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Finanzen

Tether Boosts Stake in $1.12B Agricultural Firm Adecoagro to 70%

AGRO shares jumped over 7% to $11.95 in pre-market trading following the announcement

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Finanzen

Bolivian State Energy Firm to Use Crypto to Pay for Imports: Reuters

YBFB hopes that using crypto will be a direct solution to the nation's shortage in U.S. dollars and foreign currency reserves.

Bolivia flag (Planet Volumes/Unsplash +)

Finanzen

Bitfinex Launches Peer-to-Peer Trading Platform in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela

Users will be able to buy and sell bitcoin, ether, USDT, EURT and XAUT.

(Thought Catalog/Unsplash)

Finanzen

Coinbase Expands in Brazil, Allows Crypto Purchases With Brazilian Reals

Previously, the exchange's users in Brazil could purchase crypto only with a credit card.

(Getty Images)

Konsensmagazin

ReFi for the People: How Crypto Can Help Local Communities Help Their Ecosystems

A hyper-localized breed of regenerative finance hopes to use crypto not only to improve the world’s carbon footprint but improve lives’ of local communities.

A view of the Suriname river from the Blauwe Berg. The small nation north of Brazil is home to a couple of projects trying to use blockchain to preserve the forest. (-JvL-/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanzen

Brazil's Largest Public Bank Enables Tax Payments to Be Made With Crypto

The service will operate in partnership with Bitfy, a startup focused on blockchain solutions.

Oficinas de Banco do Brasil en Brasilia, Brasil. (Henrique Dias/Unsplash)

Finanzen

Parfin, proveedor latinoamericano de infraestructura Web3, levanta US$15M

La ronda de financiación fue liderada por Framework Ventures e incluyó a L4 Venture Builder, un fondo de capital de riesgo corporativo respaldado por la bolsa de valores de Brasil, B3.

Alex Buelau, Marcos Viriato y Cristian Bohn (de izquierda a derecha), cofundadores de Parfin. (Parfin)

Politik

Golpe a la minería cripto: Paraguay rechaza un proyecto de ley para la regulación del sector

De aprobarse, la ley habría podido poner un límite al valor que el operador de electricidad puede cobrar a los mineros de bitcoin.

Palacio legislativo de Paraguay. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Politik

Paraguay Votes Down Crypto Regulatory Bill in a Blow to Crypto Mining Industry

The bill would have capped how much the grid operator can charge bitcoin miners for electricity.

Palacio legislativo de Paraguay. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finanzen

Fundación NEAR se une al Grupo Nutresa para lanzar un programa de fidelización Web3 en América Latina

Es el primer programa de fidelización de código abierto que utiliza el protocolo Near y que busca llegar a un millón de consumidores en la región.

(Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

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