14 March 2026
Austin, Texas, USA

Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Wall Street’s big lie about 24-hour trading ignores the $4.5 billion crypto market that never actually closes its doors

CryptoJanuary 29, 2026

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation spent 2025 building infrastructure for extended trading hours, targeting a 24×5 schedule that would keep US markets open from Sunday night through Frid…...

Aave DeFi lending monopoly reaches 51%, creating a systemic feedback loop with only a $460M backstop

CryptoJanuary 29, 2026

Aave now controls 51.5% of the decentralized finance lending market share, the first time any protocol has crossed the 50% threshold since 2020. The milestone arrives not through competitor collapse…...

Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs

CryptoJanuary 28, 2026

Ethereum elevated post-quantum cryptography to a top strategic priority this month, forming a dedicated PQ team led by Thomas Coratger and announcing $1 million in prizes to harden hash-based primiti…...

How BlackRock just lost control of the $10B tokenized Treasury market to Circle for one simple, mechanical reason

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

Tokenized US Treasuries crossed $10 billion in total value this week, a milestone that confirms the category has moved from proof-of-concept to operational infrastructure. Yet, something happening u…...

Explosive truth behind crypto bots that front-run thieves to “save” funds — but they decide who gets paid back

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

Makina Finance lost 1,299 ETH, roughly $4.13 million, in a flash-loan and oracle manipulation exploit. The attacker drained the protocol's funds and broadcast the transaction to Ethereum's public me…...

New explosive IPO surge proves smart money has abandoned high-risk tokens for this specific safe haven

CryptoJanuary 25, 2026

Crypto's IPO market is back, but the companies leading the charge aren't the ones most exposed to token volatility. BitGo priced its initial public offering on Jan. 21 at $18 per share, raising $212…...

Bitcoin regret is coming for anyone ignoring Coinbase CEO’s 5% rule as banks fight to cap gains

CryptoJanuary 24, 2026

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Bloomberg at Davos that investors who don't have at least 5% of their net worth in Bitcoin will “probably be pretty sad” by 2030. Recently, Morgan Stanley's wealth …...

Crypto’s $50 billion lie masks a brutal reality where massive mergers are quietly killing off every new experiment

CryptoJanuary 24, 2026

The crypto industry's capital headline for 2025 looks like a comeback story: $50.6 billion across 1,409 transactions, up sharply from 2024's totals. However, the composition tells a different story.…...

From prison to Davos, pardoned Binance founder CZ exposes a $33 trillion secret that the global elite can no longer hide from you

CryptoJanuary 24, 2026

Changpeng Zhao spoke at the World Economic Forum's 2026 Annual Meeting in Davos this week, his first appearance on the official programme since Binance's 2023 US settlement and his subsequent guilty …...

Bitcoin is about to hit the Federal Reserve’s 2026 stress tests, creating a massive capital risk for regulated banks

CryptoJanuary 23, 2026

Pierre Rochard's call for the Federal Reserve to integrate Bitcoin into its stress tests came at an unusual moment: the Fed is soliciting public comment on its 2026 scenarios while simultaneously pro…...