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Gino Matos Recent Articles
Derivatives
Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?
Listing anything is easy; risk and liquidity are hard, and here’s the model.Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 removes gatekeepers by letting anyone launch perpetuals if they stake $20 million. It’s either DeFi’s boldest safety experiment, or its next stress test.
Legislation
What California ban on forced crypto liquidation really means
New statute curbs forced liquidation; we map who’s covered and what’s not.
Mining
Are miners buying Bitcoin again? Marathon adds 400 BTC after the crash
What MARA's Bitcoin acquisition says about hashprice, cash balances, and miner-led flows.
Crypto
Weekend ‘Crypto Black Friday’ liquidation cascade: What actually happened?
A data-first post-mortem on liquidations, funding, and ETF dip-buyers.
ETF
If the debasement trade would catapult Bitcoin, why is the market down?
If gold is benefiting from the debasement trade, why is Bitcoin down by 4.2% on the week?
DEX
CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books
CZ attributed BNB's recent meme explosion to an unplanned Mid-Autumn Festival post, and outlined his investment thesis favoring privacy-focused perpetual DEXs over transparent alternatives.
Market
Trump tariff threat against China causes Bitcoin to crash 7%, $19B in liquidations
Trump accused China of attempting to monopolize rare-earth elements and announced plans for a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products.
Crypto
Strategy’s Bitcoin mNAV collapses to 1.174, lowest since February 2024
The narrowing gap between market capitalization and underlying asset value poses a threat to sustainability.
DEX
Decentralized exchanges post record $1.43 trillion Q3 volume
The figure represents a 43.6% increase from the $1 trillion registered in the second quarter, and surpasses the previous record of nearly $1.2 trillion set between January and March.
Macro
Powell’s silence on rates to fuel Bitcoin’s path toward $150,000
Jerome Powell avoided talking about inflation and rates on his Community Bank Conference speech, which the market sees as "strategic silence."
Analysis
Bitcoin defends $120,000 amid profit driven sell pressure, leverage buildup
A stronger cluster near $117,000 holds roughly 190,000 BTC, marking a zone where buyers may defend positions if prices retreat.
Crypto
Why is Bitcoin recovering? Everything that happened in crypto today
The combination of ETF flows, macro tailwinds, and gold's record performance created favorable conditions for Bitcoin.
