SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

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/

Botanix, a venture-funded Bitcoin Layer 2 that raised $11.5M, is winding down. Users must withdraw assets by July 9 or the validator Federation sweeps the rest. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/botanix-bitcoin-l2-shutdown-withdraw-july-9-june-2026/

A May CPI print seen at a three-year high pushed Bitcoin and gold down together. BTC sits at $61,248 and Fear & Greed reads 14 as of June 10, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-gold-fall-together-rate-hike-bet-hot-cpi-june-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETF assets have fallen to $77.58B, the same level as Trump's November 2024 win, after a $169.54B peak. Over $5B left in four weeks. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etfs-flat-since-trump-election-aum-erodes-june-2026/

Bitcoin just recorded its worst weekly performance since the November 2022 FTX collapse, per Bloomberg, with BTC near $61,260 and Fear & Greed at 14. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/btc-worst-week-since-ftx-collapse-extreme-fear-june-2026/

CME Group is launching Nasdaq CME crypto index futures covering Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, bundling three assets into one regulated contract during extreme fear. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cme-nasdaq-crypto-index-futures-btc-eth-sol-june-2026/

DefiLlama added pre-IPO perpetual futures for Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Quantinuum on Aster and Lighter, putting synthetic exposure to private firms onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/defillama-pre-ipo-perps-openai-anthropic-spacex-june-2026/

Gate says more than $60M has been committed to SpaceX through its IPO Access product, as OKX pushes the same pre-IPO pitch and exchanges chase private-equity demand. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gate-ipo-access-spacex-60m-pre-ipo-june-2026/