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SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis
Listen to the SpendNode podcast for narrated crypto audio news and analysis on policy, stablecoins, payments, market structure, and crypto cards.
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SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSaylor's 'Bitcoin Drive Engaged' Hints at First Strategy Buy in 5 Weeks
Michael Saylor posted 'Bitcoin Drive engaged,' his usual tell before a Strategy BTC purchase. It would break a five-week pause, with BTC at $63,364. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRobinhood's Event Contracts Hit $156M in Q2, a 10x Jump
Robinhood posted record $1.31B Q2 revenue, with event contracts contributing $156M, roughly 12% of the total and up 10x year over year. Here is what the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSenate Has 5 Days to Pass the CLARITY Act Before Summer Recess
The Senate has roughly five working days to move the CLARITY Act before August recess. A miss pushes crypto market-structure rules into an uncertain fall. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCLARITY Act Bans Officials From Issuing Crypto, With One Carve-Out
The CLARITY Act bars government officials from issuing crypto, but a single paragraph exempts royalty income from tokens that already exist. Here is why that…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTrump Media Moves 2,600 BTC to Crypto.com in $165M Transfer
Trump Media sent more than 2,600 BTC, worth about $165M, to Crypto.com on August 2, 2026. Here is what the transfer signals about corporate bitcoin treasuries…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSouth Korean Stablecoins Hit 18-Month Outflow Streak Offshore
South Korean stablecoins have posted 18 straight months of net outflows to overseas exchanges, per WuBlockchain data, as traders chase offshore liquidity. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitwise Shuts Six Crypto Option ETFs as Payouts Return Capital
Bitwise is liquidating six crypto option income ETFs that advertised double-digit yields but posted 0% SEC yield and paid investors back their own money. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisWirex Hits ~$2B Annualized Card Spend, Doubling in 110 Days
Wirex says its crypto card has reached a ~$2B annualized spend run-rate eight months after launch, with July alone adding $160M+ in onchain card spend. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisLummis Says Democrats Are Stalling Crypto's CLARITY Act to Dodge a Vote
Senator Cynthia Lummis accuses Democrats of running out the clock on the CLARITY Act to avoid an on-record vote, deepening the fight over US crypto rules. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUphold Adds Instant Crypto-Backed Loans via Exactly Protocol
Uphold launched instant crypto-backed loans through Exactly Protocol, letting users borrow against holdings instead of selling. Terms and rates were not…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBIS Project Agora Settles Tokenized Payments Across 6 Currencies
The BIS says Project Agora settled 800,000 Swiss francs in real-value tokenized payments across six currencies, with 28 banks running 17 transaction scenarios…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisXRP Ledger Revives Batch and Delegation After Bug Fixes
The xrpld 3.3.0 release brings back Batch and Permission Delegation, two XRP Ledger features pulled in 2025 and 2026 after critical signature and fee-drain…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTether's Q2 Reserves Halve as Losses May Top $4 Billion
Tether's Q2 excess reserves reportedly halved and the quarter's overall result may have exceeded a $4 billion loss, raising fresh questions for USDT holders…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitget Assetback Card Pays Up to 3% Back in BTC, Gold, or Stocks
Bitget Wallet's Assetback card now returns up to 3% on purchases in BTC, gold, or tokenized stocks, credited straight to your portfolio. Here is what it means…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRussia Extends Crypto Mining Ban in Moscow Until 2032
Russia will keep crypto mining banned in Moscow and several regions until 2032, tightening control over one of the world's largest mining bases. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPump.fun Reportedly Cut Staff Before Their Token Rewards Vested
Pump.fun reportedly laid off employees months before their token allocations vested, reigniting debate over how crypto startups handle equity and worker pay…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBank of Italy Names the Real Test for Stablecoin Efficiency
The Bank of Italy says stablecoins only gain a real efficiency edge when users can spend them end-to-end without converting back to cash. Here is the takeaway…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRWA Perpetual Futures Hit 99.2% of Bitcoin's Volume on Hyperliquid
Real-world asset perpetual futures reached 99.2% of Bitcoin perp volume on Hyperliquid and Binance, per Cointelegraph. What the tokenized asset surge means…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisAviva Tokenizes USD Liquidity Fund on XRP Ledger
Aviva Investors launched a tokenized share class of its US Dollar Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger after Central Bank of Ireland approval. What it signals…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisOpen USD Launches on Ethereum With Visa, Mastercard, Stripe Backing
