🧠 CoinTracker’s Biggest Upgrade Yet — Crypto Tax Clarity in 2026

James

— 2 min read

As the 2026 tax season unfolds, CoinTracker has rolled out one of its most significant product overhauls in years, focusing on helping crypto investors navigate the new IRS Form 1099-DA era with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence.

🚀 Major Platform Enhancements for Tax Season

According to the official CoinTracker changelog, the platform has been extensively upgraded to support the new U.S. tax reporting requirements that are reshaping how digital asset transactions are tracked and filed. These upgrades include:

  • Faster, smarter reporting workflows — The backend infrastructure powering cost basis, transaction modeling, and reconciliation has been reengineered to handle the complexity of modern crypto activity.
  • Full cycle 1099-DA support — CoinTracker can now ingest 1099-DA data from exchanges and match it against your wallet history, helping to reconcile mismatches before filing.
  • Improved issue-detection tools — Account Health now flags missing data or suspicious entries, reducing the risk of errors during tax filing.

These updates come at a momentous time: U.S. exchanges began issuing IRS Form 1099-DA in early February 2026 for the 2025 tax year — the first unified crypto tax reporting form ever issued by the IRS.

🔧 Expanded Blockchain Support and DeFi Accuracy

Beyond compliance, CoinTracker also added deeper blockchain and DeFi support to improve tracking for users holding assets beyond centralized exchanges:

  • Native staking on Solana — Staking rewards now auto-categorize correctly.
  • DEX pricing integration via DeFiLlama — Real-time data for over 50,000 on-chain assets improves cost basis calculations.
  • Multi-chain transfer detection — CoinTracker now better tracks cross-chain moves, bridges, and wallets across many networks.
  • Support for additional networks like NEAR and Hedera — Broader asset coverage means fewer manual edits for users.

These enhancements are particularly helpful for users with complex DeFi strategies, staking rewards, or assets across multiple chains — situations that historically have been difficult to account for correctly in tax reports.

đź“Š What This Means for Users

For the 2026 tax filing season, these improvements aim to give users:

  • More accurate cost basis matching by reconciling exchange-reported data with ledger histories.
  • Reduced manual workload by automating reconciliation and highlighting discrepancies early.
  • Better audit readiness through advanced detection of incomplete or mismatched transaction data.

đź“… Context: The 1099-DA Shift

The IRS’s rollout of Form 1099-DA marks a dramatic shift in U.S. crypto tax reporting — exchanges now issue standardized reports, and investors must reconcile them against holistic transaction histories to ensure correct tax filings.

CoinTracker’s upgrades are timely, designed not just to import broker data but also to connect the dots across wallets, chains, and historical trades — a crucial step for accurate reporting.

If you’d like, I can also provide a step-by-step guide on using CoinTracker with Form 1099-DA or summarize the new U.S. tax rules that make these changes necessary.

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