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a real-world cyber forensics room with a hooded operator at a laptop, a North Korean flag on the wall, and a desk filled with a glowing Bitcoin, handcuffs, police light, and hardware wallets.

Billions stolen, dozens arrested: Crypto crime is adapting

North Korea stole $2 billion in crypto in 2025. Interpol recovered $439 million. Are attackers hitting a ceiling, or just routing around checkpoints?

3 months ago

Bitcoin and Ethereum coins beside a gavel and brass scales on a marble desk inside a sunlit neoclassical courthouse with columns and arched windows.

Crypto

SEC just gave crypto lawyers a new way to win in court

The SEC delayed equity market compliance deadlines until 2026, citing regulatory uncertainty and a funding lapse. Crypto exchanges fighting enforcement might cite the same logic.

3 months ago

Vitalik Buterin and Anatoly Yakovenko in sharp three-quarter profiles facing across a bright divide, with a warm gold ETH side of shielded validator webs and beacon motifs opposing a cool teal-purple SOL side of sleek node lattices and the glowing Ethereum and Solana logos.

DeFi

How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

Battle lines redrawn with Ethereum as a modular settlement layer and Solana as a unified execution layer.

3 months ago

Brian Armstrong at a podium with a glowing teleprompter full of crypto icons as a prediction-gauge arc flips beside a luminous Coinbase backdrop.

People

When the CEO reads the script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong manipulate a market?

Armstrong said words at the end of Coinbase's earnings call to settle nearly $90,000 in prediction markets bets. Some called it a harmless troll. Others called it market manipulation by a regulated CEO.

3 months ago

a Solana monolith anchoring crystalline data highways flooded with teal-and-magenta transaction cubes racing across a river while thinner Bitcoin and Ethereum lanes trail below toward glass liquidity silos.

Crypto

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

With ~70M daily tx and $143B Oct. DEX volume, Solana’s single-layer design keeps fees stable under load as Ethereum routes DeFi to rollups.

3 months ago

stacks gleaming Bitcoin coins in sharp focus across the foreground while softly blurred skylines of Tokyo Tower and Lotte World Tower frame the background in a cool, cinematic glow.

Digital Asset Treasuries

How Asia’s smaller companies can absorb 30% of new BTC supply

Japan and Korea’s corporate cohorts are shifting from one-off buys to rules-based accumulation, stacking on top of recurring spot-ETF inflows to tighten free float.

3 months ago

Mining

Bitcoin miners are transforming into AI utilities based on math

With 500MW and 168MW hosting deals inked, miners get financing-friendly dollars while hashrate and fee trajectories determine who captures the upside.

3 months ago

Crypto

Do ETFs risk centralizing Solana, and who actually gets the yield?

Hong Kong’s 1.99% fee product and US staked wrappers set up a split: unstaked AUM nudges native rewards higher while stake-through funds risk validator concentration.

3 months ago

A golden-hour rooftop close-up shows a wicker basket tagged with the MetaMask fox holding three luminous crypto eggs—Solana’s teal-to-purple gradient, Ethereum’s black crystal emblem, and a glowing Bitcoin—while amber, cyan, and violet light rails sweep toward the basket.

Wallets

MetaMask wants all your crypto eggs in one basket including Bitcoin

One recovery phrase now governs three incompatible blockchains, and MetaMask's multichain bet trades convenience for correlated risk.

3 months ago

Crypto

Are Ethereum ETFs a price headwind?

ETF outflows correlate with ETH/BTC weakness when derivatives turn negative, but staking demand and European buying absorb US redemptions, making flows an episodic headwind rather than a structural drag.

3 months ago

Hyper-realistic low-angle 16:9 outdoor scene of a chained Bitcoin inside a glass cube on a city plaza with a giant Metaplanet billboard showing a glowing candlestick chart against the skyline.

Digital Asset Treasuries

$500M BTC credit: Is Metaplanet proving crypto treasuries are momentum trades?

Bitcoin-backed buybacks don't de-risk a treasury stock, they turn it into a levered, flow-driven bet on Bitcoin and premium cycles that can supercharge rallies and magnify the fade.

3 months ago

a glossy Solana chip and stacked dollar tokens linking via an arcing lattice of coins to a glowing globe peppered with Western Union pins inside a sunlit glass atrium, emphasizing scale and speed without pipes or monoliths.

Crypto

Can Solana handle 100M Western Union users sending dollar tokens worldwide?

Western Union combines Anchorage-issued USDPT with an on/off-ramp network, challenging Visa/Stripe’s neutral-rails model with a branded, end-to-end settlement stack aimed at cross-border cash access.

3 months ago

Gino Matos

Billions stolen, dozens arrested: Crypto crime is adapting

SEC just gave crypto lawyers a new way to win in court

How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

When the CEO reads the script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong manipulate a market?

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

How Asia’s smaller companies can absorb 30% of new BTC supply

Bitcoin miners are transforming into AI utilities based on math

Do ETFs risk centralizing Solana, and who actually gets the yield?

MetaMask wants all your crypto eggs in one basket including Bitcoin

Are Ethereum ETFs a price headwind?

$500M BTC credit: Is Metaplanet proving crypto treasuries are momentum trades?

Can Solana handle 100M Western Union users sending dollar tokens worldwide?

Gino's Trending Articles

Bitcoin is the only “escape valve” left as the ECB warns a political tussle will soon destabilize the dollar

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

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

Gino Matos

Billions stolen, dozens arrested: Crypto crime is adapting

SEC just gave crypto lawyers a new way to win in court

How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

When the CEO reads the script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong manipulate a market?

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

How Asia’s smaller companies can absorb 30% of new BTC supply

Bitcoin miners are transforming into AI utilities based on math

Do ETFs risk centralizing Solana, and who actually gets the yield?

MetaMask wants all your crypto eggs in one basket including Bitcoin

Are Ethereum ETFs a price headwind?

$500M BTC credit: Is Metaplanet proving crypto treasuries are momentum trades?

Can Solana handle 100M Western Union users sending dollar tokens worldwide?

Bitcoin is the only “escape valve” left as the ECB warns a political tussle will soon destabilize the dollar

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

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

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