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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
An Attacker Minted 1 Billion Bridged DOT on Ethereum and Dumped It All
A bridged Polkadot token on Ethereum was exploited, with an attacker minting 1 billion DOT and selling the entire supply into the market. Read the full…
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Strategy Only Needs Bitcoin to Grow 2% a Year to Cover Its Preferred Dividends Forever
Strategy holds 766,970 BTC and signals another buy. Its preferred stock dividends require just 2% annual bitcoin appreciation to sustain indefinitely. Read the…
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Aave DAO Finalizes Its $25 Million Bet on Aave Labs With a Binding On-Chain Vote
The Aave Will Win framework passed its final on-chain AIP vote with 75% support, making $25M in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE enforceable at the smart contract…
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Justin Sun Says WLFI Hid a Blacklist Backdoor, and WLFI Says It Will Sue
Tron founder alleges Trump-backed World Liberty Financial embedded a hidden freeze function that locked 545 million of his tokens. WLFI threatens litigation…
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Trump Orders a Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and Bitcoin Gives Back Its Ceasefire Rally
Oil surged 10% to $105 per barrel after US-Iran peace talks collapsed and Trump ordered a naval blockade. BTC fell 3.4% as the April 8 relief rally unwinds…
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Twelve European Banks Are Building a Euro Stablecoin to Take on USDC
The Qivalis consortium, now 12 banks strong with BBVA as the latest member, is in advanced talks with crypto exchanges for a H2 2026 euro stablecoin launch…
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Bitcoin Miners Sold Over 20,000 BTC in Q1 as the AI Pivot Drains Treasuries
MARA, Riot, Cango, and Bitdeer liquidated more than 20,000 BTC in Q1 2026. The money went to retire debt and buy AI data center land. Read the full article…
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Circle's EURC Now Holds Half the Euro Stablecoin Market After MiCA Cleared the Field
EURC surged from 17% to over 40% market share in 12 months as MiCA forced Tether's EURT off EU exchanges. Three Q1 integrations are turning it into payment…
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The Ether Machine's $1.6 Billion SPAC Deal Just Collapsed, With a $50 Million Exit Tab
Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their $1.6B SPAC merger. The ETH treasury firm keeps 496,712 ETH but pays $50M to walk away. Read the full…
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Bitwise Adds a Ticker and Fee to Its Hyperliquid ETF Filing, and Three Rivals Are Right Behind
Bitwise filed its second amended S-1 for a spot HYPE ETF with ticker BHYP and a 0.67% fee. Grayscale, 21Shares, and VanEck are all chasing the same product…
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Whales Dumped 400,000 BTC While ETFs and Strategy Bought Every Coin
Bitcoin's largest holders reversed from accumulation to aggressive distribution, a 400,000 BTC swing, while ETFs and Strategy absorbed the supply. Read the…
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Lummis Says the Clarity Act Dies With Her Senate Seat Unless It Passes This Spring
Senator Cynthia Lummis warns Congress has until mid-2026 to pass the Clarity Act or lose crypto market structure legislation until 2030. Read the full article…
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A Federal Judge Just Blocked Arizona From Prosecuting Kalshi
Judge Liburdi grants CFTC's request to halt Arizona's 20 misdemeanor charges against Kalshi, ruling that federal swap law likely preempts state gambling…
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Bhutan Has Sold 70% of Its Bitcoin, and It Mined Every Coin for Free
Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund has offloaded over 9,000 BTC mined with surplus hydropower since 2019. The proceeds appear headed for Gelephu Mindfulness City…
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MetaMask Lets Dapps Spend on Your Behalf, With Limits You Set
MetaMask Advanced Permissions use ERC-7715 to grant dapps scoped, time-bound access to execute from your wallet without repeated signatures. Read the full…
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Zerion Takes Down Its Web App After Detecting Abnormal Activity
Zerion proactively shut down app.zerion.io and Blockaid blocked the site. Mobile apps and browser extension are unaffected. User funds remain safe. Read the…
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Strategy Is 17,000 BTC From Overtaking BlackRock, and the Copycats Are Drowning
Strategy holds 766,970 BTC and is closing on BlackRock's 784,620 at 10x the pace. Meanwhile, 220+ copycat treasury firms trade below NAV. Read the full…
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HSBC and Standard Chartered Win Hong Kong's First Stablecoin Licenses
The HKMA grants its first two stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial, a Standard Chartered-led venture, after reviewing 36 applications…
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WLFI Drops 12% to All-Time Lows as Treasury Buybacks Sit 48% Underwater
Trump-backed WLFI token falls to record lows after the team's defense of its $150M Dolomite lending position failed to reassure holders. Read the full article…
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Japan Cabinet Approves FIEA Bill Reclassifying Crypto as Financial Products
Japan Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/japan-cabinet-approves-fiea-amendment-crypto-reclassification/
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Morgan Stanley Says MSBT Had the Best First Trading Day of Any ETF It Has Launched
MSBT pulled in $34 million and 430 BTC on day one, outperforming every previous Morgan Stanley ETF debut. An OCC charter and E*Trade crypto trading are next…
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World Liberty Financial Says It Has No Liquidation Risk. Dolomite Depositors Might Disagree.
