Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

SEC clears regulatory hurdle as crypto token buybacks hit record $638 million

Crypto September 27, 2026

Crypto projects spent about $638 million with token buybacks through late August 2026, according to Allium Labs data. That is already a record, up from $545 million over the same stretch of 2025. Hy�...

Bitcoin’s $87,000 breakout puts $90,000 in sight, but history comes with a catch

Crypto September 23, 2026

Bitcoin closed the week of Sept. 20 at $81,178, its first weekly settlement above the 50-week moving average since November 2025, and pushed further to an intraday high above $87,000 the next day. T�...

Did RWA futures really overtake crypto? Only if you ignore 90% of the market

Crypto September 20, 2026

A new report from OKX and Token Terminal says real-world-asset (RWA) futures on trade.xyz edged past crypto futures on Hyperliquid in July. The headline numbers were $107.6 billion of RWA-contract vo�...

Bitcoin survived the Fed and CLARITY, and now faces the next major test at $82,000 this weekend

Crypto September 20, 2026

Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American ma�...

The Standard Chartered Effect: Is bank research becoming crypto’s new short-term catalyst?

Crypto September 17, 2026

Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Arbitrum's ARB token on the morning of Sept. 15 with a $10 price target for 2030. That implies roughly 70 times upside from a token trading near $0.13 and dow�...

Strategy turns MSCI’s own SEC words against its $24 billion MSTR threat

Crypto September 2, 2026

Strategy has challenged MSCI's proposed “non-operating company” screen by tying it to a regulatory argument MSCI made four years ago in a letter shared on Aug. 31. The Bitcoin treasury company sa...

Trump wants the US to become a Bitcoin whale, but Congress controls the wallet

Crypto August 21, 2026

President Donald Trump said on Aug. 20 that the US is considering accumulating sizable amounts of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Current law gives his administration several ways to increase fed�...

Can tokenized assets continue to scale faster than the revenue models behind them?

Crypto August 20, 2026

Securitize closed its first quarter as a public company with average tokenized assets under management hitting a record $4.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while transaction volume on the platform j�...

Cardano finally cleared the SEC shortcut for a spot ETF, but its last remaining sponsor quit two days too early

Crypto August 12, 2026

Grayscale withdrew its registration for the Cardano Trust ETF on Aug. 7, telling the SEC only that it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution.” The move was voluntary and came a...

Bitcoin price breaking out toward $69,000 now opens a turbo path toward $84,000

Crypto August 7, 2026

A Bitcoin breakout attempt briefly pushed price above $65,000 on Aug. 5, but failed to sustain the move, even as Fed funds futures put the odds of a September rate hike at 57.4% as of Aug. 5, down fr�...