
Uphold Brings the XRP-Backed Exa Credit Card to Select US States
Uphold is promoting the Exa Credit Card inside its app, letting XRP holders in select US states borrow against their tokens via Exactly Protocol without selling.
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.


Uphold is promoting the Exa Credit Card inside its app, letting XRP holders in select US states borrow against their tokens via Exactly Protocol without selling.

Glassnode data shows 10.83 million BTC, around 54% of supply, now sits below its purchase price after Bitcoin slipped under $59,100 on June 25, 2026.

Binance withdrew its Greek MiCA license application on June 24, leaving a seven-day scramble for EU authorization before the July 1 wind-down rule bites.

SPCX perpetual futures tracking pre-IPO SpaceX shed about $50M in liquidations over 48 hours, ranking behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum on crypto venues.

The Wall Street Journal reports Iran-linked entities routed $3.84 billion through the CoinEx exchange to bypass US sanctions, putting centralized venues back under scrutiny.

Grayscale argues the 15 highest-revenue onchain protocols, led by HYPE, PUMP and CAKE, trade at single-digit multiples, with the CLARITY Act as the catalyst.

Ripple and SBI Group have launched RLUSD in Japan following JFSA approval, opening the dollar-pegged stablecoin to both institutional and retail users.

Strategy's MSTR stock dropped about 10% below $100 for the first time in two years as Bitcoin fell under $60,000, leaving the firm with a roughly $12.55B paper loss.

Charles Schwab has rolled out spot Bitcoin trading to a client base holding roughly $12.6 trillion, even as BTC sits at $60,442 amid extreme fear.

Trump canceled the housing-bill signing ceremony, refusing to enact it until the SAVE America Act passes. That leaves the bill's federal CBDC ban through 2030 in limbo.