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.
The White House met law enforcement groups over the CLARITY Act on June 11, 2026, with developer protections the sticking point and Senate Democrats still undecided.
DefiLlama data shows Q2 2026 has logged roughly 70 hacks, about double the previous quarterly record, even as the dollar losses stay front-loaded in April.
Bitcoin climbed back above $63,600 and Solana jumped 5.7% as Trump said the US reached a settlement of the Iran war, with crypto fear still at 18.
MetaMask Card expanded across Latin America, adding 13 new countries where users can spend self-custody crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted.
RedotPay completed VASP registration under Mexico's AML regime, adding a regulated footing for its crypto card and stablecoin transfers across Latin America.
BlackRock filed a fourth amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), setting a 0.65% fee that undercuts YBTC and BTCI as it races Goldman to market.
Hungary is rolling back the restrictive crypto laws introduced under Viktor Orban, decriminalizing trading and scrapping prison terms of up to 8 years, per CoinDesk.
Citigroup, a $2.78 trillion asset manager, is moving to tokenize private-company shares, pushing pre-IPO access onto onchain rails as RWA momentum builds.
SpaceX's IPO filing suggests its Bitcoin holdings may act as a strategic reserve for excess cash, per Coin Bureau citing Bloomberg, a day before the SPCX listing.
Uphold is retiring UpHODL, its separate self-custodial crypto and NFT app, and has posted migration steps. The main Uphold app, platform, and card are untouched.
