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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 & AnalysisXRP Spot ETFs Drew Inflows Last Week as BTC, ETH and SOL ETFs Bled
XRP spot ETFs pulled net inflows last week while Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana spot ETFs saw net outflows, a rotation that landed as XRP led the majors at…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisHoskinson Says Cardano's Disputed 1,096 BTC Paid for a 2016 Audit
Charles Hoskinson says Cardano's disputed 1,096 BTC funded a 2016 crowdsale audit. The coins cost about $454,000 then and are worth roughly $72M now. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin Climbs to $65.7K as a US-Iran Deal Reopens the Strait of Hormuz
Bitcoin rose to $65,740 and oil fell nearly 5% after the US and Iran reached an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with signing set for Switzerland…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisIllinois Approves a 0.2% Tax on Every Crypto Trade, With Felony Penalties
Illinois passed the first U.S. state tax on digital asset trading: 0.2% per covered transaction, registration rules, and Class 3 felony charges for…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUS Spot HYPE ETFs Pull $161M in Their First Month
Three US-listed spot HYPE ETFs gathered $161M in net inflows a month after launch, with only one outflow day, even as broad crypto sentiment stayed in fear…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisNorth Korea Tied to $32M Humanity Protocol Hack via Fake Bithumb Email
A Quantstamp investigation links the $32M Humanity Protocol hack to North Korean actors who used a fake Bithumb email to get in, per a June 14 report. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEU Crypto Users Face Exchange Cutoff as MiCA Deadline Nears
MiCA's transitional permission ends July 1, 2026. With only 194 firms licensed, ~75% of registered EU crypto companies may lose the right to operate. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPhilippine Central Bank Bars VASPs From Listing Privacy Coins
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas told licensed crypto firms to stop listing privacy-enhancing coins like Monero, citing travel-rule and AML compliance gaps…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC Approves T. Rowe Price's Multi-Asset Crypto ETF
The SEC has cleared a T. Rowe Price multi-asset crypto ETF that could hold BTC, ETH, and SOL in one wrapper, per Cointelegraph. Here is what it signals. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisHyperliquid's HIP-3 Pushes Stocks and S&P 500 Perps Onchain
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework let builders list equity and S&P 500 index perpetuals fully onchain, which Cointelegraph says helped drive $200B in volume. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisThe CLARITY Act Can No Longer Pass by July 4th, Reporter Says
Eleanor Terrett says the CLARITY Act crypto market-structure bill cannot logistically clear Congress by July 4th. What the slipped timeline means for US…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisIndia Sends 44,000 Crypto Tax Notices, Finds $104M Hidden
India's Income Tax Department issued over 44,000 VDA tax notices and surfaced about $104M in undisclosed income, per The Economic Times. Here is what it means…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisEthereum Heads for Its First-Ever Third Straight Red Quarter
Cointelegraph says ETH is tracking toward a third consecutive red quarter, a first in its history. ETH trades near $1,685 as of June 14, 2026. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTrump Family Made ~$616M on Its Meme Coin as Buyers Lost $700M+
Reuters estimates the Trump family earned about $616M from the $TRUMP meme coin while buyers lost more than $700M, a sharp winner-loser split as of June 14…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisWirex Rebuilds Wirex One Cashback Into Five USD-Valued Tiers
Wirex restructured its Wirex One cashback into five tiers with rewards valued in USD and full-tier earning on every eligible transaction. What changes for…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisStrategy Sells 32 BTC to Test Its Own Selling Process
Strategy's CEO says the company sold 32 BTC to 'inoculate the market and test our selling process,' the first disclosed sale from the largest corporate bitcoin…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin Difficulty Drops 10.3% as Miners Hit Breakeven
Bitcoin's June 13 difficulty adjustment of 10.3% is the second-largest of 2026 and 11th-largest ever, landing as average miner production cost nears spot BTC…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Turns On 24/7 Gold and Silver Futures for US Traders
Brian Armstrong says gold and silver futures now trade around the clock on Coinbase Derivatives in the US, extending a metals push that began with USDC-settled…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBinance Stock Trading Pulls Over 80% of Week-One Volume From Emerging Markets
Binance's first-week data for direct stock and ETF trading shows over 80% of volume from emerging markets, $400M+ in stock AUM, and a young, small-ticket user…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSpaceX Pops 30% in Nasdaq Debut, the Largest IPO Ever
