SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, plans to sue its own regulator over the CFTC's decision to allow perpetual futures onshore in the US. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cme-sue-cftc-perpetual-futures-approval-june-2026/

Standard Chartered set a $100 long-term price target on Uniswap's UNI for 2030, citing DEX market share and untapped fee revenue. UNI rallied on the note. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uniswap-standard-chartered-100-uni-price-target-2030-june-2026/

Moody's expanded its Token Integration Engine to Solana, letting issuers embed credit ratings directly into tokenized bonds and fixed-income securities onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/moody-ratings-tie-solana-tokenized-bonds-june-2026/

Rodney Burton, the promoter known as 'Bitcoin Rodney,' pleaded guilty over the $1.8B HyperFund Ponzi. He faces up to 5 years and is sentenced July 23. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-rodney-guilty-1-8b-hyperfund-ponzi-june-2026/

Ready restricted USDC card spending for non-EEA users after switching card providers, with some holders reporting an hour's notice before deactivation. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ready-usdc-card-non-eea-service-halt-issuer-change-june-2026/

Plasma One launched June 17, 2026: a self-custodial Visa on the Plasma chain in three tiers (Lite, Core, Platinum), XPL cashback, and a 7-day offer that makes Core free for a year. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/plasma-one-launch-aave-self-custodial-stablecoin-visa-june-2026/

Governor Pritzker signed Illinois' Digital Asset Privilege Tax into law despite industry pushback: 0.2% per trade, custody included, felony penalties for unregistered brokers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/illinois-pritzker-signs-crypto-trading-tax-law-june-2026/

Reuters reports the SEC is poised to grant an innovation exemption letting crypto firms offer blockchain-based stocks. The tokenized equity market already tops $6.4B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-innovation-exemption-tokenized-stocks-june-2026/

US House and Senate negotiators agreed to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030, folded into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-congress-cbdc-ban-2030-housing-bill-june-2026/

Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, spent over $12 million to push Barry Moore to a 56% win in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, its biggest single-race bet of 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fairshake-12m-barry-moore-alabama-senate-primary-june-2026/

HYPE futures open interest rose 32% in a week to about $3B, while stock and index perps on Hyperliquid hit $2.9B in OI, overtaking Bitcoin on the venue. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hyperliquid-open-interest-32-percent-tradfi-perps-pass-bitcoin-june-2026/

BNB Chain says $SPXCB is live on PancakeSwap, giving 24/7 onchain exposure to SpaceX (SPCX) days after the company's record Nasdaq debut. Here is what it is. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bnb-chain-spxcb-tokenized-spacex-pancakeswap-june-2026/

China signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network, per CoinDesk. Here is why it matters. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/china-digital-yuan-26-banks-standard-chartered-cross-border-june-2026/

A bipartisan group led by Cynthia Lummis is urging the Treasury to clarify how state authority works under the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/lummis-senators-treasury-genius-act-state-authority-june-2026/

Coinbase is launching tokenized stock trading with 1:1 backed onchain shares and dividend payments, joining a tokenization race that already includes DTCC and Binance. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-tokenized-stocks-onchain-shares-dividends-june-2026/

Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech at $3.3B, as it pushes deeper into cross-border payments and stablecoin settlement in Africa. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-flutterwave-stake-3-3b-africa-payments-june-2026/

Reuters reports Binance's application for an EU MiCA license is heading for rejection, weeks before the transition deadline that forces unlicensed exchanges out. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-eu-mica-license-rejection-reuters-june-2026/

Mirae Asset, a $721B manager, signed an MOU with Ondo Finance to tokenize US-listed ETFs through Global X, including a covered-call ETF share class in Q3 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ondo-mirae-asset-tokenized-global-x-etfs-june-2026/

The Fed meets today for its first rate decision under new governor Kevin Warsh. Crypto is rallying into it, with ETH up 3.5% and SOL 4% as of June 16, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fed-first-rate-decision-kevin-warsh-crypto-rally-june-2026/

BlackRock debuted BITA, a Bitcoin income ETF that sells call options to pay double-digit yield while limiting upside. Here is the tradeoff, as of June 16, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blackrock-bita-bitcoin-income-etf-covered-call-june-2026/

The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark rate to 1%, the highest since 1995. The yen pared gains and altcoins held firm. Here is what it means for crypto. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/boj-hikes-1-percent-highest-since-1995-june-2026/

DTCC says it is close to a live demonstration of tokenizing securities held at The Depository Trust Company, the clearest step yet toward on-chain Wall Street settlement. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dtcc-live-tokenization-demo-dtc-securities-june-2026/

The Bank of Japan is set to raise rates to a 31-year high and signal more hikes. Here is the yen carry-trade link to crypto, with ETH up 3.2% as of June 16, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/boj-rate-hike-31-year-high-yen-carry-trade-crypto-june-2026/

Nous Research connected its Hermes agent to Stripe so it can make purchases, pay APIs, and provision SaaS on its own, with configurable safety limits as the guardrail. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nous-research-stripe-hermes-agent-payments-june-2026/

China's May retail sales fell for the first time in over three years. Here is the data, the deflation risk, and how it reads against a 3%+ crypto bid. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/china-consumer-spending-first-decline-since-pandemic-june-2026/