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Gino Matos Recent Articles
Legal
Landmark ruling in India treats XRP as property, not speculation
A judge barred WazirX from reallocating customer XRP tied to a hack and affirmed crypto as property. Why that matters for custody everywhere.
Crypto
Nevada shuts down Fortress Trust: Who holds your keys during custody consolidation?
State crackdowns are forcing exchanges to rethink custody stacks: here's the regulatory model most likely to survive.
DEX
Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes
Hyperliquid, Aster and Lighter drove a ~50% MoM surge. Here’s who’s winning and why it matters for CEXs.
Banking
Fed opens a narrow payments door to stablecoin issuers, Arthur Hayes warns of bank fallout
Waller's "skinny" master account proposal could let compliant crypto firms access Fed rails directly, eliminating bank-partner friction while raising concerns about commercial-bank disintermediation.
Wallets
What Trezor’s new “quantum-ready” hardware wallet really means for Bitcoin
Does ‘quantum-ready’ change BTC/ETH today? No. here’s what Safe 7 actually does
Analysis
If tokenized gold is just a “trust-me-bro” IOU, what’s really on-chain?
We run 5 trust tests, settlement, redemption, admin-keys, proofs, custody, to stack gold tokens vs in-kind BTC ETFs and native BTC.
TradFi
Is Solana ready for institutions? $700M real world assets and no downtime
Real-world assets, validator shifts, and resilience point to a new phase.
Crypto
Who sets the price now? The $11B ETF design that could change BTC trading
Does FalconX's acquisition of 21Shares change the flows?
Crypto
$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks
Inside MetaMask/Phantom’s new intel network and how we’ll measure success.
Crypto
Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting
Licensed betting markets to become DeFi's next big on-ramp.
Crypto
Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test
Base and Arbitrum earn most profits; where does Polygon fit?
Crypto
Why did MetaMask show $0 on Ethereum when AWS went offline?
DNS/load-balancer fault in us-east-1 exposed RPC single-points; expect multi-cloud pivots.
