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 1,751

Since Aug 2024

Last Active Jul 31, 2026

Primary Beat Bitcoin

Gino Matos Recent Articles

Bitcoin is caught between surging debt flows and shrinking liquidity as macro risk builds in financial markets

Macro Bearish

Bitcoin’s next risk is hiding in the gap between debt and liquidity

US debt is growing faster than M2, leaving Bitcoin trapped between a bullish liquidity thesis and tighter market plumbing that keeps capping risk.

3 months ago

Market

Bitcoin ETFs built a powerful bid, but the same machine can now accelerate selling

Spot Bitcoin ETFs have widened access to BTC, but the same flows that support price can reverse quickly when macro pressure rises.

3 months ago

Macro Bullish

Wall Street’s ‘Sell in May’ rule is breaking, but Bitcoin still faces one key risk

The old summer sell signal looks weaker, but Bitcoin still needs inflation, jobs, and Fed data to hold the risk-on case.

3 months ago

Stablecoins Bearish

CLARITY delay is testing Wall Street’s $6.6T stablecoin deposit warning

A stalled market-structure bill could let exchanges test whether stablecoin rewards actually pull deposits from banks.

3 months ago

Analysis

Bitcoin’s rally has one big macro hurdle before $80K can hold

A break in 10-year Treasury yields could decide whether Bitcoin clears $80,000 or turns another inflow streak into a failed rally.

3 months ago

Stablecoins

Cathie Wood’s Bitcoin bull thesis concedes stablecoins won the real-world payment fight

Wood's latest comments pointed out that Bitcoin is no longer being driven by the old crypto-native script.

3 months ago

Analysis Bullish

Bitcoin inflows are back above $1B, but the Fed may decide if the rally holds

Three straight billion-dollar inflow weeks show demand is returning, but Bitcoin still needs the Fed and spot buyers to cooperate.

3 months ago

DeFi teams refill a cracked rsETH reserve tank after a $13B loss month exposes both crisis and coordination in crypto markets

DeFi Bearish

DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi

The rescue effort that has already lined up tens of thousands of ETH also exposes the uncomfortable reality that DeFi’s biggest crises still depend on multiple factors.

3 months ago

Crypto security team flags a failed identity check as AI deepfake scams threaten to worsen with new image models

Scams Bearish

OpenAI’s new image model shows why crypto scams are about to get much worse

A crypto founder says he nearly got hacked after joining what looked like a Microsoft Teams call with a familiar Cardano Foundation contact.

3 months ago

Quantum

Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk

Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize after Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on public quantum hardware.

3 months ago

ETF holders hold firm against legacy sellers across a market divide after Bitcoin’s 38% plunge exposes paper hands

ETF

Surprisingly Bitcoin’s paper hands are not ETF buyers as 38% plunge reveals

Eric Balchunas argues the latest selloff revealed that the people once mocked as fee-paying tourists may now be helping form a stickier floor under Bitcoin.

3 months ago

Malicious CLI install breaks through security software and turns laptops into GitHub account hijacking launchpads

Scams Bearish

Major crypto developer tool just turned laptops into launchpads to hijack GitHub accounts

Researchers say the package from Bitwarden's incident could steal GitHub, cloud, SSH, and CI secrets, turning a short-lived vendor incident into a warning about the fragile trust behind modern software delivery.

3 months ago

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

Gino Matos Recent Articles

Bitcoin’s next risk is hiding in the gap between debt and liquidity

Bitcoin ETFs built a powerful bid, but the same machine can now accelerate selling

Wall Street’s ‘Sell in May’ rule is breaking, but Bitcoin still faces one key risk

CLARITY delay is testing Wall Street’s $6.6T stablecoin deposit warning

Bitcoin’s rally has one big macro hurdle before $80K can hold

Cathie Wood’s Bitcoin bull thesis concedes stablecoins won the real-world payment fight

Bitcoin inflows are back above $1B, but the Fed may decide if the rally holds

DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi

OpenAI’s new image model shows why crypto scams are about to get much worse

Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk

Surprisingly Bitcoin’s paper hands are not ETF buyers as 38% plunge reveals

Major crypto developer tool just turned laptops into launchpads to hijack GitHub accounts

Gino's Top Stories

Bitcoin reclaiming its $69,000 holder cost basis could open XRP’s path to $1.26

XRP is running a $2.4B debt trap that could wipe out spot buyers the second the Fed speaks

Lawsuit claims 3.8M dormant BTC using police lost-and-found rules as Congress races to stop it with CLARITY