Governments, those ever-watchful eyes, have turned their gaze upon the crypto realm. The United States, the United Kingdom, India, Canada, Australia, Japan-all have declared crypto a taxable asset. 🕵️♂️ Even the “free” airdrop, the staking income, the ETH-for-token swap-all are ensnared in the taxman’s net. Ignore this at your peril, for audits and fines lurk like specters in the shadows. 👻
The fund is going to operate through the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), which sounds like a sophisticated place where big ideas and expensive suits meet. And, of course, it’s being managed by the Qazaqstan Venture Group-talk about a group of movers and shakers! The big goal here? To build long-term investment reserves in the ever-evolving crypto market while keeping a tight grip on regulatory oversight. It’s almost like a dance between innovation and control. Very diplomatic.
The question lingers, heavy as a winter fog: will her decline stretch further, as technical indicators whisper of weakness in the weeks to come? 🕰️ Only time, that cruel arbiter, shall tell.
As the press release unfolded like a dusty scroll from the vaults of Brussels, SWIFT revealed its plan to graft a blockchain-based ledger onto its ancient infrastructure. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT as the kids call it, is the kind of cooperative that probably still uses fax machines. Now it’s partnering with 30+ banks to build a system that makes real-time payments feel less like waiting for a reply from Neptune and more like a text message. Because the future is now, but so is the caffeine. ☕
Tensions between traditional finance and digital asset firms are escalating as policy debates over stablecoin rewards heat up. Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) shared on social media platform X on Sept. 29 that banks are pressing for measures that would prevent customers from earning rewards on stablecoin holdings. The crypto exchange framed the effort as an attempt to secure a bailout for traditional banks while undermining consumer benefits and suppressing competition. 🤯
If you thought international payments were stuck in the financial Stone Age, think again. Swift just dropped news at its Sibos conference in Frankfurt on September 29 that it’s diving headfirst into the blockchain pool. Picture this: a shared digital ledger that keeps the cash flowing 24/7 across borders, like a financial espresso shot, fueled by more than 30 banking giants spanning 16 countries. The goal? To twist Swift’s usual role into something that sounds like fintech magic-real-time tokenized value flying across the globe, wrapped in a snug blanket of compliance, resilience, and interoperability. Sounds fancy, right?
One particularly dashing specimen, Hypurr #21, fetched a princely sum of 9,999 HYPE ($467,000), proving once again that people will pay absurd sums for digital doodads if they’re rare enough. Most of these pixelated treasures were handed out to participants of the November 2024 Genesis Event-though, naturally, the Hyper Foundation and core contributors snagged a few for themselves. Priorities, darling.
Adams, always the smooth talker, blamed the lack of public matching funds and his past legal baggage for derailing his campaign. Apparently, without the cash to back him up, the momentum was *poof*, gone! 🏃♂️💨
And guess what? This is all in line with the FATF, the *IRS of the crypto world* (but with more paperwork and fewer refunds). 📜💸 The bill is coming to the Grand National Assembly, which is basically the crypto version of “let’s see if this works.” 🤷♀️
