SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

FOMC keeps rates unchanged but drops easing bias as three officials dissent. BTC at $75,008 with Fear & Greed at 38, traders read a hawkish hold. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fed-holds-rates-three-dissents-inflation-april-2026/

Meta is rolling out stablecoin payouts for creators through Stripe, its first live crypto payments product since the Diem wind-down. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/meta-stablecoin-creator-payouts-stripe-april-2026/

Kevin Warsh advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee toward a full vote, putting a hawkish-leaning Fed chair within reach as crypto trades flat. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kevin-warsh-senate-banking-committee-fed-chair-april-2026/

Wall Street is filing the first prediction market ETFs for US elections, pulling political odds out of crypto venues and into regulated brokerage wrappers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/wall-street-prediction-market-etfs-us-elections-april-2026/

MoonPay buys Tel Aviv-based crypto security firm Sodot for $100M in stock, adding MPC key management to its payments and wallet infrastructure stack. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/moonpay-acquires-sodot-100m-mpc-security-april-2026/

Binance's gold futures product has cleared $100 billion in cumulative trading volume just months after launch, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-gold-futures-100b-cumulative-volume-april-2026/

Visa expands its stablecoin settlement rails to Polygon, letting issuers and acquirers move USDC across a faster, cheaper chain alongside Ethereum and Solana. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/visa-polygon-stablecoin-settlement-program-april-2026/

Securitize and Computershare are partnering to let US public-company shares settle as tokenized assets, opening a path for $70T in equities to move onchain. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/securitize-computershare-70-trillion-tokenized-stocks-april-2026/

State Street, the world Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/state-street-tokenized-funds-54-trillion-custody-april-2026/

Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide as scam losses mount, following Tennessee Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/canada-proposes-crypto-atm-ban-fraud-april-2026/

Pumpfun removed roughly $370M worth of PUMP from circulation, and the token climbed 7.6% the same day. What the burn changes about supply and float. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/pumpfun-burns-370m-pump-tokens-price-rally-april-2026/

KuCoin's KuCard debuts in Australia on April 29, 2026, swapping the old points model for direct cashback as the exchange pushes deeper into APAC. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kucoin-kucard-launches-australia-cashback-april-2026/

PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus erased production data and backups via one Railway API call. Crypto agent risk in focus. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cursor-ai-agent-pocketos-production-wipe-april-2026/

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington is moving to cut Iran off from crypto, signaling a sharper enforcement push beyond traditional banking. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bessent-us-targets-iran-crypto-access-april-2026/

Senator Cynthia Lummis pushed back on critics of the CLARITY Act's developer protection language, arguing the clause is narrower than opponents claim. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/lummis-defends-clarity-act-developer-protection-clause-april-2026/

Lightspark CEO David Marcus is launching a Bitcoin wallet that lets AI agents buy BTC and send or receive payments, pitching neutrality as the hook. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/david-marcus-lightspark-bitcoin-ai-agent-wallet-april-2026/

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl says a 1% Bitcoin sleeve raised expected returns without meaningfully lifting portfolio risk in koruna terms. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/czech-national-bank-bitcoin-1-percent-portfolio-michl-april-2026/

The CFTC filed suit against Wisconsin, accusing the state of encroaching on federal authority over crypto prediction markets. The action mirrors its New York case. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cftc-sues-wisconsin-crypto-prediction-markets-april-2026/

Visa is partnering with Reeve Collins' WeFi to route self-custodied crypto onto its rails across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/visa-wefi-self-custody-crypto-spending-april-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs broke a nine-day inflow run with $263M in outflows on April 27, with Fidelity's FBTC leading the exit. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-263m-outflow-snaps-nine-day-streak-fidelity-april-2026/

Polymarket is asking the CFTC to authorize its main exchange to operate in the US, per Bloomberg, four years after a settlement pushed it offshore. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/polymarket-cftc-approval-us-exchange-return-april-2026/

Galaxy Digital booked a $216M Q1 loss as crypto prices fell, but CEO Mike Novogratz says Hyperliquid trading gains kept the bleeding contained. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/galaxy-digital-hyperliquid-gains-q1-loss-april-2026/

BNB Chain shipped its Osaka and Mendel hard forks on April 28, 2026, promising faster finality, predictable gas pricing, and stability fixes for builders. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bnb-chain-osaka-mendel-hard-fork-activation-april-2026/

Rep. Nick Begich says he will reintroduce the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve bill in the current Congress, reviving the House companion to Lummis's BITCOIN Act. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/begich-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-bill-reintroduction-april-2026/

Bits of Gold gets the green light from Israel's Capital Market Authority to launch BILS, a 1:1 shekel-pegged stablecoin, after a 2-year Solana pilot. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/israel-approves-bils-shekel-stablecoin-bits-of-gold-april-2026/