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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
Securitize and Computershare Open Path for $70T US Stocks Onchain
Securitize and Computershare are partnering to let US public-company shares settle as tokenized assets, opening a path for $70T in equities to move onchain…
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State Street to Deliver Tokenized Funds From $54.5T Custody Base
State Street, the world Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/state-street-tokenized-funds-54-trillion-custody-april-2026/
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Canada Proposes National Ban on Crypto ATMs Citing Fraud Surge
Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide as scam losses mount, following Tennessee Read the full article…
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Pumpfun Burns $370M of PUMP Tokens, Sending Price Up 7.6%
Pumpfun removed roughly $370M worth of PUMP from circulation, and the token climbed 7.6% the same day. What the burn changes about supply and float. Read the…
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KuCard Lands in Australia With Cashback Replacing Points
KuCoin's KuCard debuts in Australia on April 29, 2026, swapping the old points model for direct cashback as the exchange pushes deeper into APAC. Read the full…
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Cursor AI Agent Wipes PocketOS Production Data in One Railway Call
PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus erased production data and backups via one Railway API call. Crypto agent risk in focus…
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Bessent Says US Is Targeting Iran's Access to Crypto
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington is moving to cut Iran off from crypto, signaling a sharper enforcement push beyond traditional banking. Read…
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Lummis Defends CLARITY Act Developer Protection Clause
Senator Cynthia Lummis pushed back on critics of the CLARITY Act's developer protection language, arguing the clause is narrower than opponents claim. Read the…
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David Marcus Unveils Bitcoin Wallet Built for AI Agents
Lightspark CEO David Marcus is launching a Bitcoin wallet that lets AI agents buy BTC and send or receive payments, pitching neutrality as the hook. Read the…
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Czech Central Bank Study Backs 1% Bitcoin Allocation in Reserve Model
Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl says a 1% Bitcoin sleeve raised expected returns without meaningfully lifting portfolio risk in koruna terms. Read the…
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CFTC Sues Wisconsin Over Crypto Prediction Market Authority
The CFTC filed suit against Wisconsin, accusing the state of encroaching on federal authority over crypto prediction markets. The action mirrors its New York…
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Visa Teams With WeFi to Let Users Spend Self-Custodied Crypto
Visa is partnering with Reeve Collins' WeFi to route self-custodied crypto onto its rails across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Read the full article…
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Bitcoin ETFs Snap Nine-Day Inflow Streak With $263M Monday Exit
US spot Bitcoin ETFs broke a nine-day inflow run with $263M in outflows on April 27, with Fidelity's FBTC leading the exit. Read the full article…
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Polymarket Seeks CFTC Approval to Bring Main Exchange Back to US
Polymarket is asking the CFTC to authorize its main exchange to operate in the US, per Bloomberg, four years after a settlement pushed it offshore. Read the…
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Hyperliquid Gains Soften Galaxy Digital's $216M Q1 Loss
Galaxy Digital booked a $216M Q1 loss as crypto prices fell, but CEO Mike Novogratz says Hyperliquid trading gains kept the bleeding contained. Read the full…
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BNB Chain Activates Osaka/Mendel Hard Fork With Faster Finality
BNB Chain shipped its Osaka and Mendel hard forks on April 28, 2026, promising faster finality, predictable gas pricing, and stability fixes for builders. Read…
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Begich Plans to Reintroduce Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill in House
Rep. Nick Begich says he will reintroduce the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve bill in the current Congress, reviving the House companion to Lummis's BITCOIN Act…
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Israel Approves BILS, Its First Regulated Shekel Stablecoin
Bits of Gold gets the green light from Israel's Capital Market Authority to launch BILS, a 1:1 shekel-pegged stablecoin, after a 2-year Solana pilot. Read the…
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Aave's DeFi United Pledges Top $303M, Covering Full KelpDAO Loss
Aave's DeFi United relief fund crossed $303M in commitments, exceeding the $292M lost in the KelpDAO exploit and clearing the path to full rsETH user recovery…
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Bitcoin Slips to $76,854 as Fed, Oil, and AI Selloff Converge
Bitcoin fell 2.9% to $76,854 overnight as Fed rate uncertainty, climbing oil prices, and a fresh AI-stock wobble dragged risk assets lower. Read the full…
