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Bolivia and El Salvador Sign Digital Assets Cooperation Agreement
3.8.2025
The agreement between the two countries focuses on the exchange of information about digital assets, which, according to the Central Bank of Bolivia, have become a widely used alternative for international payments. El Salvador has emerged as a crypto powerhouse in Latin America, with several...
Bolivia Looks to El Salvador for Help Building Its Crypto Regulatory Framework
31.7.2025
Bolivia’s central bank has signed a cooperation agreement with El Salvador’s crypto regulator to help build a local digital asset ecosystem
Bolivia calls crypto ‘reliable alternative’ to fiat in El Salvador partnership
31.7.2025
Bolivia has signed an agreement with El Salvador to promote crypto as an alternative to traditional currencies amid its ongoing economic crisis
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia’s Crypto Affair Is Unavoidable: Here’s Why
1.7.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how the ongoing crisis in Bolivia is configured to stimulate the growth of crypto adoption, even from the government side. Latam Insights Encore:...
Latam Insights: Meliuz Surges as Bitcoin Power, Crypto Adoption Rises Sky High in Bolivia
29.6.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Meliuz claims the bitcoin throne in Brazil and the region, Bolivia’s crypto adoption grows to record levels, and Brazil announces a public consultation...
Central Bank of Bolivia Registers Record Use of Virtual Assets Amidst Dollar Scarcity
29.6.2025
The Central Bank of Bolivia revealed that the use of virtual assets skyrocketed during the first semester of 2025, increasing more than sixfold compared to 2024’s figures. Additionally, operations grew twelve times since last July. Central Bank of Bolivia Reveals Virtual Assets’ Volumes...
Tether USDT stablecoin seen on Bolivian store price tags
9.6.2025
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino shared images of Bolivian duty-free goods priced in USDt, suggesting the stablecoin's growing role as a reference currency in a struggling economy
Tether USDT stablecoin seen on Bolivian store price tags
9.6.2025
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino shared images of Bolivian duty-free goods priced in USDt, suggesting the stablecoin's growing role as a reference currency in a struggling economy
Bottom-up Adoption: USDT Surges as Unit of Account in Bolivia
8.6.2025
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, posted several pictures of items priced in USDT in Bolivia, marking an adoption milestone for the dollar-pegged stablecoin. The measure comes amid a climate of unrest due to the scarcity of dollars and gas faced by Bolivians. USDT Used to Establish Prices in Bolivia...
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia’s New Anti-Crypto Decision Will Backfire… In Time
2.6.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how the recent crypto ban in Bolivia, pertaining to the use of crypto for energy imports, could backfire in the future. Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia...
Latam Insights: Bolivia Bans Crypto Energy Transactions, Panama Accelerates Bitcoin Adoption
1.6.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Bolivia bans a state-owned oil company from using crypto to settle energy transactions, Panama accelerates bitcoin adoption policies, and the IMF approves...
Bolivia Bans State Oil Company From Using Crypto for Energy Settlements
29.5.2025
Luis Arce, the President of Bolivia, signed an executive order prohibiting the use of cryptoassets for energy purchases, aiming to curb speculation surrounding cryptocurrencies and stablecoins on exchanges like Binance. Bolivia Issues Executive Order to Ban Crypto From Energy Settlements Bolivia,...
Latam Insights Encore: Digital Currency Adoption Is Unavoidable, and Bolivia Is the Proof
13.5.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how digital currency is prepared to take over the world, and how even nations that first banned it, like Bolivia, will rely on it sooner or later....
Latam Insights: Bolivia Announces Digital Currency, Solana and Ether Futures Approved in Brazil
12.5.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Bolivia completes a crypto comeback story by announcing its digital currency, the Brazilian stock exchange launches SOL and ETH futures, and Belo...
De-Dollarization Watch: Bolivia to Launch Digital Currency to Tackle Cross-Border Payments
8.5.2025
Edwin Rojas Ulo, president of the Central Bank of Bolivia, stated that the institution is currently consulting with international organizations regarding the design of a currency referred to as the “virtual boliviano,” which would facilitate international settlements. Central Bank...
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia’s Crypto Power Deal Opens a New Era for Commodity Markets
18.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition examines how the recently disclosed use of crypto for power imports in Bolivia opens a new era for the validity of these settlements in international commodity...
Latam Insights: Bolivia’s Crypto Energy Moves and Brazil’s Crypto BRICS Initiative
17.3.2025
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, dollar scarcity is pushing Bolivia to pay for energy imports with crypto, Brazil is prioritizing the implementation of a crypto payment system...
Bolivia to use crypto to pay for energy imports — Report
14.3.2025
Bolivia’s state-owned energy firm YPFB is planning to use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports, according to a March 13 report from Reuters. The move comes as the South American nation faces a shortage of foreign currency reserves and a dwindling supply of domestic gas production.A...
Dollar-Strapped Bolivia to Rely on Cryptocurrency for Energy Imports
13.3.2025
Bolivia has integrated a crypto-powered system to pay for fuel imports through its state-owned company YPFB, as it is facing a shortage of dollars and a reduction in its dollar-denominated foreign reserves. Bolivia Builds Crypto System to Pay for Fuel Imports Crypto is becoming relevant for...
Bolivian State Energy Firm to Use Crypto to Pay for Imports: Reuters
12.3.2025
YBFB hopes that using crypto will be a direct solution to the nation's shortage in U.S. dollars and foreign currency reserves