France Weighs 31.4% Tax on Crypto-to-Stablecoin Swaps
French lawmakers want swaps into MiCA-regulated stablecoins treated as taxable disposals from January 2027. The measure still needs a full Assembly vote.
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ETHFrench lawmakers want swaps into MiCA-regulated stablecoins treated as taxable disposals from January 2027. The measure still needs a full Assembly vote.
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Qivalis, backed by 37 European banks, has a Dutch e-money licence to issue a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin. The white paper, and issuance, are still to come.
Securitize put 12 tokenized US stock tickers, Apple and Nvidia among them, on Solana on Oct. 8 as broker-dealer entitlements rather than offshore wrappers.
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Tether invested in EFY Finance's seed round to push USDT and USAT payments across Latin America, with settlement to local bank accounts in 17 countries.
Standard Chartered has opened direct bitcoin and ether trading to professional investors in the UAE, with custody and settlement handled inside the bank.
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Bitcoin touched $84,000 early Wednesday and slipped back to $83,200 as a chip-led risk-off trade and the September CPI print kept buyers on hold.
A UK software engineer is suing BitMEX operator HDR Global Trading in London's Commercial Court for 324.8 BTC, arguing the trades were unregulated.
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New York Fed President John Williams sees one more 2026 hike and none in 2027. Futures price a December move plus two more, a gap crypto trades against.
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Binance will remove all EPIC and QUICK spot pairs on October 28, with margin, futures, deposits and withdrawals closing on their own dates before then.
South Korea's FSC says 16 financial firms were hit around the Shinhan Bank breach, including GOPAX operator Streami.
Ripple and Meritz Securities will explore bringing Ripple Custody and tokenization to Korea's capital markets, starting within current rules.
BitGo's Stablecoin-as-a-Service bundles custody, reserve management and minting for issuers, and the company is pitching it as built to follow the GENIUS Act.
RWA.xyz puts Solana's tokenized credit at $1.4 billion, third behind Ethereum and Liquid Network, with Huma and OnRe leading the chain's tally.
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Starknet's Shadow Accounts let users trade DeFi from addresses unlinked to their main wallet, but balances, positions and timing stay public onchain.
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Aptos closed the four-year unlock for early investors and core contributors in October, cutting monthly APT releases from 11.31 million to 4.54 million.
Grayscale's Solana ETF took in about $20.2 million across two sessions while the wider US Solana ETF group lost $24.8 million in the week to October 9.
Bridge's Open USD went live on 30 September on Solana, Ethereum, Base and Tempo. Solana supply reached 18.01 million OUSD across 47 wallets.
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Payward, Kraken's parent, says it has full VARA approval to serve UAE clients with dirham pairs, staking and tokenized equities, starting in coming weeks.
Ledger asked resellers in six Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong to stop selling its wallets while it investigates tampered devices.
BNY and Citadel Securities moved a tokenized 2-year Treasury in minutes, then pledged it in an overnight repo. What the trade changes, and what it does not.
XRP ETFs have taken in $1.80 billion over 13 straight weeks of inflows, even as XRPScan's active users metric sits near 141,000, far below its 506,200 record.
Coinbase's October 13 post sets out its priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, from P2MR and staged protection to the coins that cannot move.
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Aptos's APT gained between 38% and 51% over four weeks, beating Bitcoin and Ether, as a four-year unlock ended and a $50 million commitment landed.
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ENS's ENSv2 plan would move new .eth registrations to v2 while letting holders stay on v1. Migrating a name, though, is a one-way trip.
