Sep 28, 20264m 26s
California Bans Memecoins, Newsom Calls It 'The Opposite of Trump'
California becomes the first US state to ban memecoins, with Governor Newsom framing the signed law as a direct political counter to the Trump administration.
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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Sep 28, 20265m 05s
South Korea Weighs Market Maker Rules After JPYC Trades at 4x Peg
A yen stablecoin traded at four times its intended value, pushing South Korean regulators to reconsider rules that keep professional market makers off local exchanges.
Sep 28, 20265m 04s
China's State Security Ministry: Crypto Anonymity Is an Illusion
China's Ministry of State Security says crypto offers no anonymity and no legal escape for criminals, hardening the stance from the world's most restrictive market.
Sep 28, 20264m 53s
Hegota Could Be Ethereum's Last 'Normal' Fork, Vitalik Says
Vitalik Buterin says the 2027 Hegota upgrade may be Ethereum's final fork that a 2015-era user would still recognize, before a shift to cryptographic scaling.
Sep 28, 20265m 16s
Apollo Economist Warns AI Agents Could Trigger 'Agentic Bank Runs'
Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok says AI agents that auto-move household cash could spark 'agentic bank runs.' What it means for stablecoins and DeFi liquidity.
Sep 27, 20264m 39s
SEC Staff Guidance Skips cbETH and stETH in New Staking Categories
SEC staff's new staking-token categories do not cover cbETH or stETH, leaving the two largest liquid staking tokens in regulatory limbo as holders weigh exit routes.
Sep 27, 20264m 28s
Solana Posts Simultaneous Highs in Stablecoins, RWAs, and Tokenized Stocks
Solana says stablecoins and real-world assets both hit all-time highs and over one million wallets now hold tokenized stocks. Here is what the milestone means.
Sep 27, 20264m 53s
The Clearing House Taps Quant for Tokenized Deposits, QNT Up 158%
The Clearing House selected Quant to power a tokenized deposit network, and CoinGecko data shows QNT up 158% on the week. A rare bank-infrastructure win for a token.
Sep 27, 20264m 36s
Kraken Opens Early Access to Oura IPO Shares via xStocks Tokens
Kraken is letting users request OURAx, a tokenized version of Oura's IPO shares through xStocks, bringing pre-IPO access onto blockchain rails for crypto traders.
Sep 27, 20264m 29s
SEC Sets a Three-Month Trading Pause for Tokenized Stocks That Breach Volume Caps
Under the SEC's tokenized-stock pilot, a second breach of a stock's trading-volume cap triggers a three-month pause on that exchange and its affiliates.