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Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego puts 70% of portfolio in Bitcoin, says it beats real estate
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman of Mexico’s Grupo Salinas, told CoinDesk that about 70% of his portfolio is in Bitcoin — …
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Bitso Business expands to Asia, launches Colombia API and The Push 2026 winners
Bitso Business used the close of its Stablecoin Conference to announce Asia corridors, a new real-time Colombia payments API, and …
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US Senate draft bill would restrict rewards for holding stablecoins
A Senate Banking substitute would bar stablecoin issuers from paying yield just for holding the tokens, while allowing …
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Bitso opens Latin America's flagship stablecoin conference in Mexico City
Bitso’s Stablecoin Conference LATAM 2026 opens at Mexico City’s World Trade Center, drawing finance leaders from 50+ …
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US-Iran peace deal reached as Hormuz set to reopen
The US and Iran agreed to halt hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway carrying a fifth of global oil — sending …
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USAT stablecoin now live on Bitso for LatAm users ahead of Mexico conference
Bitso users in LatAm can now buy USAT (USA₮), Tether’s GENIUS Act-compliant dollar stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital …
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MetaMask Card expands to 13 new Latin American countries
MetaMask Card is now live in 13 more Latin American countries, letting users spend self-custody crypto at any Mastercard merchant …
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Bitso and Ripple bring MXNB peso stablecoin to XRPL for US-Mexico enterprise payments
Bitso’s regulated MXNB stablecoin is expanding to the XRP Ledger’s Permissioned DEX, paired with RLUSD, to support …
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Philippines blocks Binance reentry — VASP license still missing
BSP says neither Binance nor partner BlockShoals holds the central-bank VASP license needed to operate. SEC adds that StratBox …
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Syscoin bridge exploit mints 5B SYS — cross-chain rail paused
A proof-validation bug in Syscoin’s Bitcoin-to-NEVM bridge let an attacker mint roughly 5 billion SYS (~$10M). The team …
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IDB pilots CBWeb3: LatAm cross-border payments without the dollar middleman
The Inter-American Development Bank is testing CBWeb3, a regional network for tokenized central bank money that could settle …
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Meta pays creators in USDC — Colombia goes first
Meta now sends USDC to select Facebook creators in Colombia and the Philippines. Dollar rails work; turning digital dollars into …