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Roman Storm Defense Pushes Back After DOJ Hints at Case Elevation
Roman Storm's lawyers rebuked Acting AG Todd Blanche's suggestion that Tornado Cash and Samourai cases could be elevated, journalist Eleanor Terrett reports…
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Stablecoins Cross $1 Trillion in Monthly Transfers as DefiLlama Opens Tracker
DefiLlama says stablecoins moved over $1T this month and launched a public tracker to compare issuers, chains, and flows side by side. Read the full article…
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Tillis Threatens No Vote on Senate Crypto Bill Without Ethics Language
Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics rules restricting officials' use of digital…
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Gemini Launches Agentic Trading, Lets ChatGPT and Claude Place Orders
Gemini's new Agentic Trading lets users plug ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents into the exchange to run live order flow on their accounts. Read the full…
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Kalshi and Polymarket Plan US Crypto Perpetual Futures Listings
Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer crypto perpetual futures in the US, putting offshore-style derivatives under CFTC-regulated prediction-market venues. Read…
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Acting AG Blanche Takes Bitcoin 2026 Stage to Address Tornado Cash and Samourai
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Bitcoin community at Bitcoin 2026, addressing the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions head on. Read…
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Google Finds Live Prompt-Injection Payloads Hunting AI Agents and PayPal
Google scanned billions of pages and found real payloads built to hijack AI agents into draining PayPal balances and leaking enterprise data. Read the full…
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MARA Launches Foundation to Tackle Bitcoin's Quantum Threat
MARA Holdings is creating a foundation focused on Bitcoin's quantum threat and network resilience, CoinDesk reports during Bitcoin 2026. Read the full article…
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Tether Launches MDK, an Open-Source Stack for Bitcoin Miners
Tether unveiled MDK, an open-source infrastructure layer aimed at giving Bitcoin miners full control over their hardware, firmware, and pool routing. Read the…
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Bitmine Buys Another 101,901 ETH, Pushing Treasury Past 5 Million
Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 101,901 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to roughly 5.08M ETH worth about $11.8B at current prices. Read the…
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One in Three US Crypto Traders Cut Daily Spending After Losses
A CEX survey says more than a third of US crypto traders have trimmed everyday spending due to market losses, with BTC at $77,747 as of April 27, 2026. Read…
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Bitcoin ETF AUM Hits Highest Since February on $933M Weekly Inflow
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $933M last week, lifting total crypto fund assets to their highest level since February, according to CoinDesk's weekly tracker. Read…
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Novogratz Predicts CLARITY Act Passes in May, Signed in June
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says the US CLARITY Act will clear Congress in May and be signed into law in June, putting a tight calendar on crypto market…
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Bitcoin Dev Plans eCash Fork That Reassigns Half of Satoshi's BTC
Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork would reassign roughly 550,000 of Satoshi's coins to fund development. Bitcoiners are calling it theft. Block 964,000 is the…
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EU's Largest Russia Sanctions Yet Escalate Crypto Evasion Crackdown
Brussels rolls out its biggest sanctions package against Russia, with new measures aimed directly at closing crypto evasion rails through exchanges and…
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Grayscale's Latest Move Sketches a Post-Coinbase ETF Custody Map
Grayscale's shift away from Coinbase Custody for its newest ETF product is starting to look less like a one-off and more like a structural rewiring of Wall…
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Bitcoin Hits Seller Wall at $79,400 After Iran Rally Stalls
Bitcoin pulled back from a 12-week high as buyers ran into heavy supply at $79,400, the level CoinDesk flagged as the technical ceiling for the Iran-driven…
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CryptoQuant's Ki Young Ju Says Bitcoin Rally Is Futures-Driven, Spot Demand Negative
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju warns Bitcoin's recent climb is being powered by leveraged futures while on-chain spot demand stays negative as BTC trades near…
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Bitcoin ETFs Stretch Inflow Streak to Nine Days With $2.12B Friday
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.12B on Friday, extending their inflow streak to nine sessions and reversing last week's $1.9B BlackRock-led outflows. Read…
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Aave Labs Asks Arbitrum to Unfreeze $73.5M ETH From KelpDAO Hack
