15 March 2026
Austin, Texas, USA

Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Bitcoin’s slide to $60k puts BTC treasury companies $10B underwater as one major firm is braces for a $27B disaster

CryptoFebruary 7, 2026

Bitcoin's (BTC) slide to as low as $60,233 overnight, before recovering somewhat to $65,443, has left most of the largest pure-play Bitcoin treasury companies deeply underwater on their holdings, wit…...

Traders dump $4.3 billion BTC on Binance as exchange sells more Bitcoin than other exchanges combined

CryptoFebruary 6, 2026

Binance moved 42.8% of total spot volume over the past week but absorbed 79.7% of net selling pressure across five major exchanges, according to data from Traderview. The imbalance raises the questi…...

Ethereum faces billion dollar sell pressure as top crypto fund faces $862M high stakes liquidation risk

CryptoFebruary 6, 2026

A leveraged Ethereum position built by Jack Yi's Trend Research continues to unwind under pressure. The position, assembled through Aave's lending protocol and reported to have reached roughly $958 …...

Ethereum fees are plummeting so fast that Vitalik Buterin says most Layer 2 chains now lack purpose

CryptoFebruary 5, 2026

Ethereum was cheaper than expected in 2020, and rollup decentralization was slower than promised in 2021. Those two realities are forced the ecosystem to rewrite what “a layer-2” is for. Vitalik But…...

China currency controls are pushing traders toward USDT and Bitcoin while Renminbi keeps slipping in global reserves

CryptoFebruary 4, 2026

China seeks to make the renminbi a true reserve currency, but the numbers reveal a story in which Beijing's capital controls create conditions for Bitcoin and dollar stablecoins to thrive as workarou…...

Major German bank opens free crypto access as MiCA ends the legality debate and sparks a bank rush

CryptoFebruary 4, 2026

Germany's ING Deutschland just made crypto exposure feel like buying an index fund, indicating the path Europe is taking in crypto adoption. Starting Feb. 2, the bank's 3.2 million brokerage custome…...

Binance commits to gigantic Bitcoin purchase as an implicit apology for October liquidation meltdown

CryptoFebruary 3, 2026

Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair letter in balance sheet form. The exchange announced Jan. 30 that it will convert …...

October Trump tariff trader loses $100M erasing all 10/10 gains after price dip

CryptoJanuary 31, 2026

A single wallet roundtripped $142.5 million in unrealized profit on Hyperliquid, peaking on Jan. 13 before collapsing to a negative $8.76 million loss as of Jan. 29. Meanwhile, all of this was visib…...

TheDAO’s leftover rescue money sat for a decade now it’s becoming Ethereum’s permanent $220M security budget

CryptoJanuary 31, 2026

Ethereum's most infamous experiment is back. Not as a venture fund, but as something the ecosystem arguably needs more: a permanent security budget. On Jan. 29, a group of Ethereum veterans announce…...

Ethereum aims to stop rogue AI agents from stealing trust with new ERC-8004 – but will it?

CryptoJanuary 31, 2026

Ethereum (ETH) announced ERC-8004 is heading to mainnet, positioning the network as a neutral infrastructure for a problem the AI industry can't yet solve: how agents prove they're trustworthy when n…...