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

Two Robinhood engineers charged with insider trading using Hyperliquid perpetuals

U.S. prosecutors allege two engineers used confidential Robinhood token listing data to front-run announcements using Hyperliquid perpetual futures.

U.S. Office of the Attorney General in Washington. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

European Central Bank calls for merchants to participate in digital euro pilot

The 12-month test will put a beta version of the central bank currency through online, mobile, in-store and peer-to-peer payments.

ECB President Christine Lagarde. (Felix Schmidt/ECB Press)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Ether, solana, XRP likely to gain if Clarity Act progresses

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 15, 2026

U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC

Finance

Kaiko extends Series B funding round to $110 million with S&P Global, BNP Paribas

Financial rating giant S&P Global joined top traditional banks and exchange operators to fund Kaiko's expansion into continuous market data services

Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran said that his firms and its investors would together define how institutional money would moves onchain. (CoinDesk)

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Policy

Trump agrees to stricter ethics rules to save Clarity Act crypto bill: AP

President Donald Trump agreed to expanded conflict-of-interest rules and state-level enforcement powers to secure key Senate votes for the Clarity Act.

President Donald Trump at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

FCA considers exempting tokenized gold from fund rules to defend London market

The Financial Conduct Authority is exploring a bespoke regulatory framework with the Treasury to carve out digital gold from traditional fund laws.

FCA entrance in London. (FCA/Press)

Finance

TikTok developer ByteDance arranges $29.6 billion loan as it builds AI ambitions

ByteDance was reportedly considering spending $70 billion on AI data centers and infrastructure. The news comes as U.S. AI giants call for slowing the AI race.

ByteDance headquarters in China. (ByteDance/Press)

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Finance

Europe’s top regulator questions Polymarket and Kalshi’s EU access, warns of authorization gaps

ESMA said that event contracts may fall under existing EU binary-options bans, crypto-asset frameworks like MiCA or national gambling laws.

Kalshi website shown on a laptop.