to stablecoin processing

The funds bring Yellow Card’s total financing to more than $120 million since being founded 10 years ago.

Yellow Card founders Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux. (Yellow Card/Press)


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Why bitcoin’s ‘500-day rule’ faces its biggest test yet

The so-called ‘500-day rule’ says buying BTC roughly 500 days before a bitcoin halving and selling it about 500 days after would have produced profits in prior cycles.

A bus carries a Bitcoin advert.

Finance

Samsung is poised to become a dominant stablecoin distributor, analysts say

Samsung seeks to turn 800 million Galaxy phones into wallets for digital assets and blockchain payments, backed by a deeper play in crypto infrastructure.

Samsung headquarters. (Samsung Press)