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 x402 AI micropayment protocol backed by Coinbase and a16z processes $28K daily against a $7B ecosystem valuation, with half the activity artificial.
Ripple plans to acquire BC Payments Australia and its AFSL license, expanding its regulated footprint to 75+ markets as Asia-Pacific payments volume doubles.
Ghana's SEC launches a 12-month crypto sandbox with 11 companies covering exchanges, gold tokenization, and payment systems under the VASP Act 2025.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says he will not buy BTC until central banks start printing money, despite Bitcoin trading near $70,000 with the Fear index at 26.
Vanguard reports hardship withdrawals hit a record 6% in 2025, tripling the pre-pandemic rate. What this says about financial stress, crypto sentiment, and stablecoins.
21Shares TDOT ETF gives US investors physically-backed DOT exposure with staking yield on Nasdaq, days before Polkadot caps supply at 2.1 billion tokens.
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 permissionless market set a record $1.2B in open interest, with oil and equity futures accounting for most of the top 30 contracts.
13F filings reveal $540M in institutional Solana ETF purchases in Q4, led by Goldman Sachs, Electric Capital, and investment advisors holding over $270M.
Broadridge integrates Crypto.com into its NYFIX network, giving 2,200 institutional participants FIX-based crypto order routing for the first time in Asia.
The Bank Policy Institute, backed by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, is weighing a lawsuit against the OCC over national trust bank charters granted to crypto firms.
