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Researchers in a Latin American stablecoin ecosystem report warned “fragility in the system is concentrated in its thinnest layer,” with just 16 of 494 companies focused primarily on wholesale liquidity, treasury and credit. Latin America’s stablecoin payment ecosystem may depend on a small group of underlying liquidity providers, potentially disrupting customers’ ability to cash out into local currency if a key provider loses banking access, according to Verda Ventures partner Amit Chu. In a newly published report from crypto venture companies Varys Capital and Verda Ventures, drawing on Verda’s Stablescape database, researchers analyzed 494 companies in the region, but found only 16 whose primary business is providing wholesale stablecoin-to-fiat liquidity, corporate treasury and credit, warning that “fragility in the system is concentrated in its thinnest layer.” “There are many sellers of liquidity and very few specialists. What we can’t see from public data is how many of them warehouse the currency risk...

The US-to-Mexico remittance corridor, while still the largest, shrank 4.5% in 2025 as other Latin American corridors grew. Fintech and stablecoin companies should consider looking outside of the US-to-Mexico corridor to win the $174 billion Latin America remittance market, according to a former Bybit executive. Most firms have focused too narrowly on the $61.8 billion US-Mexico remittance market and are missing faster-growing corridors between the US and Central America, as well as remittances within Latin America, Bybit's former chief marketing officer, Claudia Wang, said in a post on X on Sunday.  “The corridors that look ‘hot’ right now are not the corridors most fintechs are optimized for,” she said, citing Venezuela-to-Colombia, Argentina-to-Bolivia and Spain-to-Ecuador as examples. The non-US-to-Mexico remittance market stands at about $112 billion.  Read more

Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin has issued more than $20 million in tokenized private credit on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock and is targeting $100 million by April. Latin American digital asset platform Mercado Bitcoin said that it had deployed more than $20 million of tokenized private credit on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock, deepening its push into real-world assets (RWAs) and targeting $100 million in issuances by April.  According to a release shared with Cointelegraph, several offerings had already reached target capacity since going live. The move adds Rootstock to Mercado Bitcoin’s multichain tokenization strategy, which includes planned RWA issuances on Stellar (XLM) and the XRP Ledger, giving international investors Bitcoin‑secured exposure to Latin American private debt markets. Read more

Feniix Energy, an energy firm based in Latin America, has completed a $75 million acquisition of a live oil and gas operation using blockchain tokenization, according to a statement shared with CryptoSlate on June 17. Global Settlement, a blockchain firm specializing in real-world assets (RWAs), executed the deal through its GSX Protocol. The protocol enabled […] The post LatAm energy giant executes landmark $75M oil and gas deal via blockchain tokenization appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Taurus, a Swiss digital asset infrastructure provider backed by Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and financial technology company Parfin, have teamed up to hasten institutional adoption of digital assets in Latin America and Europe. The post Deutsche Bank and Accenture-Backed Teams Taurus and Parfin Work to Fuel Institutional Adoption in EU and LatAm appeared first on Cryptonews.