Jerome Powell tells reporters he will remain a Federal Reserve governor after his chair term ends May 15, keeping a seat at the policy table under Warsh.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/powell-stays-fed-governor-may-15-chair-end-april-2026/

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/