May 20, 20264m 40s
Bitfinex Whales Push BTC Longs to 2.5-Year High Mid-Slide
Bitfinex traders added size into Bitcoin's five-day drop, pushing aggregate long positions to their highest level since late 2023.
SpendNode Podcast
Narrated analysis on crypto policy, stablecoins, payments, and market structure.
Listen to narrated articles from the SpendNode Journal. The feed covers crypto policy, payment rails, stablecoins, market structure, and crypto cards, with each episode linking back to the full written analysis. The full RSS feed lives at /audio.xml if you want to pull it into an app that accepts external feeds.
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May 20, 20264m 20s
AllUnity Plans Swedish Krona Stablecoin, Pushes Into AI Agentic Payments
AllUnity, the BaFin-licensed DWS-Galaxy-Flow Traders venture behind EURAU, plans a Swedish krona stablecoin and an AI agentic payments stack.
May 20, 20264m 14s
Stablecoin Supply Hits Record $323B as Crypto Market Treads Water
Stablecoin circulating supply crossed $323 billion for the first time, even as BTC sits flat at $77K and the Fear & Greed index reads Neutral at 40.
May 20, 20265m 12s
Warren Tells OCC Nine Crypto Trust Bank Charters Violate Federal Law
Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to the OCC arguing nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms breach the National Bank Act.
May 20, 20264m 26s
China's Buffett Duan Yongping Opens First Position in Circle
Value investor Duan Yongping, the founder behind BBK and Vivo, has opened his first equity position in USDC issuer Circle, signaling deeper traditional capital interest in stablecoin rails.
May 20, 20264m 17s
CFTC Sues Minnesota to Block First-in-Nation Prediction Markets Ban
The CFTC asked a federal court to stop Minnesota from enforcing a new state law that bans prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket from operating.
May 20, 20265m 12s
Polymarket Opens Prediction Markets on SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic Valuations
Polymarket and Nasdaq Private Market launch contracts tied to private unicorn valuations and IPO timing, opening a $5 trillion pool to retail traders.
May 20, 20264m 33s
Truth Social Pulls Bitcoin ETF Filing From SEC Review
Trump Media's Truth Social has withdrawn its spot Bitcoin ETF application from the SEC, removing one of the brand-name issuers from the pending queue.
May 20, 20265m 05s
GitHub Probes Unauthorized Access to Internal Repos, CZ Urges API Key Rotation
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories. CZ told developers to rotate API keys in code, including private repos.
May 20, 20264m 14s
Lummis Maps Path to Combine Senate Committees on CLARITY Act
Senator Cynthia Lummis outlined the procedural next steps for the CLARITY Act, including a plan to combine Senate Banking and Agriculture committee texts.