Author: TSE Staff

Brazil has become Latin America’s largest digital asset market, and its exchanges have moved well past simple buy-and-sell trading. Pix made instant bank transfers a daily habit for most Brazilians, and that same appetite for speed has carried over into crypto. Roughly 90% of all crypto flow in the country now passes through stablecoins, according to Banco Central president Gabriel Galipolo. A new regulatory framework, Resolutions 519, 520 and 521, is rolling out through 2026 and brings stablecoin operations formally inside Brazil’s foreign exchange rules. Below are ten platforms built for or heavily used across Brazil, followed by what makes…

Argentina has the highest per-capita stablecoin adoption in Latin America, and the reason traces back to a national memory rather than a trend. The corralito deposit freeze of December 2001 wiped out savings and left Argentines deeply distrustful of banks. Annual inflation has cooled from prior triple-digit levels but still sits in the low 30% range, and Argentines are estimated to hold around $271 billion in undeclared cash dollars outside the formal banking system. Stablecoins have become the digital version of the same instinct: convert pesos to dollars the moment they arrive, and hold them somewhere a government cannot freeze.…

Venezuela did not adopt stablecoins because of a DeFi trend. It adopted them because the bolívar stopped functioning as money. The bolívar lost around 70% of its value in 2025 alone, and annual inflation reached 229% by May of that year, according to the Venezuelan Finance Observatory. TRM Labs recorded $17.9 billion in Venezuelan crypto volume in the first quarter of 2026, with USDT making up 90.2% of listings on Binance’s peer-to-peer market. Locals simply call it “Binance dollars.” Around 60 to 70% of transactions in the country now touch the US dollar or a dollar-pegged token in some form.…

In Africa, the two global payment platforms, Visa and Mastercard, have long fought over card fees, merchant networks and loyalty perks. The rivalry has now moved onto newer terrain, one built from blockchains rather than plastic. Both companies are racing to control the infrastructure that will let digital dollars move across borders in seconds. Africa, with its costly remittance corridors and its enormous mobile money base, has become one of the clearest test beds for that fight. As OG Attah, a capital markets and digital asset analyst at Dynamiq Alpha, put it, “Visa is building around the rails.” The question…

The Financial Services Commission of Mauritius has issued new guidance notes setting out how it will regulate stablecoins, formally opening the island’s financial system to virtual assets tied to real world value. Published on 13 August, the notes apply to any institution that issues or trades these tokens within the jurisdiction. Regulators say closer oversight is needed because stablecoins have moved far beyond their original role as a safer entry point into crypto trading. Their growing use alongside decentralized finance now carries real implications for the wider financial system. The FSC’s approach centers on the function a stablecoin actually performs…

A declined card is a small annoyance almost everywhere in the world. In much of Africa it is a daily tax on doing business. John Babodor, CEO of Remmint, says the idea for his company came from a moment that was almost embarrassingly ordinary. “I tried to pay for our company’s X subscription,” he said. “I got debited twice and never got Premium.” Card failures of this kind are common across Africa, where the underlying rails were built for markets far from the ones they now serve. Settlement can take days, and some processors hold merchant funds in reserve for…

Africa has quietly become one of the most active regions for decentralized finance anywhere on earth. Sub-Saharan Africa alone pulled in roughly $205 billion in on chain value over the past year, and DeFi adoption in the region now outpaces most of the world according to Chainalysis report. Currency devaluation, limited access to banking and a young mobile first population have pushed millions toward platforms that let them save, lend and earn yield in dollar pegged assets instead of shrinking local currencies. Below are ten platforms built for or heavily used across Africa, followed by the steps you need to…

Latin America has quietly become one of the biggest stablecoin markets on earth. Inflation, weak currencies and expensive remittances have pushed millions of people toward dollar pegged tokens like USDT and USDC simply to protect their savings. What started as a survival tool in countries like Argentina has grown into a full investing option, with local exchanges, neobanks and even banks now offering yield on stablecoin holdings. If you are new to this world, here is a simple breakdown of how the industry looks in four of the region’s biggest markets, followed by the steps you actually need to get…

Key takeaways: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says local-currency stablecoins could end up boosting demand for dollar-denominated tokens rather than displacing them, as users increasingly gain the ability to convert between the two on the same blockchain infrastructure. IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director Dan Katz, made the case in a speech at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He said that when local and dollar-denominated stablecoins share the same blockchain infrastructure, users can convert between the two through decentralized exchanges, liquidity pools or peer-to-peer swaps, a shift that could pull foreign exchange activity away from traditional banks and…

Latin America moved $730 billion worth of crypto in 2025. Of that, $324 billion, close to half, ran through stablecoins, up 89% from the year before. This is a description of how money actually travels across the region now, from a salary in Buenos Aires to a supplier payment in São Paulo to a remittance crossing from Miami into Bogotá. The story of that money is not evenly spread. It concentrates in a handful of countries, each pulled toward stablecoins for a slightly different reason, and together they sketch a map of what dollarization looks like when it happens on…