SpaceX jumped as much as 30% in its Nasdaq debut and closed up 19%, the world's largest IPO. The listing settles weeks of crypto pre-IPO bets. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisZimbabwe Orders Crypto Firms to Register and Pay a $500 Annual Fee
Zimbabwe's finance minister now requires crypto businesses to register with the Financial Intelligence Unit and pay $500 a year, ending the 2018 ban era. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSam Bankman-Fried Loses His Appeal to Overturn the FTX Conviction
A US appeals court has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving the FTX verdict intact as of June 12…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCircle Sends a Record $4B in USDC to Coinbase on HyperEVM
Circle moved $4B in USDC to Coinbase on HyperEVM, the largest single USDC transfer on record per Arkham. Here is what the flow signals for stablecoin…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPoland's President Vetoes the Crypto Market Bill a Third Time, Weeks From the EU Deadline
Poland's president has vetoed the country's MiCA implementation bill for a third time, leaving Poland the EU's only member without a domestic crypto licensing…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSEC Moves to Scrap a 20-Year-Old Rule That Blocks AMMs From Tokenized Stocks
The SEC has proposed scrapping its 20-year-old order protection rule, a change that would remove a structural barrier keeping AMMs out of tokenized US…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisJapan's 20% Flat Crypto Tax Bill Clears the Lower House
Japan's Lower House passed a crypto tax bill that would cut gains to a 20% flat rate from 2028 and open the door to Tokyo Stock Exchange crypto ETFs by 2027…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisTether Freezes $72M in USDT Tied to a $120M Tron Transfer
Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet linked to a 120.2M USDT transfer and froze 72M USDT, the latest in a run of large on-chain freezes that keep reviving the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBinance Wallet's SpaceX Pre-IPO Subscription Draws About $557M
Binance Wallet's SpaceX pre-IPO subscription drew roughly $557M from 27,689 addresses, per Dune data shared by WuBlockchain on June 12, 2026. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCoinbase Opens Accounts for AI Agents With x402 Payment Rails
Coinbase for Agents gives AI agents their own accounts to trade, manage portfolios, and pay for tools via x402, with autonomous spending kept inside set…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSaylor Says Strategy May Sell Bitcoin 'When Necessary'
Michael Saylor says he never claimed Strategy could not sell Bitcoin and may do so when necessary, days after JPMorgan flagged the firm's thin cash runway…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRipple and Bitso Bring the MXNB Peso Stablecoin to the XRP Ledger
Ripple and Bitso are expanding their partnership to put Bitso's MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB on the XRP Ledger for enterprise settlement across Latin America…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisWhite House Convenes Law Enforcement on the CLARITY Act as Senate Vote Nears
The White House met law enforcement groups over the CLARITY Act on June 11, 2026, with developer protections the sticking point and Senate Democrats still…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisQ2 2026 Is Crypto's Most-Hacked Quarter on Record, DefiLlama Says
DefiLlama data shows Q2 2026 has logged roughly 70 hacks, about double the previous quarterly record, even as the dollar losses stay front-loaded in April…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCrypto Rallies Off Extreme-Fear Lows as Trump Touts Iran Settlement
Bitcoin climbed back above $63,600 and Solana jumped 5.7% as Trump said the US reached a settlement of the Iran war, with crypto fear still at 18. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisMetaMask Card Adds 13 Latin American Countries
MetaMask Card expanded across Latin America, adding 13 new countries where users can spend self-custody crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRedotPay Completes Mexican AML Registration for Virtual-Asset Activity
RedotPay says it completed registration for virtual-asset activity under Mexico's anti-money-laundering regime. The filing is not a financial-services licence…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBlackRock's Bitcoin Income ETF Nears Launch at a 0.65% Fee
BlackRock filed a fourth amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), setting a 0.65% fee that undercuts YBTC and BTCI as it races Goldman to…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisHungary Reverses Its Crypto Criminalization, Drops 8-Year Prison Terms
Hungary is rolling back the restrictive crypto laws introduced under Viktor Orban, decriminalizing trading and scrapping prison terms of up to 8 years, per…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCitigroup Plans Tokenized Securities of Private Companies
Citigroup, a $2.78 trillion asset manager, is moving to tokenize private-company shares, pushing pre-IPO access onto onchain rails as RWA momentum builds. Read…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisSpaceX S-1 Frames Its Bitcoin as a Strategic Reserve for Excess Cash
SpaceX's IPO filing suggests its Bitcoin holdings may act as a strategic reserve for excess cash, per Coin Bureau citing Bloomberg, a day before the SPCX…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUphold Sunsets Its UpHODL Self-Custody App, Card Accounts Unaffected
