Jul 21, 20264m 07s
Revolut Wins Full Australian Banking License, Commits $280M
Revolut secured a full banking license in Australia and pledged $280M to take on the country's Big Four banks, per a July 21 Cointelegraph report.
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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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Jul 21, 20263m 56s
Celsius Co-Founders to Pay FTC Over $6M in New Settlements
Celsius co-founders Daniel Leon and Nuke Goldstein have agreed to pay the FTC more than $6M, adding to Alex Mashinsky's $10M settlement from April.
Jul 21, 20264m 30s
Vietnam Sets $7,700 Fines for Unlicensed Crypto Trading From September
Vietnam has decreed penalties of up to $7,700 for unlicensed crypto trading and AML breaches, effective September 2026, moving from policy talk to enforcement.
Jul 21, 20264m 22s
London Stock Exchange Plans 24/7 Trading in 2027 to Counter Crypto
The London Stock Exchange plans round-the-clock trading in early 2027 to win back retail investors drawn to crypto's always-on markets, per the FT.
Jul 20, 20264m 28s
Strategy Raises $263.5M in MSTR Sales, Holds 843,775 Bitcoin
Michael Saylor's Strategy raised $263.5M through MSTR share sales, lifting its cash reserve to $3.225B while its Bitcoin stack holds at 843,775 BTC.
Jul 20, 20264m 31s
US Regulators Miss GENIUS Act Deadline on Stablecoin Rulemaking
US agencies blew past the GENIUS Act's one-year deadline to write stablecoin rules, leaving issuer, custody and payment questions open before January.
Jul 20, 20264m 23s
Bank of Korea Sets September for Live CBDC Tests With 9 Banks
South Korea's central bank plans live CBDC transactions with nine banks in September, moving its digital won pilot from lab testing to real settlement.
Jul 20, 20264m 20s
Polymarket Traders Price a 93% Chance the Fed Holds Rates on July 29
Polymarket puts a 93.5% probability on the Fed holding rates at its July 29 meeting. Here is how crypto traders are positioned as BTC sits at $63,873.
Jul 20, 20264m 15s
Cardano Activates Van Rossem Hard Fork, Its First Run by Voters
Cardano's Van Rossem hard fork went live July 20, cutting smart contract execution costs and setting up the Ouroboros Leios throughput upgrade due late 2026.
Jul 20, 20264m 34s
Hyperliquid Opens Permissionless Outcome Markets Under HIP-4
Hyperliquid's HIP-4 vote lets anyone deploy custom outcome markets by staking 500,000 HYPE, moving prediction-style markets into a permissionless model on-chain.