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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Marchés

Bitcoin just broke below the floor of its famous Rainbow Chart into the ‘BTC is dead’ zone

A 50% drop from recent highs has pushed the asset into a zone historically labeled as a dead end, sparking a debate among crypto analysts.

Rainbow Chart (Blockchaincenter.net)

Marchés

Chainlink teams up with 47 South Korean, European banks to speed up international money transfers

The alliance, called Project Pangea, plans to use stablecoins to settle multimillion-dollar currency trades between Europe and South Korea in near real time.

Niki Ariyasinghe, Chainlink’s vice president of Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. (Chainlink/Media)

Juridique

The ECB digital euro takes step forward after winning key European Parliament vote

EU lawmakers backed a legal framework to develop an ECB digital currency by 2029 so the continent can stop relying entirely on U.S. credit card and stablecoin giants.

EU Parliament. (Marius/Unsplash)

Publicité

Finance

Franklin Templeton closes 250 Digital acquisition deal and sets up new Franklin Crypto division

The $1.7 trillion asset manager did not disclose the amount paid for the acquisition of 250 Digital but revealed its plans for a new corporate division exclusively for crypto investments.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Marchés

OKX and NYSE partner to bridge tradfi and crypto markets in joint venture led by Andrew Cuomo

The goal is to enable OKX’s 120 million global users to access ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities markets, the two U.S. companies announced.

NYSE (Tobias Deml/Wikimedia Commons)

Marchés

Strategy added $35 million in bitcoin, $300 million in cash reserves last week

The boost to cash reserves is meant to reassure investors about dividend payments on the company's hard-hit preferred shares, STRC.

Strategy's Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Publicité

Juridique

Bank of England backs down on strict stablecoin holding limits, sets $50 billion issuance cap

The U.K. central bank abandons retail holding limits for a 40-billion-pound aggregate cap and sweetens yield terms for token issuers ahead of a 2027 market launch.

A pedestrian walks past the entrance to the Bank of England (Unsplash)