Guides
Kraken Taxes and Form 1099-DA: Kraken’s Combined Form 1099 Explained
Kraken sends US clients a combined Form 1099 with Form 1099-DA and 1099-MISC. What it covers, what it leaves out, and how to report it.
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Nadia Rahman
Markets Editor · 9 years covering crypto · 404 stories
Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
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Guides
Coinbase Taxes and Form 1099-DA: What Coinbase Reports to the IRS
Coinbase reports your crypto sales on Form 1099-DA and rewards over $600 on Form 1099-MISC. What each form shows, why cost basis may be missing, and how to report it.
Guides
Form 1099-DA Explained: What Your Crypto Exchange Reports to the IRS
Form 1099-DA is the IRS form US crypto brokers use to report your sales. For 2025 it shows proceeds only; from 2026 it adds cost basis for crypto bought on the same exchange.
Ethereum
Arbitrum proposes raising two L1-pricing parameters ahead of Glamsterdam
Arbitrum proposes updating two L1-pricing parameters, parentGasFloorPerToken and perBatchGasCharge, on Arbitrum One and Nova in response to Ethereum's Glamsterdam hard fork.
News
Tether signs Kazakhstan MoU to explore tenge stablecoin
Tether has signed an MoU with Kazakhstan's central bank and Alatau city authority to explore a tenge-pegged stablecoin, asset tokenization, and DeFi.
Markets
Binance adds four tokenized stocks as collateral and pairs
Binance adds JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Securitize Corp, and StablecoinX Inc. as tokenized stocks (bStocks) on October 7, allowing them as collateral.
DeFi
Arbitrum weighs 100M ARB boost for USDG strategy
Arbitrum DAO is considering a proposal to make Paxos-issued USDG a core strategic initiative, tied to a requested 100 million ARB expansion of the DRIP program.
Altcoins
Solana Foundation launches institutional DvP settlement program
The Solana Foundation launched an open-source DvP settlement program for financial institutions, aiming for atomic transactions and finality in seconds.
News
FinCEN withdraws crypto mixing and self-hosted wallet proposals
FinCEN has withdrawn its 2023 proposal on crypto mixing and a 2020 proposal targeting self-hosted wallets, citing privacy concerns and potential chilling effects on lawful activity.
Altcoins
Zcash NU7 testnet cuts target block time to 25 seconds
Zcash activated its NU7 upgrade on a public test network, reducing target block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, a 66.67% reduction.
