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METAMASK CODE REVIEW Consensys says a developer later linked to North Korea contributed to MetaMask's codebase before access was cut off. The firm says it found no evidence of malicious commits, but it is a reminder that DPRK IT workers keep slipping into crypto payrolls. We break down what it means for wallet users. spendnode.io/blog/metamask-…

CITADEL NOW HOLDS STAKES IN TWO $20B CRYPTO RIVALS With $400M into Crypto Dot Com this week and $200M into Kraken last November, Citadel Securities has quietly built $600M of exposure to two exchanges chasing the same prize: tokenized stocks and derivatives. We read it as a bet on the pipes, not the price. spendnode.io/blog/citadel-6…

RIPPLE PAYMENTS EUROPE JOINS THE MiCA REGISTER ESMA added 14 crypto firms to its MiCA register in one update, and Ripple Payments Europe is on the list. The EU now counts 294 licensed crypto service providers. The bloc's rulebook is turning from paperwork into a live operating list. spendnode.io/blog/ripple-pa…

CITADEL SECURITIES BACKS CRYPTO DOT COM AT $20B The Wall Street market maker put $400M into Crypto Dot Com, the exchange's first institutional funding round. It values the company at roughly $20B and signals how deep trading giants are wading into crypto rails. spendnode.io/blog/crypto-co…

ARGENTINA FREEZES 25 CRYPTO ACCOUNTS An Argentine judge just froze 25 crypto accounts and ordered six exchanges to hand over the identities behind them. It is one of the clearest signals yet that onchain balances are not out of reach of a local court order. spendnode.io/blog/argentina…

INJECTIVE FILES FOR SEC TRANSFER AGENT STATUS Injective says it has filed to register with the SEC as a transfer agent, the entity that keeps the official record of who owns a security. The goal: put ownership records for tokenized assets and RWAs directly onchain instead of in a separate database. spendnode.io/blog/injective…

PRIVATE CREDIT MOVES ON CHAIN Tradable plans to bring up to $1B in private credit assets onto Stellar, one of the larger single commitments of real-world credit to a public blockchain. Private credit is a $1.7T market. Most of it has never touched a chain. We're watching that change. spendnode.io/blog/tradable-…

T. ROWE PRICE ENTERS ACTIVE CRYPTO The $1.6T asset manager just launched TKNZ, its first actively managed multi-token crypto fund. A stock-picker's playbook applied to digital assets, where a human decides the mix instead of a passive index. Traditional finance keeps closing the gap with crypto. spendnode.io/blog/t-rowe-pr…

STABLECOINS RIVAL OIL IN VENEZUELA A new report estimates USDT trading in Venezuela over one month roughly matched the value of the country's oil exports. When a currency collapses, people do not wait for permission. They move to dollars on rails that still work. spendnode.io/blog/venezuela…

ROBINHOOD BETS ON TOKENIZATION\nRobinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says Robinhood Chain exists to make real-world assets "programmable, globally portable, and always available." A retail brokerage with tens of millions of users is now building its own settlement rail for tokenized stocks and funds. We break down what that actually changes. spendnode.io/blog/robinhood…

JAPANESE STOCKS ARE GOING ONCHAIN SBI Holdings is teaming up with Ondo Finance to tokenize Japanese equities through Ondo Global Markets. Settlement and collateral will run on SBI's own yen stablecoin, JPYSC. One of Japan's largest financial groups is now building on public rails, not just talking about it. spendnode.io/blog/sbi-holdi…

STABLECOIN YIELD DEMAND SHOWS UP IN THE NUMBERS Bitget says Cash Plus crossed $50M in assets five days after launch. The product pays up to 4% on idle USDT and USDC, redeemable back to spot. The traction says the same thing across the industry: people want their parked stablecoins to earn, not sit. The custody caveat still applies. @bitget spendnode.io/blog/bitget-ca…

CLARITY ACT BACK ON THE TABLE President Trump is meeting senators this afternoon to push the crypto market structure bill forward. It would split oversight: the CFTC takes digital commodities, the SEC keeps securities. The House already passed it. The Senate is the bottleneck. Crypto barely moved on the news. spendnode.io/blog/clarity-a…

BLACKROCK CRYPTO PRODUCTS SHRINK 39% IN A YEAR BlackRock's digital asset products fell to 48.8 billion dollars from 79.6 billion a year earlier. The world's largest asset manager is now holding roughly a third less in crypto exposure, a sign institutional demand cooled hard through 2026. spendnode.io/blog/blackrock…

SENATE SHUTS THE DOOR ON SBF CLEMENCY The US Senate has unanimously backed a resolution opposing any clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Not a single vote against. For an issue that usually splits the chamber, crypto fraud is one thing both parties now agree on. spendnode.io/blog/senate-un…

STANFORD FLAGS BITCOIN'S SHORT WINDOWS A new Stanford study says Bitcoin's 5-minute markets show patterns consistent with coordinated manipulation. The takeaway for most people: the tighter your trading window, the more you are exposed to games you cannot see. Long-horizon holders are far less affected. spendnode.io/blog/stanford-…

REVOLUT CLEARS DUBAI'S FIRST GATE Revolut just landed in-principle approval from Dubai's VARA to offer crypto trading, brokerage, and investment services in the UAE. It is a provisional green light, not a full license. The company still has to meet VARA's operational conditions before going live. We are watching what it launches first. spendnode.io/blog/revolut-d…

CME CRYPTO VOLUME HITS $459B CME Group's regulated crypto futures and options cleared $459.2B in notional volume in Q2. That is the venue where banks and funds put on Bitcoin and Ether exposure without touching a spot exchange. The institutional bid is not a headline anymore, it is a clearing statistic. spendnode.io/blog/cme-crypt…

FINK: BITCOIN LEVERAGE HAS BEEN WASHED OUT BlackRock's Larry Fink says the excess leverage that whipsawed crypto has cleared, and he expects steadier prices from here. BTC sits at $64,576 as of July 16, still down 36 on the Fear and Greed index. We break down what "washed out" actually means for spot holders. spendnode.io/blog/blackrock…

SOUTH KOREA EYES CRYPTO AS NATIONAL WEALTH South Korea plans to classify crypto as long-term national wealth under a proposed National Asset Basic Act, a framework covering roughly $940B in state assets. If passed, it would put digital assets on the government's own balance sheet alongside bonds and reserves. spendnode.io/blog/south-kor…