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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 & Analysis
Stripe, Visa and Mastercard Said to Back a New Stablecoin Platform
CoinDesk reports Stripe, Visa and Mastercard are among the backers of a soon-to-launch stablecoin platform, with Coinbase exploring a role. Here is what it…
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Euroclear and Banque de France Set 2026 Pilot to Tokenize Europe's $310B Short-Term Debt Market
Euroclear and Banque de France will pilot tokenized NEU commercial paper in late 2026, putting the euro area's largest short-term debt market on a ledger. Read…
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BitMine and Strategy Sit on a Combined $16.5B in Crypto Treasury Losses
BitMine is down $8.9B on its ETH stack and Strategy is $7.6B underwater on Bitcoin, per Cointelegraph, as BTC and ETH both slide on June 3, 2026. Read the full…
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Mastercard Adds USDC, RLUSD and PYUSD to Its Settlement Layer
Mastercard expanded settlement to regulated stablecoins USDC, RLUSD and PYUSD across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and XRPL. Here is what changes for card…
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EBA and New York's NYDFS Sign Stablecoin Oversight Pact
The European Banking Authority and New York's NYDFS signed a June 3 memorandum to share stablecoin data and coordinate supervision across the Atlantic. Read…
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Sanders and Warren Move to Block Crypto in 401(k) Plans
Senators Sanders and Warren are pushing back on a Labor Department plan to let crypto into 401(k) retirement accounts, warning it puts savings at risk. Read…
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Bitcoin's BVIV Volatility Gauge Jumps ~20%, Most Since Feb 5
Bitcoin's BVIV implied volatility index jumped nearly 20% to 46.45% on June 3, 2026, its biggest move since the February 5 crash, as BTC fell to about $67K…
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Trump Revives a 10% Tariff Wall on a Forced-Labor Finding as Crypto Slides
The US is proposing tariffs of at least 10% on most major trading partners, rebuilding the wall the Supreme Court struck down. BTC fell 6.4% the same day. Read…
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Binance Shuts NFT Marketplace, Moves the Service to Binance Wallet
Binance is closing NFT support on its main exchange and shifting the service to Binance Wallet, a custodial-to-self-custody move during a market-wide selloff…
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UK Banks and Fintechs Launch a Recurring-Payments Scheme to Rival Cards
The FCA backed the UK Payments Initiative on June 2, 2026, an industry scheme for commercial variable recurring payments that lets account-to-account rails…
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Crypto Sells Off as BTC Drops to $67K While Stocks Climb
Bitcoin fell to $67,001 and every major token dropped 5-7.5% in 24 hours as the Fear & Greed Index hit 26, even as the S&P 500 and Dow closed higher. Read the…
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UK Lords Warn BoE Could Regulate Pound Stablecoins Into Irrelevance
A House of Lords committee has urged the Bank of England to ease its proposed stablecoin rules, warning that strict holding caps could leave GBP tokens…
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Ledger Adds an IBAN and Fee-Free USDC Conversion to Its Wallet
Ledger launched Cash-to-Stablecoin in Ledger Wallet, giving users an IBAN for deposits and paychecks plus USD/EUR to USDC conversion with no conversion fee…
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RedotPay Launches Connect, a B2B Stablecoin Payment Gateway
RedotPay unveiled RedotPay Connect at Money20/20, a B2B gateway that lets businesses accept stablecoins and settle in local currency, claiming up to 70% lower…
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Strive Buys 2,500 BTC to Hit 19,000, a Day After Strategy Sells
Strive added 2,500 BTC to reach 19,000 total on June 2, one day after Strategy disclosed its first sale, as bitcoin fell to about $69,076. Read the full…
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MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar for Remittances
MoneyGram issued its own dollar stablecoin, MGUSD, on Stellar on June 2, 2026, with a self-custodial wallet for 60M customers across 500,000 retail locations…
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EDGE Token Crashes 70% as ZachXBT Demands edgeX Name Its Market Makers
edgeX's EDGE token fell as much as 70% on June 1-2, triggering $2.81M in liquidations. ZachXBT says insiders controlled a low float and wants counterparties…
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ProCap Sells 52 BTC to Buy Back Shares Trading at Half Its NAV
ProCap sold 52 BTC to repurchase 2M shares at a ~50% discount to net asset value. Pompliano calls it accretive. The discount itself is the bigger story. Read…
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Mt. Gox Moves 10,306 BTC Worth $731M After Two Quiet Months
Mt. Gox shifted 10,306 BTC (~$731M) to a fresh wallet for the first time in two months, landing as Bitcoin trades near $70,557 in a Fear-gripped market. Read…
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Grayscale Sets 0.29% Fee on Hyperliquid Staking ETF, Undercuts 21Shares
Grayscale priced its planned Hyperliquid Staking ETF at a 0.29% fee, undercutting a rival 21Shares product and pushing the ETF fee war into staking wrappers…
