Opinion by: Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo
Crypto X communities think tokens are toast. Here’s why they’re right — and dead wrong.
If there were one chart to sum up today’s crypto token meta, it would be Bloomberg chart-boxing its comparison of

Key takeaways
Cayman Islands: No income, capital gains or corporate tax — ideal for crypto traders and funds.
UAE: Zero tax on all crypto activity across all emirates, plus strong regulatory clarity.
El Salvador: Bitcoin is legal tender with full tax exemption and growing national adoption.

A statue honoring the mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been stolen from Parco Ciani in Lugano, Switzerland.
The theft was confirmed by Satoshigallery, the group behind the global Satoshi statue initiative, which is now offering a 0.1 Bitcoin (BTC) reward (worth over $11,000) for

Yield Basis, a protocol developed by the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Curve Finance, mitigates impermanent loss for tokenized Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) liquidity providers (LPs), while also creating a market-based approach to token inflation and emissions, according to Curve founder

Opinion by: Joshua Chu, co-chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association
Last week’s announcement of Hong Kong’s LEAP Digital Assets Policy Statement 2.0 was made with much anticipation and fanfare. The government of Hong Kong promised a comprehensive regulatory framework that will unify licensing and “

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DeFi
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Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $812.25 million in net outflows on Friday, marking the second-largest single-day loss in the history of these products.
The drawdown erased a week of steady gains and pushed cumulative net inflows down to $54.18 billion. Total assets under management

Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy has expanded the scope its STRC offering twice since issuing the corporate security on July 22.
The company announced an at-the-market offering of up to $4.2 billion of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), a hybrid corporate s

Key takeaways
XRP cloud mining doesn’t mine XRP; it funds BTC or ETH contracts using XRP.
Promised returns (100%-800% APR) are often unsustainable and lack transparency.
High risks include scams, volatility and hidden fees, with little regulatory oversight.
Safer alternatives exist, like

August 1 marks the eighth anniversary of a key moment in Bitcoin’s (BTC) history — the initial activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit) in 2017, a key software upgrade that reshaped the network’s future and triggered a hard fork.
The move, known as “Bitcoin Independence Day,” reduced miner

Blockchain
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