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Bitcoin's stock-to-flow (S2F) model is undoubtedly one of the most popular discussion points for the community. In this guide, we go in-depth to find out everything there is to know about it.

While gold tapped an all-time high (ATH) this year surpassing $2K per ounce, the top tokenized gold crypto assets by market valuation continue to see significant demand, premiums, and market capitalization growth. For instance, Paxos Trust Company’s PAXG market cap jumped more than 43% in 31 days from $424 million to today’s $611 million. PAXG…

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Approximately around 23 new ADA staking pools have appeared in the Cardano network in the past 24 hours, each holding a massive 62 million ADA, according to a recent tweet by @Cardanians_io. The move resulted in ADA soaring to 6.7% in the past 24 hours. With the newly created pools, the live stake therefore, has risen to a whopping $1.5 billion worth of ADA with the overall amount of staked ADA now surpassing 73% of Cardano’s native coin in circulation. The aforementioned pools allow users to stake their ADA with those pools in order to earn awards in the same coin based on the proof-of-stake consensus algorithm. 23 new pools have been created in the last 24 hours. Each has a stake of 62M ADA. The live stake has increased by $1.5 billion ADA. The number of staked $ADA coins is over 73%, which is an excellent result in the context of the #DeFi boom. Someone really big likes #Cardano. — Cardanians.io 🥩 with CRDN 🏊 (@Cardanians_io) March 22, 2022 Cardano Now at Par With Ethereum L2 network? According to a recent tweet from @cardano_whale, last weekend, the Cardano network’s total value locked, including staking, has witnessed the most significant one-month increase. Across all DeFi protocols on the Cardano network, the total value locked has increased by $10 million while the aggregated TVL of the Cardano network amounts to $277 million, according to data from DeFi Llama. Cardano’s Total Value Locked including staking is now up to 22nd, the largest 1 month increase across all protocols with TVL > $10m. Cardano’s dominance in DeFi is now on par with Ethereum’s Optimism L2 (0.2%), keeps rising fast — ADA whale (@cardano_whale) March 20, 2022   At the time of writing, Cardano is trading at $0.954826, which is an increase of 18.9% compared to seven days before, when its price was $0.79, according to data from CoinGecko. Cardano (ADA) is currently the eighth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, which at press time amounts to $30 billion.

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Cardano ($ADA) has moved up over 8.6% over the last 24-hour making it the top-performing altcoins in said period, at a time in which the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency space is once again near the $2 trillion mark. According to CryptoCompare data, ADA is outperforming most other top cryptoassets, with Bitcoin ($BTC) being […]

This is a sponsored blog post by Andrew Clarke, Senior Communications Specialist at SWIFT.  Working with Clearstream, Northern Trust, SETL and others, SWIFT plans experiments in 2022 to explore how it can support interoperability in the development of the tokenized asset market. Relative to cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, the current market capitalization of tokenized assets is Read more...

