About the alliance

A neutral home for CARF and DAC8 knowledge.

The CARF Alliance is an industry education platform built for the people doing the actual work of implementing the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework and the EU's DAC8 directive. It exists because the existing body of knowledge, scattered across OECD PDFs, member-state legislation, and tax-authority FAQs, is hard to read and harder to keep current.

Mission

To make the operational reality of CARF and DAC8 understandable and current, for compliance teams, engineers, policy professionals, and the tax authorities themselves. Education is the first pillar; community and tooling follow.

What we publish

  • • Long-form regulation breakdowns and side-by-side comparisons.
  • • Technical guides to the CARFxml schema, validation, and correction flows.
  • • Country-specific deep-dives, Austria's KESt, the UK HMRC regime, Nordic approaches, and others.
  • • A live country tracker covering 48 jurisdictions, including domestic rules that go beyond the CARF baseline.
  • • A monthly briefing summarising what changed.

Kryptos, founding member

Kryptos is the founding member of the CARF Alliance. Kryptos is the team behind one of the leading CARF and DAC8 reporting platforms for crypto-asset service providers, and it funds the platform and the editorial work. The alliance is open to further founding and contributing members from CASPs, advisors, law firms and tax authorities.

We're transparent about this because trust matters: every article on this site is written to a neutral editorial standard. We do not promote Kryptos products inside articles, country guides, or the country tracker. The alliance benefits Kryptos by raising the overall quality of the conversation around CARF compliance, and Kryptos benefits the alliance by making sustained, high-quality writing possible.

Editorial policy

Articles cite primary sources (OECD, Council of the EU, national tax authorities) wherever possible. Country tracker entries are dated and updated as material changes occur. We do not give legal or tax advice, every article is written for educational purposes only.

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Tax authorities, advisors, law firms, and CASP compliance leads are welcome to contribute content, corrections, and country updates. Subscribe below and reply to any briefing email to get in touch.

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