Relief for Validators and Miners: Crypto Staking Taxes Get a Major Rethink

[cryptoenthusiast]

While tightening rules on trading, the Digital Asset PARITY Act offers meaningful relief to the backbone of crypto networks. The bill allows miners and validators to defer taxes on staking rewards for up to five years or until assets are sold.

This directly addresses the long-standing “phantom income” problem — where operators are taxed on rewards they haven’t liquidated and may not even be able to sell. By shifting taxation to the point of disposal, the proposal reduces liquidity stress and makes US-based staking and mining operations far more viable.

For many in the ecosystem, this provision alone could reshape where and how network infrastructure is built.