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Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Libra’s founders face a class action lawsuit, a bitcoin wages bill is introduced in the Brazilian Congress, and a Venezuelan minister claims that 25% of international trade can be settled … Read more
Fidelity Investments has filed to register a tokenized version of its US dollar money market fund on Ethereum — joining the likes of BlackRock and Franklin Templeton in the blockchain tokenization space. Fidelity’s March 21 filing with the US securities regulator said “OnChain” would help track transactions of the Fidelity Treasury Digital Fund (FYHXX) — … Read more
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has reportedly initiated engagement with a “Big Four accounting firm” to audit the reserves of its fiat-pegged token. Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s CEO, shared this update with Reuters as the circulating supply of USDT currently stands at 143.46 billion. Tether Listens toTrump’s ASAP Stablecoin Mandate in Pursuit of Big Four … Read more
Crypto skeptics and advocates went head-to-head in a legal debate that sought to determine the SEC’s role in crypto regulation. First-Ever SEC Crypto Roundtable Ignites Passionate Discussions on Regulation The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hosted its first-ever crypto roundtable on Friday, pitting critics and proponents of digital assets in a sometimes-contentious debate focused … Read more
A Polymarket wager amassing $54,666 in trading volume suggests an 87% likelihood that a spot XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) will secure regulatory approval by 2025. XRP ETF Mania Hits 87% Confidence: Polymarket Traders Bet Big on 2025 Approval In January 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cleared the way for multiple spot bitcoin … Read more
Cathie Wood, founder of the Ark Invest investment firm, will give the inaugural lecture for El Salvador’s new Urban Centers for Welfare and Opportunities (CUBO) AI program, a public education initiative spearheaded by the government of El Salvador. According to El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office, the program will bring university-level AI courses to students and professionals … Read more
In a recent social media post, economist Peter Schiff critiques the Trump administration’s characterization of the U.S. as the “world’s best customer,” arguing that this perspective misrepresents the global economic relationship. Schiff asserts that while demand is unlimited, the resources to satisfy that demand are scarce, emphasizing that supply, not demand, is the limiting factor … Read more
The Bitcoin (BTC) mining hashprice — a miner’s daily revenue per unit of hashing power expended to mine blocks — has remained constant at around $48 per petahash per second (PH/s), despite a slight 1.4% uptick in Bitcoin difficulty. Data from CoinWarz shows that the Bitcoin difficulty climbed to 113.76 trillion at block 889,081 on … Read more
Per data aggregated from coinmarketcap.com and defillama.com, the decentralized exchange (DEX) platform Pancakeswap has eclipsed Uniswap in seven-day trading volume this week. DEX Volume Wars Analytics unveiled via a Sunday post on X by coinmarketcap.com’s social media account reveal that the DEX Pancakeswap secured the top position in this week’s trading volume figures. “With over … Read more
Fartcoin, an almost unknown token in the cryptocurrency market, is suddenly making headlines. Just this past week, investors are said to have poured some $1.3 million into the asset. While some may have seen this as just the latest dubious pump in the wild and mostly speculative world of cryptocurrencies, the rush seems to have … Read more