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DeFi Tax Report Exposes Critical Flaws in Crypto Tax Reporting Systems

DeFi Tax Report Exposes Critical Flaws in Crypto Tax Reporting Systems

DeFi Tax urges regulators, policymakers, and journalists to closely examine the crypto tax software ecosystem. This all happens as the IRS prepares to start enforcing new 1099-DA rules. The 1099-DA form is about to be rolled out but involves the use of billions of taxpayer dollars. Yet worries are flying...

IOTA Swirl: Will It Fix DeFi's Broken Promise of Financial Freedom?

IOTA Swirl: Will It Fix DeFi's Broken Promise of Financial Freedom?

Remember Sarah? She was so excited about DeFi. Yet all the glamorization of financial freedom, passive income, and being your own bank lured her in hook, line, and sinker. After weeks of research, as soon as she got on the platform she was overwhelmed with jargon, confusing protocols, and the...

Ethereum's Reign is Over? The Altcoin That Could Actually Dethrone It

Ethereum's Reign is Over? The Altcoin That Could Actually Dethrone It

Ethereum. The name is synonymous with Web3. It’s the reason that so much of this decentralized world is being built on top of it. Foundations can crack. Or sometimes it’s just that the new structures were better conceived to begin with. We've all been lulled into a sense of security,...

Ripple Hack: A $80M DeFi Wake-Up Call on Trust and Human Error

Ripple Hack: A $80M DeFi Wake-Up Call on Trust and Human Error

$80 million is at risk. Not merely hypothetical numbers on a screen, but actual, real world people’s investments locked up in XRP Ledger’s DeFi applications. We discuss blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralization as if they were the unbreakable walls of a castle. This Ripple hack? This should be a shocking...

Ethena's USDe: DeFi Savior or Centralized Time Bomb?

Ethena's USDe: DeFi Savior or Centralized Time Bomb?

Now the entire DeFi world is buzzing about Ethena’s USDe. Another stablecoin, you might yawn. But what makes it attractive is a delta-neutral strategy that shorts perpetual futures against staked ETH. This new way of doing business has amazed both DeFi dreamers and TradFi onlookers just the same. Guy Young,...

Ethena's USDe: DeFi's Hope or a House of Cards?

Ethena's USDe: DeFi's Hope or a House of Cards?

Could Ethena’s USDe be the DeFi savior we’ve all been waiting for? Or is it merely, as many critics have charged, a nicely built illusion, a digital Potemkin village on a sandy substructure? We've all seen the headlines: skyrocketing yields, institutional adoption on the horizon, and promises of a new...

EVAA Pioneering DeFi on TON Blockchain with $2.5M Backing

EVAA Pioneering DeFi on TON Blockchain with $2.5M Backing

EVAA is the first ever decentralized global lending protocol, developed on the TON blockchain. It’s fast emerging as a powerful driver of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Frequently referred to as the “Aave of TON,” EVAA has garnered loads of attention. Its unique lending model, rigorous security practices, and courageous...

Telegram: The Gateway to DeFi for Millions, Says EVAA's CEO

Telegram: The Gateway to DeFi for Millions, Says EVAA's CEO

With decentralized finance (DeFi), the experience can often feel like a gated community. It’s chock full of regulatory legalese and requires an almost insurmountable learning curve. EVAA is working to change that reality. EVAA capitalizes on the enormous Telegram user base and the powerful TON blockchain. Its central mission is...

Is Telegram DeFi a Trap? The Hidden Psychology of Vlad's Vision

Is Telegram DeFi a Trap? The Hidden Psychology of Vlad's Vision

Is the promise of DeFi inside Telegram really as good as it seems? Are we all unknowingly walking into a digital gilded cage ourselves? The promise of broad accessibility and nimble implementation lures us ahead. Vlad’s dream of a billion Telegram users easily accessing DeFi protocols is pure and unarguably...

Vlad's Telegram DeFi Vision: 3 Reasons Why It Might Actually Work

Vlad's Telegram DeFi Vision: 3 Reasons Why It Might Actually Work

Unlearn everything you imagine yourself to be an expert on with DeFi. Seriously. We’ve all heard the hype, seen the charts and the grandiose promises, the next great solution that goes up in smoke quicker than a soggy sparkler. What if the future of decentralized finance lives not on some...

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