SpendNode Podcast: Crypto News & Analysis

An AI code scan uncovered three Bitcoin Core bugs, including a remote crash that drains memory on Windows, macOS and BSD nodes. Patches shipped in version 32.1. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ai-bitcoin-core-node-crash-bugs-october-2026/

Standard Asset Company, backed by a Dubai royal and advised by Coinbase, unveiled a $1.5B strategy pairing a managed Bitcoin reserve with UAE real estate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/standard-asset-company-15b-bitcoin-uae-real-estate-october-2026/

Switzerland's FINMA approved BBIT, the country's first spot bitcoin ETF, with a rare waiver to hold only bitcoin. It lists on SIX in November for brokers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/switzerland-first-spot-bitcoin-etf-overseas-brokers-october-2026/

Alice & Bob says breaking a Bitcoin key could take 29,588 qubits, 17 times fewer than Google's estimate, pulling quantum migration pressure into the early 2030s. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/quantum-model-bitcoin-key-cracking-17x-october-2026/

ICE, the owner of the NYSE, is taking a stake in Trade.xyz to build a regulated US market for Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures. HYPE jumped 13% on the news. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/nyse-ice-hyperliquid-perpetual-futures-us-october-2026/

Russia's central bank confirmed its self-custody wallet limits apply only to domestic transfers, leaving cross-border crypto payments open under Law 282-FZ. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/russia-self-custody-wallet-limits-international-payments-october-2026/

The Bank of Russia registered its first self-regulatory organization for crypto exchangers and digital depositories, adding an industry layer to its new register. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/russia-central-bank-first-crypto-sro-october-2026/

Fidelity Digital Assets says Bitcoin's NUPL score climbed from 0.09 to 0.36 in Q3, lifting holders into its 'Optimism-Anxiety' zone with an estimated $627B in paper gains. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/fidelity-bitcoin-nupl-036-unrealized-gains-october-2026/

Gate has launched the Gold Card, a crypto payment card for online and in-store spending with Samsung Pay support, expanding its exchange-linked card lineup. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/gate-gold-card-launch-samsung-pay-october-2026/

BNB Chain's Jenner hard fork went live on the BSC testnet, reserving 5% of each block's gas for payment transactions, with governance able to raise it to 10%. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bnb-chain-jenner-hard-fork-payment-lane-october-2026/

Uphold now lets US users swap directly between crypto and 4,000+ stocks and ETFs in one step, from $5, with 0% commission on cash-to-stock trades. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uphold-crypto-to-stock-trading-4000-securities-october-2026/

The US government cashed out seized FTX Anthropic shares for $627M. Those same shares are now worth $3.94B, a 6.3x gap that reframes the bankruptcy math. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-government-sells-627m-seized-ftx-anthropic-shares-october-2026/

Binance founder CZ flagged four data leaks in a single day, including a breach at Coinbase's analytics vendor Amplitude that exposed some users' contact data. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-amplitude-vendor-breach-october-2026/

Solflare's staking provider suffered a security incident that compromised its validator keys. Delegated SOL was never touched, but rewards are paused pending a migration. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solflare-validator-key-breach-staking-october-2026/

VanEck has launched the actively managed Wealth Builder ETF (WBMO), which targets a 2% Bitcoin allocation, flexing between 1% and 5%, alongside stocks and bonds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/vaneck-wealth-builder-etf-2-percent-bitcoin-allocation-october-2026/

An X100 attacker froze tokens, seized two of three Senate seats, and passed a proposal that drained about $6M from the treasury in one flash-loan transaction. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/x100-governance-flaw-6m-flash-loan-exploit-october-2026/

Bithumb confirmed its internal mobile system was hacked and customer personal data exposed, part of a wave of breaches hitting South Korean financial firms. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bithumb-confirms-security-breach-october-2026/

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes pitched futures and perpetual swaps on AI compute, priced against a FLOP-denominated reference rate he calls the FRCR. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/arthur-hayes-ai-compute-derivatives-flop-futures-october-2026/

Ripple is expanding its Robinhood partnership to bring the RLUSD stablecoin across retail and institutional products, spanning treasury, lending, and trading. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-rlusd-robinhood-retail-institutional-october-2026/

Robinhood's Q3 2026 crypto revenue fell 55% to $120M, beating a lowered $114.1M forecast even as crypto slid to 8.4% of the broker's record $1.42B in sales. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-crypto-revenue-plunges-55-percent-q3-october-2026/

Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched JQQQ, a tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar for non-US professional investors, pushing its onchain book past $1B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/janus-henderson-jqqq-tokenized-nasdaq-100-stellar-october-2026/

USDC now handles 56% of euro stablecoin trading, up from 10% in early 2024, after MiCA rules pushed major exchanges to restrict USDT for European users. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/usdc-majority-euro-stablecoin-trading-mica-october-2026/

Binance filed for a crypto service license with the Central Bank of Brazil on October 23, days before an October 30 deadline, while delisting 22 assets. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-brazil-crypto-license-filing-october-2026/

Coinbase Institutional co-CEO Brett Tejpaul says seven of the world's largest banks now use its infrastructure, calling it a Kodak moment as stablecoin payments climb. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-seven-global-banks-infrastructure-kodak-moment-october-2026/

The OCC gave Ripple final approval to run Ripple National Trust Bank, which will hold RLUSD reserves and custody institutional crypto under federal oversight. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-national-trust-bank-occ-final-approval-october-2026/