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

Crypto exchange Coinsbuy loses $8 million in coordinated two-blockchain attack

Onchain forensics tie a single actor to an $8 million coordinated drain across TRON and Ethereum, with most funds routed through FixedFloat and the attack vector still unknown.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Finance

UK’s FCA to regulate tokenized gold to preserve London’s place as the top hub for bullion

The FCA said it will 'have more to say on' their approach to tokenization, as it draws up rules to put assets on the blockchain.

Gold bars (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash)

Finance

Trillions in institutional money to flow into bitcoin, says Bitwise's Matt Hougan

The digital asset manager's CIO says large capital pools control up to $200 trillion globally, and just a 1% shift toward bitcoin could unlock massive long-term growth.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

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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)

Markets

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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Bitcoin’s low volatility doesn’t necessarily mean low risk

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 6, 2026

BTC's recent price action in candlestick format. (TradingView)

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)