News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
Chainalysis adds Cronos to its AML monitoring suite, extending automatic token coverage to ERC-20 and ERC-721 assets on an institutional stablecoin and tokenized-asset chain, with direct implications for compliance workflows and crypto accounting software stacks at firms and CFOs.
Chainalysis adds automatic token coverage for Cronos, expanding KYT and Reactor monitoring to a stablecoin-focused institutional chain; accounting firms and CFOs need to understand the AML and bookkeeping implications.
Elliptic and Zama partnership shows wallet-level AML screening can coexist with FHE-based confidential DeFi, creating a compliance-by-design template for institutional on-chain finance
The BVI's VASP licensing regime and its implications for accounting firms advising clients on offshore digital asset structuring
Cross-chain bridges enable large-scale crypto laundering beyond current AML controls, creating urgent compliance exposure for firms handling digital assets
UBS and Nethermind's proofs of concept show that embedding compliance at block-production level, not just in smart contracts, could reshape how regulators and banks treat permissionless blockchains under Basel capital rules.
