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Gino Matos is a law school graduate and a seasoned journalist with six years of experience in the crypto industry. His expertise primarily focuses on the Brazil…

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Since Aug 2024

Last Active Apr 10, 2026

Primary Beat Bitcoin

Bitcoin train speeding through a rocky pass under falling debris, symbolizing the $70,000 breakout facing a volatile $75,000 options trap that could trigger a violent market move

Analysis

Bitcoin hits a high-stakes $75k zone where the next move could accelerate fast in either direction

Glassnode flags a huge negative gamma pocket overhead, and dealer hedging could either slingshot BTC toward $80,000 or snap it back.

3 weeks ago

Vault drawer filled with uniform metal asset blocks bearing the Solana emblem, symbolizing tokenized stocks being listed on-chain for Wall Street

Tokenization

Wall Street is building on Solana despite its memecoin reputation

Ondo’s 24/5 mint and redeem structure keeps securities with broker-dealers while Solana handles the transfer layer.

4 weeks ago

WLFI cryptocurrency coin placed on a boardroom table outside a high-level executive meeting, symbolizing the Trump-backed project offering guaranteed direct access to investors for $5 million

Regulation

Trump-backed WLFI is selling $5 million access while pitching finance for everyone

Super Nodes must lock 50 million WLFI for 180 days, then get prioritized partnership talks and heavier governance power.

4 weeks ago

Trader using a phone at a betting table with market charts on screens as shadowy figures enter the room, illustrating insider risks and manipulation concerns in prediction markets acknowledged by the CFTC

Regulation

The CFTC says prediction markets have an insider trading problem

After listings exploded from about five a year to thousands, the CFTC is warning exchanges to catch manipulation before it hits headlines.

4 weeks ago

Bitcoin coin being crushed by an industrial press in a smoky refinery setting, symbolizing pressure on Bitcoin price as US economic growth slows and inflation remains persistent

Analysis

Bitcoin price faces a crucial weekend test as US growth collapses to 0.7% while inflation stays stubborn

The data looked shaky even before the oil shock, and Powell now has to explain what breaks first.

4 weeks ago

Legal

Why Binance suddenly isn’t afraid of negative press anymore

Binance says the Feb. 23 Iran probe story misstated about $1 billion in transfers and ignored corrections.

4 weeks ago

Hardware crypto wallet and Bitcoin coin on a bedside table as a masked intruder enters a home, illustrating rising physical security risks tied to Bitcoin self-custody for everyday investors in France

Crime

Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders

Once the target pool expands beyond executives, the security playbook shifts to delays, multisig, secrecy, and physical protection.

4 weeks ago

Bitcoin coin standing on the floor of a bank vault with a massive open safe door and gold reserves behind it, symbolizing the Federal Reserve’s decision on whether Bitcoin remains outside the traditional banking system

Banking

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

Basel’s thresholds and punitive risk weights can make direct Bitcoin exposure prohibitively expensive even when it’s legally permitted.

4 weeks ago

Ethereum coin on stacks of cash in a corporate boardroom with BlackRock offices in the background, symbolizing institutional crypto partnerships and the debate over real adoption versus crypto-washing in global payments networks

ETF

BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore

BlackRock may have just reopened the case for earning yield in crypto, reframing ETH as yield plus price exposure.

4 weeks ago

Car fueling at a gas station with a large refinery under construction across the water in Brownsville, highlighting questions over how quickly the project can lower gas prices

Macro

US gets first new oil refinery in 50 years but it will come too late for Bitcoin

Groundbreaking is slated for Q2 2026, so any real fuel supply arrives years after today’s inflationary pump shock.

4 weeks ago

Industrial pressure gauge and valve marked with Bitcoin and Bithumb symbols, representing the fading kimchi premium as South Korea intensifies scrutiny on the exchange

Exchanges

Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange

FIU’s proposed six month partial ban targets new user transfers, but the bigger shock may be price discovery shifting to Upbit.

4 weeks ago

People using betting apps on smartphones inside a bar as a Kalshi billboard is installed outside in the rain, symbolizing the platform’s Brazil launch amid a national gambling addiction crisis

Regulation

Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis

The product is macro first, but Brazil’s crackdown playbook was built for mass retail behavior.

1 month ago

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Bitcoin hits a high-stakes $75k zone where the next move could accelerate fast in either direction

Wall Street is building on Solana despite its memecoin reputation

Trump-backed WLFI is selling $5 million access while pitching finance for everyone

The CFTC says prediction markets have an insider trading problem

Bitcoin price faces a crucial weekend test as US growth collapses to 0.7% while inflation stays stubborn

Why Binance suddenly isn’t afraid of negative press anymore

Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore

US gets first new oil refinery in 50 years but it will come too late for Bitcoin

Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange

Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis

Bitcoin price just collapsed because the macro selloff collided with a $14 billion options expiry this morning

Congress proposes removal of widely used Bitcoin tax loophole and giving it to regulated stablecoins

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over