Hong Kong passes law requiring crypto exchanges to report customer transactions to tax authorities
Crypto firms must collect customer and transaction data from 2027, with Hong Kong sharing the information with overseas tax authorities from 2028.
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Micro-payments power autonomous AI software as onchain agentic transactions soar
Among wallets first funded in the second quarter of 2026, 89.3% received additional funding within 30 days, compared with 70.6% for wallets first funded in the Q3 2025. The analysis excluded wallets that made payments on one only one day. The time between a wallet… Read More
Kraken users briefly locked out after a flood of sanctioned crypto transactions
The activity, appearing to spread sanctioned funds to trigger account restrictions, occurred between Aug. 17 and Aug. 24.
Inside Zcash’s new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second
Throughput targets and Tachyon’s role The reason for building all this is arithmetic. Mastercard and Visa process more than 50,000 transactions per second, and the team calls that figure ‘“its floor, not its target.” Zcash’s current cryptography would require a node to take in and… Read More
U.S. SEC says software allowing crypto wallet transactions not considered broker
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that software that sets up user interfaces allowing crypto securities to be transacted through individuals’ wallets won’t need to be registered and regulated as a broker. In the latest of the agency’s staff statements on crypto — now… Read More
Why Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, Will Dominate Global Transactions
Bitcoin may dominate the crypto headlines, but the real growth story of the next five years will be stablecoins, the digital dollars that are modernizing the way money moves around the globe. Yes, the original cryptocurrency is rapidly becoming an ideal non-sovereign global store of… Read More