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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 & AnalysisLedger Wallet Adds Stablecoin Yield via Kiln, Morpho, Aave
Ledger has added a Stablecoin Yield feature inside Ledger Wallet, powered by Kiln and routing deposits to Morpho, Aave, and Compound while keys stay…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisZachXBT Ties $475K in Frozen Bitcoin to an Elder-Fraud Mule
On-chain investigator ZachXBT traced $475K in frozen bitcoin to social engineering scams on elderly Americans after a suspected money mule asked him for help…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDelaware Passes a Payment Stablecoin Act in Unanimous Votes
Delaware's Payment Stablecoin Act cleared the House 36-0 after a 20-0 Senate vote, setting a state licensing framework for stablecoin issuers and service…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTexas Brothers Plead Guilty to $8M Armed Crypto Kidnapping
Isiah and Raymond Garcia admitted to holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint for eight hours and forcing an $8M crypto transfer. The case shows how self-custody…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCapital B Shareholders Approve Up to $120B for Bitcoin Buying
Capital B's shareholders cleared up to $120B in financing capacity to fund its Bitcoin treasury, a vote landing with BTC at $62,406 and Fear & Greed at 19…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFranklin Templeton Files 'Bitcoin DRIP' ETFs That Funnel Dividends Into BTC
Franklin Templeton filed two SEC ETFs that hold US stocks and reinvest the dividends into Bitcoin, starting at 5% BTC and capped at 20%. Here's the structure…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMetaMask Adds 173 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs to In-App Trading
MetaMask says 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs are now tradable inside its app. Here's what that adds for self-custody wallet and MetaMask Card users. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStrive CEO Calls It the Worst Day Yet for Digital Credit
STRC fell to $82.50 and Strive's SATA slid below $93 on June 19. CEO Matt Cole blamed leverage liquidations, not credit deterioration. Here is what happened…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMorgan Stanley Files Amended Spot ETH and SOL ETFs at a 0.14% Fee
Morgan Stanley filed amended spot Ether and Solana ETF applications, both at a 0.14% sponsor fee, as ETH trades near $1,695 and SOL near $68 in Extreme Fear…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFidelity Opens a GENIUS Act Money Fund for Stablecoin Reserves
Fidelity launched the Reserves Digital Fund (FYMXX), a government money market fund built to hold stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act. Details and stakes…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEx-EF Contributor Warns Ethereum Core-Dev Funding Could Run Dry in 3-9 Months
A former Ethereum Foundation contributor warns core development funding may run out within 3 to 9 months, as ETH sits at $1,702 and the market reads Fear. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSalinas Says Mexican Banks Are Told to Avoid Crypto Entirely
Billionaire Ricardo Salinas says Mexico's central bank gave banks standing orders to steer clear of crypto, explaining why retail access routes around them…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisJPMorgan: Bitcoin Has Sat Below Its $78K Mining Cost for Five Months
JPMorgan says Bitcoin has traded under its estimated $78,000 production cost for five straight months. With BTC at $62,953, miner margins are deep underwater…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC and CFTC Open a Joint Comment Period on Derivatives Rules
The SEC and CFTC issued a rare joint request for public comment to harmonize derivatives definitions and clarify which agency regulates what. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisG7 Renews Push on North Korean Crypto Theft as Losses Top $2B
G7 leaders issued a fresh joint call to counter state-sponsored crypto theft, citing a Chainalysis figure of more than $2 billion stolen by DPRK-linked…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEurope's MiCA Grace Period Ends July 1, Most Firms Still Unlicensed
MiCA's transition period closes July 1, 2026. Only around 200 firms hold full authorization, and unlicensed providers lose the right to serve EU users. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCFTC Closes Its Celsius Case With a Permanent Ban on Mashinsky
The CFTC entered a consent order on June 18, 2026 resolving its fraud case against Celsius founder Alexander Mashinsky, with permanent trading and registration…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisNuvei Buys Payoneer for $2.75B, Folding Stablecoins Into the Rails
Nuvei's $2.75B all-cash purchase of Payoneer pulls stablecoin settlement inside regulated payment networks. Here is what the deal means for crypto spending…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFed Proposes Stablecoin KYC Rules; New Chair Warsh Abstains
The Federal Reserve proposed GENIUS Act stablecoin screening rules on June 18, 2026. Every governor voted yes except Chair Kevin Warsh, who abstained. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEstonia Moves to Give AI Agents Government IDs That Can Pay