Uphold is retiring UpHODL, its separate self-custodial crypto and NFT app, and has posted migration steps. The main Uphold app, platform, and card are…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisFold Holdings Sells 633.8 BTC to Repay $20M in Bitcoin-Backed Debt
Fold Holdings sold 633.8 BTC to clear $20M in Bitcoin-backed debt, leaving it with 192.2 BTC. A Bitcoin-rewards card firm cuts its treasury during extreme…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBithumb CEO Booked as a Suspect in Korea's Lawmaker Hiring Probe
Seoul police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over a lawmaker's son hired at Korea's second-largest crypto exchange. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDBS to Sell Tokenised Physical Gold to Retail Customers in Singapore
DBS will let retail customers buy tokenised physical gold through its digibank app in H2 2026, each token backed by one gram of vaulted bullion and redeemable…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCypher Adds a Spend Analysis Dashboard to Its Card App
Cypher's mobile app now has a Spend Analysis tool that tracks spending over 30 or 60 days, ranks top categories, and lists your most-used merchants. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDOJ Subpoenas JPMorgan, BofA, and Wells Fargo Over Debanking
The US DOJ has subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over alleged debanking of customers for political reasons, Reuters reports. Read the full…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRaydium Loses $1.34M to a Retired Pool, Treasury Covers It
Raydium says an attacker drained $1.34M from five deprecated AMM V3 pools via an LP mint flaw. Active funds were untouched and the treasury will reimburse…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisVisa Ties Its Network to OpenAI for Agent-Driven Payments
Visa is partnering with OpenAI to let AI agents pay over its global network using tokenized credentials, pushing agentic commerce onto mainstream card rails…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisRipple Launches an XRPL AI Starter Kit for Agentic Payment Apps
Ripple released an XRPL AI Starter Kit giving developers tools to build agentic payment apps that move XRP and RLUSD autonomously on the XRP Ledger. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDelaware Advances a Bill to Ban All Crypto ATMs Statewide
Delaware's House Bill 441 cleared committee on June 10, 2026, proposing a total ban on crypto kiosks. Existing machines would shut off at once and come out…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisNew York Proposes Its First Formal Stablecoin Rules, Aligned With the GENIUS Act
New York's financial regulator proposed its first formal stablecoin rules, updating its 2022 framework to match the federal GENIUS Act, with a 60-day comment…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisPolychain-Backed Bitcoin L2 Botanix to Shut Down by July 9
Botanix, a venture-funded Bitcoin Layer 2 that raised $11.5M, is winding down. Users must withdraw assets by July 9 or the validator Federation sweeps the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin and Gold Fall Together as a Hot CPI Print Revives Rate-Hike Bets
A May CPI print seen at a three-year high pushed Bitcoin and gold down together. BTC sits at $61,248 and Fear & Greed reads 14 as of June 10, 2026. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin ETFs Are No Bigger Today Than When Trump Won the Election
US spot Bitcoin ETF assets have fallen to $77.58B, the same level as Trump's November 2024 win, after a $169.54B peak. Over $5B left in four weeks. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisBitcoin Logs Its Worst Week Since the 2022 FTX Collapse
Bitcoin just recorded its worst weekly performance since the November 2022 FTX collapse, per Bloomberg, with BTC near $61,260 and Fear & Greed at 14. Read the…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisCME Adds Nasdaq Crypto Index Futures for BTC, ETH and SOL
CME Group is launching Nasdaq CME crypto index futures covering Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, bundling three assets into one regulated contract during extreme…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisDefiLlama Lists Onchain Perps for OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX
DefiLlama added pre-IPO perpetual futures for Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Quantinuum on Aster and Lighter, putting synthetic exposure to private firms…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisGate Says $60M Has Poured Into Its Pre-IPO Window for SpaceX
Gate says more than $60M has been committed to SpaceX through its IPO Access product, as OKX pushes the same pre-IPO pitch and exchanges chase private-equity…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisUS Judge Approves Visa, Mastercard $38B Swipe Fee Settlement
A US judge has approved a $38 billion settlement over Visa and Mastercard swipe fees. Here is what the interchange deal means for crypto cards and cashback…
SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & AnalysisOnchain Crypto Card Spending Hit a Record $833M in May
Onchain crypto card payment volume reached a record $833 million in May 2026, up 180% year over year, pushing cumulative spend past $9 billion as prices fell…