SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

The Federal Reserve proposed GENIUS Act stablecoin screening rules on June 18, 2026. Every governor voted yes except Chair Kevin Warsh, who abstained. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fed-stablecoin-rulemaking-genius-act-warsh-abstains-june-2026/

Estonian PM Kristen Michal approved a plan to issue AI agents government IDs with auditable rights to book flights, file taxes, and make payments. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/estonia-ai-agents-government-ids-payments-june-2026/

Bitcoin fell to $63,856 and ether to $1,729 after the Fed turned hawkish and markets priced a 2026 rate hike, even as equities rose on a signed US-Iran deal. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-slides-hawkish-fed-rate-hike-stocks-iran-deal-june-2026/

Oman has made membership in a single state-run Bitcoin mining pool mandatory for every licensed operator, a first-of-its-kind move that centralizes national hashrate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/oman-mandatory-national-bitcoin-mining-pool-june-2026/

Strategy's variable-rate STRC perpetual preferred closed at a record low $89, below its $100 par design even after a 11.50% June dividend rate. The funding engine is straining. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/strategy-strc-stretch-preferred-record-low-june-2026/

France is pushing to phase out classical encryption in favor of post-quantum schemes, reviving questions about how exposed Bitcoin's signatures really are. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/france-phase-out-non-quantum-encryption-bitcoin-security-june-2026/

Inveniam Capital Partners is acquiring MANTRA, the VASP-licensed RWA layer-1, in a deal set to close by June 30, 2026. Here is what changes and what stays. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/inveniam-acquire-mantra-rwa-tokenization-ai-june-2026/

CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, plans to sue its own regulator over the CFTC's decision to allow perpetual futures onshore in the US. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cme-sue-cftc-perpetual-futures-approval-june-2026/

Standard Chartered set a $100 long-term price target on Uniswap's UNI for 2030, citing DEX market share and untapped fee revenue. UNI rallied on the note. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uniswap-standard-chartered-100-uni-price-target-2030-june-2026/

Moody's expanded its Token Integration Engine to Solana, letting issuers embed credit ratings directly into tokenized bonds and fixed-income securities onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/moody-ratings-tie-solana-tokenized-bonds-june-2026/

Rodney Burton, the promoter known as 'Bitcoin Rodney,' pleaded guilty over the $1.8B HyperFund Ponzi. He faces up to 5 years and is sentenced July 23. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-rodney-guilty-1-8b-hyperfund-ponzi-june-2026/

Ready restricted USDC card spending for non-EEA users after switching card providers, with some holders reporting an hour's notice before deactivation. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ready-usdc-card-non-eea-service-halt-issuer-change-june-2026/

Plasma One launched June 17, 2026: a self-custodial Visa on the Plasma chain in three tiers (Lite, Core, Platinum), XPL cashback, and a 7-day offer that makes Core free for a year. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/plasma-one-launch-aave-self-custodial-stablecoin-visa-june-2026/

Governor Pritzker signed Illinois' Digital Asset Privilege Tax into law despite industry pushback: 0.2% per trade, custody included, felony penalties for unregistered brokers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/illinois-pritzker-signs-crypto-trading-tax-law-june-2026/

Reuters reports the SEC is poised to grant an innovation exemption letting crypto firms offer blockchain-based stocks. The tokenized equity market already tops $6.4B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sec-innovation-exemption-tokenized-stocks-june-2026/

US House and Senate negotiators agreed to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030, folded into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-congress-cbdc-ban-2030-housing-bill-june-2026/

Fairshake, the crypto super PAC, spent over $12 million to push Barry Moore to a 56% win in Alabama's GOP Senate runoff, its biggest single-race bet of 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fairshake-12m-barry-moore-alabama-senate-primary-june-2026/

HYPE futures open interest rose 32% in a week to about $3B, while stock and index perps on Hyperliquid hit $2.9B in OI, overtaking Bitcoin on the venue. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hyperliquid-open-interest-32-percent-tradfi-perps-pass-bitcoin-june-2026/

BNB Chain says $SPXCB is live on PancakeSwap, giving 24/7 onchain exposure to SpaceX (SPCX) days after the company's record Nasdaq debut. Here is what it is. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bnb-chain-spxcb-tokenized-spacex-pancakeswap-june-2026/

China signed 26 financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, onto its cross-border digital yuan payment network, per CoinDesk. Here is why it matters. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/china-digital-yuan-26-banks-standard-chartered-cross-border-june-2026/

A bipartisan group led by Cynthia Lummis is urging the Treasury to clarify how state authority works under the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/lummis-senators-treasury-genius-act-state-authority-june-2026/

Coinbase is launching tokenized stock trading with 1:1 backed onchain shares and dividend payments, joining a tokenization race that already includes DTCC and Binance. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-tokenized-stocks-onchain-shares-dividends-june-2026/

Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutterwave, valuing the African fintech at $3.3B, as it pushes deeper into cross-border payments and stablecoin settlement in Africa. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-flutterwave-stake-3-3b-africa-payments-june-2026/

Reuters reports Binance's application for an EU MiCA license is heading for rejection, weeks before the transition deadline that forces unlicensed exchanges out. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-eu-mica-license-rejection-reuters-june-2026/

Mirae Asset, a $721B manager, signed an MOU with Ondo Finance to tokenize US-listed ETFs through Global X, including a covered-call ETF share class in Q3 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ondo-mirae-asset-tokenized-global-x-etfs-june-2026/