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 1,676

Since Aug 2024

Last Active Jun 28, 2026

Primary Beat Bitcoin

Gino Matos Recent Articles

Derivatives

Perps, prediction markets and memecoins: Inside crypto’s push for a gambling super app

From Hyperliquid to Kalshi to memecoin launchpads, trading venues are expanding beyond their original niches and converging on the same goal of owning the user’s entire speculative loop.

2 months ago

Quantum

Crypto’s new trust test: which chains are truly quantum ready — and which are just talking

As NIST pushes organizations to start migrating now, public post-quantum planning is beginning to look like a new marker of maturity across the crypto stack.

2 months ago

Analysis Bullish

Bitcoin price surges to $78k even as oil rises again creating new setup – what you need to know

Bitcoin is entering a fresh macro test as higher oil prices feed inflation fears, lift yields, and push Fed cuts further out.

2 months ago

Traders watch a giant market chart spike and then crash on a trading floor, illustrating how crypto futures can fuel insider pump-and-dump schemes in scam coins

DeFi Bearish

How crypto futures markets are feeding ‘scam coin’ insider pump and dumps

RAVE’s collapse exposed how thin floats, crowded shorts and exchange-listed perpetuals can turn small coins into retail traps.

2 months ago

Bank and policy officials reviewing documents in a Washington boardroom with the Capitol in view, reflecting a coordinated campaign to block the Clarity Act in the Senate

Stablecoins Bearish

Banks fund crypto attack ads across Washington as over 3,000 banks unite to stop Clarity Act passing Senate

ABA ads and fresh bank lobbying are colliding with the Senate calendar as negotiators race to finish the stablecoin-yield compromise holding up CLARITY.

2 months ago

Stacks of processed documents and boxed files in a back-office operations room beneath a large financial tracking screen, reflecting scrutiny over tariff refunds and stablecoin-linked Treasury custody flows

Regulation Bearish

Were tariff refunds bought for 20 cents on the dollar by stablecoin-backed Treasurys custodian Cantor Fitzgerald?

Howard Lutnick backed Trump’s tariffs. His old firm was reportedly pitching a way to buy the refunds cheap.

2 months ago

Industrial presses bearing down on stacks of gold crypto coins, with one tower holding firm and others buckling, symbolizing how a Bitcoin drawdown could reveal which on-chain fees are sustainable

DeFi

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

A new 1kx analysis suggests many protocol fees rise with Bitcoin prices, but the real test is what happens in down months, when macro fear hits and fee beta turns painful.

2 months ago

Wall Street pedestrians pass a Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF billboard outside major asset manager offices, illustrating how a modest ETF debut can still capture broad institutional attention

ETF

Morgan Stanley’s $116M Bitcoin ETF debut is tiny next to $1.9T, and that’s why Wall Street will notice

MSBT’s early inflows are negligible next to Morgan Stanley’s $1.9 trillion platform, but they offer something more valuable: proof that a bank-branded Bitcoin product can attract demand fast.

2 months ago

Analysis Bearish

Bitcoin network activity just hit an 8-year low — has Wall Street replaced retail in the market?

ETF inflows and institutional positioning are stabilizing, raising the question of who now matters most in Bitcoin.

2 months ago

Macro

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

Only 8 tankers got through before Hormuz tightened again. Bitcoin now waits for the next count.

2 months ago

Security team monitors blockchain flows on large screens as a digital lock blocks stolen funds, reflecting crypto’s shift from censorship resistance to emergency intervention after hackers struck

Stablecoins

Crypto censorship resistance is questioned as major fight breaks out over who gets to freeze your digital dollars

Circle says freezes should follow lawful process. Tether is proving the appeal of fast intervention. After Drift and Rhea, stablecoin users may care more about stopping thieves than old crypto slogans.

2 months ago

Robotic arms sorting stablecoin tokens on an automated factory line, illustrating how crypto’s agent economy is largely powered by bot-driven stablecoin flows

Payments

Staggering $28 trillion flows through crypto’s ‘agent economy’ – but 76% of it is just bots shuffling stablecoins

A rising share of on-chain payments is machine-led, but DWF, BCG, and others show the so‑called agent economy still depends on centralized gateways.

2 months ago

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Gino Matos Recent Articles

Perps, prediction markets and memecoins: Inside crypto’s push for a gambling super app

Crypto’s new trust test: which chains are truly quantum ready — and which are just talking

Bitcoin price surges to $78k even as oil rises again creating new setup – what you need to know

How crypto futures markets are feeding ‘scam coin’ insider pump and dumps

Banks fund crypto attack ads across Washington as over 3,000 banks unite to stop Clarity Act passing Senate

Were tariff refunds bought for 20 cents on the dollar by stablecoin-backed Treasurys custodian Cantor Fitzgerald?

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

Morgan Stanley’s $116M Bitcoin ETF debut is tiny next to $1.9T, and that’s why Wall Street will notice

Bitcoin network activity just hit an 8-year low — has Wall Street replaced retail in the market?

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

Crypto censorship resistance is questioned as major fight breaks out over who gets to freeze your digital dollars

Staggering $28 trillion flows through crypto’s ‘agent economy’ – but 76% of it is just bots shuffling stablecoins

Gino's Top Stories

Arthur Hayes says AI rescue liquidity could send Bitcoin price to $1,000,000

Crypto finally has a CLARITY Act date – delivery now depends on seven Senate Democrats

XRP aims for $0.90 as ETF demand battles selling pressure from whales