Aave Labs is asking Arbitrum's Security Council to unfreeze $73.5M in ETH tied to the KelpDAO exploit and redirect the funds toward Aave's rsETH recovery. Read…
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Western Union to Launch Solana Stablecoin USDPT and Stable Card Next Month
Western Union plans a May launch for USDPT, a Solana-based stablecoin, alongside a digital asset network and a US dollar stable card. Read the full article…
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Hong Kong Lines Up 10,000 BTC for Asia's First Regulated Bitcoin Capital Pool
A Hong Kong-listed firm is raising 10,000 BTC for a regulated capital pool, the first attempt of its kind in Asia and roughly $781M at current prices. Read the…
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Freezing 5.6M Dormant Bitcoin Could Trigger BTC's Worst Repricing Day
CoinDesk argues that freezing the 5.6 million dormant bitcoin currently sitting outside circulation could produce the largest single-day price shock in BTC…
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TRUMP Memecoin Sheds $100M After White House Security Incident
TRUMP memecoin's market cap fell about $100M after an armed suspect tried to enter a Washington venue where President Trump was speaking, CryptoSlate reports…
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Musk Says X Money Is Close to Launch, Bloomberg Reports
Elon Musk said the X Money financial services product is near release, edging X closer to the everything app pitch. Crypto integration remains undefined. Read…
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Strategy Now Holds More Bitcoin Than BlackRock's IBIT
Strategy's corporate treasury has overtaken BlackRock's IBIT to become the largest single Bitcoin holder, a milestone reported by Cointelegraph on April 26…
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37 State AGs Join NY in CFTC Fight Over Prediction Markets
New York AG Letitia James and 37 other state attorneys general are pushing back against CFTC efforts to override state authority over prediction markets. Read…
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Aave's rsETH Recovery Fund Reaches Backing Threshold, Pending Votes
Stani Kulechov says Aave's recovery fund hit the level needed to fully back rsETH, subject to pending votes, indicative agreements, and execution. Read the…
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Litecoin Confirms Zero-Day Bug Triggered 13-Block Reorg
Litecoin developers say a zero-day vulnerability caused a 13-block chain reorganization on April 25. The network has been patched and is stable again. Read the…
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1.9B in a Week, BlackRock Leads the Exit
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.9B in net outflows over 7 days as BTC slid toward $77K. BlackRock's IBIT, once the inflow leader, drove most of the redemptions…
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Delaware Senate Passes Payment Stablecoins Act 20-1
Delaware's Senate cleared the Payment Stablecoins Act 20-1, requiring 1:1 reserves and AML compliance for any issuer wanting a state license. Read the full…
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Trump Defends Crypto Bills at Mar-a-Lago Memecoin Gala
Trump took the Mar-a-Lago lectern Saturday before 297 top TRUMP holders, defending crypto legislation as the Senate clock on the CLARITY Act tightens. Read the…
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Tennessee Bans Crypto ATMs With Up to a Year in Prison for Operators
Tennessee has become the second US state to ban crypto ATMs outright, making it a misdemeanor with up to one year in jail to operate or host the machines. Read…
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US Authorities Freeze $344M in Crypto Tied to Iran
US authorities froze $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, Cointelegraph reported on April 25, 2026, marking one of the largest sanctions seizures. Read…
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Gate Card Drops Spending Fees to Zero for Its 13th Anniversary
Gate marks its 13th year by stripping spending fees on the Gate Card to zero, the exchange announced on April 25 from its official account. Read the full…
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Only 1.7M Satoshi-Era Coins at Quantum Risk, James Check Argues
Glassnode analyst James Check says Bitcoin's quantum risk is concentrated in 1.716M old P2PK coins, not the full 19M supply, narrowing the panic window. Read…
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France Charges 88 in Crypto Kidnapping Surge, Le Monde Reports
France's national anti-organized-crime branch has charged 88 people across a wave of crypto-related kidnappings, Le Monde reported on April 25, 2026. Read the…
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Grayscale Stakes 102,400 ETH Worth $237M From Its Trust
Grayscale staked 102,400 ETH worth roughly $237M from its trust holdings, a sign that ETF and asset manager staking is moving from theory to live yield. Read…
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CLARITY Act Markup Slips to Mid-May as April Window Closes
The Senate Banking Committee's April markup window for the CLARITY Act has closed without a vote, and Sen. Thom Tillis is pushing the new target to mid-May…
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CFTC Sues New York to Block State Action Against Coinbase and Gemini
The CFTC sued New York Friday, arguing the state's prediction market suit against Coinbase and Gemini intrudes on federal jurisdiction over derivatives. Read…