Trump-backed WLFI denies any liquidation threat after borrowing $75M against its own token on Dolomite, where pool utilization hit 93% and depositors can't…
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Bessent and Powell Call an Emergency Meeting Over an AI That Can Hack Any Bank
Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned Wall Street CEOs to warn them about Anthropic's Mythos AI model and its unprecedented cyber…
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Operation Atlantic Froze 12 Million Dollars in Crypto Stolen Through Approval Phishing
US Secret Service, UK NCA, and Canadian police traced $45M in crypto fraud across 30 countries, freezing $12M and contacting 3,000 victims directly. Read the…
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JPMorgan Says Q1 Crypto Inflows Slowed to 11 Billion Dollars, With Strategy Doing Most of the...
JPMorgan estimates Q1 2026 crypto inflows dropped sharply to around $11 billion, with Strategy's Bitcoin purchases and VC funding accounting for the bulk. Read…
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South Korea Court Cancels Upbit Suspension, Citing Regulatory Gaps
The Seoul Administrative Court overturned the FIU's three-month suspension of Upbit, ruling that KYC rules for small transactions lacked specificity. Read the…
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Bithumb Asks a Court to Freeze Assets Over 7 Bitcoin Still Missing From Its $40 Billion Error
Bithumb filed for provisional asset seizure against users who refused to return 7 BTC from the February payout error that credited 620,000 phantom bitcoins…
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White House Economists Say Banning Stablecoin Yield Would Gain Banks 0.02% in Lending
A new CEA report finds that prohibiting stablecoin rewards would add just $2.1 billion in bank loans, undercutting the banking lobby's core argument. Read the…
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Canary Capital Files for a Spot PEPE ETF, and the Meme Coin Dropped 5%
Canary Capital submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a spot PEPE ETF on April 8. The fund would hold PEPE directly with up to 5% in ETH for gas fees. Read the full…
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Bessent Takes the Clarity Act Fight to the Wall Street Journal
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent published a WSJ op-ed urging Congress to pass the Clarity Act before April ends, calling it essential to US financial…
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Visa Opens Its Payment Network to AI Agents With Intelligent Commerce Connect
Visa launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, letting AI agents make purchases across 150M+ merchants. Stablecoin and x402 protocol integrations deepen the…
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Fed Minutes Put Rate Hikes Back on the Table as War Inflation Hits 3.5%
The March FOMC minutes reveal growing support for rate increases as oil-driven inflation reaches 3.5%. Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as traders reprice rate…
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UBS and Six Swiss Banks Launch a Franc Stablecoin Sandbox
UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen, ZKB, BCV, and Sygnum begin testing a regulated CHF stablecoin in a live sandbox throughout 2026. Read the full article…
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South Korea Mandates 5-Minute Balance Checks and Kill Switches on All Crypto Exchanges
South Korea's FSC orders real-time reconciliation every 5 minutes, automated kill switches, and monthly audits after Bithumb's 620,000 phantom Bitcoin error…
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The SEC Says 13 of Its Own Crypto Cases Produced No Investor Benefit
The SEC's FY 2025 enforcement report admits 7 registration and 6 dealer-definition crypto cases caused no investor harm, as Chair Atkins pivots to fraud. Read…
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The DOJ Just Rejected Roman Storm's Last Defense Before His Tornado Cash Retrial
Federal prosecutors told the court that a Supreme Court copyright ruling has no bearing on Roman Storm's criminal charges. A retrial on two counts is set for…
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Ethereum Stablecoin Supply Hits 180 Billion Dollars, a Record, With 60% Market Share
Ethereum now hosts $180B in stablecoins, up 150% in three years. Token Terminal projects $1.7 trillion in new stablecoin flows across chains by 2030. Read the…
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FinCEN and Three Banking Agencies Propose the Biggest BSA Overhaul in Two Decades
FinCEN, FDIC, OCC, and NCUA propose risk-based AML compliance replacing paperwork-first enforcement, with a higher bar for penalties. Read the full article…
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Bitcoin Reclaims 72,000 Dollars as US-Iran Ceasefire Is Confirmed and Oil Crashes 14%
BTC jumped to $72K and Brent crude fell below $100 after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Read the…
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The FDIC Just Told Banks How to Issue Stablecoins, and What They Cannot Promise
The FDIC board voted unanimously to propose stablecoin rules for bank subsidiaries: 1:1 reserves, 2-day redemption, no deposit insurance, and no yield. Read…
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Morgan Stanley Becomes the First Major Bank to Launch Its Own Spot Bitcoin ETF
Morgan Stanley's MSBT lists on NYSE Arca April 8 with a 0.14% fee, undercutting BlackRock's IBIT by 44% and marking the first bank-issued spot Bitcoin ETF…
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Baby Boomers Poured Half a Billion Into Bitcoin ETFs on the Worst Day in Weeks
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $471 million on April 6, the largest daily inflow since February, as boomer-heavy allocators bought while crypto natives sold. Read…
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Crypto Cards Roundup April 7 - Bitget Card Expands in APAC, xPlace Updates Drift Exposure, Wirex...
