SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

RedotPay unveiled RedotPay Connect at Money20/20, a B2B gateway that lets businesses accept stablecoins and settle in local currency, claiming up to 70% lower merchant fees. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/redotpay-connect-b2b-stablecoin-gateway-june-2026/

Strive added 2,500 BTC to reach 19,000 total on June 2, one day after Strategy disclosed its first sale, as bitcoin fell to about $69,076. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/strive-adds-2500-btc-19000-total-june-2026/

MoneyGram issued its own dollar stablecoin, MGUSD, on Stellar on June 2, 2026, with a self-custodial wallet for 60M customers across 500,000 retail locations. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/moneygram-mgusd-stablecoin-stellar-june-2026/

edgeX's EDGE token fell as much as 70% on June 1-2, triggering $2.81M in liquidations. ZachXBT says insiders controlled a low float and wants counterparties named. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/edgex-edge-token-crash-zachxbt-manipulation-june-2026/

ProCap sold 52 BTC to repurchase 2M shares at a ~50% discount to net asset value. Pompliano calls it accretive. The discount itself is the bigger story. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/procap-sells-52-btc-buyback-shares-nav-discount-june-2026/

Mt. Gox shifted 10,306 BTC (~$731M) to a fresh wallet for the first time in two months, landing as Bitcoin trades near $70,557 in a Fear-gripped market. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mt-gox-moves-10306-btc-731m-new-wallet-june-2026/

Grayscale priced its planned Hyperliquid Staking ETF at a 0.29% fee, undercutting a rival 21Shares product and pushing the ETF fee war into staking wrappers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/grayscale-hyperliquid-staking-etf-029-fee-june-2026/

The Kelp DAO exploiter has laundered nearly all of the unfrozen $220M from April's $293M rsETH drain, leaving only the $71M frozen by Arbitrum recoverable. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kelp-dao-hacker-launders-220m-recovery-window-june-2026/

SWIFT is launching a cross-border payments framework with 50-plus banks, promising instant settlement, fixed fees, and full traceability by end of June 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/swift-instant-cross-border-payments-50-banks-june-2026/

Ethereum's staking ratio reached an all-time high of 32.4%, with 39M ETH worth about $80B now locked, even as ETH trades under $2,000 on June 2, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ethereum-staking-ratio-record-32-4-percent-june-2026/

Charles Schwab, with roughly $10 trillion in client assets, is aiming to launch spot crypto trading for registered investment advisors in 2027. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/charles-schwab-crypto-spot-trading-advisors-2027-june-2026/

The US Senate is expected to take the CLARITY Act back to the floor this week, picking up the digital asset market structure bill after the Memorial Day recess. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-senate-debate-resumes-june-2026/

Robinhood closed its C$250M WonderFi acquisition on June 1, 2026, entering Canada with Bitbuy and Coinsquare and pushing its international base to 1M. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-closes-wonderfi-acquisition-canada-june-2026/

A jury convicted Citron Research founder Andrew Left of securities fraud over trading against his own published calls. The crypto-markets read. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/andrew-left-citron-securities-fraud-guilty-june-2026/

The world's largest derivatives exchange now trades Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and XRP futures and options around the clock, ending the weekend CME gap. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cme-group-24-7-crypto-futures-options-trading-june-2026/

Radiant Capital is winding down operations after a $50M cross-chain exploit it never recovered from. Here is what the shutdown means for DeFi lending risk. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/radiant-capital-wind-down-50m-exploit-june-2026/

Tria Season 3 caps cashback and leads with a points-and-mystery-box program instead of the old staking boost. We break down the new math and whether Tria still competes. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tria-season-3-cashback-downgrade/

Binance launched commission-free equities trading for eligible non-US and non-UK users and previewed tokenized 'bStocks', as BTC sits at $71,364 on June 1, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-commission-free-stock-trading-bstocks-june-2026/

Japan's LDP asked Finance Minister Katayama on June 1 to legalize crypto ETF trading and push yen stablecoins against the $315B dollar-token market. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/japan-ldp-crypto-etf-yen-stablecoin-proposal-june-2026/

BitMine Immersion added 26,497 ETH on June 1, 2026, lifting its treasury to 5.42M ETH (~$10.7B) even as ether fell to $1,978 in a broad selloff. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitmine-26497-eth-purchase-5-42m-treasury-june-2026/

Michael Saylor's Strategy disclosed selling 32 BTC for about $2.5M in late May, the first sale on record for a firm built on never selling Bitcoin. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/strategy-sells-32-bitcoin-2-5m-filing-june-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have lost $2.96B over 10 straight days, pushing 2026 net flows negative for the first time. AUM fell from $104B to $94B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-ytd-flows-turn-negative-3b-june-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.42B in net outflows for the week of May 25-31, the third-highest weekly drawdown on record, per WuBlockchain data. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-1-42b-weekly-outflow-third-highest-june-2026/

A solo home miner running a roughly $300 machine solved a full Bitcoin block worth about $232K against 149 million-to-1 odds. Here is the math behind the win. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solo-home-miner-wins-232k-bitcoin-block-june-2026/

Bank of England's Megan Greene predicts stablecoin demand fades within five years as tokenized bank deposits take over. What it means for crypto payment rails. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/boe-greene-stablecoin-demand-fade-tokenized-deposits-june-2026/