SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

Aave's DeFi United relief fund crossed $303M in commitments, exceeding the $292M lost in the KelpDAO exploit and clearing the path to full rsETH user recovery. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/aave-defi-united-303m-kelpdao-coverage-april-2026/

Bitcoin fell 2.9% to $76,854 overnight as Fed rate uncertainty, climbing oil prices, and a fresh AI-stock wobble dragged risk assets lower. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-fed-oil-ai-slowdown-pressure-april-2026/

Roman Storm's lawyers rebuked Acting AG Todd Blanche's suggestion that Tornado Cash and Samourai cases could be elevated, journalist Eleanor Terrett reports. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/roman-storm-defense-doj-case-elevation-pushback-april-2026/

DefiLlama says stablecoins moved over $1T this month and launched a public tracker to compare issuers, chains, and flows side by side. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/stablecoin-transfers-1-trillion-monthly-defillama-april-2026/

Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics rules restricting officials' use of digital assets. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tillis-senate-crypto-bill-ethics-officials-april-2026/

Gemini's new Agentic Trading lets users plug ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents into the exchange to run live order flow on their accounts. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gemini-agentic-trading-ai-chatgpt-claude-april-2026/

Kalshi and Polymarket plan to offer crypto perpetual futures in the US, putting offshore-style derivatives under CFTC-regulated prediction-market venues. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perpetual-futures-us-april-2026/

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced the Bitcoin community at Bitcoin 2026, addressing the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions head on. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/blanche-bitcoin-2026-tornado-cash-samourai-april-2026/

Google scanned billions of pages and found real payloads built to hijack AI agents into draining PayPal balances and leaking enterprise data. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/google-prompt-injection-ai-agents-paypal-payments-april-2026/

MARA Holdings is creating a foundation focused on Bitcoin's quantum threat and network resilience, CoinDesk reports during Bitcoin 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/mara-quantum-resilience-foundation-bitcoin-april-2026/

Tether unveiled MDK, an open-source infrastructure layer aimed at giving Bitcoin miners full control over their hardware, firmware, and pool routing. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-mdk-open-source-bitcoin-mining-stack-april-2026/

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 101,901 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to roughly 5.08M ETH worth about $11.8B at current prices. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitmine-101901-eth-accumulation-5-million-treasury-april-2026/

A CEX survey says more than a third of US crypto traders have trimmed everyday spending due to market losses, with BTC at $77,747 as of April 27, 2026. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-crypto-traders-cut-everyday-spending-cex-survey-april-2026/

Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $933M last week, lifting total crypto fund assets to their highest level since February, according to CoinDesk's weekly tracker. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-933m-weekly-aum-february-high-april-2026/

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says the US CLARITY Act will clear Congress in May and be signed into law in June, putting a tight calendar on crypto market structure. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/novogratz-clarity-act-may-june-prediction-april-2026/

Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork would reassign roughly 550,000 of Satoshi's coins to fund development. Bitcoiners are calling it theft. Block 964,000 is the trigger. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-fork-satoshi-coins-paul-sztorc-ecash-april-2026/

Brussels rolls out its biggest sanctions package against Russia, with new measures aimed directly at closing crypto evasion rails through exchanges and stablecoins. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/eu-russia-sanctions-crypto-evasion-escalation-april-2026/

Grayscale's shift away from Coinbase Custody for its newest ETF product is starting to look less like a one-off and more like a structural rewiring of Wall Street's crypto custody stack. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/post-coinbase-etf-custody-grayscale-wall-street-map-april-2026/

Bitcoin pulled back from a 12-week high as buyers ran into heavy supply at $79,400, the level CoinDesk flagged as the technical ceiling for the Iran-driven rally. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-79400-seller-wall-iran-rally-pullback-april-2026/

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju warns Bitcoin's recent climb is being powered by leveraged futures while on-chain spot demand stays negative as BTC trades near $77,807. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-rally-futures-driven-spot-demand-negative-cryptoquant-april-2026/

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.12B on Friday, extending their inflow streak to nine sessions and reversing last week's $1.9B BlackRock-led outflows. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitcoin-etf-nine-day-inflow-streak-2-billion-friday-april-2026/

Aave Labs is asking Arbitrum's Security Council to unfreeze $73.5M in ETH tied to the KelpDAO exploit and redirect the funds toward Aave's rsETH recovery. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/aave-labs-arbitrum-unfreeze-73-million-eth-kelpdao-april-2026/

Western Union plans a May launch for USDPT, a Solana-based stablecoin, alongside a digital asset network and a US dollar stable card. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/western-union-usdpt-solana-stablecoin-card-launch-april-2026/

A Hong Kong-listed firm is raising 10,000 BTC for a regulated capital pool, the first attempt of its kind in Asia and roughly $781M at current prices. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hong-kong-10000-btc-regulated-capital-pool-april-2026/

CoinDesk argues that freezing the 5.6 million dormant bitcoin currently sitting outside circulation could produce the largest single-day price shock in BTC history. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/dormant-bitcoin-5-6-million-freeze-repricing-april-2026/