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USDC: The dollar that Europe has allowed
$74bn in circulation and $19bn of daily turnover. Who stands behind USDC, what sits in its reserves, and why Europe let this coin stay but not USDT.
The Digital Euro: Europe's exit from non-EU payment schemes and the trust test that comes with It
Why the ECB is building its own payment rail, how it plans to keep payments private, and why trust decides whether any of it works.
How Tax Authorities Detect Undeclared Cryptocurrency Income
Why self-custody, DeFi and crypto cards do not make a person invisible, and how to restore PnL and correct tax history before an audit.
AI stops where checking gets expensive
Five deployments from one week, all with published numbers. The line between the successes and the reversals is not capability. It is how fast and how cheaply anyone can establish that the machine was wrong.
The CLARITY Act failed. What happens to crypto now?
The Senate blocked CLARITY 50 to 49 and XRP fell 8.83%. The bill is stalled rather than rejected, and the Fed now carries more weight than the vote did.
The AI bubble in late 2026: how big, and what to watch
Hyperscaler capex is heading for $725 billion, half the S&P 500 is AI-linked, and the funding is shifting from cash to debt. What actually decides how this ends.
Public Wi-Fi and Your Crypto Portfolio: The Threat Model Investors Still Underestimate
KeepSolid founder and CEO Vasyl Ivanov breaks down how public Wi-Fi exposes crypto wallets to passive observation, man-in-the-middle attacks, evil twin networks, and captive portal manipulation, and lays out a practical op-sec playbook.
Crypto in Kazakhstan: the laws, the taxes, and what's happening now
Kazakhstan went from an accidental mining boom and a grey zone to two regulators, a profit tax, and its own sovereign crypto reserve. Here's the full breakdown of laws, taxes, companies, and investment climate.
What's new on Intokened: recent stories, live tools, regulation map
A guided tour of Intokened right now: recent coverage across bitcoin, AI, and markets, the site's live market tools, and the country-by-country crypto regulation map, including a look at Kazakhstan's rules.
What Intokened readers are reading right now
Five of the most-viewed stories on Intokened right now, ranked by real reader traffic, plus where to check any country's current crypto legal status.
Our indicators, and what they measure
A plain-language guide to every indicator and tool on Intokened: which ones we calculate ourselves, which ones we source and explain, and where to find each one.
The CLARITY Act's September Gamble: What's Left to Fix Before Crypto's Big Vote
The Senate is expected to vote September 15 on whether to begin debating the CLARITY Act. Ethics rules, stablecoin rewards, and illicit finance remain unresolved.
$20 Billion in Investment, Institutional Players, and AI: The New Reality for Web3 Startups
Generis Web3 GTM Agency published The State of Web3 Startups 2026: $20 billion in venture investment, rising institutional adoption under MiCA, and how AI is changing how B2B buyers find vendors.
Bitcoin jumped 15% in three days. Here's the whole chain of events
In three days, Bitcoin ran from $66,000 to more than $75,000. A White House meeting, a new SEC rule, a Treasury bond decision, and the largest short squeeze in crypto history all landed in the same 72 hours, and each one explains a different part of the move.
Solana: how a project that keeps drawing attention actually works
A complete look at Solana: who built it and when, how Proof of History actually works, which real companies — Visa, Shopify, PayPal, Stripe — use its rails, what real people have said about it, and what the SOL token is for.