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Mexico‑based developer Grupo Murano has stunned the region’s property market with a decision to buy an initial US $1 billion in bitcoin this year and grow that position to roughly US $10 billion within five years, effectively turning a traditional bricks‑and‑mortar balance sheet into one of
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As debates rage globally over the risks of artificial intelligence in journalism, a quieter transformation is underway in Latin America, one defined not by flashy headlines, but by practical experimentation, and cross-border collaboration. Across the region, newsrooms are using AI to solve the real, everyday challenges of modern journalism: limited
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Latin America’s youngest crypto holders have moved past hodling and into everyday spending. According to Bitget Wallet’s July 2025 On‑Chain Crypto Payment Use‑Cases survey of 4,599 users, 39 % of Gen Z respondents already spend crypto on gaming, 36 % on day‑to‑day purchases such as
Bybit has quietly turned the region’s two largest economies into live testbeds for its on‑chain payment network. After a five‑month pilot in Brazil, the exchange switched on Bybit Pay for Argentine shoppers on July 18th, linking crypto wallets to the Central Bank’s “Transferencias 3.0” QR
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Nuevo León has officially launched its Artificial Intelligence Cluster, an ambitious initiative aimed at launching Latin America to the forefront of industrial and corporate AI innovation across the region. This strategic alliance, a collaborative effort between the private sector, academia, and government, seeks to establish Nuevo León as the primary
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Tether’s decision to spend roughly $600 million USD for a 70 % stake in Adecoagro S.A. (NYSE: AGRO) gives the world’s largest stable‑coin issuer not only 210,000‑plus hectares of prime farmland across Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, but also immediate control of sugar and ethanol mills
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Kraken has quietly re-engineered its presence in Latin America this summer, starting with a 10 July 2025 upgrade that lets customers in Argentina and Mexico fund their exchange accounts with pesos through domestic payment networks. The deposits are immediately converted to U.S. dollars at a transparent FX rate inside
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Global venture capital investment sprang back to life in the spring quarter: PitchBook’s first-look data show US $101.5 billion deployed across 9,049 deals between 1 April and 30 June 2025, lifting first-half activity to almost US $230 billion. The surge is conspicuously AI-driven start-ups building or applying
Panama’s rice heartland is quietly staging one of Latin America’s most striking blockchain success stories. A cohort of 106 growers in Chiriquí, Coclé, and Veraguas have plugged their paddies into a permissioned ledger that captures every farm event, from seed selection to harvest logistics, while satellite dashboards stream
In Cochabamba’s busy Avenida Ayacucho, a spa window flashes a QR code next to manicure prices, a rotisserie-chicken stand offers a 5 % discount for paying in Bitcoin, and an ATM installed by El Salvador’s Blink wallet swaps one-boliviano coins for satoshis. Small retailers, hair salons and even optometrists
Last week, Feniix Energy closed a $75 million purchase of an operating oil-and-gas facility in Latin America using nothing but blockchain rails: the equity and debt were minted as on-chain tokens and the cash leg moved in U.S.-dollar stablecoins over Global Settlement’s GSX Protocol, allowing the deal
Paraguay’s government is still reeling from a ransomware-style extortion in which a crew calling itself Brigada Cyber PMC copied and then dumped more than 7 million citizens’ identity records, effectively the whole country, after officials refused to pay a $7.4 USD million demand, or about “one dollar per
Efekta Education Group has launched what is being hailed as the world's largest AI tutoring trial for English learners across Latin America, an ambitious initiative set to involve up to four million students aged 11 to 17 and their teachers. This monumental program aims to significantly boost English
Brazil has fundamentally changed how it taxes cryptocurrency profits by enacting Provisional Measure 1303 on June 12th, 2025. The measure abolishes the long‑standing income‑tax exemption for monthly sales of up to R$ 35 000 in digital assets and replaces the former 15 % - 22.5 % progressive schedule with
In a landmark initiative for the region, twelve Latin American countries have joined forces to develop and launch Latam-GPT, the first large language model (LLM) designed specifically for Latin America’s linguistic and cultural landscape. The model, set to debut publicly in September 2025, is being coordinated by Chile’s
Latin America is rapidly emerging as a global leader in the adoption and integration of cryptocurrencies, particularly stablecoins and digital payment systems. This transformative shift is driven by a unique confluence of economic necessity, technological innovation, and an evolving regulatory landscape, positioning the region at the forefront of the global