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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
Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers From MrBeast Over Crypto Plans for His Teen Banking App
Senator Warren sent an 11-question letter to Beast Industries over its Step acquisition, crypto trademarks, and plans to offer DeFi services to 7 million teen…
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GameStop Did Not Sell Its Bitcoin. It Wrote Covered Calls on All 4,709 BTC.
GameStop pledged 4,709 BTC to Coinbase as collateral for covered-call options, booking a $131.6M loss. SEC filing reveals the full strategy. Read the full…
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David Sacks Exits as White House Crypto Czar With Key Legislation Still on the Table
Sacks hit the 130-day limit for special government employees and moves to co-chair PCAST. No replacement named, and the GENIUS Act is still unsigned. Read the…
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Coinbase and Fannie Mae Just Made Crypto-Backed Mortgages a Reality
Coinbase partners with Better to offer Fannie Mae-backed mortgages using Bitcoin and USDC as down payment collateral, no taxable sale required. Read the full…
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Strategy Now Holds 76% of All Corporate Bitcoin as Treasury Demand Collapses
Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 45,000 BTC in 30 days while other corporate buyers retreated 99% from peak. The concentration risk is real. Read the full…
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A Federal Judge Just Certified a Class Action Against Nvidia Over 1 Billion Dollars in Hidden...
Judge Gilliam certified a class of investors alleging Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang concealed over $1B in crypto mining GPU revenue between 2017 and 2018. Read…
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Google Pulls Its Post-Quantum Deadline Forward to 2029, and Crypto Has Three Years to Catch Up
Google accelerated its post-quantum cryptography migration from 2035 to 2029, putting pressure on Bitcoin and Ethereum developers racing to replace ECDSA. Read…
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A US Judge Dismissed a Crypto Money Transmitter Case, and the Core Question Stays Open
A federal court tossed a non-custodial developer's bid for legal clarity on money transmitter laws, leaving the industry without an answer. Read the full…
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Congress Moves to Ban Itself from Trading on Prediction Markets After Iran Betting Scandal
The bipartisan PREDICT Act would bar Congress, the president, and senior officials from political prediction market trading, with 10% fines and profit…
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The UK Just Banned Crypto Donations to Political Parties Until Rules Catch Up
The UK government banned cryptocurrency donations to political parties and capped overseas elector donations at 100,000 pounds annually, citing regulatory…
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Coinbase Tells the Senate It Cannot Support the Stablecoin Yield Compromise
Coinbase informed Senate offices it has significant concerns about the CLARITY Act yield language, threatening to derail the crypto market structure bill…
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A UK Bank Will Put 250 Million Pounds of Insured Deposits on a Public Blockchain
Monument Bank plans to tokenize up to £250M in retail deposits on the Midnight network, keeping full FSCS protection and interest payments intact. Read the…
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Irish Police Crack the First of 12 Bitcoin Wallets in a 418 Million Dollar Drug Seizure
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol accessed 500 BTC worth $34 million from a convicted cannabis grower's stash after seven years of trying. Read the…
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Gold Posts Its Worst Losing Streak Since 1920 as Bitcoin Quietly Gains Ground
Gold has fallen for 10 straight days, the longest run in over a century. Meanwhile, one bitcoin now buys nearly 16 ounces of gold, up 30% from recent lows…
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Indian Court Says No Case Against CoinDCX Founders, Grants Bail Three Days After Arrest
A Thane magistrate court ruled there is no prima facie case against CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal in the Rs 71 lakh impersonation…
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A 14 Billion Dollar Bitcoin Options Expiry Hits Friday, and 75,000 Is the Magnet
Deribit's largest quarterly options expiry wipes 40% of open interest Friday. Max pain sits at $75,000, roughly 6% above spot. Here is what that means. Read…
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Ripple Joins Singapores Central Bank Sandbox to Test RLUSD-Powered Trade Settlements
Ripple partners with Unloq in the MAS BLOOM initiative to pilot automated cross-border trade finance using RLUSD on the XRP Ledger. Read the full article…
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Tether Hires a Big Four Firm to Audit Its 184 Billion Dollar USDT Reserves for the First Time
Tether engages an unnamed Big Four accounting firm for its first full independent audit, covering reserves, liabilities, and controls. Circle stock drops 20%…
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Crypto Cards Roundup March 25 - Mastercard Buys BVNK for $1.8B, Gemini Adds Crypto Bill Pay,...
