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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Политика

Tether confirms minimal EQIBank exposure following $89M US asset seizure

While Tether's stated ceiling places its maximum exposure under $64 million, the incident underscores lingering counterparty risks in fiat gateway networks.

EQIBank (EQIBank/Press)

Финансы

KelpDAO sues LayerZero for the largest exploit 2026 has seen so far

The cross-chain lending protocol accused LayerZero and its co-founder Brian Pellegrino of failing to disclose weaknesses in their protocol, which led to the $292 million hack.

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

Рынки

Bitcoin just topped a key long-term moving average. Here's what it might mean

Bitcoin’s return above its one-year average excited chart watchers. AltcoinPro Research says the more important signal is whether it can stay above its 200-day average.

Bitcoin chart Sept. 24. (CoinDesk)

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Финансы

UK’s largest banks complete world’s first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits

Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC and others used tokenized deposits for remortgages and a marketplace-payment test, taking bank-issued digital cash beyond a single institution.

Canary Wharf, London (Pixabay)

Политика

EU's financial regulator to make AI and tokenization a supervisory priority in 2027

European regulators will map how financial firms use the technologies in client-facing products and begin checks on the most affected businesses.

ESMA offices. (ESMA/Media)

Финансы

Brooklyn man sent to prison for 12 years for stealing $16M in a Coinbase phishing scheme

The fraudster managed to scam about 100 people across the United States, convincing them of transferring funds to him, claiming their accounts had been hacked.

Brooklyn (Trevor Hayes/Unsplash)

Крипто-дневник Америки

Litecoin token has its moment as network activity booms

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 24, 2026

LTC currently ranked 24th largest by market cap, has gained nearly 8% to $66 in 24 hours, the highest since January.(WikiImages/Pixabay)

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Технологии

EU financial watchdogs warn quantum computing poses imminent threat to blockchain encryption

The warning brings renewed urgency to the debate over how bitcoin should deal with legacy addresses whose public keys are already exposed onchain.

Quantum Computing (Planet Volumes/Unsplash)

Финансы

San Bernardino autopsy rules former Hack VC partner Hsin-Ju Chuang took her own life

A California Highway Patrol spokesperson told CoinDesk via email that her death is still being investigated.

California Highway Patrol vehicle. (ftodne/Unsplash)