Author: Kryptonews

Colombia’s DIAN now forces crypto platforms to collect and report user and transaction data on Bitcoin, Ether, stablecoins and other assets under Resolution 000240. Summary DIAN’s Resolution 000240, issued Dec. 24, 2025, mandates exchanges, intermediaries and platforms to report detailed user and crypto transaction data from the 2026 tax year.​ Data must include identity details, tax IDs, volumes, units transferred, market values and net balances, aligning Colombia with the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.​ Non-compliant operators face fines of up to 1% of undeclared transaction value, while Colombia ranks as the fifth-largest Latin American crypto market by volume. Colombia’s National Tax…

Developer activity linked to the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen to its lowest level in years, as a governance dispute and a prolonged price decline weigh on the project’s ecosystem.Data from market intelligence company Santiment shared in a Thursday X post showed that developer activity tied to Zcash dropped to its weakest level since November 2021. Over the same period, the Zcash (ZEC) token has fallen about 40% over the past two months.“Historically, rising development activity leads to standout altcoins being able to emerge above the pack. The opposite result holds true for those that ‘let off the gas’ and…

A newly disclosed software flaw in the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon may allow malicious validators to disrupt parts of the network’s consensus process, potentially slowing block production during key periods, according to developers.The vulnerability affects Babylon’s block signature scheme, known as the BLS vote extension, which is used to prove that validators have agreed on a block.The bug enables malicious validators to intentionally omit the block hash field when sending their vote extension, which could lead to validator consensus issues during the epoch boundaries of the network, according to a GitHub post published on Thursday.The block hash field tells validators…

UK-based auction house Bonhams saw its pre-tax loss jump almost 90 percent to £213 million ($286.3 million) in 2024, as revenue fell 9 percent to £176 million ($236.6 million), according to its most recent filings with UK’s Companies House, as reported by the Financial Times. (Financial filings released through Companies House, the UK’s rough equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, typically trail by one year.) The house saw impairment charges of £153 million ($205.5 million), driven by drooping cash flow forecasts. Impairment, in accounting terms, is “an unexpected deterioration in an asset’s ability to generate future economic benefits.”…

United States spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have shed over $1 billion in combined outflows since Tuesday, marking an early-year pullback after a brief rebound to start 2026. SoSoValue data shows spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $1.13 billion in outflows between Tuesday and Thursday, offsetting $1.17 billion in inflows on Jan. 2 and Monday. Spot Ether (ETH) ETFs had a similar pattern, with about $258 million exiting since Wednesday, after posting modest inflows earlier in January.  The reversal erases gains accumulated in the opening days of the year and signals renewed caution among investors. It also suggests that early inflows…

Altcoin pumps feel random. They are not. Altcoins follow macro cycles. Liquidity expands. Risk moves outward. Capital looks for returns. Right now, four altcoins sit directly in that flow. That is why they are pumping. The mistake investors make is assuming pumps last forever. They do not. Most people only ask if the price will go up. The better question is how much time is left. In this video, I explain why these altcoins are running now. What signals suggest continuation? And what signs would tell us the move is ending? If you invest without context, you chase. With context,…

South Korea’s Supreme Court handed down its first explicit ruling that Bitcoin held in centralized exchanges can be seized by investigators, marking a notable shift in how exchange‑custodied crypto is treated under criminal law. In a decision on Dec. 11, 2025, and disclosed via the court’s official bulletin, the court upheld the seizure of 55.6 Bitcoin (BTC) held in a Korean exchange account by a suspect under a money laundering investigation.Bitcoin is now an “object of seizure” under the Criminal Procedure Act because it is electronic information with independent manageability, tradability and economic value. The ruling builds on earlier Supreme Court precedents…

Financial authorities in the United Kingdom set a timeline for a new crypto licensing regime, requiring aspiring companies to seek full authorization before the framework comes into force. Crypto asset service providers (CASPs) will be able to apply to enter the UK under the crypto licensing regime starting this autumn, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Thursday.“We expect the application period will open in September 2026,” the FCA noted, adding that the timeline will be confirmed in due course.The FCA’s gateway will offer a limited window for applications to be processed before the regime goes live, expected on Oct. 25,…

New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel has reintroduced legislation to the US state’s lower house that aims to restrict what event contracts prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket can offer.Vanel resubmitted the Oversight and Regulation of Activity for Contracts Linked to Events, or ORACLE Act, to the New York State Assembly on Wednesday, which was first introduced in November and aims to ban certain markets tied to politics, sports, the stock market and others.Prediction markets have gained popularity over the past year and offer bets on a range of events, but markets on sports are a particular money maker, with…

The Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most esteemed art prize, has named the artists nominated for its 2026 award. While there are normally four nominees, this year there are technically five. Those nominees include Joël Andrianomearisoa, a Malagasy artist whose vibrant textiles have been exhibited widely, and Josèfa Ntjam, a participant in last year’s Bienal de São Paulo whose installations and sculptures address fluid identities, often by making reference to the African diaspora. Also nominated this year are Laura Henno and the duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin. They will compete for a chance to win €35,000, or just over $40,000,…