Crypto Cards Roundup March 25 - Mastercard Buys BVNK for $1.8B, Gemini Adds Crypto Bill Pay, Uphold Launches Exa Credit Card Read the full article…
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Kentucky Passed a Bill That Would Force Wallet Makers to Reset Your Seed Phrase
Kentucky HB 380 passed the House 85-0 with a buried amendment requiring hardware wallet providers to help reset seed phrases. Critics say it outlaws…
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Invesco Takes Over Superstates 900 Million Dollar Tokenized Treasury Fund
Invesco assumes investment management of Superstate's USTB fund, joining BlackRock and Franklin Templeton in the tokenized Treasury race now worth 12 billion…
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Bitcoin Just Had a Rare Two-Block Reorg as Three Mining Pools Raced for the Same Chain
Foundry USA mined seven consecutive blocks and orphaned two from AntPool and ViaBTC in a rare chain split at block 941,881. Read the full article…
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The SEC Just Sent Its Crypto Securities Framework to the White House for Review
The SEC submitted a proposed interpretation framework to the White House that would clarify which digital assets qualify as securities under federal law. Read…
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Citadel-Backed EDXM Launches a Blockchain Korean Won Derivative to Crack Asia FX
EDXM International, backed by Citadel Securities, launches a blockchain-based Korean won derivative targeting Asia's FX market as Korea opens won trading 24/7…
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Polymarket and Kalshi CEOs Back the Same 35 Million Dollar Prediction Market Fund
Rival prediction market CEOs Shayne Coplan and Tarek Mansour are both investing in 5c(c) Capital, a new $35M fund targeting prediction market infrastructure…
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Strategy Files for 44.1 Billion Dollars in New ATM Offerings to Buy More Bitcoin
Strategy registers $21B in new MSTR common stock, $21B in STRC preferred, and $2.1B in STRK preferred, nearly doubling its capital-raising firepower. Read the…
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Bitcoin Surges Past 70,000 Dollars as 260 Million in Shorts Get Liquidated
Trump orders a five-day pause on Iran strikes, crashing oil 10% and triggering a $260M+ short squeeze across crypto markets. Read the full article…
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Stocks Are Finally Catching Up to Bitcoin's Crash as Bond Yields Hit 8-Month Highs
The Nasdaq hit its lowest level since September as 10-year Treasury yields surged to 4.41%. Bitcoin crashed to $60K weeks earlier, and equities are now…
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SBF Parents Claim No Customer Money Was Lost, but Creditors Say the Math Uses 2022 Prices
Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman tell CNN the FTX prosecution was political. Creditors counter that recoveries are based on 2022 dollar values, not real crypto…
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Gold Crashes Below 4,350 Dollars, Wiping Out 1.5 Trillion as Bitcoin Sits in Fear
Gold has lost over 22% from its January all-time high, erasing $1.5 trillion in a single session. Bitcoin is down to $67,846 with fear at 24. Read the full…
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NYSE Removes the 25,000 Contract Cap on Bitcoin and Ether ETF Options
NYSE Arca and NYSE American scrap position limits on 11 crypto ETF options and open FLEX trading, effective immediately after the SEC waived the 30-day wait…
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Fidelity Tells the SEC That Broker-Dealers Need a Crypto Trading Framework Now
Fidelity's general counsel asks the SEC to let broker-dealers trade crypto on alternative trading systems and issue DLT guidance for tokenized securities. Read…
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Banks Are Building Their Own Onchain Cash, and They Want It to Replace Stablecoins
Lloyds just completed the UK's first public blockchain deposit transaction. The ECB has a roadmap. Banks are coming for stablecoin territory. Read the full…
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Mortgage Help Searches Just Passed 2008 Levels, and Crypto Fear Is at 26
Google searches for 'Help With Mortgage' have hit an all-time high, surpassing the 2008 financial crisis. Crypto markets reflect the stress with ETH down 4.2%…
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CoinDCX Co-Founders Arrested by Indian Police on Criminal Breach of Trust Charges
CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal have been arrested by Thane Police on criminal breach of trust charges tied to an Rs 71 lakh fraud case…
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CoinDCX Founders Questioned by Police Over a Fraud Case Tied to 1,212 Fake Websites
CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal were questioned by Mumbai police after an FIR was filed over an Rs 71 lakh impersonation fraud scheme…
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Bitcoin Miners Are Losing 19,000 Dollars on Every BTC They Produce
Average Bitcoin production cost hits $88,000 while BTC trades near $69,000. Network difficulty drops 7.8% as miners bleed cash and pivot to AI. Read the full…
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Resolv Labs USR Exploit: 50 Million Tokens Minted With 100K USDC, 74% Depeg
Resolv Labs USR stablecoin exploit on March 22, 2026. 50 million USR minted with 100K USDC, triggering a 74% depeg. Official response pending. Read the full…
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Grayscale Files S-1 for a Hyperliquid ETF, Making It Three Issuers Racing to List HYPE
Grayscale submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a HYPE ETF on Nasdaq under ticker GHYP. Coinbase is the custodian. Bitwise and 21Shares filed earlier. Read the full…
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Bitcoin ETF Outflows Hit 253 Million Dollars in Two Days as SPY and QQQ Bleed a Record 64 Billion
Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $253M in two days as the broader equity sell-off hit $64B in 3 months, the largest SPY/QQQ outflow on record. One analyst sees BTC at…
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Google Finds iOS Malware That Hunts for Coinbase, MetaMask, and 11 Other Crypto Apps
The DarkSword exploit chain uses six iOS vulnerabilities to deploy Ghostblade, a data stealer targeting 13 crypto exchange and wallet apps on unpatched…
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Gemini Shareholders Sue Over a 398 Million Dollar IPO That Lost 75 Percent of Its Value in Five...
