Taxes
New IRS crypto tax form shows what you sold for (not what you paid) and one-click filing could make you overpay
Brokers are reporting 2025 proceeds without cost basis, so a “done in one click” import can quietly inflate gains.
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Digital Asset Treasuries
Peter Thiel dumps all ETH treasury shares after “Ethereum’s MicroStrategy” fell 95% since August
ETH sales, a massive note redemption, and thin carry make this zero line feel like a warning shot.
Wallets
Understanding XRP network health in 2026 without the counting noise
Build a watchlist that flags participation shifts and separates exchange spikes from true payment usage.
ETF
Is China using US Bitcoin ETFs as a backdoor? Mystery Hong Kong firm invested $436M in BlackRock’s IBIT
As Chinese crypto regulations tighten, Hong Kong firms increasingly invest in US ETFs for Bitcoin exposure.
DeFi
Crypto income is being sold on Wall Street but a discreet switch decides who gets in
Institutions want basis point style income on crypto rails, but the product works only if access and risk are tightly curated.
Censorship
This censorship crackdown and WhatsApp ban exposed the decentralization gap the crypto industry keeps missing
Privacy, usability, and decentralization keep colliding, and spam plus key management turns switching into a losing bet.
Macro
US debt will match WWII-era extreme at $64 trillion within a decade – how does Bitcoin benefit?
The US dollar's vulnerability amid soaring debt raises Bitcoin’s appeal as investors reassess traditional safe havens.
Privacy
Crypto privacy has turned into an economic crisis as MEV bots siphon millions and most users still leak everything
Confidential execution, encrypted mempools, and selective disclosure are rising, but the winners will be whoever makes privacy boring by default.
Analysis
Binance traders are panic selling but HODLing on Coinbase — the $60,000 BTC stress test
Amidst Bitcoin's plunge, Coinbase traders hold firm as Binance witnesses high-volume exits.
Analysis
Bitcoin no longer acting like “digital gold” because its correlation with physical gold, USD collapsed
If real yields rise or liquidity tightens, Bitcoin behaves like a sponge, instead of a store of value, until regimes change again.
Politics
CLARITY Act is turning into a proxy war over who pays Americans for holding “digital dollars”
Section 404 Not Found: the ‘who pays Americans’ page is still missing from the most watched crypto bill of the year.
Analysis
Wall Street tries to copy crypto’s prediction markets as Cboe files for “Yes/No” options
If Cboe pulls this off, probability trading stops being crypto-native and goes fully mainstream.