South Africa proposes crypto tax guidance under existing framework
South Africa’s tax authority proposed draft guidance clarifying how crypto assets are taxed under existing income and capital gains tax...
Year: 2026
Latam Insights: Inside Brazil’s VASP Crackdown, Bolivia’s 40% Devaluation, and Venezuela Crypto Aid
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In...
NYT: Donald Trump’s TRUMP Token Leaves Nearly a Million Buyers Down $3.81B
Nearly 1 million investors, or roughly two-thirds of investors who purchased President Donald Trump’s branded TRUMP memecoin have lost a...
Kenyan Treasury Pushes 30% Reserve Requirement as Stablecoin Firms Warn of Higher Costs
Kenya’s National Treasury and cryptocurrency exchanges are in a standoff over a proposed regulation requiring stablecoin issuers to hold at...
Brazilian Federal Police Dismantle $2 Billion Crypto Money Laundering Ring Linked to the PCC Cartel
The operation, named “Exchange,” involved the participation of over 50 officers who executed 13 search and seizure warrants and 11...
Binance outflows triple to $1.2B as ETH withdrawals hit 3-year high
Binance recorded $1.23 billion in weekly net outflows, up 207% from the previous week, as Ethereum withdrawals surged to a...
Vitalik Buterin shares top priorities for new ‘Lean Ethereum’ strawmap
Part of the Ethereum Foundation’s plan to make Ethereum more private and scalable is to introduce a new virtual machine,...
UAE Central Bank Clears DDSC for VARA Platforms, Bringing Dirham Stablecoin to Consumers
The Central Bank of the UAE has granted a no-objection certificate to the dirham-backed stablecoin DDSC, allowing it to list...
Queensland Mother Discovered a $1.1 Million Lottery Win on Facebook
A Queensland mother learned she’d won 1.6 million Australian dollars, about $1.1 million, in the June 6 Saturday Gold Lotto...
SARS Pushes New Crypto Tax Rules for 6 Million Users as Audits Ramp up Across South Africa
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has published its guidance on the taxation of crypto assets to standardize compliance for...
Hyperliquid Helps VALR Launch Over 200 Perpetual Markets as Decentralized Liquidity Gains Ground
Crypto exchange VALR is introducing perps, a new derivatives product offering over 200 cross-asset perpetual futures markets. Evolution of the...
Moonbeam to pivot from Polkadot to Base, unveils AI agent framework
Moonbeam didn’t provide a timeline for when it would launch the AI agent platform but told GLMR holders to bridge...
Grayscale Spotlights the Applications Fueling Solana’s Rapid Growth
Grayscale says Solana’s growing application ecosystem is driving major on-chain activity, with the network averaging more than 100 million daily...
Central Banks Add 41 Tonnes of Gold in May as Record 45% Plan to Buy More
Central banks added a net 41 tonnes of gold to official reserves in May, World Gold Council data published July...
Ethereum’s X Account Gets Fact-Checked by ZachXBT: ‘Proton Takes Bitcoin, Not ETH, for Subscriptions’
Onchain investigator ZachXBT publicly corrected the official Ethereum X account on July 4, pointing out that privacy company Proton accepts...
