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.
Russia's experimental legal regime lets selected exporters settle foreign trade in Bitcoin and stablecoins, yet sanctions compliance still ringfences every cash-out route abroad.
Oobit's June recap names New York and Bolivia as newly live markets and confirms a PIX integration, widening its tap-to-pay card footprint across the Americas.
Invesco, a roughly $1.8 trillion asset manager, has filed for a tokenized fund built to sit behind stablecoin reserves, following BlackRock and Franklin Templeton on-chain.
Tokenized equity trading on Solana crossed $1B in a single week, with SpaceX's SPCX token leading demand for hard-to-access stocks. Custody and redemption questions stay open.
SBI Holdings will pay 46.7 billion yen for full control of Bitbank, lifting its combined custody to about 1.1 trillion yen and 2.92 million accounts.
Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2, stopped producing blocks for over an hour on June 25, 2026, freezing deposits and withdrawals and reviving its single-sequencer debate.
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.
