Crypto

French lawmakers are debating a 31.4% capital gains tax on crypto swaps into EU-regulated stablecoins.

Standard Chartered launched a crypto trading service for affluent clients in the United Arab Emirates, allowing eligible investors to buy and sell bitcoin and ether through bank accounts.

Strive (ASST) is seeking to raise $500 million through an initial public offering of a new perpetual preferred stock class, SATS.

Coins.ph, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the Philippines, is facing punitive action from financial regulators at the country's central bank, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Starknet, the Ethereum layer-2 network developed by StarkWare, has launched a wallet privacy feature called Shadow Accounts that allows users to engage with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications without publicly linking those activities to their main wallets.