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The framework under review would let USDT circulate alongside the boliviano and dollar, a notable reversal from the 2024 ban and a stress test for stablecoins under FATF grey-list oversight.
Tether is already the de facto dollar proxy in a country starved of hard currency. Formal state recognition would lock that position in, and copy the Argentina playbook one border north.
The card lets users either spend digital assets directly or borrow against them without selling, landing in a market where crypto's role as a hedge against peso volatility keeps deepening.
The investment lands as Tether prepares to wind down USDT support across Europe's MiCA-regulated venues, shifting its geographic center of gravity toward Latin America.
Tether's first equity check into a major Latam venue signals that the region's real-world-asset rails, not just remittances, are the long game.
The Federal Public Ministry says the pseudonymous nature of crypto assets undermines the traceability rules Brazil's election law has required since 2019, with fines and other penalties for violators.
The check is small, but the bet is structural: stablecoin rails for the B2B corridors that Nubank and Wise have left on the floor.
Ripple and Bitso have expanded their partnership to deploy Bitso's MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB on the XRP Ledger…
Argentine authorities arrested 24 individuals and seized more than $8 million in cryptocurrency as part of a…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has publicly floated the idea of turning the country's Caribbean coast into a…
Petro cited Venezuela and Paraguay as models and named three Caribbean-coast cities — Santa Marta, Riohacha, Barranquilla — but the proposal still depends on talks with the indigenous Wayúu community…
The president frames the pitch around clean-energy resources and indigenous co-ownership, not a policy shift — but it puts a second South American head of state on record welcoming BTC mining.
Brazil's central bank has moved to prohibit the use of stablecoins and other crypto assets as settlement instruments in…
Porvenir's voluntary-pension crypto product lands in a $25 minimum slot, framing Bitcoin as a diversification tool — not a trade — for Latin America's largest pension market.
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