Open USD, a stablecoin backed by 140+ firms including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BlackRock, launches on Ethereum from day one. What the consortium signals…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCelsius Creditor Shares Hit Nasdaq, But 37M Are Locked Up
Celsius bankruptcy recovery shares begin trading on Nasdaq, yet a lock-up blocks 37 million from immediate sale. Here is what the restriction means for…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSoFi's 388K Crypto Products Made Just $1.2M in Q2
SoFi reported 388,336 crypto products live in Q2 2026 but only $1.2M in net crypto transaction revenue. The gap shows how thin retail crypto spending still is…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Says Its USDC Deal With Circle Auto-Renews Forever
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase's USDC revenue-share deal with Circle auto-renews in perpetuity on the same terms, locking in the exchange's stablecoin income…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Posts Third Straight Quarterly Loss as Trading Slows
Coinbase reported its third consecutive quarterly loss as trading volume slowed. Here is what the earnings signal for the largest US crypto exchange and its…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Launches US500 Perpetuals, Bringing Stock Index Bets Onchain
Coinbase is launching US500 perpetual futures in August, letting US traders go long or short on the 500 largest American companies from a crypto exchange. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisColdcard Warns Mk3 Owners After 594 BTC Theft Hits Hardware Wallet
Coinkite issued a seed-security warning for older Coldcard Mk3 devices after a 594 BTC theft. What self-custody users should check now, as of July 31, 2026…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSouth Korea Confirms Crypto Tax Launch for January 2027
South Korea's finance minister confirmed the country's crypto tax will start in January 2027, ending years of delays for Korean investors and exchanges. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUS Debt Hits 100% of GDP for First Time Since WWII
US publicly held debt crossed 100% of GDP for the first time since World War 2. Bitcoin sits near $63,900 as the hard-money case gets tested, not confirmed…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC Ready to Set Crypto Rules if Congress Stalls on CLARITY Act
SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency will write crypto market rules itself if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act, shifting the fight to the regulator…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUS Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms Over Crypto Maritime Extortion
OFAC sanctioned two Iranian-linked firms tied to an IRGC scheme that forced Strait of Hormuz shipping to pay insurance premiums, some in digital assets. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFed Holds Rates, Dollar Slides to Two-Week Low: Crypto Impact
The Fed left rates unchanged and the US dollar posted its steepest two-week drop. Crypto barely moved. Here is what the muted reaction says about positioning…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTokenized Equity Holders Hit Record 759K, Up 522% This Year
Tokenized equity holder accounts reached a record 759K, up 92% in 30 days and 522% year-to-date per RWA.xyz. Here's what the onchain stock boom means. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEuropean Banks Launch RL1 Blockchain Cooperative for Tokenized Assets
Ten European institutions including ABN AMRO, DekaBank and Natixis CIB launched RL1, a member-owned blockchain built for tokenized assets and regulated…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBukele Says the World Never Left the 2008 Crisis, Just Shifted the Pain
El Salvador's president argues the 2008 financial crisis never ended, only moved, restating his case for Bitcoin as sovereign money. Here is the context. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRobinhood Posts Record $1.3B Q2 Revenue on Trading Surge
Robinhood reported record second-quarter revenue of $1.3B and beat EPS estimates on record trading volume, a signal of where retail crypto demand sits in…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisGate.io Launches Soft Staking With Up to 8% APR on USD1
Gate.io opened Soft Staking on the USD1 stablecoin, paying up to 8% APR with no lock-up. Here is what the yield product means for Gate Card users. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisKenya Cuts Stablecoin Capital Rule 40%, Hands Central Bank Kill Switch
Kenya lowered the minimum capital for stablecoin issuers by 40% to 300M shillings while giving its central bank power to restrict, suspend, or delist…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUK Names Cross-Border Payments as Stablecoins' Top Near-Term Use
A UK policy sprint has named cross-border payments as the leading near-term use case for stablecoins, a signal that could reshape how crypto cards handle…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMyanmar Passes Crypto Scam Bill: 10 Years to Life in Prison
Myanmar's Parliament passed an anti-scam bill setting prison terms of 10 years to life for crypto fraud and running online scam centers. Here is what it…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCore Scientific Q2 Revenue Doubles to $164.2M on AI Compute
