Articles by Gino Matos
David Sacks announced on Dec. 18 that Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott and Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman confirmed a January 2026 markup for the CLARITY Act.
тАЬWe look forward to finishing the...
Bitcoin (BTC) walks to close 2025 with more than $112 billion locked in US spot ETFs, exchange reserves at a record low of 2.751 million BTC, and perpetual futures open interest of nearly $30 billionя┐╜...
Four XRP spot ETFs now trade in the US, with combined assets of $941.7 million as of Dec. 18. Grayscale's GXRP holds $148.1 million, Canary Capital's XRPC $373.6 million, Franklin Templeton's XRPZ $1я┐╜...
The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency. Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainя┐╜...
When Circle's shares opened at $69 on the New York Stock Exchange in June, more than double the $31 pricing, it looked like validation. Investors paid up for a regulated stablecoin issuer with real rя┐╜...
The SEC's approval of generic listing standards for crypto ETPs on Sept. 17 cut the launch timeline to 75 days and opened the door to plain-vanilla products.
Bitwise predicts more than 100 crypto-liя┐╜...
Bitcoin surged $3,000 in an hour on Dec. 17, reclaiming $90,000 as $120 million in short positions vaporized, then collapsed to $86,000 as $200 million in longs liquidated, completing a $140 billion я┐╜...
Michael Saylor delivered a characteristically bold take on Dec. 16 about Bitcoin and the quantum leap:
тАЬThe Bitcoin Quantum Leap: Quantum computing won't break Bitcoinit will harden it. The network...
Next year's first quarter could prove kinder to Bitcoin than late 2025, not because bank-run stablecoins arrive overnight, but because the pipes feeding retail and advisors just widened.
Vanguard reя┐╜...
For two years, decentralized finance operated on the concept that purely crypto-native assets could serve as the monetary base for a parallel financial system.
Ethereum staked through Lido anchored я┐╜...
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