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THE STABLECOIN USE CASE LATAM ACTUALLY WANTS

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Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Latin America's 57 million crypto users primarily use stablecoins and Bitcoin as savings vehicles rather than for trading or payments. The existing payment infrastructure is more advanced than Western founders assume – Brazil's PIX enables free instant transfers while offering ~15% treasury yields, and 71% of Mexican adults use SPEI for low-value transactions. Trust remains the critical moat in a region where 52% of respondents distrust their financial systems, as demonstrated by NuBank achieving 3x higher NPS than incumbent banks.