SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Binance's first-week data for direct stock and ETF trading shows over 80% of volume from emerging markets, $400M+ in stock AUM, and a young, small-ticket user base. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-stock-trading-first-week-emerging-markets-june-2026/

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/