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

ECB's Lagarde’s digital euro warning: Why Europe shouldn’t just copy the U.S. stablecoin model

Lagarde warned that large stablecoins like Tether and USDC, which now dominate a $310 billion market, pose financial stability risks and could transmit stress to underlying asset markets during periods of turmoil.

ECB President Christine Lagarde. (Felix Schmidt/ECB Press)

Finance

Coinbase blames AWS for hours-long crypto trading outage

Coinbase says the outage has been fully resolved but that it will investigate the incident fully.

The "eggs now out of budget" Coinbase ad censured by the Advertising Standards Authority. (Sheldon Reback/CoinDesk)

Finance

'DeFi is not dead,' it’s going mainstream with AI agents, crypto executives agree

DeFi and its underlying technology have already proved themselves at scale, said eToro CEO Yoni Assia.

The Securing the Next Decade of Decentralized Finance panel at Consensus Miami 2026 agreed DeFi is not only not dead, it's going mainstream. (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Amazon’s new AI wallet: AWS, Coinbase, and Stripe build payment rails for bots

Amazon said AI agents for now will be allowed to buy APIs, web content and other online services, but that future versions would enable hotel bookings, travel reservations and payments to merchants.

Amazon (BoliviaInteligente/Unsplash)

Finance

Kraken to buy stablecoin payments firm Reap in $600 million deal: Bloomberg

Kraken owner Payward will acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies as the crypto exchange expands its stablecoin and payments infrastructure business in Asia.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Purge of millions of crypto tokens underway, BTC needs it for sustainable bull cycle: Ben Cowen

Researcher and market analyst Ben Cowen says the purge of millions of altcoins is already underway and is necessary for a sustainable bitcoin bull market to be in place.

Bull and Bear. (Christian Waske/Unsplash)

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Finance

AI agents becoming more relevant than humans by 2035 has Big Tech 'terrified', says Hoskinson

The founder and CEO of Cardano’s Input Output said Google, Amazon and Facebook are terrified because AI agents will not behave like humans when confronted with ads.

charles hoskinson (CoinDesk)

Finance

Grant Cardone says bitcoin-real estate strategy could outperform REITs, adds more BTC to treasury

The real-estate mogul said the hybrid model brings new users into crypto and challenges traditional real estate structures.

Grant Cardone. (CoinDesk)