The Emirates charges individuals no income tax and no capital gains tax, so personal crypto profits are untaxed. Businesses are the exception: a 9 percent corporate tax applies above AED 375,000, and since November 2024 most crypto transfers and conversions are exempt from the 5 percent VAT.
The UK bank now holds RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for eligible clients through its DFSA-regulated Dubai branch. A plan to let those clients post the stablecoin as trading collateral on LMAX is agreed but not yet live.
A JB Financial Group unit is lending Korean won to companies that pledge Bitcoin, with an outside custodian holding the coins and the courts handling any default. The bank has not said how much it has lent, or to whom.
Staking pays you for helping run a proof-of-stake blockchain, but the reward comes with slashing, lock-ups and platform risk. A plain guide to how staking works, the four ways to do it, and what can go wrong before you commit any coins.
Bitcoin climbed back above $84,000 on Monday after sliding to about $80,350 last week, with short sellers, not new buyers, behind the bounce. Traders now look to Wednesday's US inflation report.
Pando Finance's spot Solana ETF starts trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13 under code 2831. Its 0.6% management fee undercuts the city's first Solana fund from ChinaAMC, as issuers compete on price.
Withdrawing crypto is not what triggers US tax. Selling, trading or spending it is. Here is when you actually owe, what the IRS leaves alone, and what the new 1099-DA form changed.
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A global bank holding RLUSD in Dubai and agreeing to accept it as trading collateral marks real institutional adoption of Ripple's stablecoin.
Our read: The custody is live and DFSA-regulated, with quotes from Standard Chartered, Ripple and LMAX. But the collateral feature that would make the token useful for trading is only planned, carries no date, and the launch covers the XRP Ledger version alone, not Ripple's larger Ethereum supply.
Jeonbuk Bank has launched South Korea's first bank lending secured by Bitcoin, letting companies borrow won against their crypto.
Our read: Several Korean outlets and a bank official confirm a loan was issued, and the enabling court rule took effect on October 1, 2026. But the bank has released no formal statement, the loan amount, rate and loan-to-value terms are undisclosed, only one loan is confirmed, and the service is limited to corporate clients.
Bitcoin's bounce back above $84,000 shows the sell-off is over and the market has found a floor.
Our read: The price did recover, helped by short liquidations and a softer oil market. But the move came from short sellers covering rather than fresh buying, US ETF flows were negative on most days last week, and the whole range still sits below early October levels. The September CPI print on 14 October and the Federal Reserve meeting on 28 October are both still ahead.
Pando's cheaper Solana ETF gives Hong Kong investors a better-value way into SOL and shows the city pulling ahead on crypto funds.
Our read: The 0.6% fee, the structure and the October 13 listing are confirmed by Pando's own documents and an HKEX circular. But total ongoing charges still run about 1.6%, far above US spot crypto ETFs near 0.3%, and there is no public demand data for a second Hong Kong Solana fund. ChinaAMC's first SOL ETF stayed small.
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Bitcoin Core 32.0, the software behind most Bitcoin nodes, is due on October 10, 2026. It brings faster block validation, a mempool based fee estimator and two security fixes, including a memory bug that could push a node to 3.2 gigabytes of memory use. Consensus rules do not change.
Mining Bitcoin on your own is still legal and technically possible, but one home rig against a world of giant farms faces odds that run into the millions. Here is how solo mining works, what your real chances are, and why a lucky few still take a whole block.
The US government shifted 12,267 bitcoin worth about $1.01 billion out of a wallet tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack on 8 October 2026. The coins went to unlabeled addresses, not an exchange, so a sale is not confirmed.
The UK bank now holds RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for eligible clients through its DFSA-regulated Dubai branch. A plan to let those clients post the stablecoin as trading collateral on LMAX is agreed but not yet live.
A JB Financial Group unit is lending Korean won to companies that pledge Bitcoin, with an outside custodian holding the coins and the courts handling any default. The bank has not said how much it has lent, or to whom.
Coinbase says it has completed its integration of Deribit and opened the combined options and perpetual futures market to eligible US institutions, a route that until now usually meant trading offshore. Options trading is due within weeks.
XRPL developers disclosed and fixed a payment engine flaw, hidden since 2015, that could have created XRP far beyond the network's 100 billion supply cap. The patch shipped in xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25, and RippleX says no public network was attacked.
Polkadot token holders approved dotUSD, a native dollar stablecoin with no issuing company, in an on-chain vote. For now the coin is backed one-for-one by Tether, and the DOT-collateral version is still only a plan.
Starknet said on October 8 it is weighing a shift from Ethereum layer 2 to its own layer 1 blockchain, aiming to be the first fully quantum-resistant network by 2027. STRK jumped more than 20 percent. No governance vote has been scheduled.
Bitcoin climbed back above $84,000 on Monday after sliding to about $80,350 last week, with short sellers, not new buyers, behind the bounce. Traders now look to Wednesday's US inflation report.
Pando Finance's spot Solana ETF starts trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13 under code 2831. Its 0.6% management fee undercuts the city's first Solana fund from ChinaAMC, as issuers compete on price.
Vanguard issues no Bitcoin ETF of its own and says it has no plans to. Since December 2, 2025 its brokerage clients can trade third-party spot Bitcoin ETFs from firms like BlackRock and Fidelity. Here is what you can buy, what stays blocked, and why the firm held out.