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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Finans

Jack Dorsey’s Square auto-enables bitcoin payments for millions of U.S. businesses

The new rollout converts BTC to dollars by default for small businesses, aiming to embed bitcoin into everyday commerce without added friction.

XYZ CEO Jack Dorsey (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Charles Hoskinson’s $200 million bet: Midnight goes live to tackle crypto’s biggest flaws

The Cardano founder argues crypto is too public, complex and risky for mainstream use and is backing a privacy-focused network to change that.

Charles Hoskinson is being interviewed in the media center during Consensus Hong Kong 2026

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Bitcoin, ether bounce is running low on fuel

Your day-ahead look for March 30, 2026

A fuel gauge near empty (Image credit: Shutterstock).

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Finans

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)

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Finans

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)