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Kelp DAO Hacker Launders $220M in Six Weeks, Closing Recovery Window
The Kelp DAO exploiter has laundered nearly all of the unfrozen $220M from April's $293M rsETH drain, leaving only the $71M frozen by Arbitrum recoverable…
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SWIFT Launches Instant Cross-Border Payments With 50+ Banks
SWIFT is launching a cross-border payments framework with 50-plus banks, promising instant settlement, fixed fees, and full traceability by end of June 2026…
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Ethereum Staking Ratio Hits Record 32.4% as 39M ETH Locks Up
Ethereum's staking ratio reached an all-time high of 32.4%, with 39M ETH worth about $80B now locked, even as ETH trades under $2,000 on June 2, 2026. Read the…
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Charles Schwab Targets 2027 Crypto Spot Trading for Advisors
Charles Schwab, with roughly $10 trillion in client assets, is aiming to launch spot crypto trading for registered investment advisors in 2027. Read the full…
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Senate Set to Resume CLARITY Act Debate as Lawmakers Return
The US Senate is expected to take the CLARITY Act back to the floor this week, picking up the digital asset market structure bill after the Memorial Day…
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Robinhood Closes C$250M WonderFi Deal, Enters Canada
Robinhood closed its C$250M WonderFi acquisition on June 1, 2026, entering Canada with Bitbuy and Coinsquare and pushing its international base to 1M. Read the…
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Andrew Left of Citron Research Found Guilty of Securities Fraud
A jury convicted Citron Research founder Andrew Left of securities fraud over trading against his own published calls. The crypto-markets read. Read the full…
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CME Group Moves Crypto Futures and Options to 24/7 Trading
The world's largest derivatives exchange now trades Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and XRP futures and options around the clock, ending the weekend CME gap. Read the full…
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Radiant Capital to Wind Down After Failing to Recover From $50M Exploit
Radiant Capital is winding down operations after a $50M cross-chain exploit it never recovered from. Here is what the shutdown means for DeFi lending risk…
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Tria Season 3 Is Here, and So Is a Cashback Downgrade
Tria Season 3 caps cashback and leads with a points-and-mystery-box program instead of the old staking boost. We break down the new math and whether Tria still…
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Binance Opens 7,000 US Stocks Commission-Free, Previews Tokenized bStocks
Binance launched commission-free equities trading for eligible non-US and non-UK users and previewed tokenized 'bStocks', as BTC sits at $71,364 on June 1…
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Japan's Ruling Party Backs Crypto ETF Law and Yen Stablecoins
Japan's LDP asked Finance Minister Katayama on June 1 to legalize crypto ETF trading and push yen stablecoins against the $315B dollar-token market. Read the…
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BitMine Buys Another 26,497 ETH, Treasury Hits 5.42M ETH
BitMine Immersion added 26,497 ETH on June 1, 2026, lifting its treasury to 5.42M ETH (~$10.7B) even as ether fell to $1,978 in a broad selloff. Read the full…
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Strategy Sells 32 Bitcoin for $2.5M, Its First Disclosed Sale
Michael Saylor's Strategy disclosed selling 32 BTC for about $2.5M in late May, the first sale on record for a firm built on never selling Bitcoin. Read the…
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Bitcoin ETF Flows Turn Negative for 2026 as 10-Day Bleed Nears $3B
US spot Bitcoin ETFs have lost $2.96B over 10 straight days, pushing 2026 net flows negative for the first time. AUM fell from $104B to $94B. Read the full…
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1.42B in a Week, Third-Worst on Record
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.42B in net outflows for the week of May 25-31, the third-highest weekly drawdown on record, per WuBlockchain data. Read the full…
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Solo Home Miner Wins $232K Bitcoin Block at 149 Million-to-1 Odds
A solo home miner running a roughly $300 machine solved a full Bitcoin block worth about $232K against 149 million-to-1 odds. Here is the math behind the win…
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BoE's Greene Says Stablecoin Demand Will Fade as Deposits Win
Bank of England's Megan Greene predicts stablecoin demand fades within five years as tokenized bank deposits take over. What it means for crypto payment rails…
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Developer Frees 1,003 ETH Locked in a 2016 ICO Contract for Nine Years
A developer known as Florent recovered 1,003 ETH worth about $2M that had been stuck in a 2016 ICO smart contract for nine years. Here is what it means for…
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Coinbase Adds Direct INR Deposits and Withdrawals in India
Coinbase has switched on direct Indian rupee deposits and withdrawals in India, cutting out third-party rails for one of crypto Read the full article…
