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Venezuela’s crypto adoption surges amid inflation and currency collapse
27.8.2025
From corner shops to big retailers, Venezuelans are embracing stablecoins as inflation soars and the bolívar loses over 70% of its value
Venezuela’s crypto adoption surges amid inflation and currency collapse
27.8.2025
From corner shops to big retailers, Venezuelans are embracing stablecoins as inflation soars and the bolívar loses over 70% of its value
Stablecoin Usage Ramps up in Venezuela Amid Rampant Devaluation
25.8.2025
Stablecoin adoption has grown in Venezuela as the government tightens controls to impose the official dollar exchange rate on businesses, which is much lower than the value of dollar-pegged tokens in P2P markets such as Binance. Stablecoin Usage Grows as Businesses Try to Stay Afloat in Venezuela...
Latam Insights Encore: Trump’s Secondary Tariff Strategy Against Venezuela: Killing a Fly With a Nuke
1.4.2025
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 Trump administration’s newfound secondary tariff strategy and its application against Venezuela might inflict lots of collateral damage....
Venezuelan Bolivar Plunges After Secondary Crude Tariff Regime Announcement
28.3.2025
The Venezuelan bolivar accelerated its loss against the U.S. dollar as the government faced dollar shortages amid an economic trade war. The Trump administration’s secondary trade tariff regime on Venezuelan crude is starving the country of foreign currency to inject into the national market...
Trump Debuts ‘Never Before Seen’ Secondary Tariff Strategy Against Venezuela
25.3.2025
President Trump signed an order that would impose an additional 25% tariff on imported products from countries that purchase crude oil from Venezuela. Trump alleged this was retribution for sending tens of thousands of high-level criminals to the U.S. Trump Announces Retaliatory Secondary Tariff...
Venezuelan Minister Remarks 25% of Trade Can Be Conducted Away From the US Dollar
17.3.2025
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil stated that this new state of affairs in international trade was possible due to the push that Russia and the BRICS bloc exerted to bypass the U.S. dollar. Venezuelan Minister Yvan Gil: 25% of Trade Can Be Completed Away From the Dollar International trade...
El Dorado CEO: Venezuela Highlights Stablecoins’ Use Case as a ‘Tool for Resilience’
24.10.2024
Guillermo Goncalvez, founder and CEO of El Dorado, a Latam-focused P2P exchange, has reflected on the rise of stablecoins from a niche product to a widely used tool in Venezuela. Goncalvez states that, as Venezuelans shift to using the dollar due to devaluation, stablecoin remittances have soared...
Venezuelans Crave USDT as Dollar Exchange Rate Explodes
17.10.2024
Venezuelans have ramped up the use of Tether’s USDT, as it has become one of the largest sources of dollar liquidity in national markets. While the government has tried to contain the black market exchange rates by injecting dollars into the banking sector, it has enjoyed limited success...
Latam Insights Encore: Venezuela Can Grow to Be Latin America’s Crypto Haven
14.10.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we examine the possibility of Venezuela growing to become the top cryptocurrency market in Latam and the key elements that are holding it back from...
Latam Insights: Venezuela Reaches Crypto Milestone, Consortium Announces Real Stablecoin
12.10.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, Chainalysis states Venezuela was the country where cryptocurrency markets grew most last year, Brazilian giants team to launch a real-pegged stablecoin,...
Chainalysis Latam Report Highlights Major Crypto Growth Milestone in Surprising Nation
12.10.2024
A Chainalysis report reveals that Argentina surpassed Brazil in cryptocurrency value received during the period examined, highlighting the high adoption of stablecoins in Latin America. However, Venezuela was the market that grew the most, rising by 110% despite the current political and economic...
Venezuela opposition’s Bitcoin reserve plan must overcome political turmoil first
18.9.2024
Opposition leader María Corina Machado proposed adding Bitcoin to Venezuela’s reserves for a new era led by Edmundo Gonzalez
Latam Insights Encore: The Venezuelan Perfect Storm Highlights Bitcoin’s Key Use Case
10.9.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency-based news from last week. In this edition, we discuss how bitcoin is being leveraged by both the opposition and the government in Venezuela, highlighting one of its most significant traits:...
Latam Insights: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Proposes Bitcoin Reserve; Maduro Wants to Retake the Crypto Path
9.9.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado proposes creating a bitcoin reserve, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro states that the country...
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Proposes Establishing a Bitcoin Reserve
7.9.2024
Maria Corina Machado, head of the political coalition that contests the victory of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, has proposed establishing a bitcoin reserve for the country. Machado stated that bitcoin represented a lifeline for many Venezuelans, that protected their wealth from rampant...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Proposes Retaking the ‘Crypto Path’
3.9.2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro discussed the possible future of the national cryptocurrency system following the so-called PDVSA-Crypto scheme, which resulted in the loss of $20 billion in unaccounted oil sales paid in crypto. Maduro stated that the country needed to retake the crypto path...
Latam Insights: El Salvador to Receive $1.61 Billion for Economic Overhaul Plan; Venezuelan Government Blocks Binance
18.8.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue: El Salvador attracts $1.61 billion in investments for its economic overhaul plan, the Venezuelan government blocks Binance using a state-owned ISP, and...
Food Price Controls in America? Kamala Harris’s Controversial 2024 Strategy Unveiled
15.8.2024
Vice President Kamala Harris, according to several reports, has outlined one of her key economic strategies if she wins the presidency in 2024—price controls. Her campaign is advocating for what they describe as the “first-ever federal ban” on food price increases. Despite the price...
Binance Says Venezuela Platform Is Being Hit by Access Restrictions
12.8.2024
The Venezuelan government has blocked various websites, including the social network X, following allegations of fraud in the July 28 presidential elections