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific reported Q2 revenue of $164.2M, more than double a year earlier, as AI and HPC colocation reshapes its business away from pure…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSouth Korea Plans Stablecoin Law as Opposition Pushes Tax Repeal
South Korea's FSC is drafting a government-backed digital asset bill covering stablecoins and exchanges, while opposition lawmakers move to repeal the crypto…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisThune Puts Clarity Act on Senate To-Do List Before August Recess
Senate Majority Leader John Thune named the Clarity Act a priority to pass before the August recess, moving crypto market-structure rules up the calendar. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMorgan Stanley Passes 100% of Staking Rewards to ETH and SOL ETP Holders
Morgan Stanley will pass through 100% of staking rewards on its new Ethereum and Solana ETPs, undercutting rival issuers that keep a cut for themselves. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisClarity Act Loses Steam on Capitol Hill as Crypto Bill Stalls
The CLARITY Act, once crypto's clearest path to US market-structure law, is losing momentum in Congress. Here is what has changed and what it means for the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto.com Pay Adds Emirates Flight Bookings for UAE Users
Crypto.com Pay now settles Emirates flight bookings for approved UAE users, tying the app-based rail to Dubai's Cashless Strategy under the D33 Agenda. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMyanmar Approves Death Penalty for Forced Scam Labor
Myanmar's new law imposes death for forced labor in scam compounds and life imprisonment for crypto fraud, part of a hardening Asia-Pacific crackdown on $114B…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSparkKitty Malware Scans Phone Galleries for Seed Phrase Screenshots
A new malware strain called SparkKitty scans crypto holders' photo galleries for seed phrase screenshots. Here is how it works and how to shut it out. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC Clears Securitize Capital as RIA to Launch $100M+ Tokenized Funds
Securitize Capital won SEC registered investment advisor status, letting it run tokenized funds above $100M. CEO Carlos Domingo calls it a step toward…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCME and CFTC Clash Over Who Regulates Onchain Perpetual Futures
A CoinDesk report details a turf fight between CME and the CFTC over onchain perpetual futures, a market structure question with stakes for DeFi traders. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin Whales Absorb 19,700 BTC in 8 Days as Retail Buyers Retreat
Whale and shark wallets accumulated nearly 19,700 BTC in eight days while retail dip-buying cooled, with Bitcoin at $63,494 and Fear & Greed at 34. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRobinhood Chain TVL Crosses $600M, Up 50% in a Week
Assets deposited into Robinhood Chain apps topped $600M, a roughly 50% jump in a week per Token Terminal, as capital rotates into the retail broker's L2. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisKuCoin Hits 45M Users as Payment Volume Triples in H1 2026
KuCoin's H1 2026 review reports 45 million users, tripled off-chain payment volume, and a Web3 wallet now offering perpetuals and 260+ tokenized US stocks…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisHYPE ETF Inflows Are Outpacing Bitcoin and Ethereum, Grayscale Says
Grayscale data shows Hyperliquid's HYPE ETF is pulling in inflows faster than BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP did at the same point in their ETF lifecycles. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSenator Husted Backs CLARITY Act, Vows to Pass It Soon
Senator Jon Husted has thrown his support behind the CLARITY Act, pledging to help pass the crypto market structure bill as soon as possible. Here is what it…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCLARITY Act Merged Draft Adds First-Ever Crypto Ethics Provision
The Senate released a merged CLARITY Act draft combining the Banking and Agriculture Committee versions and adding an ethics provision for the first time. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisGen Z Traders Aren't Gambling: 94% Avoid Leveraged Bets
Binance data shows only 5.9% of Gen Z trading volume touches leveraged ETFs, undercutting the reckless-youth-investor stereotype. Here is what the numbers say…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStablecoin Processor Triple-A Confirms $11.8M Treasury Breach
Triple-A says its corporate treasury wallet was drained of $11.8M in a security breach. The payments firm confirmed client funds were untouched and it will…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitMart Wallets Fall to $69M as Users Report Withdrawal Freezes
BitMart wallets dropped to about $69M on Monday from $102M on July 6 as users reported withdrawal delays and on-chain freeze notices during its wind-down. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto ETFs Are Undercutting Exchanges With 1-3bps Trading Fees
Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says crypto ETFs let traders buy coins for 1-3 basis points, squeezing exchange trading fees. What it means for how you buy crypto…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisWEMIX Halts Bridges and Trading After $724K Contract Exploit
WEMIX suspended bridges and trading network-wide after an attacker breached a linked smart contract and moved roughly $724,000, freezing funds. Read the full…