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Author: Gino Matos

North Korea’s $30M crypto cashout just handed legacy finance its best weapon to kill DeFi’s US debut

CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid’s pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent enforcement. On Aug. 31, an Arkham analysis reviewed by CoinDesk found that wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group had sold more than $30 million of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the prior three weeks…

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XRP investors poured $320M into ETFs while the funds sat on a $746M paper loss

Five major US spot XRP products held XRP with a combined fair value $746.1 million below accounting cost at the end of June, but investors kept buying anyway. According to SEC filings, Bitwise, Canary Capital, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and Grayscale recorded roughly $629.9 million in primary-market share creations against $309.1 million in redemptions during the

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How one small BTC transfer exposed the fine print behind Trump’s ‘never sell’ strategic Bitcoin reserve

A wallet tagged to the US government moved a small amount of Bitcoin linked to assets seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts. The movement revives a familiar fear that Washington could be preparing to liquidate more of its forfeited Bitcoin stash. Bitcoin deposited into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “shall not be sold” under President Donald

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Bitcoin turned $10,000 into $870,000 in a decade where 87% of active stock funds failed to beat passive rivals

Bitcoin returned 87 times over a decade, while only 13% of actively managed US large-cap equity funds beat comparable passive funds’ benchmarks through June 30, according to Morningstar data reported by The Wall Street Journal. That rate rose to 27% over the latest 12 months, and Wall Street has argued that AI-driven dispersion and higher

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