14 March 2026
Austin, Texas, USA

Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders

CryptoJanuary 9, 2026

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tok…...

Bitcoin is trapped in a $54 billion Nvidia gamble that could trigger a sudden institutional sell-off

CryptoJanuary 9, 2026

Beijing's reported request for Chinese tech firms to halt orders of Nvidia's H200 chips arrives at a moment when Bitcoin has become uncomfortably tethered to AI equity sentiment. As The Information …...

Bitcoin ripped to $94,000 as critical metric quietly turns positive for first time since October

CryptoJanuary 8, 2026

Bitcoin ETFs grabbed $1.2 billion in the first two trading sessions of 2026, coinciding with BTC's climb to $94,000, a 7% gain in just days. The narrative wrote itself: institutional money flooded in…...

Friday Supreme Court ruling could trigger an instant “tariff shock” crash as Bitcoin wildly misprices impact

CryptoJanuary 8, 2026

The US Supreme Court returns from a four-week break on Jan. 9 with a potentially consequential economic ruling: whether the President Donald Trump administration lawfully imposed sweeping tariffs und…...

XRP currently dominates Japan’s cash inflows, and a new 20% tax rate is about to lock that advantage in

CryptoJanuary 8, 2026

Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama stood at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 5 and declared 2026 a “digital year,” framing traditional exchanges as the primary gateway for investors to access …...

Ethereum isn’t chasing 5.3% yield, Vitalik says – but the outage risk is over 5× bigger than regulation shocks

CryptoJanuary 7, 2026

Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was designed to set people free. That line from the Trustless Manifesto drew criticism when it was published, and Vitalik Bu…...

New Ledger breach didn’t steal your crypto, but it exposed info that leads violent criminals to your door

CryptoJanuary 7, 2026

Ledger customers woke up on Jan. 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor. The company cl…...

Bitcoin breaks $94,000 for the first time in a month: Why is crypto up today?

CryptoJanuary 7, 2026

Bitcoin (BTC) pierced $94,000 on Jan. 5, reaching its highest level since Dec. 10 and capping a rally that added nearly $100 billion to the total crypto market capitalization in 24 hours. The move c…...

Major market maker secretly offloaded 1,213 BTC onto Binance during New Year’s Eve thin liquidity

CryptoJanuary 5, 2026

Wintermute faced scrutiny for two recent events: dumping Bitcoin onto Binance during New Year's Eve's thin liquidity, then scrambling to accumulate coins in what appeared to be urgent buying ahead of…...

Hundreds of MetaMask wallets drained: What to check before you ‘update’

CryptoJanuary 4, 2026

On-chain security researcher ZachXBT flagged hundreds of wallets across multiple EVM chains getting drained for small amounts, typically under $2,000 per victim, funneling into a single suspicious ad…...