Estonian PM Kristen Michal approved a plan to issue AI agents government IDs with auditable rights to book flights, file taxes, and make payments. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto Slides on a Hawkish Fed as Stocks Rally on Trump's Iran Deal
Bitcoin fell to $63,856 and ether to $1,729 after the Fed turned hawkish and markets priced a 2026 rate hike, even as equities rose on a signed US-Iran deal…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisOman Orders All Licensed Bitcoin Miners Into One National Pool
Oman has made membership in a single state-run Bitcoin mining pool mandatory for every licensed operator, a first-of-its-kind move that centralizes national…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStrategy's STRC Preferred Hits a Record Low at $89
Strategy's variable-rate STRC perpetual preferred closed at a record low $89, below its $100 par design even after a 11.50% June dividend rate. The funding…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFrance Moves to Retire Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Risk Looms
France is pushing to phase out classical encryption in favor of post-quantum schemes, reviving questions about how exposed Bitcoin's signatures really are…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisInveniam Moves to Acquire MANTRA in RWA Tokenization Deal
Inveniam Capital Partners is acquiring MANTRA, the VASP-licensed RWA layer-1, in a deal set to close by June 30, 2026. Here is what changes and what stays…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCME Moves to Sue the CFTC Over Its Approval of US Perpetual Futures
CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, plans to sue its own regulator over the CFTC's decision to allow perpetual futures onshore in the US. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStandard Chartered Sets a $100 UNI Price Target for 2030
Standard Chartered set a $100 long-term price target on Uniswap's UNI for 2030, citing DEX market share and untapped fee revenue. UNI rallied on the note. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMoody's Brings Onchain Credit Ratings to Solana for Tokenized Bonds
Moody's expanded its Token Integration Engine to Solana, letting issuers embed credit ratings directly into tokenized bonds and fixed-income securities…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis'Bitcoin Rodney' Pleads Guilty in $1.8B HyperFund Ponzi
Rodney Burton, the promoter known as 'Bitcoin Rodney,' pleaded guilty over the $1.8B HyperFund Ponzi. He faces up to 5 years and is sentenced July 23. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisReady Cuts Off Its USDC Card Outside the EEA After Issuer Change
Ready restricted USDC card spending for non-EEA users after switching card providers, with some holders reporting an hour's notice before deactivation. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPlasma One Is Live: A Three-Tier Self-Custodial Visa, With Core Free for Early Users
Plasma One launched June 17, 2026: a self-custodial Visa on the Plasma chain in three tiers (Lite, Core, Platinum), XPL cashback, and a 7-day offer that makes…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPritzker Signs Illinois' 0.2% Crypto Trading Tax Into Law
Governor Pritzker signed Illinois' Digital Asset Privilege Tax into law despite industry pushback: 0.2% per trade, custody included, felony penalties for…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC Readies an Innovation Exemption to Let Crypto Firms Trade Tokenized Stocks
Reuters reports the SEC is poised to grant an innovation exemption letting crypto firms offer blockchain-based stocks. The tokenized equity market already tops…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCongress Strikes a Deal to Ban a Fed CBDC Through 2030 in Housing Bill
US House and Senate negotiators agreed to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030, folded into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto's Fairshake PAC Spends $12M to Win Alabama's GOP Senate Primary
Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, spent over $12 million to push Barry Moore to a 56% win in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, its biggest single-race bet of 2026…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisHyperliquid Open Interest Jumps 32% as TradFi Perps Pass Bitcoin
HYPE futures open interest rose 32% in a week to about $3B, while stock and index perps on Hyperliquid hit $2.9B in OI, overtaking Bitcoin on the venue. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBNB Chain Lists $SPXCB, an Onchain Token Tracking SpaceX, on PancakeSwap
BNB Chain says $SPXCB is live on PancakeSwap, giving 24/7 onchain exposure to SpaceX (SPCX) days after the company's record Nasdaq debut. Here is what it is…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisChina Adds 26 Banks, Including Standard Chartered, to Its e-CNY Rail
China signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network, per CoinDesk. Here is why it matters…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSenators Press Treasury to Clarify State Authority Under the GENIUS Act
A bipartisan group led by Cynthia Lummis is urging the Treasury to clarify how state authority works under the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Brings 1:1 Backed Tokenized Stocks Onchain With Dividends