This week in crypto cards: Bitget opens its Visa card to selected APAC users, xPlace discloses Drift exposure, Wirex brings payment infrastructure to Stellar…
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SEC Chair Atkins Says a Dedicated Crypto Fundraising Framework Is Awaiting White House Sign-Off
SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirms Reg Crypto, a proposal covering fundraising and startup exemptions, is near publication with an innovation exemption to follow…
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86 Crypto Projects Shut Down in Q1 as Capital Migrates to ETFs and Stablecoins
Eighty-six crypto projects closed or began winding down in Q1 2026 as capital consolidates into Bitcoin ETFs and stablecoins. Here is who died and why. Read…
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Bloomberg Analyst Says Bitcoin Is Headed to 10,000 Dollars Unless It Reclaims 75,000
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone calls $10K Bitcoin's equilibrium price, citing mean reversion and the end of cheap liquidity. Read the full…
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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Pull In 591 Million Dollars While the Market Sits in Fear
US spot Bitcoin ETFs added $471M and Ethereum ETFs added $120M on April 6, with all ten ETH funds in positive territory for the first time in weeks. Read the…
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Solana Foundation Launches STRIDE and SIRN to Harden DeFi Security After Drift
The Solana Foundation rolls out two security programs, STRIDE for formal verification and SIRN for 24/7 threat monitoring, six days after the $280M Drift…
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Polymarket Replaces Bridged USDC With Its Own Dollar Token in a Full Exchange Rebuild
Polymarket launches Polymarket USD and CTF Exchange V2, replacing bridged USDC.e with native collateral and a rebuilt trading engine. Read the full article…
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North Korean IT Workers Have Been Building Your Favorite DeFi Protocols for Seven Years
MetaMask researcher Taylor Monahan says DPRK operatives infiltrated 40+ DeFi platforms since DeFi summer, using fake identities and third-party intermediaries…
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Kalshi Wins Its Biggest Court Battle Yet as the Third Circuit Rejects New Jersey
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that New Jersey cannot regulate Kalshi's prediction markets, the first circuit court to side with CFTC preemption. Read the…
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Circle Minted 3.25 Billion Dollars in USDC on Solana in One Week, a 2026 Record
Circle's $3.25B weekly USDC issuance on Solana is the largest of 2026, pushing total supply past $15B as post-Drift liquidity demand surges. Read the full…
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Block Revives the Bitcoin Faucet With a 1 Million Dollar BTC Pool and a Self-Custody Hook
Block launches Bitcoin Day on April 6, offering up to $80 in BTC rewards for buying, spending at Square merchants, and withdrawing to Bitkey. Read the full…
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Rwanda Tells Bybit Its Franc Is Off-Limits for Crypto Trading
Rwanda's central bank warned that P2P crypto trading with the Rwandan franc is illegal after Bybit launched RWF support on its platform. Read the full article…
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Bitcoin Shorts Lose 197 Million Dollars as BTC Reclaims 69,000 on Ceasefire Hopes
A 3-to-1 short squeeze wiped $274M in crypto positions as Bitcoin jumped to $69,350 on reports of a 45-day US-Iran ceasefire framework. Read the full article…
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Apple Pulls Jack Dorsey's Bitchat From China's App Store After Government Order
China's Cyberspace Administration ordered Apple to remove Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth mesh messaging app with Bitcoin relay capabilities. Read the full…
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Iran Is Charging Crypto Tolls at the Strait of Hormuz, Up to 2 Million Dollars Per Tanker
Iran's IRGC now demands stablecoin or yuan payments for safe passage through Hormuz. A single tanker transit can cost $2 million. Read the full article…
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Nearly 6 Billion Dollars in ETH Is Waiting to Stake, and Nobody Wants to Leave
2.89 million ETH sits in a 50-day entry queue while Ethereum's exit queue stays near zero. What the one-sided demand means for supply and yield. Read the full…
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Ledger CTO Says AI Is Driving the Cost of Crypto Attacks Toward Zero
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warns that AI is making crypto exploits faster, cheaper, and harder to stop, with $1.4 billion already lost this year. Read the…
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The Labor Department Just Gave 401(k) Plans a Legal Path to Bitcoin
A new DOL proposed rule creates a six-factor safe harbor for fiduciaries who want to add crypto and alternative assets to $10.1 trillion in 401(k) plans. Read…