SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

The White House publicly blamed Democrats for failing to pass the Crypto Clarity Act, escalating pressure on US crypto market structure legislation. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/white-house-blames-democrats-crypto-clarity-act-september-2026/

Bitget restarted Bitcoin withdrawals at 08:00 UTC on Sept 28 after its Sept 24 security incident, saying the flaw is fixed and user balances are intact. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitget-btc-withdrawals-live-phased-resumption-september-2026/

Belarus registered its first-ever crypto banks, requiring accreditation from the National Bank before operations. Here is what the move signals for the region. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/belarus-registers-first-crypto-banks-september-2026/

Ondo Finance opened perpetual trading on tokenized stocks and ETFs, letting traders post holdings as collateral and run the basis trade on one venue. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ondo-perps-tokenized-stock-perpetuals-24-7-september-2026/

Blockchain.com is reportedly planning a $500M IPO this year at a $4-6B valuation, adding to a wave of crypto infrastructure firms testing public markets. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blockchain-com-500m-ipo-4-6-billion-valuation-september-2026/

A second suspected memecoin rug factory has surfaced on Robinhood Chain, with GoPlus tracing over $9M in losses as the network's TVL climbs toward $1.5B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-chain-memecoin-rug-factories-9m-september-2026/

RedotPay says an independent Big Four firm signed off on its financials. Here is what a clean audit does and does not tell crypto card holders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/redotpay-clean-big-four-financial-audit-september-2026/

Chainlink updated its cross-chain bridge infrastructure months after a $292M hack at a rival exposed the risks in moving value between blockchains. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/chainlink-hardens-cross-chain-bridge-292m-exploit-september-2026/

Citigroup, with $2.8 trillion in assets, is teaming up with Coinbase to enable stablecoin payments for institutional clients, a signal that legacy finance now treats stablecoins as settlement rails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/citigroup-coinbase-stablecoin-payments-institutional-september-2026/

Quebec's financial regulator, the AMF, warned that meme token launchpad Pump.fun is not registered and not authorized to offer products in the province. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/quebec-amf-warns-pump-fun-not-registered-september-2026/

THORChain developers refused Bitget's request to block the attacker behind a $387.5M hack, choosing censorship resistance over asset recovery. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/thorchain-rejects-bitget-block-attacker-funds-decentralization-september-2026/

California becomes the first US state to ban memecoins, with Governor Newsom framing the signed law as a direct political counter to the Trump administration. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/california-newsom-memecoin-ban-opposite-of-trump-september-2026/

A yen stablecoin traded at four times its intended value, pushing South Korean regulators to reconsider rules that keep professional market makers off local exchanges. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/south-korea-market-maker-rules-jpyc-4x-peg-september-2026/

China's Ministry of State Security says crypto offers no anonymity and no legal escape for criminals, hardening the stance from the world's most restrictive market. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/china-mss-crypto-anonymity-illusion-no-legal-escape-september-2026/

Vitalik Buterin says the 2027 Hegota upgrade may be Ethereum's final fork that a 2015-era user would still recognize, before a shift to cryptographic scaling. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hegota-ethereum-last-normal-fork-vitalik-september-2026/

Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok says AI agents that auto-move household cash could spark 'agentic bank runs.' What it means for stablecoins and DeFi liquidity. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/apollo-torsten-slok-agentic-bank-run-stablecoins-september-2026/

SEC staff's new staking-token categories do not cover cbETH or stETH, leaving the two largest liquid staking tokens in regulatory limbo as holders weigh exit routes. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-staking-token-categories-exclude-cbeth-steth-september-2026/

Solana says stablecoins and real-world assets both hit all-time highs and over one million wallets now hold tokenized stocks. Here is what the milestone means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solana-ecosystem-records-stablecoins-rwas-tokenized-stocks-ath-september-2026/

The Clearing House selected Quant to power a tokenized deposit network, and CoinGecko data shows QNT up 158% on the week. A rare bank-infrastructure win for a token. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/the-clearing-house-quant-tokenized-deposits-qnt-158-september-2026/

Kraken is letting users request OURAx, a tokenized version of Oura's IPO shares through xStocks, bringing pre-IPO access onto blockchain rails for crypto traders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kraken-oura-ring-ipo-xstock-tokenized-securities-september-2026/

Under the SEC's tokenized-stock pilot, a second breach of a stock's trading-volume cap triggers a three-month pause on that exchange and its affiliates. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-tokenized-stock-three-month-pause-volume-cap-breach-september-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $2.39B in net inflows last week, the strongest weekly total since October, as BTC held near $84,500 on Sept 27, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-239b-net-inflows-best-week-since-october-september-2026/

Plasma One is offering Platinum-tier cardholders 10% cashback on their first Eight Sleep Pod 6 purchase, a merchant perk gated to the card's top tier. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/plasma-one-eight-sleep-10-percent-cashback-platinum-september-2026/

Payward, Kraken's parent, is buying futures brokers, chartering a bank, and opening its rails to 25+ companies to become financial infrastructure, not just an exchange. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kraken-payward-financial-infrastructure-billions-september-2026/

Evercrest, the firm behind KelpDAO, sued LayerZero Labs over a $292M exploit. Projects tied to $14.5B have announced moves off the interoperability layer. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/layerzero-15b-exodus-kelpdao-292m-exploit-lawsuit-september-2026/