A class-action lawsuit alleges Gemini concealed plans to pivot to prediction markets, exit three regions, and cut 25% of staff before its September 2025 IPO…
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Strive Breaks Into the Top 10 Public Bitcoin Holders After Buying 13,628 BTC in Six Months
Vivek Ramaswamy's Strive flipped CleanSpark and Tesla to become a top 10 corporate BTC holder, but Q4 brought a $393.6 million net loss. Read the full article…
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Morgan Stanley Files to Launch the First Spot Bitcoin ETF From a US Bank
Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 reveals MSBT will trade on NYSE Arca with Coinbase, Fidelity, and BNY Mellon as custodians and a fee waiver on the first $5B. Read…
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Coinbase Tokenizes Its Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base With Apex Group as Transfer Agent
Coinbase Asset Management puts a tokenized share class of its Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base, using ERC-3643 for on-chain identity and compliance. Read the full…
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Global M2 Says Bitcoin Should Be at 136,000 Dollars, but Energy Costs Are Eating the Rally
Bitcoin is down 35% while global money supply grew 12%, creating a $66,000 valuation gap. CF Benchmarks says energy costs and tight rates are the bottleneck…
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Gemini Has Cut 30 Percent of Its Staff This Year, and the Winklevoss Brothers Blame AI
Gemini's workforce is down to 445 after cumulative 30% cuts in 2026. The exchange exited UK, EU, and Australia while pivoting to prediction markets. Read the…
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World Liberty Financial Launches AgentPay, an Open-Source SDK That Lets AI Agents Spend USD1
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial releases AgentPay SDK, enabling AI agents to hold, move, and transact with USD1 across EVM chains. Read the full article…
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South Korea Opposition Party Moves to Kill the 22 Percent Crypto Tax Before It Starts
South Korea's opposition party introduced a bill to permanently abolish the planned 22% crypto gains tax, arguing it is unfair when stock gains face no income…
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xPlace Announces $XP Token and Airdrop for Chosen Solana Communities in Q4 2026
xPlace confirms $XP as the token ticker for its Q4 2026 TGE, with 5% going to ecosystem partners and 2.5% to NFT communities including Claynosaurz and…
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Institutions Absorbed 81,200 Bitcoin in February, 6x the New Supply, per Bitwise
Institutional Bitcoin demand hit its highest level since October 2025 as buyers absorbed 81,200 BTC last month, six times the amount miners produced. Read the…
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The Fed Held Rates and Projected One Cut This Year, but Crypto Traders Are Betting on a Relief Rally
The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5-3.75% and raised its inflation forecast. Bitcoin dropped 4.6% to $70,711, but traders see a bullish bounce forming. Read…
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The SEC Just Approved Nasdaq to Trade Tokenized Stocks Alongside Traditional Shares
The SEC approved Nasdaq's rule change to trade tokenized versions of Russell 1000 stocks and S&P 500 ETFs on the same order book as traditional securities…
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Fold Q4 Revenue Hits 9 Million Dollars as CEO Bets Bitcoin Rewards Will Kill Air Miles
Fold reports 8% revenue growth and 2,000 new customers in Q4, while CEO Will Reeves argues Bitcoin rewards will replace traditional airline loyalty programs…
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FTX Will Send 2.2 Billion Dollars to Creditors on March 31, Pushing Three Claim Classes to 100...
FTX Recovery Trust announces its fourth distribution of $2.2 billion on March 31, 2026, bringing cumulative payouts above $8 billion and three creditor classes…
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Evernorth Files S-4 to Go Public as the First Nasdaq-Listed XRP Treasury Company
Ripple-backed Evernorth files its S-4 with the SEC to merge with Armada Acquisition Corp II and list on Nasdaq under ticker XRPN with 388 million XRP. Read the…
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Congress Has Six Weeks to Decide If Crypto Platforms Can Pay Yield on Stablecoins
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott says a stablecoin yield compromise draft is coming this week, but Coinbase already walked and midterms are closing in. Read the…
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Mastercard Pays 1.8 Billion Dollars for BVNK as Card Networks Race to Own Stablecoin Rails
Mastercard is acquiring stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8B. Visa is scaling stablecoin cards to 100+ countries. The card networks are buying…
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Bitrefill Was Hacked by Lazarus Group, and 18,500 Customer Records Were Exposed
Bitrefill reveals a March 1 cyberattack linked to North Korea Read the full article…
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SEC Chair Atkins Unveils a Token Safe Harbor That Could Let Crypto Startups Raise Capital Without...
SEC Chair Paul Atkins proposed Regulation Crypto Assets at the DC Blockchain Summit, outlining a startup exemption and investment contract safe harbor. Read…