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US Claims $1B Iran Crypto Seizure, Eyes Bitcoin Reserve
Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US grabbed roughly $1B of Iranian crypto. Only $344M is documented, and the path into the Bitcoin reserve is far from…
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Coinbase Adds $50 Bitcoin Signup Bonus to the One Card
Coinbase is offering new One Card users $50 in Bitcoin for spending $100 in the first 30 days, on top of up to 4% back in BTC. Here is who qualifies. Read the…
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ETH Eyes a Record It Has Never Set: Three Red Quarters Running
Cointelegraph flags that ETH has never closed three straight red quarters. With ether at $2,024 on May 31, Q2 2026 is the test. Here's the setup. Read the full…
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Gravity Bridge Drained of $5.4M in Suspected Signing-Key Compromise
Gravity Bridge lost about $5.4M on May 30 in a suspected signing-key compromise. Stolen USDC, ETH, and USDT moved through Binance and ChangeNow. Read the full…
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Vietnam Weighs Letting Small Firms Borrow Against Crypto Collateral
Vietnam's Finance Ministry has proposed allowing SMEs to pledge digital and virtual assets as loan collateral, a step toward formalizing crypto in credit…
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GOP Lawmaker Portfolios Now Hold 4% Bitcoin ETF, Intel Jumps to 7.72%
An ETF mirroring Republican lawmaker disclosures shows IBIT at 4% of holdings and Intel at 7.72%, tracking the same assets President Trump has promoted. Read…
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DxSale Drained of $7.3M as Backdoor Hits 2021-Era BNB Lockers
An attacker drained $7.3M in BNB from more than 1,400 DxSale liquidity lockers dating to 2021, using a privileged fee reset and a backdated lock expiry. Read…
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China Broadens Digital Yuan From Lottery Draws to Fiscal Spending
The PBOC is pushing e-CNY into fiscal spending, lottery draws and Belt and Road payments, the opposite of the US anti-CBDC, pro-stablecoin path. Read the full…
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Circle Blacklist Freezes $12.6M of Zama Confidential USDC, ZachXBT Says
On-chain investigator ZachXBT reports $12.6M of Zama cUSDC frozen after a Circle blacklisting, extending the USDC freeze debate to confidential wrapped tokens…
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Crypto Longs Bleed $1.5B in Forced Liquidations Since May 25
Over $1.5B in long positions have been liquidated since May 25, Cointelegraph reports, even as BTC holds near $73,400 and spot prices stay flat. The damage is…
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DTCC Picks Stellar to Tokenize Equities and Treasuries, XLM Jumps 33%
DTCC, the $100T US clearing backbone, plans to issue tokenized equities, ETFs, and Treasuries on Stellar by 2027. XLM rose 33.7% on the news as of May 30…
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Lummis Warns This Congress Is Crypto's Last Window Before 2030
Senator Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act must pass this Congress or US crypto market structure rules likely stall until 2030, with November midterms in the…
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Sui Mainnet Restored After Epoch Halt Pinned to Gas-Charging Bug
Sui's mainnet is back online after a multi-hour end-of-epoch halt that reporting traces to a gas-charging bug in v1.72, the chain's second long stall of 2026…
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Coinbase and Kalshi Bring Regulated Perpetual Crypto Futures to US
Coinbase and Kalshi are launching regulated perpetual crypto futures for US investors, bringing a product long confined to offshore exchanges onshore. Read the…
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Strategy's STRC Slips Below $99 as Strive Pulls Investor Attention
Strategy's STRC preferred share has slipped below the $99 par mark as Strive's rival Bitcoin treasury vehicle pulls investor attention away from MSTR. Read the…
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New York Suit Targets Satoshi's Bitcoin as Abandoned 'Lost Property'
A New York filing asks the court to treat Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant wallets as lost property under state law, valuing each address at under $10. Read the full…
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Bitcoin Whale Balances Contract Fastest in 2026, Mirror 2022 Bear
CryptoQuant says BTC whale balances are shrinking at the fastest pace of 2026 while dolphin growth has stalled, conditions last seen in the 2022 bear market…
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Central Bank Gold Reserves Hit 26.6%, Highest Share Since 1993
Central banks now hold 26.6% of global reserves in gold, the highest share since 1993. The shift reshapes the Bitcoin-as-reserve-asset debate. Read the full…
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Saylor Floats Selling Bitcoin to Fund STRC's 11.5% Yield
Michael Saylor said Strategy may sell Bitcoin to cover STRC preferred dividends at 11.5%. The signal reverses years of pure accumulation rhetoric. Read the…
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Sui Network Hit by Second Major Outage in Five Months
Sui experienced its second network stall in five months on May 28, raising fresh questions about validator coordination and chain reliability. Read the full…