Gino Matos Gino Matos has published within the past 30 days.

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Gino Matos is a law school graduate and a seasoned journalist with six years of experience in the crypto industry. His expertise primarily focuses on the Brazilian blockchain ecosystem and developments in decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Total Articles 1,572

Since Aug 2024

Last Active May 13, 2026

Primary Beat Bitcoin

Gino Matos Recent Articles

Wallets Neutral

Bitcoin holders can now hide more of their activity, but only by trusting new middlemen

Starknet’s strkBTC launch highlights a broader Bitcoin privacy tradeoff, where the fastest way to shield BTC may be to move it into wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems that add new trust assumptions.

6 hours ago

Macro Bearish

Bitcoin was waiting for cuts. Hot CPI inflation data just put hikes back on the table

A hotter-than-expected inflation report could pressure Bitcoin by delaying Fed rate cuts and tightening liquidity.

8 hours ago

Tokenization Bullish

JPMorgan taps both Ethereum and Solana for separate reasons for its institutional cash stack

JPMorgan’s latest tokenized money market fund filing offers a map of how the institutional cash leg of crypto may split across public chains.

9 hours ago

AI security robots protect a vulnerable crypto token from cyber threats and hacker manipulation in a futuristic cybersecurity scene

AI Neutral

OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack

OpenAI’s Daybreak may point to the crypto industry’s next security standard of becoming resilient before vulnerabilities are exploited.

1 day ago

Analysis Bullish

XRP price has the bullish signal traders wanted, but one Bitcoin level could wreck it

XRP products attracted fresh inflows, but the token’s next breakout attempt may depend on whether Bitcoin holds $80,000 through the next US inflation test.

1 day ago

DeFi Neutral

Cardano to focus on tokenized institutional vaults as DeFi’s retail focus fades

Institutions need vaults, policy controls, audit records, and risk-managed workflows, and that is where Cardano’s next adoption test begins.

1 day ago

Hooded operator at a dark workstation monitoring a red digital breach across wide screens, reflecting a major DeFi exploit that triggered bank-run-style withdrawals from the market

DeFi Bearish

After the $16.5 billion in exploits, DeFi is now being forced toward the controls it once resisted

Aave’s rsETH bad debt shows DeFi’s next security crisis rests in broken assumptions across bridges, governance, collateral listings, and risk controls.

3 days ago

Regulation Neutral

The SEC looks at a 1990s fix for crypto markets to allow true “innovation pathway”

Paul Atkins said the SEC may create a limited “innovation pathway” for on-chain trading systems before writing permanent rules, echoing the agency’s old approach to electronic markets.

4 days ago

Analysis Neutral

TON price doubles after Telegram made a move critics say cuts against crypto’s core promise

TON has doubled as traders bet Telegram is turning the blockchain into the financial layer of its messaging empire.

4 days ago

Wallets Neutral

Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson says the future of crypto wallets will be inside iPhones and Androids

The Cardano founder’s Consensus remarks question if phones, secure chips, and AI agents can make self-custody usable for everyone.

5 days ago

Macro Bearish

Bitcoin faces new tariff risk as EU races to finalize US trade deal this month

The EU is trying to lock down a US trade deal this month, creating an inflation risk for Bitcoin.

5 days ago

Hand removing a Bitcoin coin from a cracked vault labeled never sell, symbolizing growing pressure on the Bitcoin treasury strategy and weakening market confidence

Digital Asset Treasuries Bearish

Bitcoin treasury companies said they’d never sell – the bear market changed that fast

As debt, dividends, and buybacks enter the picture, some companies are starting to treat Bitcoin less like a sacred reserve and more like liquidity.

6 days ago

Gino Matos Gino Matos has published within the past 30 days.

Gino Matos Recent Articles

Bitcoin holders can now hide more of their activity, but only by trusting new middlemen

Bitcoin was waiting for cuts. Hot CPI inflation data just put hikes back on the table

JPMorgan taps both Ethereum and Solana for separate reasons for its institutional cash stack

OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack

XRP price has the bullish signal traders wanted, but one Bitcoin level could wreck it

Cardano to focus on tokenized institutional vaults as DeFi’s retail focus fades

After the $16.5 billion in exploits, DeFi is now being forced toward the controls it once resisted

The SEC looks at a 1990s fix for crypto markets to allow true “innovation pathway”

TON price doubles after Telegram made a move critics say cuts against crypto’s core promise

Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson says the future of crypto wallets will be inside iPhones and Androids

Bitcoin faces new tariff risk as EU races to finalize US trade deal this month

Bitcoin treasury companies said they’d never sell – the bear market changed that fast

Gino's Top Stories

Ethereum loses 10% of its DeFi market share as rival chains close in

Bitcoin now has just 4 days before ceasefire deadline risks price reversal with Hormuz closed again

Crypto traders spend $9.7B on fees as the next Bitcoin drawdown will expose which on-chain costs are real