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Greece's parliament approved a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, lower than the 15% in an earlier draft. It applies from January 1, 2027, with the first €500 of annual net gains exempt....

South Korea's government plans to delay its 22% crypto gains tax to 2029, the fourth postponement, and proposes a three-year loss carryforward. The change needs National Assembly approval....

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour backs insider trading bans for Congress and administration officials. Some Democrats want election contracts banned outright....

A federal judge refused to halt stock perpetual futures on Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Bitnomial, but said the CFTC likely lacked authority to allow them. The approvals remain while the injunction motion proceeds....

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance will not recommend enforcement over Canton Coin minting rewards, and the token rose more than 6%. The relief is limited to the minting arrangements described....

Stand With Crypto counted 222 pro-crypto House winners and 19 Senate winners in its unofficial November 4 scorecard. The ratings do not settle CLARITY Act disputes over banking and customer protection....

North Korea, through Kim Yo-jong, denied responsibility for the $6.3 billion Binance theft and called the FBI's attribution a political provocation. The FBI named TraderTraitor, and analytics firms traced the funds across 12,000 wallets....

The CFTC said perpetual futures on individual stocks can trade on US-regulated exchanges, deeming them approved as security futures products. No exchanges, contracts or launch date were named....

RAY trades near $2.21, about 10.6x September’s annualized buyback spend and 32.5x the trailing twelve months. September buybacks of $4.69 million were the highest monthly total since August 2025 and followed StonkFun’s move to LaunchLab. The buyback wallet holds about 82.9 million RAY, close to 31% of circulating supply, with no release schedule. Raydium handles […]...

Ethena (ENA) buybacks start only when USDe supply reaches $7.5 billion, about 51% above early-October supply of $4.98 billion. USDe peaked at $14.7 billion in October 2025, well above the first two fee switch rungs. With 89.4% of maximum supply circulating, the remaining overhang sits with contributor, Foundation and ecosystem allocations. ENA trades near 14 […]...

There is no single best jurisdiction. The right one depends on your business model: exchange, custody, token issuance, payments, or DeFi. The EU’s MiCA is the closest thing to a real passport. One CASP license covers all 27 Member States. Nothing in the US or Asia gives you that. Capital requirements swing wildly. Under MiCA, […]...

MiCA’s single biggest advantage is the EU-wide passport. One CASP license, 27 markets. Singapore and Dubai never built one omnibus law. Singapore regulates crypto under its Payment Services Act, Dubai runs a multi-layer system across VARA, the DFSA, the FSRA, and the federal SCA. The stablecoin rules diverge the most. MiCA covers every stablecoin in […]...

Multi-sig kills the single point of failure. No lone stolen key, lost seed, or rogue insider can move funds on its own. Three models worth knowing: on-chain scripts, threshold signatures, and MPC. The last two produce one ordinary-looking signature on-chain, which is cheaper and more private. It is not bulletproof. Bitfinex in 2016, the Parity […]...

It is a transnational enterprise rather than a few fraudsters with bad websites. Social engineering, call-center discipline, fake platforms, professional laundering, and in many cases trafficked labor. Pig butchering is the center of gravity but not the whole map. The same infrastructure runs task scams, impersonation, wallet drainers, and recovery scams. The numbers keep climbing. […]...

The first red flag is the relationship. By the time the fake trading site appears, the grooming has already done its job. It works as a sequence rather than a single trick. Trust gets built first, the money ask comes second, and the early “profit” exists to kill your skepticism. There is no safe demographic. […]...

For personal investors, Singapore is as clean as it gets in any serious financial center. Token disposal gains generally sit outside the tax net because there’s no capital gains tax in the first place. The line that decides your whole tax position has nothing to do with whether the asset is crypto. The question is […]...

Banks are commercializing the parts of crypto that look like existing bank businesses. Custody, payments, tokenized securities, settlement infrastructure. They’re not broadly betting on crypto prices. The stablecoin market hit $317 billion in April 2026 after growing more than 50% during 2025. That number spooked banks more than any crypto price cycle ever did, because […]...

Blockchain handles identity, ownership, payments, and programmable access in social media really well. High-volume posting, moderation, ranking, and mutable social state, not so much. Every serious decentralized social project has converged on hybrid designs. Bluesky uses no blockchain at all. Farcaster commits only a tiny fraction of actions on-chain. Lens uses rollup infrastructure plus separate...

For individual investors who have genuinely relocated, the UAE’s no-personal-income-tax setup is as good as the influencers say it is. Personal investment gains, including crypto, sit outside UAE direct tax for natural persons. A residence visa does not make you a UAE tax resident. Tax residency has its own separate tests, and it almost certainly […]...

The token isn’t the attack. Your reaction to it is. On Bitcoin, dusting is a surveillance game. On Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain, it’s bait for theft. Address poisoning is the dirtiest variant going. Someone slips a lookalike address into your transaction history and waits for you to copy the wrong one. One curious click, […]...

Bitcoin and XRP play different roles – Bitcoin works best as the core holding; XRP fits better as a smaller, higher-risk position with more upside potential. Bitcoin still has the stronger institutional case – deeper liquidity, wider recognition, stronger ETF support, and a clearer place in conservative or balanced portfolios. XRP offers more upside but […]...

Tether is moving from backend liquidity into direct consumer payments through its own wallet. The product focus is narrow on purpose – digital dollars, Bitcoin, and tokenized gold instead of a cluttered crypto dashboard. Plasma gives Tether a payment rail built for stablecoin speed, low-cost transfers, and a cleaner user experience. Oobit helps connect crypto […]...

Crypto was never truly anonymous – most public blockchains only offered pseudonymity; the transaction history stayed public the whole time. Reporting rules are tightening globally – CARF, DAC8, and Form 1099-DA are pulling crypto into the same reporting structure used in traditional finance. DeFi doesn’t remove tax exposure – using self-custody wallets, DEXs, or bridges [&h...

Nobody has proved who Satoshi Nakamoto is – many names keep coming up, but no one has produced cryptographic proof that would actually settle it. Bitcoin came out of the cypherpunk world – the whitepaper built on Hashcash, b-money, Bit gold, and earlier attempts at digital cash. The Patoshi pattern is the strongest on-chain clue […]...