SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

SpaceX beat Wall Street revenue forecasts but booked a $540M loss tied to its Bitcoin holdings, a reminder of how mark-to-market swings hit corporate crypto. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/spacex-540m-bitcoin-loss-corporate-treasury-august-2026/

Senators Thom Tillis and Ruben Gallego crafted a bipartisan ethics compromise to move the CLARITY Act past the 60-vote Senate threshold before the August recess. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senate-bipartisan-60-votes-clarity-act-august-2026/

US senators are urging the SEC to investigate the Trump meme coin after a 98% drop erased billions and pushed it out of the top 100 altcoins. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senators-sec-probe-trump-meme-coin-98-percent-collapse-august-2026/

Dinari partnered with Circle to offer tokenized US stock trading to American investors, settling 724 companies onchain in USDC. Details and context here. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dinari-tokenized-us-stocks-circle-usdc-august-2026/

Western Union, the 175-year-old remittance giant, has launched a Solana-based Stablecard spendable at 175 million Visa merchants. Here is what it means for crypto spending. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/western-union-solana-stablecard-visa-merchants-august-2026/

Italy's largest bank Intesa Sanpaolo slashed its IBIT position by 94% and tripled its staked Ethereum ETF holdings, a sharp rotation from BTC to yield-bearing ETH. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-cuts-bitcoin-etf-triples-staked-ethereum-august-2026/

Mastercard completed its $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition on August 4, 2026, buying the stablecoin infrastructure that lets banks and fintechs settle in USDC and USDT. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mastercard-bvnk-acquisition-stablecoin-august-2026/

Grant Cardone says Cardone Capital is bundling 350 BTC (about $22.3M) into a newly awarded Fort Lauderdale multifamily deal: 350 Class A units plus 350 coins in one purchase. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/grant-cardone-capital-350-btc-purchase-august-2026/

Tyler Williams, the Treasury's top digital asset adviser to Scott Bessent, has left the department during active CLARITY Act talks, per Punchbowl News. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/treasury-digital-asset-adviser-tyler-williams-exits-august-2026/

Apple removed Telegram from its App Store worldwide, cutting off the main channel crypto projects, traders, and TON users rely on. Here's what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/telegram-removed-apple-app-store-august-2026/

An FBI agent is accused of taking about $1 million in crypto from a suspect's accounts, later confessing the theft was 'eating him up inside,' per court filings. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fbi-agent-accused-stealing-crypto-suspect-accounts-august-2026/

Non-custodial swap protocol Boltz paused operations after attackers used AI to find and adapt exploits faster than its small team could patch them. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/boltz-pauses-service-ai-assisted-hacking-august-2026/

Robinhood secured FCA registration to offer crypto services in the UK, opening its trading app to one of Europe's largest retail markets under formal oversight. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-fca-registration-uk-crypto-august-2026/

Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $172.4M in July, ending two straight months of withdrawals. BTC still trades at $62,605 as of August 3, 2026, down 4% on the week. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etfs-reverse-two-month-outflow-172m-july-august-2026/

Coinbase settled its FOIA lawsuit against the SEC for $150,000, surfacing FDIC letters that told ~20 banks to pause crypto in what critics call Choke Point 2.0. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-wins-sec-foia-choke-point-lawsuit-august-2026/

JPMorgan has approved HashKey Exchange, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto venue, to open a client money account, a rare banking nod for a digital-asset platform. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/jpmorgan-approves-hashkey-institutional-accounts-august-2026/

The SEC granted CME's petition to review Nasdaq's bitcoin options approval and kept it stayed, with written statements due August 24, extending derivatives uncertainty. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-stays-nasdaq-bitcoin-options-cme-review-august-2026/

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes swapped 2.5M USDC back into ETH two days after exiting, per Cointelegraph. ETH trades near $1,857 as of August 3, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/arthur-hayes-buys-back-eth-48-hours-august-2026/

The Senate has no CLARITY Act floor vote scheduled for Monday, confirming the crypto market structure bill is stalling as the August recess deadline nears. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-no-senate-monday-vote-scheduled-august-2026/

COLDCARD confirmed it destroyed all vulnerable hardware wallet inventory and is cooperating with law enforcement to identify the attackers behind its security breach. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coldcard-destroys-vulnerable-inventory-law-enforcement-august-2026/

A Coldcard hardware wallet exploit tied to a $90M Bitcoin loss has rattled self-custody users. Here is what happened and how to check your own setup. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coldcard-exploit-90m-bitcoin-flight-august-2026/

Michael Saylor posted 'Bitcoin Drive engaged,' his usual tell before a Strategy BTC purchase. It would break a five-week pause, with BTC at $63,364. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/saylor-bitcoin-drive-engaged-purchase-signal-august-2026/

Robinhood posted record $1.31B Q2 revenue, with event contracts contributing $156M, roughly 12% of the total and up 10x year over year. Here is what the numbers show. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-prediction-markets-156m-event-contracts-august-2026/

The Senate has roughly five working days to move the CLARITY Act before August recess. A miss pushes crypto market-structure rules into an uncertain fall. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/senate-five-days-crypto-clarity-act-recess-august-2026/

The CLARITY Act bars government officials from issuing crypto, but a single paragraph exempts royalty income from tokens that already exist. Here is why that matters. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-royalty-income-exemption-officials-august-2026/