SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

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/

Cypher's mobile app now has a Spend Analysis tool that tracks spending over 30 or 60 days, ranks top categories, and lists your most-used merchants. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cypher-spend-analysis-mobile-app-june-2026/

The US DOJ has subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over alleged debanking of customers for political reasons, Reuters reports. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/doj-subpoenas-jpmorgan-bofa-wells-fargo-debanking-june-2026/

Raydium says an attacker drained $1.34M from five deprecated AMM V3 pools via an LP mint flaw. Active funds were untouched and the treasury will reimburse. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/raydium-legacy-amm-v3-exploit-134m-treasury-refund-june-2026/

Visa is partnering with OpenAI to let AI agents pay over its global network using tokenized credentials, pushing agentic commerce onto mainstream card rails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/visa-openai-agent-payments-tokenized-credentials-june-2026/

Ripple released an XRPL AI Starter Kit giving developers tools to build agentic payment apps that move XRP and RLUSD autonomously on the XRP Ledger. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-xrpl-ai-starter-kit-agentic-payments-rlusd-june-2026/

Delaware's House Bill 441 cleared committee on June 10, 2026, proposing a total ban on crypto kiosks. Existing machines would shut off at once and come out within 90 days. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/delaware-bill-ban-crypto-atms-kiosks-june-2026/

New York's financial regulator proposed its first formal stablecoin rules, updating its 2022 framework to match the federal GENIUS Act, with a 60-day comment window. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nydfs-first-stablecoin-rules-genius-act-alignment-june-2026/

Botanix, a venture-funded Bitcoin Layer 2 that raised $11.5M, is winding down. Users must withdraw assets by July 9 or the validator Federation sweeps the rest. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/botanix-bitcoin-l2-shutdown-withdraw-july-9-june-2026/

A May CPI print seen at a three-year high pushed Bitcoin and gold down together. BTC sits at $61,248 and Fear & Greed reads 14 as of June 10, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-gold-fall-together-rate-hike-bet-hot-cpi-june-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETF assets have fallen to $77.58B, the same level as Trump's November 2024 win, after a $169.54B peak. Over $5B left in four weeks. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etfs-flat-since-trump-election-aum-erodes-june-2026/

Bitcoin just recorded its worst weekly performance since the November 2022 FTX collapse, per Bloomberg, with BTC near $61,260 and Fear & Greed at 14. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/btc-worst-week-since-ftx-collapse-extreme-fear-june-2026/

CME Group is launching Nasdaq CME crypto index futures covering Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, bundling three assets into one regulated contract during extreme fear. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cme-nasdaq-crypto-index-futures-btc-eth-sol-june-2026/

DefiLlama added pre-IPO perpetual futures for Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Quantinuum on Aster and Lighter, putting synthetic exposure to private firms onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/defillama-pre-ipo-perps-openai-anthropic-spacex-june-2026/

Gate says more than $60M has been committed to SpaceX through its IPO Access product, as OKX pushes the same pre-IPO pitch and exchanges chase private-equity demand. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gate-ipo-access-spacex-60m-pre-ipo-june-2026/

A US judge has approved a $38 billion settlement over Visa and Mastercard swipe fees. Here is what the interchange deal means for crypto cards and cashback. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/visa-mastercard-38b-swipe-fee-settlement-approved-june-2026/

Onchain crypto card payment volume reached a record $833 million in May 2026, up 180% year over year, pushing cumulative spend past $9 billion as prices fell. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/onchain-crypto-card-spending-record-833m-may-june-2026/

Wirex says it has joined Visa's Agentic Ready programme to test agent-initiated payments with consent controls. No fee or product change yet for cardholders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/wirex-visa-agentic-ready-agent-payments-june-2026/

The FCA has proposed letting UCITS and NURS retail funds hold up to 10% of assets in crypto ETNs, the next step after lifting its retail ban in October 2025. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uk-fca-retail-funds-10-percent-crypto-etn-june-2026/

Lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital. It already holds ~$11B in deposits and powers Coinbase and Kraken loans. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/morpho-175m-a16z-paradigm-onchain-credit-june-2026/

Ethena has partnered with $480B asset manager Janus Henderson to allocate and distribute tokenized CLO funds, pushing structured credit onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethena-janus-henderson-tokenized-clo-funds-june-2026/

MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho are targeting a joint stablecoin launch in FY2026, Nikkei reports, with a yen token first and a dollar version due late 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/japan-megabanks-joint-stablecoin-fy2026-june-2026/

A CoinDesk post-mortem says the Humanity Protocol drain happened because its multisig signing keys all lived on a single compromised laptop. The lesson for self-custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/humanity-protocol-36m-exploit-multisig-laptop-june-2026/

Reuters puts the Trump family's crypto profit at a minimum of $2.3 billion across its main ventures, landing while the market sits in Extreme Fear. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/trump-family-crypto-ventures-23b-profit-june-2026/

SBI Shinsei Bank, a roughly 1 trillion yen Japanese lender, plans to reward depositors in Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP, pushing crypto rewards into regulated banking. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sbi-shinsei-bank-crypto-rewards-depositors-june-2026/