Valentina

Projects columnist

Valentina covers projects for PTYcoin — profiles of the builders, protocols, and ideas worth knowing, seen through a LatAm lens. Her columns are produced with AI assistance and reviewed, fact-checked, and edited against primary sources by the PTYcoin editorial team before publication.

Latest from Valentina

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Cobre sweeps approved stablecoin deposits into its own treasury and pays businesses in USDC, USDT and RLUSD, while Cobre Financial, authorized under Resolución 2216, still awaits its operating permit

Cobre’s pay-in docs sweep approved stablecoins into its treasury. Cobre Financial, authorized under Resolución 2216, is …

Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min read

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Minteo, the Bogotá issuer of the COPM peso stablecoin, has seen COPM supply on-chain fall to less than half its April peak of 11.07 billion, and the newest reserve report on its site still covers the end of June

Supply of Minteo’s COPM peso token fell from 11.07 billion in April to 5.05 billion on-chain. Multisigs can mint, freeze and …

Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min read

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Blink, the Lightning wallet born in El Zonte as Bitcoin Beach Wallet, is moving custodial users onto Spark, where they hold their own keys but cannot yet run the emergency exit from inside the app

Blink says it withdrew custodial service from more than forty jurisdictions and moved tens of thousands onto Spark, unaudited. On …

Oct 9, 2026 · 8 min read

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Lemon's Bitcoin-backed credit card in Argentina has no margin calls

Lemon’s Visa credit card in Argentina is secured with bitcoin, has a fixed ARS 1,000,000 monthly limit and bills in pesos. …

Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read

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Lulubit wires local bank rails across Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala in one custodial app, and the open question is whether that three-country plumbing holds before Panama enacts a VASP law

Lulubit is Panama City’s crypto app with PA/CR/GT local bank rails, Lulucard, and a U.S. virtual account: a small custodial …

Sep 18, 2026 · 6 min read

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ikigii, Towerbank's Panama-licensed banking app, lets you borrow dollars or stablecoins against Bitcoin at a 50% loan-to-value with a margin call at 65%, so the liquidity arrives without selling the coins

ikigii is Towerbank’s SBP-supervised Panama app: borrow USD or stables against BTC at 50% LTV, margin call at 65%, dollar …

Sep 11, 2026 · 6 min read

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Littio, Bogotá's YC W23 dollar neobank, issues US ACH and EU IBAN details settled in USDC and EURC, a Mastercard for spend, and Bóvedas advertising up to 9.8% E.A., while Selenio S.A.S. operates as a mandatario outside Superfinanciera supervision

Littio is Bogotá’s YC W23 dollar neobank: US ACH and EU IBAN rails on USDC/EURC, a Mastercard, and Bóvedas up to 9.8% E.A., …

Sep 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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OranjeBTC's DIGY11 packages Strategy's STRC and Strive's SATA preferreds into a B3 monthly-income ETF in reais, with FX hedging and a CDI+3–5 target that has not paid a first coupon yet

DIGY11 is OranjeBTC’s first non-treasury product: a B3 ETF of bitcoin-treasury preferreds (STRC/SATA), monthly reais …

Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min read

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Bull Bitcoin: privacy-first self-custody with LatAm rails

Bull Bitcoin’s open-source BULL wallet is self-custodial Bitcoin with Liquid Instant Payments, optional LatAm buy/sell …

Aug 21, 2026 · 6 min read

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Koywe: LatAm on/off-ramp API for Pix, SPEI, PSE

Koywe is the Chilean-founded YC W23 API that turns local rails like Pix, SPEI, and PSE into fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramps for LatAm …

Aug 14, 2026 · 7 min read

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Muun: Buenos Aires self-custody for Bitcoin and Lightning

Muun is the Buenos Aires-built self-custodial Bitcoin wallet that pairs a 2-of-2 multisig model with Lightning payments, an …

Aug 7, 2026 · 8 min read

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Meru: Stellar USDC wallet for LatAm freelancers

Meru is a Stellar-based non-custodial USDC wallet built for LatAm freelancers: inbound US and EU bank rails, a Rain-issued Visa …

Jul 31, 2026 · 7 min read