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Capital Gains Tax Applies to Wrapped Tokens and DeFi, Australian Tax Authority Clarifies

“Being able to wrap tokens is a valuable and necessary cross-chain interoperability tool,” said Michael Bacina, Digital Assets lawyer at Piper Alderman Lawyers. “To have a purely technological function triggering a tax event and tax payable is not something users would expect when using crypto-assets.” Source

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Canadian regulatory body clarifies stablecoin rules for exchanges and issuers

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has provided guidance to exchanges and cryptocurrency issuers on its interim approach to what it calls value-referenced crypto assets, with a particular focus on stablecoins.On Oct. 5, the umbrella organization of Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators published a clarification saying it may allow trading

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Ripple CTO clarifies on SEC appeal, spotlights case complexity

In a recent update on X (formerly known as Twitter), The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Ripple Labs, David "JoelKatz" Schwartz, brought attention to a recent development involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appeal plea. As per the insights shared by the CTO, the SEC is seeking an appeal

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FedNow Service has no relation with CBDCs, Federal Reserve clarifies

The United States Federal Reserve clarified that its new service for instant payments between organizations — the FedNow Service — has no relation with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).The Fed certified the FedNow Service as “ready” after it onboarded 41 financial institutions, 15 service providers and the U.S. Department of

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Binance.US clarifies CoinDesk claim about user funds and platform security

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied In a recent CryptoX article, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao received billions of dollars in customer funds through their holding company. In response, CZ expressed uncertainty about the accuracy

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Ledger co-founder clarifies “there is no backdoor” in Recover firmware update

The launch of Ledger Recover, a service that allows users of the Ledger hardware wallet to back up their secret recovery phrases, met with immense resistance from the crypto community. Ledger co-founder and ex-CEO Éric Larchevêque took the criticism against Ledger as “a total PR failure, but absolutely not a

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