Digital assets, beginning with cryptocurrency and evolving rapidly to include tokenized forms of money and financial instruments, have been with us for well over a decade now. In the beginning they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explain the impact of new financial technologies on our markets. With financial institutions gearing up to embrace tokenization ...

The US and UK have launched a joint task force to establish policy recommendations for digital assets, capital markets, and other innovative financial activities. The Transatlantic Taskforce for ...

IRS Notice 2026-20 extends temporary cost-basis relief for broker-held digital assets through Dec. 31, 2026. The IRS says ...

Several decades ago, Nasdaq pioneered electronic trading, but innovation is coded in our DNA, and it defines our approach to new and emerging technologies. Digital Assets, tokenization, and blockchain ...

You’ve been at the forefront of creating digital asset products from an early stage. Why do you think investors should consider putting money into digital assets? First of all, with digital assets, ...

Cost basis drives gain or loss. When you cannot substantiate basis, the IRS may treat your basis as zero, which can effectively treat the full proceeds as taxable gain. The IRS can also broaden the ...

Digital Asset Treasury Companies (“DATCOs”) are a new class of public companies whose treasuries hold significant amounts of digital assets on their balance sheets. As distinguished from a public ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a government reserve of bitcoin along with a “digital asset stockpile” in the administration’s latest embrace of the cryptocurrency ...

Rocktop Digital CEO Brett Brenson says the firm is building infrastructure to validate mortgage data and documents with AI, then record changes on an auditable blockchain. The goal is to reduce ...

A plethora of digital asset treasury companies have recently come to market, looking to not only hold crypto as a treasury asset but also raise the capital to do so. Furthermore, such companies are no ...

Because Canton allows participants to implement guardrails, Digital Asset's Yuval Rooz said institutions can protect against ...