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Crypto Tax Guide 2026: IRS Rules, Forms & Rates
Master your 2026 crypto taxes. Learn the new IRS Form 1099-DA rules, wallet-level tracking, capital gains rates, and how to file Forms 8949 and Schedule D.
Garrett Taylor 18 min read
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Selling XRP Taxes: Capital Gains, Cost Basis, and What the SEC Case Never Changed
Selling XRP taxes for 2026: short vs long term rates, the 0/15/20 brackets, worked examples, FIFO vs specific identification, Rev. Proc. 2024-28 wallet rules, the 1099-DA zero-basis trap, SEC lawsuit tax myths, and loss harvesting.
Nick Slettengren 26 min read
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XRP ETF Taxes: Grantor Trusts, Phantom Fee Sales, and the Wash Sale Rule That Suddenly Applies
XRP ETF taxes for 2026: how spot XRP ETFs like XRPC, XRPZ, and GXRP work as grantor trusts, the sponsor-fee micro-sales on your 1099-B, why wash sale rules apply to ETF shares but not XRP, IRA placement, and ETF vs direct XRP compared.
Nick Slettengren 23 min read
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XRP Flare Airdrop Taxes: How FLR, Songbird, and FlareDrops Are Taxed
XRP Flare airdrop taxes for 2026: when FLR and Songbird airdrops became income, monthly FlareDrop timing, what happens if you never claimed, exchange vs self-custody claims, cost basis, and selling airdropped tokens.
Nick Slettengren 26 min read
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XRP Ledger DeFi Taxes: AMM Pools, DEX Trades, Wrapped XRP, and XRPL NFTs
XRP Ledger DeFi taxes for 2026: XLS-30 AMM deposits and LP tokens, XRPL DEX trades, wrapped XRP bridging, trust lines, XLS-20 NFTs and royalties, and how to keep records when tax software barely supports XRPL.
Nick Slettengren 26 min read
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XRP Staking and Lending Taxes: Why There Is No Real XRP Staking, and How Earn Income Is Taxed
XRP staking and lending taxes for 2026: why XRP has no native staking, how exchange earn program rewards are taxed as ordinary income, platform risk lessons from Celsius and BlockFi, DeFi lending of wrapped XRP, and Schedule 1 vs Schedule C reporting.
Nick Slettengren 22 min read
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Bitcoin ETF Taxes: Grantor Trusts, Phantom Expense Sales, and IRAs
Bitcoin ETF taxes for 2026: how spot ETFs like IBIT, FBTC, and GBTC work as grantor trusts, the phantom expense sales on your 1099-B, wash sale rules, ETFs in IRAs, GBTC conversion basis, and futures ETFs like BITO.
Nick Slettengren 25 min read
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Bitcoin Mining Taxes: Hobby vs Business, Deductions, and Selling Mined Coins
Bitcoin mining taxes for 2026: hobby vs business classification, income at fair market value, Schedule C and self-employment tax, equipment depreciation, electricity deductions, quarterly estimates, and selling mined coins.
Nick Slettengren 26 min read
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Bitcoin Ordinals & BRC-20 Taxes: Inscriptions, Runes, and Rare Sats
Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 taxes for 2026: inscribing costs, Magic Eden trades, Runes, rare sat hunting, creator royalties, the 28% collectibles question, and records.
Nick Slettengren 24 min read
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Crypto Wash Sale Rule 2026: Does It Apply? (No, and Here Is the Loophole)
Does the wash sale rule apply to crypto in 2026? No. Learn why crypto is exempt, how the tax-loss loophole works, the ETF exception, and what could change.
Garrett Taylor 10 min read
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Ethereum DeFi Taxes: Uniswap, Aave, Airdrops, and the Gray Zones
Ethereum DeFi taxes for 2026: Uniswap swaps and v3 LP positions, adding and removing liquidity, impermanent loss, Aave and Compound interest, borrowing and liquidations, WETH wrapping, airdrops as income, and where broker reporting actually stands.
Nick Slettengren 26 min read
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Ethereum Gas Fees and Taxes: What You Can Deduct, What You Missed
Ethereum gas fee taxes for 2026: when gas adds to cost basis, when it reduces proceeds, why spending ETH on gas is itself a taxable disposal, failed transactions, DeFi gas, L2 fees, and the records that hold it all together.
Nick Slettengren 24 min read
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Ethereum Liquid Staking & Restaking Taxes: stETH, rETH, cbETH, and EigenLayer
Liquid staking and restaking taxes for 2026: is ETH to stETH taxable, how rebasing income works, rETH and cbETH appreciation, EigenLayer points and airdrops, and basis tracking.
Nick Slettengren 27 min read