Crypto tax non-compliance may exceed 90% in some markets, according to research highlighted by Chainalysis, as France prepares for a reporting regime that will give authorities substantially more information about cryptocurrency transactions from 2027. The figure does not represent an estimate of French non-compliance.Instead, Chainalysis cited evidence from Sweden, where the country’s tax authority previously found
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter in a deal reportedly worth at least $7 billion, making one of its largest bets yet on becoming the financial and operational infrastructure behind the artificial-intelligence economy. Stripe and OpenRouter formally announced the agreement on August 19 but did not disclose financial terms.Multiple reports nevertheless put the transaction well above
Bitcoin is moving more closely with gold than at any point in roughly nine years of comparable data, while its relationship with U.S. technology stocks has weakened sharply, providing fresh support for the cryptocurrency’s “digital gold” narrative. Bitcoin’s 90-day Pearson correlation with gold has risen to +0.56, according to data reported by Protos on September
The Philippines is proposing a 12-month freeze on new payment-system operator registrations as its central bank undertakes a broader review of the country’s rapidly expanding payments sector and tightens controls around cryptocurrency-linked transactions.Under a draft circular, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would suspend the acceptance and processing of new applications to register as an Operator
Chainlink has broken through the $12.50 level we flagged four days ago, with LINK trading around $12.92 at approximately 5:05 p.m. UTC on September 7, up about 5.1% over the previous 24 hours, according to CoinGecko.The move completes the setup FinanceFeeds identified on September 3, when LINK had rebounded from the $10.80 support zone and
Why Does The Two-Key Structure Matter? About half of all circulating USDT, roughly $91.3 billion on the Tron network, is governed by a smart contract whose administrative control could be taken over by anyone who obtained two signing keys, according to an assessment by blockchain security firm Hacken.The structure does not mean those keys directly
What Is Hunter Biden Launching? Hunter Biden is preparing to launch a memecoin called LAPTOP, turning one of the most politically charged episodes surrounding his family into a crypto token as debate over political involvement in digital assets intensifies in Washington.Biden announced the ticker $LAPTOP on X and indicated that the token is scheduled to
Coinbase is due to move the infrastructure powering its international perpetual futures trading to Deribit on Wednesday, September 9, completing an integration in which almost all of the derivatives open interest displayed across Coinbase’s venues is already sitting at the exchange it acquired last year.The unusual number is not the amount moving. It is how
Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, has recorded one of its most bullish moments in nearly a decade, with the asset trading above $1,256 on Binance as its broader market capitalization peaked at $21.11 billion, according to TradingView CryptoCap data.The surge has placed ZEC among the best-performing assets in the market. CoinMarketCap ranks it as the
Why Does The Weekend Payment Matter? DBS and Citi have completed what they describe as the first weekend tokenized cross-border payment between Singapore and the United States, using tokenized bank deposits and Swift’s Digital Ledger to move funds outside traditional banking hours.The transaction was executed on Saturday and finalized within minutes, according to DBS. Traditional