Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Bitcoin is stalling, but this low-key β€œabsorption signal” shows a violent supply shock could be inevitable

Crypto January 10, 2026

Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close to $95,000, only for it to test the $90,000 footing again. The movement folloοΏ½...

Prediction markets let insiders profit on leaks, yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated the rig

Crypto January 9, 2026

Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion οΏ½...

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

Crypto January 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 tokοΏ½...

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

Crypto January 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 οΏ½...

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

Crypto January 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 inοΏ½...

Friday Supreme Court ruling could trigger an instant β€œtariff shock” crash as Bitcoin wildly misprices impact

Crypto January 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 undοΏ½...

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

Crypto January 8, 2026

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

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

Crypto January 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 BuοΏ½...

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

Crypto January 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 clοΏ½...

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

Crypto January 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 cοΏ½...