Brazil

The world’s largest crypto exchange has teamed up with Mastercard, the second-largest global payment processor, to bring a prepaid crypto card to Brazil.  The card will enable Brazillian Binance users to pay bills and make purchases using cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and BNB. Per Binance’s announcement on Monday, the card can be used with over 90 million Mastercard merchants worldwide, as well as online. Though still in its beta-launch phase, it will soon become widely available. The card works by converting…

Residents of Brazil can now lawfully conduct transactions within the country using cryptocurrency. This major change came into effect after Brazil’s leadership signed a crypto policy authorizing various digital assets as a legal payment method. Bolsonaro Gives His Signature On Thursday, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro gave the thumbs up for bill 14.478 to enter into law. Of course, Bolsonaro’s approval was only after the policy had successfully gone through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The president…

Brazilian stock exchange B3 is gearing up to launch its first official product targeting the crypto market. A report unveiled this news today, citing B3’s Chief Financial Officer, Andre Milanez. He announced this bullish news during a conference call on Monday. Specifically, Milanez said B3 seeks to roll out Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading within six months. According to the report, Milanez did not share how the product offering would work. It remains unclear whether B3 will team up with another…

Brazil’s Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) has released an official report stating that it has approved a bill endorsing the regulation of BTC and crypto markets across the South American nation. What does the Bill Entail? With this move, Brazil is steadily on the road to adopting cryptocurrency on a wider scale. The bill paves the way for residents of Brazil to invest in Bitcoin and other digital assets. It also facilitates their use in everyday transactions.  Effective regulation is…

While the regulatory world proceeds on different and disconnected paths, Brazil represents one of the most attractive markets for crypto exchanges. Several macroeconomic and legal factors are creating an optimal environment for these companies. This article will provide a general overview of the topic, including the main aspects attracting crypto exchanges' attention. Finally, we will report the views of some of the world's leading businesses on Brazil and its future in the crypto universe. The stablecoin mania 2021 was a…

Talks about Bitcoin in Brazil are commonplace, but concrete political action has now been taken to adopt it. Eduardo Paes – mayor of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro – recently announced plans to invest 1% of the city’s treasury in Bitcoin. His city will join a list of other political jurisdictions making small allocations to the cryptocurrency, eyeing its long-term potential.  Rio Hops On Bitcoin Paes announced the city’s new plans in a presentation at Rio Innovation week in conversation…

Some perpetrators targeted a multinational financial institution based in Spain, Banco Santander. It is an online heist that involved the sum of $900,000. However, it was forestalled following the seizure of the money by local over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency exchanges. After the heist, they quickly tried the conversion of the stolen funds into Bitcoin. The local press, known as the Bitcoin Portal, said due to the huge sum of money involved, this prompted several of the bank accounts of the exchanges…

On 6th March 2020, Cointelegraph reported that the Figer group, the highly acclaimed Brazilian sports management company, has launched OLE sports. OLE sports is a blockchain-based platform set to tokenize soccer players globally. Andre Figer, The Figer Group's Vice President, said that Olecoin would be a sign of hope for new soccer players, seeing that the majority of them drop their dreams despite being highly talented, due to lack of funds. Figer Group will make its digital token Olecoin available…