SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Block filed with the OCC to launch Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank offering custody for Bitcoin and stablecoins. Here is what the filing means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/block-occ-builders-bank-trust-bitcoin-stablecoin-custody-september-2026/

Iran is quietly using Bitcoin and USDT to keep trade and currency flowing under US sanctions, per an FT report. Here is what it signals for crypto's role as payment rails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/iran-crypto-bitcoin-usdt-bypass-us-sanctions-september-2026/

Congress faces a September 15 marker on the CLARITY Act, a bill that would split crypto oversight between the SEC and CFTC and could finally settle how XRP is classified. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/xrp-clarity-act-september-15-congressional-test-2026/

Kraken is offering Krak users up to 250 euro a month for routing salary into the app across 24 European countries. Here is who qualifies and how it works. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kraken-krak-250-euro-salary-bonus-24-european-countries-september-2026/

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says the protocol's 7-day annualized UNI burn rate has crossed $250M, up from about $200M days earlier. Here is what the number means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uniswap-uni-burn-record-250m-annual-rate-september-2026/

President Trump publicly named Hyperliquid on Sept. 7, 2026, as the CFTC studies a path to U.S. compliance for the decentralized derivatives platform. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/trump-names-hyperliquid-cftc-us-compliance-path-september-2026/

KuCoin's Scan & Pay is now live in Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, letting users pay merchants directly with USDT instead of selling crypto to a bank first. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kucoin-scan-and-pay-launches-brazil-argentina-peru-september-2026/

Cronos executed a controversial blockchain rollback to recover $111 million in crypto, reopening the debate over emergency powers and whether a chain can be truly immutable. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cronos-blockchain-rollback-111-million-recovery-september-2026/

Uzbekistan's Humo Digital begins a sandbox trial of its som-pegged HUMO stablecoin, backed by government securities, with 20+ merchants under central bank oversight. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uzbekistan-humo-som-stablecoin-payment-pilot-september-2026/

South Korea's National Assembly Budget Office estimates won-denominated stablecoins could save merchants up to 5.15 trillion won a year in card fees. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/south-korea-budget-office-won-stablecoins-merchant-fees-3-8-billion-september-2026/

Bitcoin short-term whale holders are sitting on a record $9.07B in unrealized profit as BTC trades near $78,430. Here is what the concentration signal means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-short-term-whale-profits-record-9-billion-selloff-risk-september-2026/

White-hat hackers have returned 3,400 of 4,000 Bitcoin drained from Blockstream's Liquid Network. 598 BTC worth $47M remains outstanding as the network stays paused. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-whitehat-returns-3400-btc-47m-outstanding-september-2026/

Switzerland's CHFD franc stablecoin sandbox entered live testing on Sept 8, 2026, with exchange operator SIX and payment app TWINT joining nine pilot companies. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/swiss-stablecoin-sandbox-six-twint-testing-phase-september-2026/

Canary Capital's Staked Tron ETF (TRXS) lists on Cboe on September 9, the first US fund to pair Tron price exposure with onchain staking rewards. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/canary-capital-staked-tron-etf-cboe-launch-september-2026/

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas proposed a 12-month freeze on new payment-system operator registrations to rebuild its licensing framework. Here is what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/philippines-central-bank-payment-system-registration-freeze-september-2026/

The Ethereum Foundation named FOCIL and Frame Transactions the two 'must ship' EIPs for the Hegota upgrade, setting the protocol's near-term priorities. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethereum-foundation-focil-frame-transactions-hegota-upgrade-september-2026/

Ether Fi says its Cash rails have moved more than $100M in cumulative onramp and offramp volume. Here is what the funding milestone means for cardholders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ether-fi-100m-onramp-offramp-volume-milestone-september-2026/

The Coldcard breach attacker is emptying 293 Bitcoin vaults in order of size, moving $7.7M so far, nearly half of the third-wave haul. What it means for self-custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coldcard-hacker-drains-7-7-million-293-vaults-september-2026/

DBS and Citi will settle instant USD cross-border payments using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, a concrete step toward always-on bank money. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dbs-citi-tokenized-deposits-swift-blockchain-ledger-september-2026/

A Bank of Korea study finds demand for dollar-backed stablecoins can pressure local currencies when global exchanges list direct fiat pairs. Here is what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bank-of-korea-dollar-stablecoins-weaken-local-currencies-september-2026/

David Hoffman took heat for selling ETH, then rotated into LIT and ZEC. WuBlockchain reports the trade posted gains up to 369%. Here is what the pivot signals. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bankless-hoffman-eth-sale-lit-zec-rotation-september-2026/

The purported white-hat behind Liquid Network's $320M Elements exploit is negotiating a return of nearly 4,000 BTC to Blockstream's federation. Here is where it stands. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-whitehat-returns-320m-btc-blockstream-september-2026/

Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 chain and airdropping ONE as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, weeks after a mint exploit forged nearly 4 billion tokens. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/harmony-shuts-down-layer-1-migrates-one-ethereum-september-2026/

The ~$320M drain on Blockstream's Liquid was not a multisig break. About 4,000 L-BTC was minted by an Elements bug, then routed through SideSwap. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-elements-bug-320m-mint-september-2026/

Attackers calling themselves whitehats drained close to 4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid sidechain peg, reviving questions about federated custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blockstream-liquid-peg-4000-btc-whitehat-drain-september-2026/