SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

FBI Director Kash Patel says Operation Blackout seized over $15 billion in cryptocurrency, took down 500+ fraudulent investment sites, and closed scam compounds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fbi-operation-blackout-15-billion-crypto-seized-september-2026/

Altcoins now hold more open interest than Bitcoin for the first time, per Cointelegraph. Here is what the derivatives shift signals for volatility ahead. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/altcoins-flip-bitcoin-open-interest-leverage-shift-september-2026/

Pencil Finance says it financed 1,000 Southeast Asian student loans on-chain, routing about $1M through a blockchain lending pool built for real-world credit. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/pencil-finance-1000-student-loans-onchain-september-2026/

Anonymous traders have wagered more than $1 million that crypto's CLARITY Act will fail days before a make-or-break vote, pricing in real skepticism. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/traders-bet-1-million-clarity-act-failure-vote-september-2026/

Chilean exchange Orionx is closing after a forensic audit found over $7M in customer assets moved to outside wallets. What it means for exchange custody risk. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/orionx-chile-exchange-shutdown-7-million-custody-gap-september-2026/

Robinhood chain's weekly DEX trading volume reached a record $10.47B, almost doubling week-over-week as onchain trading adoption accelerates. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-dex-volume-record-10-billion-september-2026/

Kyrgyzstan plans to pilot its digital som CBDC while expanding crypto licensing and stablecoin infrastructure, signaling a coordinated regulatory push in Central Asia. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kyrgyzstan-digital-som-cbdc-crypto-licensing-stablecoin-september-2026/

Trezor says a ShipMonk breach exposed roughly 80,689 customers after shipping records that were supposedly deleted were found intact. What crypto holders should do. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/trezor-shipmonk-breach-80000-customers-exposed-september-2026/

A Compound proposal moved $24M in reserves after 82% of its support landed in the final 34 minutes. The vote was legal, and that is the problem for DAO safety. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/compound-24-million-governance-vote-dao-emergency-brake-september-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in nearly $1B last week and $3.8B over three weeks, their best stretch of 2026, even as BTC slipped below $80,000. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-inflows-3-8-billion-strongest-three-week-stretch-september-2026/

Bitcoin miner BTC Digital restored its Nasdaq listing compliance by keeping shares above $1 for 10 straight sessions, clearing a delisting deadline. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/btc-digital-regains-nasdaq-compliance-dollar-threshold-september-2026/

August payrolls rose 162,000, more than five times the prior year's monthly average. Bitcoin slid under $80,000 as rate-cut odds faded ahead of Sept. 11 CPI. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-falls-below-80k-hot-jobs-data-hawkish-fed-september-2026/

Pineapple Financial has moved over $1 billion in mortgage records onto Injective and plans to bring more than $10 billion of data on-chain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/pineapple-financial-mortgage-records-injective-onchain-september-2026/

FinCEN has identified $12.7 billion linked to suspected crypto scams. Here is what the figure means for fraud detection and how cardholders can lower their risk. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-treasury-fincen-12-7-billion-crypto-scams-september-2026/

Robinhood Chain halted block production for 14 minutes on Sept. 4 while AMC's CEO attacked its stock tokens, testing the L2 at the peak of its growth. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-chain-outage-corporate-backlash-september-2026/

Solid partnered with TransFi to let cardholders fund and cash out in 16 local currencies across Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Gulf, and the euro area. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solid-transfi-local-currency-deposits-16-currencies-september-2026/

Arthur Hayes links France's debt crisis to a European bank exit from US repo markets, Fed balance sheet expansion, and a possible Ethereum run to $10K by year-end. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/france-debt-crisis-arthur-hayes-ethereum-10k-september-2026/

The House canceled two weeks of September session, and the CLARITY Act, crypto's top legislative priority, could now slip past the November election. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/house-delays-september-session-clarity-act-delay-september-2026/

Polymarket launched perpetual futures with up to 20x leverage across crypto, stocks, indices, and commodities, pushing the prediction market into leveraged derivatives. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/polymarket-20x-leverage-perpetual-futures-launch-september-2026/

Revolut secured conditional approval from the OCC for a US national bank charter, a step that could reshape how the fintech handles deposits, cards, and crypto. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/revolut-occ-conditional-bank-charter-september-2026/

A U.S. banking agency granted OpenReserve preliminary approval to operate, one of the first blockchain-native banks to clear a federal regulator. Here's what it signals. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/openreserve-blockchain-bank-us-banking-approval-september-2026/

The IMF says El Salvador has not used public money to buy Bitcoin since June 2025 and expects no further accumulation, quietly ending a landmark policy. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/imf-el-salvador-bitcoin-accumulation-halt-september-2026/

Thai businessmen are suing Tether over $42M in USDT frozen in a pig-butchering scam case, testing when a stablecoin issuer can be held liable for locking funds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-42-million-lawsuit-thai-businessmen-frozen-usdt-september-2026/

Solana rolled out Payment Channels, letting AI agents set a spending limit once and settle usage in a single on-chain transaction instead of signing every call. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solana-payment-channels-ai-agents-onchain-settlement-september-2026/

Bitcoin's correlation with gold just hit its strongest level since 2020, per Bitwise. BTC trades at $80,941 as the 'digital gold' thesis gains ground. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-gold-correlation-6-year-high-september-2026/