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StockToken is neither an exchange nor a custody account. It routes signals into an Alpaca brokerage account, keeps an internal ledger and publishes security and insurance details with unusual candour. For European readers the decisive gap remains: no BaFin or MiCAR licence.
The US Senate fell short of the 60-vote threshold and pushed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to September. Two days later the SEC cancelled its meeting on the Regulation Crypto Assets framework. For European investors the picture is reversed for the first time in a decade.
The Börse Stuttgart Group's app scores on a clear regulatory structure and an unusually honest fee page. The price: a 1.25 to 1.75 percent spread each way — and on staking, BISON keeps 27 percent of the rewards.
The one-year holding period under Section 23 of the German Income Tax Act applies unchanged for the 2026 tax year. A Green Party motion found no majority and no government draft bill exists. We separate four levels: law in force, political signal, failed motion, and speculation.
While the EU-wide cut-off only came on 1 July 2026, Germany's transitional period ended on 31 December 2025 under the KMAG. BaFin and the FIU now expect a large customer migration to licensed providers and are stressing their due diligence obligations.
Figures for the RWA market range from 19 billion to 1.24 trillion dollars. We separate the categories, show the defensible numbers from the first half of 2026, and explain why tokenised securities in the EU specifically do not fall under MiCAR.
Depending on the source, NFT market capitalisation in 2026 stands at 2.4, 2.7 or 5.6 billion dollars. We show why the figures diverge so widely, which numbers hold up, and how NFTs are taxed in Germany.
Total value locked has fallen by more than a third in 2026 while roughly 300 billion dollars of stablecoins remain in circulation. The capital exists but is no longer being deployed. What sits behind that gap, and what applies to investors in Germany.
Solana spot ETFs took in roughly 10.26 million dollars in the week to 14 August, about 70 times the previous week. Almost all of it came from two funds on two trading days. Bitcoin ETFs meanwhile saw 389.7 million dollars of outflows.
Glamsterdam brings two structural changes to Ethereum's base layer through ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists. The official roadmap says Q4 2026; other sources cite earlier dates. What is confirmed, what is not, and what stakers need to do.
Mining difficulty in early August sat roughly 14 percent below the year's high. For the first time since China's 2021 mining ban it is below the prior-year level. The cause is not price alone but a new competitor for electricity: AI and HPC data centres.