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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Crypto Daybook Americas

Everyone's calling bitcoin resilient, may be it's just complacent

Your day-ahead look for March 26, 2026

Bitcoin News

Finance

Kalshi valuation doubles to $22 billion in latest funding round: Bloomberg

The new $1 billion investment round indicates that interest in the embattled prediction market remains.

Kalshi co-founders Luana Lopes Lara and Tarek Mansour (Kalshi)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin holds steady, with one analyst seeing the upside emerging

Your day-ahead look for March 20, 2026

Stylized bitcoin logo

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Finance

As crypto trading platforms race to deploy AI agents, here's what a Nasdaq engineer is seeing

The exchange is expanding AI use across surveillance, compliance and trading as machines take over decision-making, leaving humans as the final checkpoint.

AI (Credit: (Aidin Geranrekab/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

OpenClaw developers targeted in GitHub phishing scam offering fake token airdrops

Security researchers said attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, luring developers with bogus CLAW token giveaways that trick users into connecting their crypto wallets.

Hackers and scammers. (Credit: Max Bender/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

ECB seeks experts to help integrate digital euro into ATMs, card payment terminals

The European Central Bank is preparing the ground should legislators enable the issuance of a digital currency and the bank's governing council approve issuing it.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Finance

Crypto.com cuts 12% of staff as it integrates AI across the business for efficiency

The exchange laid off about 180 employees as it restructures and rolls out enterprise-wide AI to drive efficiencies.

Crypto.com (Jesse Hamilton/Coindesk)

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Capital is shifting into digital dollars as bitcoin wilts

Your day-ahead look for March 19, 2026

Symbols of several stablecoins including USDT, USDC.

Finance

Polymarket acquires Brahma to scale blockchain trading infrastructure

"Building reliable infrastructure across blockchain networks and traditional financial rails is hard — there are no shortcuts,” said Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan.

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