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The SEC's Division of Examinations has dropped crypto as a standalone category, instead treating tokenisation and advanced AI as systemic risks to market stability — a shift that will shape how European tokenised asset projects are eventually scrutinised by US counterparts.
Israel's prime minister has confirmed his government is weighing cryptocurrency as a way to keep money flowing if Western sanctions hit the banking system, a plan the former head of Bank of Israel supervision calls an 'existential danger.'
A federal judge has dismissed criminal proceedings against President Javier Milei and his sister Karina over the collapse of the LIBRA token, finding no evidence of fraudulent intent after losses estimated at $251 million.
Germany's Kryptowerte-Steuertransparenzgesetz, transposing the EU's DAC8 directive, obliges crypto platforms to collect identity and tax residency data from every user by 2027, with fines of up to €50,000 for non-compliant customers and providers.
SPD politician Parsa Marvi explains why the coalition wants to end the tax-free holding period for crypto gains, arguing it is about fairness with other capital income rather than treating Bitcoin like shares.
Payments from Tether to Nxum, a consultancy co-owned by former White House adviser Bo Hines, began while Hines was working on the GENIUS Act. He joined Tether weeks after the law passed.
Plans to scrap Germany's one-year tax-free holding period for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have stalled again, remaining stuck in inter-ministerial coordination after a public petition and criticism from Bundestag members.
Germany has adopted the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, obliging crypto service providers to report customer and transaction data for automatic exchange with foreign tax authorities from September 2027.
Bitkom, the Bitcoin Bundesverband and the Blockchain Bundesverband have criticised the finance ministry's draft reform of crypto taxation, citing an overly broad tax deduction and a flawed transition timeline, as a Bundestag petition with over 44,000 signatures heads for debate.
A petition to preserve Germany's one-year tax-free holding period for Bitcoin has reached the Bundestag's petitions committee, with a hearing set for 12 October, just two days before the cabinet reviews a draft reform that would scrap the exemption.
SPD politician Parsa Marvi tells BTC-ECHO that Germany's coalition government wants to align crypto gains tax treatment with other capital income, potentially ending the one-year tax exemption as early as 2027.
A petition to preserve Germany's one-year crypto tax exemption has surpassed the signature quorum needed for a Bundestag hearing, as former FDP MP Frank Schäffler lobbies CDU lawmakers against the government's draft reform.
Frank Schäffler is mobilising a letter-writing campaign against a Finance Ministry draft that would scrap Germany's one-year tax-free holding period for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
A coalition including Nasdaq, Börse Stuttgart and Adan has written to EU lawmakers demanding the DLT Pilot Regime's caps on tokenised securities platforms be abolished or lifted to at least €1.5 trillion, arguing the Commission's €100 billion proposal still falls short.
A week of contrasts in crypto: Bitcoin spot ETFs bleed capital while XRP funds attract fresh money, Blockstream chases down stolen Bitcoin, Bitwise shutters its Dogecoin ETF, and Berlin floats a flat 25 percent crypto tax from 2028.