SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

SpaceX jumped as much as 30% in its Nasdaq debut and closed up 19%, the world's largest IPO. The listing settles weeks of crypto pre-IPO bets. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/spacex-nasdaq-debut-30-percent-pop-largest-ipo-june-2026/

Zimbabwe's finance minister now requires crypto businesses to register with the Financial Intelligence Unit and pay $500 a year, ending the 2018 ban era. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/zimbabwe-crypto-registration-500-fee-fiu-june-2026/

A US appeals court has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving the FTX verdict intact as of June 12, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sbf-loses-appeal-fraud-conviction-25-year-sentence-june-2026/

Circle moved $4B in USDC to Coinbase on HyperEVM, the largest single USDC transfer on record per Arkham. Here is what the flow signals for stablecoin liquidity. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/circle-4b-usdc-coinbase-hyperevm-largest-ever-june-2026/

Poland's president has vetoed the country's MiCA implementation bill for a third time, leaving Poland the EU's only member without a domestic crypto licensing path with the July 1 deadline near. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/poland-president-third-veto-mica-crypto-bill-july-deadline-june-2026/

The SEC has proposed scrapping its 20-year-old order protection rule, a change that would remove a structural barrier keeping AMMs out of tokenized US securities. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-proposes-scrapping-order-protection-rule-tokenized-securities-amm-june-2026/

Japan's Lower House passed a crypto tax bill that would cut gains to a 20% flat rate from 2028 and open the door to Tokyo Stock Exchange crypto ETFs by 2027. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/japan-crypto-tax-bill-clears-lower-house-20-percent-june-2026/

Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet linked to a 120.2M USDT transfer and froze 72M USDT, the latest in a run of large on-chain freezes that keep reviving the centralization debate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-freezes-72m-usdt-tron-120m-transfer-june-2026/

Binance Wallet's SpaceX pre-IPO subscription drew roughly $557M from 27,689 addresses, per Dune data shared by WuBlockchain on June 12, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-wallet-spacex-ipo-subscription-557m-june-2026/

Coinbase for Agents gives AI agents their own accounts to trade, manage portfolios, and pay for tools via x402, with autonomous spending kept inside set guardrails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-for-agents-ai-accounts-x402-june-2026/

Michael Saylor says he never claimed Strategy could not sell Bitcoin and may do so when necessary, days after JPMorgan flagged the firm's thin cash runway. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/saylor-strategy-may-sell-bitcoin-when-necessary-june-2026/

Ripple and Bitso are expanding their partnership to put Bitso's MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB on the XRP Ledger for enterprise settlement across Latin America. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-bitso-mxnb-xrp-ledger-latam-settlement-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-white-house-law-enforcement-meeting-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/defillama-q2-2026-most-hacked-quarter-record-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-rallies-trump-iran-war-settlement-extreme-fear-june-2026/

MetaMask Card expanded across Latin America, adding 13 new countries where users can spend self-custody crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/metamask-card-expands-13-latin-american-countries-june-2026/

RedotPay completed VASP registration under Mexico's AML regime, adding a regulated footing for its crypto card and stablecoin transfers across Latin America. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/redotpay-mexico-vasp-aml-registration-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blackrock-bita-bitcoin-income-etf-undercuts-rivals-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hungary-reverses-crypto-criminalization-decriminalizes-trading-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/citigroup-tokenized-private-company-securities-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/spacex-s1-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-excess-cash-june-2026/

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. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uphold-sunsets-uphodl-self-custody-app-june-2026/

Fold Holdings sold 633.8 BTC to clear $20M in Bitcoin-backed debt, leaving it with 192.2 BTC. A Bitcoin-rewards card firm cuts its treasury during extreme fear. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fold-holdings-sells-633-btc-repay-20m-debt-june-2026/

Seoul police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over a lawmaker's son hired at Korea's second-largest crypto exchange. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bithumb-ceo-booked-bribery-lawmaker-hiring-june-2026/

DBS will let retail customers buy tokenised physical gold through its digibank app in H2 2026, each token backed by one gram of vaulted bullion and redeemable. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dbs-tokenised-physical-gold-retail-digibank-june-2026/