SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet linked to a 120.2M USDT transfer and froze 72M USDT, the latest in a run of large on-chain freezes that keep reviving the centralization debate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-freezes-72m-usdt-tron-120m-transfer-june-2026/

Binance Wallet's SpaceX pre-IPO subscription drew roughly $557M from 27,689 addresses, per Dune data shared by WuBlockchain on June 12, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-wallet-spacex-ipo-subscription-557m-june-2026/

Coinbase for Agents gives AI agents their own accounts to trade, manage portfolios, and pay for tools via x402, with autonomous spending kept inside set guardrails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-for-agents-ai-accounts-x402-june-2026/

Michael Saylor says he never claimed Strategy could not sell Bitcoin and may do so when necessary, days after JPMorgan flagged the firm's thin cash runway. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/saylor-strategy-may-sell-bitcoin-when-necessary-june-2026/

Ripple and Bitso are expanding their partnership to put Bitso's MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB on the XRP Ledger for enterprise settlement across Latin America. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-bitso-mxnb-xrp-ledger-latam-settlement-june-2026/

The White House met law enforcement groups over the CLARITY Act on June 11, 2026, with developer protections the sticking point and Senate Democrats still undecided. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-white-house-law-enforcement-meeting-june-2026/

DefiLlama data shows Q2 2026 has logged roughly 70 hacks, about double the previous quarterly record, even as the dollar losses stay front-loaded in April. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/defillama-q2-2026-most-hacked-quarter-record-june-2026/

Bitcoin climbed back above $63,600 and Solana jumped 5.7% as Trump said the US reached a settlement of the Iran war, with crypto fear still at 18. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-rallies-trump-iran-war-settlement-extreme-fear-june-2026/

MetaMask Card expanded across Latin America, adding 13 new countries where users can spend self-custody crypto anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/metamask-card-expands-13-latin-american-countries-june-2026/

RedotPay completed VASP registration under Mexico's AML regime, adding a regulated footing for its crypto card and stablecoin transfers across Latin America. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/redotpay-mexico-vasp-aml-registration-june-2026/

BlackRock filed a fourth amendment for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), setting a 0.65% fee that undercuts YBTC and BTCI as it races Goldman to market. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blackrock-bita-bitcoin-income-etf-undercuts-rivals-june-2026/

Hungary is rolling back the restrictive crypto laws introduced under Viktor Orban, decriminalizing trading and scrapping prison terms of up to 8 years, per CoinDesk. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hungary-reverses-crypto-criminalization-decriminalizes-trading-june-2026/

Citigroup, a $2.78 trillion asset manager, is moving to tokenize private-company shares, pushing pre-IPO access onto onchain rails as RWA momentum builds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/citigroup-tokenized-private-company-securities-june-2026/

SpaceX's IPO filing suggests its Bitcoin holdings may act as a strategic reserve for excess cash, per Coin Bureau citing Bloomberg, a day before the SPCX listing. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/spacex-s1-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-excess-cash-june-2026/

Uphold is retiring UpHODL, its separate self-custodial crypto and NFT app, and has posted migration steps. The main Uphold app, platform, and card are untouched. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uphold-sunsets-uphodl-self-custody-app-june-2026/

Fold Holdings sold 633.8 BTC to clear $20M in Bitcoin-backed debt, leaving it with 192.2 BTC. A Bitcoin-rewards card firm cuts its treasury during extreme fear. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fold-holdings-sells-633-btc-repay-20m-debt-june-2026/

Seoul police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over a lawmaker's son hired at Korea's second-largest crypto exchange. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bithumb-ceo-booked-bribery-lawmaker-hiring-june-2026/

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/