SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Arthur Hayes disclosed selling his HYPE and NEAR positions on June 4, 2026. NEAR fell 19.5% and HYPE 5.8% as a broad crypto selloff deepened. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/arthur-hayes-sells-hype-near-tokens-drop-june-2026/

Goldman Sachs launched a blockchain-native real estate fund on GS DAP with Apex, Archax, Ownera and LRC, pushing institutional RWA tokenization past bonds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/goldman-sachs-tokenized-real-estate-fund-gs-dap-june-2026/

Apyx's apxUSD fell to 93 cents as Bitcoin dropped below $63K. The protocol calls the depeg expected behavior for a stablecoin backed by preferred equity. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/apyx-apxusd-depeg-strc-preferred-equity-june-2026/

Hyperliquid's May perpetuals volume hit a record 6.63% of total global centralized-exchange volume and 14.4% of Binance's, per WuBlockchain, during a broad selloff. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hyperliquid-may-perps-record-cex-share-binance-june-2026/

The ECB says gold hit 27% of global central bank reserves at end-2025 while US Treasuries slid to 22%. The debasement trade that skips crypto, for now. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gold-overtakes-us-treasuries-reserve-asset-ecb-june-2026/

Gnosis Pay says the first user accounts were re-enabled and the rollout will continue in waves, prioritizing affected users. Here's what cardholders should expect. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gnosis-pay-re-enables-accounts-phased-waves-june-2026/

Charles Schwab is adding round-the-clock crypto futures for BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP across thinkorswim, closing the gap between fixed brokerage hours and crypto. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/charles-schwab-24-7-crypto-futures-thinkorswim-june-2026/

Senate Banking chair Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act could reach the Senate floor by July 4, setting a firm timeline for US crypto market-structure law. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-senate-floor-july-4-lummis-june-2026/

Bitcoin dropped below $63,000 on June 4, 2026, with $1.12B liquidated in 24 hours and the Fear & Greed index at 20. Longs took most of the damage. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-falls-under-63k-1b-liquidations-fear-20-june-2026/

The CFTC dropped a longstanding rule that barred defendants from settling enforcement cases while denying the allegations. Here is what it means for crypto. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cftc-scraps-no-deny-policy-enforcement-settlements-june-2026/

Tria reported all-time-high May card spend of $22.91M across 105k transactions and ~14k active wallets, just as Season 3 caps the rewards that drove it. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tria-record-may-card-spend-22m-june-2026/

Trezor disclosed a laser fault injection flaw in the Safe 7's TROPIC01 secure element, found by Ledger's Donjon team. Trezor says keys are not stored on the chip. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/trezor-safe-7-laser-fault-secure-element-vulnerability-june-2026/

CoinDesk reports Stripe, Visa and Mastercard are among the backers of a soon-to-launch stablecoin platform, with Coinbase exploring a role. Here is what it means. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/stripe-visa-mastercard-stablecoin-platform-june-2026/

Euroclear and Banque de France will pilot tokenized NEU commercial paper in late 2026, putting the euro area's largest short-term debt market on a ledger. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/euroclear-pythagore-tokenized-commercial-paper-june-2026/

BitMine is down $8.9B on its ETH stack and Strategy is $7.6B underwater on Bitcoin, per Cointelegraph, as BTC and ETH both slide on June 3, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitmine-strategy-combined-16b-treasury-losses-june-2026/

Mastercard expanded settlement to regulated stablecoins USDC, RLUSD and PYUSD across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and XRPL. Here is what changes for card rails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mastercard-stablecoin-settlement-usdc-rlusd-pyusd-june-2026/

The European Banking Authority and New York's NYDFS signed a June 3 memorandum to share stablecoin data and coordinate supervision across the Atlantic. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nydfs-eba-stablecoin-oversight-mou-june-2026/

Senators Sanders and Warren are pushing back on a Labor Department plan to let crypto into 401(k) retirement accounts, warning it puts savings at risk. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sanders-warren-crypto-401k-labor-department-june-2026/

Bitcoin's BVIV implied volatility index jumped nearly 20% to 46.45% on June 3, 2026, its biggest move since the February 5 crash, as BTC fell to about $67K. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-bviv-volatility-gauge-jump-feb5-since-june-2026/

The US is proposing tariffs of at least 10% on most major trading partners, rebuilding the wall the Supreme Court struck down. BTC fell 6.4% the same day. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/trump-10-percent-tariffs-supreme-court-crypto-june-2026/

Binance is closing NFT support on its main exchange and shifting the service to Binance Wallet, a custodial-to-self-custody move during a market-wide selloff. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-shuts-nft-marketplace-moves-to-wallet-june-2026/

The FCA backed the UK Payments Initiative on June 2, 2026, an industry scheme for commercial variable recurring payments that lets account-to-account rails handle subscriptions. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uk-payments-initiative-open-banking-cvrp-june-2026/

Bitcoin fell to $67,001 and every major token dropped 5-7.5% in 24 hours as the Fear & Greed Index hit 26, even as the S&P 500 and Dow closed higher. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-selloff-btc-67k-fear-greed-26-stocks-diverge-june-2026/

A House of Lords committee has urged the Bank of England to ease its proposed stablecoin rules, warning that strict holding caps could leave GBP tokens stranded. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/boe-stablecoin-rules-uk-lords-warn-irrelevance-june-2026/

Ledger launched Cash-to-Stablecoin in Ledger Wallet, giving users an IBAN for deposits and paychecks plus USD/EUR to USDC conversion with no conversion fee. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ledger-cash-to-stablecoin-iban-usdc-june-2026/