Coinbase is launching tokenized stock trading with 1:1 backed onchain shares and dividend payments, joining a tokenization race that already includes DTCC and…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRipple Takes a Stake in Flutterwave at a $3.3B Valuation
Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech at $3.3B, as it pushes deeper into cross-border payments and stablecoin settlement in…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBinance's EU MiCA License Bid Reportedly Faces Rejection
Reuters reports Binance's application for an EU MiCA license is heading for rejection, weeks before the transition deadline that forces unlicensed exchanges…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMirae Asset Taps Ondo Finance to Tokenize Its Global X ETF Lineup
Mirae Asset, a $721B manager, signed an MOU with Ondo Finance to tokenize US-listed ETFs through Global X, including a covered-call ETF share class in Q3 2026…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto Rallies Into the Fed's First Rate Call Under Kevin Warsh
The Fed meets today for its first rate decision under new governor Kevin Warsh. Crypto is rallying into it, with ETH up 3.5% and SOL 4% as of June 16, 2026…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBlackRock Launches BITA, a Bitcoin Income ETF That Caps Upside for Yield
BlackRock debuted BITA, a Bitcoin income ETF that sells call options to pay double-digit yield while limiting upside. Here is the tradeoff, as of June 16…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBank of Japan Hikes to 1%, Its First Rate That High Since 1995
The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark rate to 1%, the highest since 1995. The yen pared gains and altcoins held firm. Here is what it means for crypto. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDTCC Nears a Live Tokenization Demo of Real DTC Securities
DTCC says it is close to a live demonstration of tokenizing securities held at The Depository Trust Company, the clearest step yet toward on-chain Wall Street…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBank of Japan Heads for a 31-Year-High Rate, and Crypto Is Watching
The Bank of Japan is set to raise rates to a 31-year high and signal more hikes. Here is the yen carry-trade link to crypto, with ETH up 3.2% as of June 16…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisNous Research Wires Its Hermes Agent Into Stripe to Spend Money
Nous Research connected its Hermes agent to Stripe so it can make purchases, pay APIs, and provision SaaS on its own, with configurable safety limits as the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisChina's Consumer Spending Posts First Decline Since the Pandemic
China's May retail sales fell for the first time in over three years. Here is the data, the deflation risk, and how it reads against a 3%+ crypto bid. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBrian Armstrong Says Bitcoin Probably Bottomed at $60,000
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says his instinct is that Bitcoin already bottomed at $60,000. The call lands while the Fear and Greed index reads 25. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisAltcoins Outpace Bitcoin as Wall Street Hits a Record, Crypto Stays Fearful
Ether, XRP and Solana each rose about 4% on June 16, 2026 as the Dow closed at a record on a US-Iran deal, yet crypto's Fear and Greed index held at 24. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto Climbs as US CPI Hits Its Highest Level Since 2023
US headline CPI hit its highest reading since 2023, yet ETH, SOL and XRP rose 4-6% on the day while the Fear & Greed index sat at 25. Here is the divergence…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisChina Moves mBridge Toward a Commercial Launch as a SWIFT Rival
China is preparing a commercial rollout of mBridge, a blockchain-based multi-CBDC settlement network that has cleared 470B yuan and is pitched against SWIFT…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBrazil Committee Advances a Bill to Ban a Future CBDC
A Brazilian Chamber of Deputies committee advanced Bill 4212/25, which would stop any future CBDC from replacing cash, becoming forced legal tender, or…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStop Crypto ATM Scams Act Would Cap New Users at $2,000 a Day
A bipartisan House bill would cap crypto ATM transactions, force scam warnings, and require refunds for fraud after Americans lost $333M to kiosk scams in…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisKraken Launches CFTC-Regulated Perpetual Futures for US Traders
Kraken opened CFTC-regulated perpetual futures to US customers through Bitnomial on June 15, 2026, ending years of offshore-only access to a $60T market. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitMine Buys 76,881 ETH, Now Holds 4.66% of the Supply
BitMine added 76,881 ETH this week after a $274M preferred stock raise, lifting its stack to 5.62M ETH, or 4.66% of circulating supply, as ETH jumped 7.7%…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBybit Adds Western Union for Local-Currency USDPT Swaps in LATAM
Bybit has tied Western Union into its conversion flow, letting users across Latin America turn local currencies into USDPT in a few steps. Here is the detail…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisZcash Says Counterfeit ZEC Was Likely Never Minted, but Can't Prove It
Zooko Wilcox says prior exploitation of the Orchard counterfeiting bug looks unlikely, but cryptography alone cannot confirm no fake ZEC was ever minted. Read…