Bitcoin’s spot value hovered at $91,219 on Jan. 4, 2025, and the derivatives market appears anything but relaxed.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America's most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week.

Ripple USD trading launches on OSL, marking a regulated push to expand stablecoin adoption with fee-free access, institutional-grade compliance, and new onramps for dollar-pegged digital payments and settlement activity.

A bold forecast calls for silver to open tomorrow at $100 and surge to all-time highs as momentum builds across hard assets, according to Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki.

While crypto markets bounced back and muscled their way back above the $3 trillion line, the stablecoin sector slipped by 0.25%.

PWC’s U.S. leader says the firm is now actively expanding crypto services following recent pro‑digital‑asset regulations. Paul Griggs, U.S. senior partner

Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin says the latest upgrades give the blockchain high‑bandwidth, consensus‑driven performance. Vitalik Buterin announced

The new bill would bar federal officials from trading prediction‑market contracts based on insider information, such as knowledge about military attacks

Explore the transformative potential of tokenized stocks in the market with insights from Bitget and Block Scholes.

On Jan. 5, bitcoin is trading at $93,055, commanding a market cap of $1.85 trillion, with 24-hour trading volume totaling $38.07 billion.

The latest Strategy bitcoin haul totaled 1,287 BTC, lifting the company’s bitcoin stockpile to a tidy 673,783 BTC.

Venezuela’s return to the geopolitical spotlight is rattling crypto traders, but on-chain data shows limited stress, muted bitcoin selling, and a market increasingly resilient to headline-driven shocks rather than systemic financial threats.

Since the U.S. removed Nicolás Maduro, prediction markets tied to the Latin American nation have attracted large flows of capital.

The final week of 2025 and first trading days of 2026 delivered a clear shift in ETF positioning, led by a strong bitcoin rebound.

Explore how Bitmine expanded its ethereum treasury, holding over 4.14 million tokens as it invests aggressively for 2026.

Bitcoin and ether pushed higher alongside global risk assets following a U.S. operation in Venezuela with options positioning.

Ledger has confirmed that a recent data exposure affecting some customers originated from its third-party e-commerce partner Global-e.

XRP surged over 20% in early 2026 to $2.27, displacing BNB as the fourth‑largest crypto asset amid global market turmoil.

Eric Trump-backed bitcoin mining outfit American Bitcoin said on Monday that it bumped its bitcoin stash to 5,427 BTC.

In a post on X, Lichtenstein credited his release to the First Step Act, the bipartisan prison reform law signed by Donald Trump.