Crypto Cost Basis: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Breaks Down
Quick answer (read this first): What it is: Cost basis is what was paid to acquire a digital asset, including the purchase price, expressed as a tax lot with a […]
Crypto Cost Basis: What to Do When Exchange History Is Gone
Quick answer (read this first): The problem: Exchange records are unavailable due to platform shutdown, lost credentials, incomplete exports, or years of unreconciled self-custody. Crypto cost basis is undocumented and […]
The Complete Guide to Crypto Cost Basis Reconstruction & Historical Accounting
Quick answer (read this first): What it is: Crypto cost basis reconstruction is the process of rebuilding your digital asset transaction history at the tax-lot level by establishing what you […]
Crypto Tax Reporting: CARF & DAC8 Readiness for Investors, Founders, and Platforms
This article is written for three overlapping audiences who are now being pulled into the same global crypto tax reporting system. Investors holding, trading, staking, or deploying crypto across borders […]
I Already Filed My Crypto Taxes: Why 1099-DA Still Puts You at Risk
For many digital-asset investors, the prevailing assumption is simple: “I filed every year. I’m done and compliant.” The risk introduced by Form 1099-DA is a structural change in how crypto […]
Form 1099-DA and the Risk of Undocumented Early-Year Crypto Activity
Form 1099-DA introduces standardized, third-party reporting for digital-asset dispositions at scale. That reporting gives the IRS a reliable anchor point for automated matching and discrepancy analysis across tax years, accounts […]
I Received a 1099 for Crypto, What Am I Supposed to Do Now?
What This Form Means (and What It Doesn’t) Receiving Form 1099-DA is not, by itself, an allegation, an audit notice, or a determination that your digital-asset tax reporting is incorrect. […]
The Investor’s Playbook for Surviving the First Wave of Crypto Tax Notices for 1099-DA
The First Wave of 1099-DA Enforcement Will Operate Through Information-Return Matching For most digital-asset investors, enforcement under Form 1099-DA will not begin with an audit notice, an agent visit, or […]
Why Your 1099 Is Missing Crypto Cost Basis and How to Fix It Before IRS Matching Begins
Form 1099-DA is not a convenience tool, it is a visibility mechanism. Its primary purpose is not to calculate your crypto tax with precision. Its purpose is to standardize broker-reported […]
Welcome To The Digital Asset Compliance Era
The Regulated Frontier of Global Finance For more than a decade, digital assets operated on the financial frontier at the edge of the financial system. It felt more like the […]
