Crypto taxes across multiple wallets and exchanges are nearly impossible to calculate without paying an accountant who also does not fully understand them
Every crypto trade is a taxable event in most jurisdictions. If you have traded across multiple exchanges, moved assets between wallets, used DeFi protocols, or received staking rewards, your tax situation involves thousands of individual transactions that no standard accounting software was built to handle.
Who has this problem
Active DeFi and multi-chain crypto traders with 5,000+ transactions
The segment even Koinly, the category leader, still requires hours of manual cleanup for — the real remaining gap.
Casual holders who traded on one or two exchanges
The bulk of filers, who still hit cost-basis gaps when they move assets between wallets.
Accountants and tax preparers with crypto clients
Professionals who spend hours reconciling exports and wallet histories.
NFT collectors and stakers
People whose staking rewards and sales create taxable events many don't realize they have.
Signal timeline
Pew Research finds 19% of US adults say they've ever invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrency, up from a stable 16-17% across 2021-2024, the population this topic's compliance gap is actually about.
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