SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Cronos executed a controversial blockchain rollback to recover $111 million in crypto, reopening the debate over emergency powers and whether a chain can be truly immutable. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cronos-blockchain-rollback-111-million-recovery-september-2026/

Uzbekistan's Humo Digital begins a sandbox trial of its som-pegged HUMO stablecoin, backed by government securities, with 20+ merchants under central bank oversight. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uzbekistan-humo-som-stablecoin-payment-pilot-september-2026/

South Korea's National Assembly Budget Office estimates won-denominated stablecoins could save merchants up to 5.15 trillion won a year in card fees. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/south-korea-budget-office-won-stablecoins-merchant-fees-3-8-billion-september-2026/

Bitcoin short-term whale holders are sitting on a record $9.07B in unrealized profit as BTC trades near $78,430. Here is what the concentration signal means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-short-term-whale-profits-record-9-billion-selloff-risk-september-2026/

White-hat hackers have returned 3,400 of 4,000 Bitcoin drained from Blockstream's Liquid Network. 598 BTC worth $47M remains outstanding as the network stays paused. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-whitehat-returns-3400-btc-47m-outstanding-september-2026/

Switzerland's CHFD franc stablecoin sandbox entered live testing on Sept 8, 2026, with exchange operator SIX and payment app TWINT joining nine pilot companies. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/swiss-stablecoin-sandbox-six-twint-testing-phase-september-2026/

Canary Capital's Staked Tron ETF (TRXS) lists on Cboe on September 9, the first US fund to pair Tron price exposure with onchain staking rewards. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/canary-capital-staked-tron-etf-cboe-launch-september-2026/

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas proposed a 12-month freeze on new payment-system operator registrations to rebuild its licensing framework. Here is what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/philippines-central-bank-payment-system-registration-freeze-september-2026/

The Ethereum Foundation named FOCIL and Frame Transactions the two 'must ship' EIPs for the Hegota upgrade, setting the protocol's near-term priorities. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethereum-foundation-focil-frame-transactions-hegota-upgrade-september-2026/

Ether Fi says its Cash rails have moved more than $100M in cumulative onramp and offramp volume. Here is what the funding milestone means for cardholders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ether-fi-100m-onramp-offramp-volume-milestone-september-2026/

The Coldcard breach attacker is emptying 293 Bitcoin vaults in order of size, moving $7.7M so far, nearly half of the third-wave haul. What it means for self-custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coldcard-hacker-drains-7-7-million-293-vaults-september-2026/

DBS and Citi will settle instant USD cross-border payments using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, a concrete step toward always-on bank money. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dbs-citi-tokenized-deposits-swift-blockchain-ledger-september-2026/

A Bank of Korea study finds demand for dollar-backed stablecoins can pressure local currencies when global exchanges list direct fiat pairs. Here is what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bank-of-korea-dollar-stablecoins-weaken-local-currencies-september-2026/

David Hoffman took heat for selling ETH, then rotated into LIT and ZEC. WuBlockchain reports the trade posted gains up to 369%. Here is what the pivot signals. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bankless-hoffman-eth-sale-lit-zec-rotation-september-2026/

The purported white-hat behind Liquid Network's $320M Elements exploit is negotiating a return of nearly 4,000 BTC to Blockstream's federation. Here is where it stands. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-whitehat-returns-320m-btc-blockstream-september-2026/

Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 chain and airdropping ONE as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, weeks after a mint exploit forged nearly 4 billion tokens. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/harmony-shuts-down-layer-1-migrates-one-ethereum-september-2026/

The ~$320M drain on Blockstream's Liquid was not a multisig break. About 4,000 L-BTC was minted by an Elements bug, then routed through SideSwap. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/liquid-network-elements-bug-320m-mint-september-2026/

Attackers calling themselves whitehats drained close to 4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid sidechain peg, reviving questions about federated custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blockstream-liquid-peg-4000-btc-whitehat-drain-september-2026/

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/