Apr 20, 20265m 06s
SEC Chair Atkins Says the Era of 'Regulation Through Enforcement' Is Over
Paul Atkins told a conference audience on April 20 that the SEC has ended 'regulation through enforcement' against crypto. What the shift actually means.
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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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Apr 20, 20264m 30s
Poland Stays Outside MiCA After Second Failed Veto Override
Poland's parliament again failed to override a presidential veto on its crypto bill, leaving it the only EU member state without a national MiCA framework.
Apr 20, 20263m 57s
RAVE Lost 98% and $6.7 Billion in Market Cap in 48 Hours
RAVE cryptocurrency fell 98% to $0.50 in two days, wiping $6.7 billion in market cap after insider dumps and exchange blacklists.
Apr 20, 20265m 19s
OKX Just Shipped Plain-English AI Agents for Earnings Week
OKX launched Agent Trade Kit, letting traders write strategies in plain English right as tech earnings season starts. Here is what shipped and the risks.
Apr 20, 20264m 50s
Coinbase Is Testing AI Agents Modeled After Its Legendary Ex-Employees
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase is piloting AI agents trained on the work of legendary former employees, operating like teammates on Slack and email.
Apr 20, 20264m 25s
Aave Says rsETH Is Fully Backed, but Keeps V3 and V4 Markets Frozen
Aave confirmed the rsETH sitting in its V3 and V4 markets on Ethereum is fully backed, but the markets stay frozen while KelpDAO bridge risk is reviewed.
Apr 20, 20264m 16s
Vercel Traces Its Breach to an AI Tool's Google OAuth
Vercel says a third-party AI tool's compromised Google Workspace OAuth was the entry point for its breach, a supply chain risk crypto devs should map out.
Apr 20, 20265m 01s
RaveDAO Wallets Dumped 23M Tokens, Knocking RAVE Another 35%
RaveDAO-linked wallets offloaded about 23 million RAVE on April 20, driving a roughly 35% drop one day after ZachXBT, Binance, and Bitget flagged the project.
Apr 19, 20264m 48s
Aave Sheds $6 Billion in TVL After KelpDAO Hack Exposes Structural Risk
Aave's total value locked fell by $6 billion in days after the KelpDAO bridge drain, exposing how liquid restaking collateral can turn a niche exploit systemic.
Apr 19, 20264m 39s
Bankr Just Crossed $500M in Uniswap Volume as AI Trading Hits Scale
Uniswap says $500 million in protocol volume has flowed through Bankr, an agentic trading interface. It's the first real threshold for AI-routed DEX activity.