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Cryptocurrencies have grown over the past time to reach new heights and a market capitalization that cannot be ignored. Consequently, more people have joined in the hype, ranging from developers, investors, and founders of various crypto-based projects. Over time, more use cases for crypto come up to sustain their growth and lead the world to the next finance phase. Among them, staking has grown and become common over the past year as Proof-of-Stake rose.  Staking is a way of rewarding participants in the blockchain system. Through staking, users assist in validating transactions in the blockchain hence minting additional coins through the digital assets they own.  Stakers, on the other hand, face an unclear tax regulatory landscape in terms of taxation of their activity on PoS platforms. Since the IRS has not issued clear guidance on staking rewards, taxation has been contentious for many years. Since the IRS did not provide this guidance, many taxpayers opted to report income when they received rewards. Crypto Staking on Blockchain PoS networks are decentralized, so they do not have a central authority to oversee transactions. To ensure that transactions are conducted properly, they rely on a consensus mechanism that enables participants to verify transactions. Notably, validators provide the consensus of the PoS system. To become a validator, users must submit a transaction to the network. The network will randomly select validators based on their percentage of crypto assets. Those not chosen will attest to the validity of transactions contained within the block proposed by the chosen validator. Validators are rewarded for creating new blocks and performing good faith transactions. If they fail to do so, they risk losing their crypto assets. Validators who implement this approach add new blocks to the blockchain, which keeps the network’s integrity intact. Taxation Efforts Through Notice 2014-21 Currently, no financial regulator has enacted any tax guidance on cryptocurrency staking. However, the IRS Notice 2014-21 states that any taxpayer engaging in “mining” virtual currency is liable to ordinary income tax on the additional virtual currency obtained from such operations. Mining, in this case, is the process by which blockchain is verified by proof of work. It entails solving mathematical computations through computers. On the other hand, the Revenue Ruling 2019-24 states that an “airdrop” of new crypto after a hard fork results in income. However, there is a condition that taxpayers should have total dominion over the cryptocurrency at the time of the airdrop. In light of the Service’s position in the Notice, a more conservative place would define stakers recognizing gross ordinary income upon receiving reward tokens. Despite the differences between mining and staking, both involve creating and validating blocks on a network. To this end, it would be more appropriate to view the “staking” of crypto assets as a process of entry into the crypto community rather than an investment instrument with a capital return. Deductibility of Expenses Another factor to examine is the deductibility of staking-related expenditures. In the lack of specific IRS guidance, the answer appears to be whether a taxpayer’s staking operations qualify as a trade or business. If the activities are related to a trade or a business, these expenses should be deductible. Generally, a taxpayer should only consider the time and effort involved in carrying out the activities. However, if the IRS considers the activities a hobby, these expenses are not deductible. Likewise, if the taxpayer engages in investment activities, these expenses are not deductible. The Jarrett v. U.S. Case Sheds More Light Another milestone in taxation in crypto is the Jarrett v. U.S. case. Joshua Jarrett staked his existing Tezos tokens on the Tezos public blockchain in 2019, whereby he contributed to creating new blocks. He made a total of 8,876 Tezos tokens due to Jarrett’s staking rewards. The value of Jarrett and Jessica’s staking rewards was reported as ordinary income on their 2019 joint federal income tax returns, and they paid taxes accordingly. In July 2020, the couple filed an amended tax return claiming that their rewards were not taxed. The IRS did not respond to their request for a $3,793 refund. This move prompted the pair to sue for a refund in 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice told the Jarretts that the IRS would refund the amount with interest. However, they rejected the offer due to the agency’s failure to provide a reason for the refund. The trial in the case has been scheduled for March 2023. However, in February 2022, the government indicated that it would ask the judge to dismiss it because it was moot. Not so Good News? The IRS’s refund offer has raised concerns about the taxation of certain types of rewards. First, the IRS’s decision not to pursue a case involving staking rewards suggests that the agency believes that these are taxable. Hence, getting a better case elsewhere.  The … Continued

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At the start of the week, the global crypto market regained value as investors flocked to it. As the market returned to normal, it was able to recoup momentum compared to the previous week’s close. The global crypto market capitalization is now $1.87 trillion, up 0.22 percent from the previous day. At the time of …

Fiat, a government-issued currency, is still the best choice of financial criminals. Concerns have always centered on the possibility of crypto assets being used for nefarious reasons, however the US Treasury department just released something that dispels these anxieties. Despite widespread fears that cryptocurrency could be used for criminal purposes, a newly published report by the US Treasury indicates that the bulk of financial crimes are still committed using fiat money. The US Treasury presented a three-year report on money laundering, proliferation financing, and terrorist financing early this month. And they were all based on digital assets. And crypto detractors may believe this is all about digital assets being widely employed in these sectors. Related Story | Shiba Inu Exodus: 32,000 Holders Lose Interest In The ‘Dogecoin Killer’ It’s Fiat, Not Crypto Nevertheless, fiat currencies and traditional money are still more often utilized in this circumstance, thus they are more likely to come into play. The Treasury’s findings include a detailed discussion of virtual currencies, stating that both their user base and market capitalization have expanded dramatically since the previous risk assessment in 2020. However, these reports found that criminal flows via fiat currency and established networks continue to outnumber those involving cryptocurrency. Crypto total market cap at $1.805 trillion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com The US Treasury disclosed the following: “The use of crypto assets for money laundering continues to be significantly less prevalent than the use of fiat cash and other more traditional means.” Crypto Still A Good Choice For Crime According to the National Money Laundering Risk Assessment, “virtual assets” are an ever-evolving domain within money launderers’ expanding armory for concealing their finances. It singled out DeFi and “anonymity augmenting technology” as possible perpetrators. Throughout the pandemic, virtual assets have apparently been used extensively in phishing assaults and ransomware scams. Related Article | Bitcoin Breaks Past The $40,000 Barrier Again – Can It Sustain The Momentum? Shady operators may use pledges of profit from the unpredictable cryptocurrency market to entice victims into disclosing personal information or infecting their devices with viruses. The attackers may then demand payment in crypto following the attack, which is both pseudonymous and irreversible. In a recent Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report, many criminals use over-the-counter brokers to launder their cryptocurrencies. OTC brokers are individuals or businesses that assist transactions between buyers and sellers who do not wish to (or are unable to) conduct business on a cryptocurrency exchange. A Staggering Amount Meanwhile, a United Nations report says that money laundering costs the global economy between $800 billion and $2 trillion per year. This equates to between 2% and 5% of gross domestic output. Today, almost 90% of money laundering remains undetected. However, technological advancements have led in the development of more effective tools. Criminals continue to use these advancements to move dirty money. Simultaneously, government agencies and fintech firms utilize technology to identify transaction characteristics and assist in exposing fraud. Featured image from India Today, chart from TradingView.com