South Korea has officially stated that its crypto tax will include taxable income generated by means of individual wallets and foreign exchanges as of January 1, 2027. According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and NTS it doesn’t matter where the asset is located or how it is stored.
Coinbase is enhancing Base App’s trading functionalities with the inclusion of perpetual futures via Hyperliquid. Qualified customers will be able to use over 290 markets for perpetuals that include Bitcoin, Ethereum, tokenized stocks, and commodity trading. The product features leverage of up to 50x for specific assets, while Hyperliquid is
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev notes that markets globally are now entering the early stages of what will become a tokenization supercycle. According to The Kobeissi Letter, on-chain tokenized equity trading amounted to $9 billion in 2026, growing by over 207% quarter-over-quarter and 800% year-to-date. “Tokenization does not mean listing securities
Through the announcement of the launch of complete block access now lists on World Chain Mainnet, World Chain has become the first production layer-2 to broadcast EIP-7928 block access lists inside each flashblock. The deployment is intended to boost the throughput of the blockchain while maintaining the requirements for validator
Rafiqool Alam, aged 25, has been arrested by the Gujarat Police in Assam through a three-day sting operation and was found to be involved in 1,090 cybercrime cases. The total estimated damage from these cases is more than ₹1,071 crores. Fraudsters allegedly trapped individuals from various Indian states in a
Payward, which is Kraken’s parent firm, has partnered with Anthropic’s Project Glasswing since Aug. 17 in cybersecurity activities. This collaboration enables Payward to have limited access to Claude Mythos 5, which is a cybersecurity AI model from Anthropic. In the coming weeks, Payward will be conducting a scan for vulnerabilities
The BitMart users and employees have set Aug. 19 as the deadline for the exchange to respond to the problem of asset withdrawals and provide details about customer assets. An independent audit is also among the demands made of BitMart. These demands come following the shutdown notice issued by the
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, praised the progress of UTXO research by Bitcoin developers while explaining Ethereum’s new scaling direction. This shows how the new hybrid architecture can be created using Ethereum’s account system along with the UTXO state system. Such an architecture will enable various activities to take
White House to Meet Crypto and Prediction Market Executives on August 19, Reports Politico. However, there is no disclosure of the agenda and names of attendees. Further, it is unclear whether President Trump will attend the meeting. This meeting is taking place at a time when Congress is facing difficulties
Today, Flare announced that FXRP is now supported as collateral on Derive, the biggest onchain options exchange in decentralized finance. This allows holders of XRP to access onchain XRP options and perpetuals using FXRP as collateral permissionless. By creating a native onchain derivatives market for XRP, the integration represents a significant
