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.
Story Protocol has rebranded as DATA Foundation, moving from IP infrastructure to AI training data with a new Trace registry and a 1:1 IP-to-DATA token swap.
A record 79% of Bitcoin's circulating supply is now held by long-term holders, even as BTC slid to $58,420 and Fear & Greed hit 14 on June 26, 2026.
USDT's market cap edged past Ethereum's on June 26, 2026, at $186.06B versus $185.66B, as an ETH selloff pushed the stablecoin into the number two slot.
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe announced a nearly 15% workforce reduction, redirecting the custodian toward security, trading, stablecoins and AI infrastructure.
Russia's experimental legal regime lets selected exporters settle foreign trade in Bitcoin and stablecoins, yet sanctions compliance still ringfences every cash-out route abroad.
Oobit's June recap names New York and Bolivia as newly live markets and confirms a PIX integration, widening its tap-to-pay card footprint across the Americas.
Invesco, a roughly $1.8 trillion asset manager, has filed for a tokenized fund built to sit behind stablecoin reserves, following BlackRock and Franklin Templeton on-chain.
Tokenized equity trading on Solana crossed $1B in a single week, with SpaceX's SPCX token leading demand for hard-to-access stocks. Custody and redemption questions stay open.
SBI Holdings will pay 46.7 billion yen for full control of Bitbank, lifting its combined custody to about 1.1 trillion yen and 2.92 million accounts.
Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2, stopped producing blocks for over an hour on June 25, 2026, freezing deposits and withdrawals and reviving its single-sequencer debate.
