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VVV trades at around $32 after recently reaching an all-time high of $34.51. Venice AI connects VVV directly to its product through staking, AI compute access and DIEM. VVV emissions have fallen to 3 million tokens per year, while Venice continues buying and burning tokens. Our base case puts VVV between $25 and $38 by […]...

Stablecoin payroll changes the settlement rail, not the employment relationship. Withholding, benefits, reporting, and recordkeeping obligations continue to apply in full. The IRS states that the fair market value of digital assets paid as wages, measured in U.S. dollars on the date of receipt, is subject to income tax withholding, FICA, and FUTA, and must […]...

One design choice drives nearly every regulatory outcome: whether privacy is mandatory, as with Monero, or optional, as with Zcash. MiCA itself does not ban privacy coins. The binding pressure comes from the accompanying AMLR, which phases in a custodial ban for licensed providers by 2027. Almost nowhere has banned ownership. Restrictions target intermediaries, but […]...

Industry estimates consistently place OTC and off exchange volume at a level that rivals or exceeds visible exchange volume, which means the market most traders analyze is only a partial sample. An OTC desk hedges the risk it takes on, and that hedging happens on public venues. The hedge, not the trade itself, is usually […]...

A 50% Bitcoin crash, on its own, does not tell you whether the bull market has ended. Corrections this deep have appeared inside bull runs and bear markets alike. Price is a single number with no memory. To judge value you need a reference point, and Bitcoin’s public ledger gives you one no stock can […]...

The multi-year grace period is officially scheduled to end on December 31, 2026. Unless political pressure forces a fourth 11th-hour delay, taxation on all virtual asset gains begins on January 1, 2027. Investors will be taxed at a total rate of 22% (comprising a 20% national income tax and a 2% local income tax) on […]...