TokenTax reports cryptocurrency capital gains and income taxes and supports over 30 exchanges. TokenTax provides a global perspective on crypto tax regulations as well as common practices for U.S. taxpayers. Zac McClure, co-founder of TokenTax,

Mar. 5th: Crypto Fund Hack Results In Massive Data Leak

Mar 7th, 2020 4m 41s

Quick Take South Korean lawmakers amend the Financial Information Act in alignment with FATF guidelines. The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warns BitMex it is not authorized to operate in the U.K. Lending startup Babel Finance reaches

Mar. 4th: India Lifts Ban On Cryptocurrency Trading

Mar 4th, 2020 4m 51s

Quick Take The Supreme Court of India lifts a cryptocurrency ban, enabling crypto firms to access baking services. Decrypt to launch its own token that rewards readers for interacting with brands. ConsenSys and EY launch enterprise-targeted Ba

Celer Network Off-Chain Layer-2 Scaling And State Channels

Mar 2nd, 2020 37m 57s

Celer Network is a leading layer-2 scaling platform that enables fast, easy and secure off-chain transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized off-chain smart contracts. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sign up for our newslett

SKALE Blockchain Smart Contract Scaling

Feb 27th, 2020 31m 45s

SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the

P2P Trading, Atomic Swaps, and Node Operators with RADAR

Feb 25th, 2020 48m 27s

RADAR is building products for access to financial infrastructure. Its REDSHIFT product bridges payments between the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Ethereum. They've also built ION, which services to educate and onboard users to the Lightning Ne

3Box Shared Backend Platform For Web3 Applications

Feb 23rd, 2020 36m 26s

3Box is an open-source data storage solution for web3 that allows end-users to manage their public and private information on the decentralized web. 3Box CEO Michael Sena joins me to discuss blockchain identity, decentralized storage, and enabl

Aave Flash Loans And Lending Protocol

Feb 21st, 2020 48m 55s

Aave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with a variable or stable interest rate. Aave Founder Stani Kulechov joins us to discuss the Aave lending protocol, risk assessment framework, and

Gasless Ethereum Transactions With Biconomy Relayer Network

Feb 20th, 2020 31m 45s

Biconomy is a relayer infrastructure network and transaction platform enabling developers to build applications easily and reduce the friction between your applications built on the blockchain and your end-users. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sig

Orchid Decentralized VPNs And Following The White Rabbit

Feb 19th, 2020 30m 52s

Orchid is building open source tools for custom VPN configurations and privacy services. CEO Steven Waterhouse talks about the vulnerabilities of today’s VPNs, the purpose of OXT, and shares his experience with being SIM swapped. 📧 Read the

Kyber Network On-Chain Token Swaps And Decentralized Liquidity Pool

Feb 17th, 2020 27m 10s

Kyber Network is an Ethereum-based protocol that allows for the instant exchange and conversion of digital assets and cryptocurrencies with high liquidity. It’s similar to the 0x project but instead performs all its actions on the blockchain. D

Rise of the DAO’s with James Duncan

Feb 8th, 2020 45m 30s

James Duncan is the co-founder at Abridged, a toolkit for rapid blockchain application development. Previously, James worked at the Ethereum Foundation, managing a multimillion-dollar grant budget that funded projects like Gitcoin, Uniswap, and

Jan. 23rd: World Economic Forum Develops CBDC Framework

Jan 23rd, 2020 4m 43s

Quick Take Amun launched “21Shares Short Bitcoin ETP (SBTC),” enabling traders to short bitcoin. BitMEX announced the launch of an XRP-USD quanto swap. Gemini passed the SOC type 2 security compliance examination conducted by Deloitte. Pornhub

Jan. 22nd: BCH Fork Will Cut Block Rewards By 12.5 Percent

Jan 22nd, 2020 4m 49s

Quick Take Bakkt plans to launch a consumer app later this year. Bitcoin cash miners plan to execute a soft fork that would cut block rewards by 12.5 percent. Grayscale has extended financial support for the Ethereum Classic Cooperative. Binan

Jan. 21st: Vodafone Leaves Libra Association To Focus On M-Pesa

Jan 21st, 2020 4m 40s

Quick Take Square Crypto launched a Lightning Development Kit (LDK) for integrating Lighting on bitcoin wallets. BTCPay Server released “BTCPay Vault,” a desktop application for integrating hardware wallets. British telecom company Vodafone le

Jan. 20th: Australian Regulators Approve Raiz Invest Bitcoin Fund

Jan 20th, 2020 5m 6s

Quick Take: Bitfinex-backed startup RenrenBit yielded $1.4 million in revenue for Q4 2019. South Korean regulators review a taxation plan with a virtual currency tax rate of 20%. Australia-based Raiz Invest was granted approval for a retail bi

Jan. 17th: KyberSwap Leaves EU Amid 5AMLD Regulations

Jan 17th, 2020 5m 8s

Quick Take: KyberSwap leaves Malta for British Virgin Islands due to the EU's new 5AMLD regulation. Libra forms Technical Steering Committee to oversee development of the project. Grayscale surpasses $1 billion in total investments. Binance is

Jan. 16th: Gemini Launches “Nakamoto Ltd.” Captive Insurance

Jan 17th, 2020 4m 37s

Quick Take Gemini launched Nakamoto Ltd., a captive insurance company with a $200 million insurance policy. Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo has formed the Digital Dollar Foundation. CSA notice suggests custodial crypto exchanges are su

Jan. 15th: Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Launches A TestNet

Jan 15th, 2020 5m 37s

TLDR: EEA launched a TestNet in partnership with Whiteblock, enabling members to develop in a sandbox environment. Kadena fully launched its hybrid blockchain, enabling human-readable smart contracts and interoperability between public and pri

Ethereum Wallets with Authereum Co-founder Chris Whinfrey

Jan 13th, 2020 47m 11s

Authereum is a login and wallet solution for dApp developers who want to provide their users with a web2-like user experience while maintaining censorship resistance. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUA7BbvXtlI Show Links Authereum Chris W

Sept. 11th: FINMA Releases Guide on Stablecoins ‘Same Risks, Same Rules’

Dec 20th, 2019 4m 35s

This is your daily roundup for Wednesday September 11th, 2019. The Libra Association is seeking a swiss payments license, Mastercard partnered with R3 to pilot a cross-border payments solution, and Binance US is planning to open deposits next w

Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) with Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble

Dec 17th, 2019 33m 48s

IBC is a standard that permits anyone to quickly and securely transfer money across the web. Zaki Manian is the head of research at Tendermint Inc, an implementation of BFT consensus algorithm & PoS cryptoeconomics and a core contributor to the

Week of December 13, 2019

Dec 13th, 2019 12m 40s

Here’s the rundown from This Week in Crypto: More than 80 Japanese banks have expressed interest in joining JP Morgan’s Interbank Information Network (IIN), a platform for exchanging information related to international payments. Nike has been

Nov. 22nd: EIF Invests €100 Million In Blockchain Fund

Nov 22nd, 2019 5m 17s

This is your daily roundup for Friday, November 22, 2019. The European Investment Fund invests €100 million in a blockchain fund, Coinbase Custody expands Tezos staking internationally, and China cracks down on crypto related activities in Shen

Nov. 21st: Chainalysis Lays Off 39 Employees

Nov 21st, 2019 5m 11s

This is your daily roundup for Thursday, November 21, 2019. Chainalysis lays off 39 employees, Shanghai police allegedly raid Binance offices, and Silvergate Bank announces plans to launch crypto lending and custody services. ? Subscribe to my