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Latam Insights: Stablecoins Dominate Brazil’s $14.68B Crypto Market as Argentina Pushes Programmable Money
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, crypto demand booms in Brazil, Argentina’s banking groups are building stablecoins, and the IMF calls fobitcoin.com$11 Billion in Crypto Losses Adds Pressure on CLARITY Act
New York Attorney General Letitia James urged Congress to strengthen cryptocurrency regulation as the FBI reported more than $11 billion in crypto-related losses. Her Senate testimony argued the pending CLARITY Act would weaken state enforcbitcoin.comIRS Warns Fake Crypto Letters Target Wallets and Personal Data
Fraudsters are mailing counterfeit IRS notices that direct cryptocurrency holders toward a fabricated compliance portal designed to capture sensitive financial information. The campaign targets wallet access, exchange credentials, identitiebitcoin.comXRP Scam Ring Arrested After Stealing $9M From 71 Investors
South Korean police arrested three suspects accused of stealing 12.3 billion won, or about $9 million, from 71 XRP investors. Investigators traced 27.3 billion won through related wallets, indicating that total losses could rise. Key Takeawbitcoin.comGrayscale Urges Senate CLARITY Act Vote Before August Recess
Grayscale urged Senate leaders to schedule a CLARITY Act vote before the August recess, warning that delay threatens U.S. competitiveness. The bill would divide crypto oversight between federal regulators and establish nationwide market rulbitcoin.comElon Musk Denies Tesla China Sale Report Tied to SpaceX Merger
Elon Musk rejected a Wall Street Journal report claiming Tesla explored separating or selling its China business ahead of a potential SpaceX merger. The public dispute centers on one of Tesla’s largest operations and a report linking it tobitcoin.comMichael Saylor Rejects Report of New Strategy Bitcoin Sale Approval
Michael Saylor rejected claims that Strategy had approved a new $5 billion bitcoin sale plan, identifying the authorization as an existing capital-management tool. His clarification separates potential selling capacity from an immediate decbitcoin.comColdcard Theft Balloons to $88M as Exchange Deposits Spike, Old BTC Moves
A suspected third wave of Coldcard-related bitcoin sweeps has pushed the observed incident to an estimated 1,367 BTC, while exchange deposits and long-dormant wallet activity have added two more signals for analysts to watch. Key TakeawaysGbitcoin.comStrategy Holds STRC Dividend at 12% as Stock Stays Below Par
Strategy confirmed its Stretch (STRC) preferred stock will keep paying a 12% annualized dividend in August 2026, even after the security closed July at roughly 12% below its $100 par value. Key TakeawaysStrategy held STRC’s dividend rate atbitcoin.comAnalyst: Bitcoin Drops to $60K in August Before Rebounding to $70K
Andrey Poroshin, a financial analyst at Bitbanker, an exchange with a presence in Russia, the UAE, and Kyrgyzstan, stresses that bitcoin will retest $60K lows as excess liquidity is withdrawn to recover $70K later, a price still below the bbitcoin.comJapan, US Plot Yen Rescue as Speculators Face Reckoning
Japan and the United States are preparing to unveil a joint policy as early as next week to stop speculators from driving the Japanese yen to fresh multi-decade lows. Key TakeawaysJapan and the U.S. may unveil a joint yen policy next week,bitcoin.comDice Rolls Keep Bitcoin Keys Offline, but Not Everyone Will Bother
A standard six-sided die produces about 2.6 bits of unpredictable information with every roll. That may not sound like much, but repeated enough times, those rolls can create the raw randomness needed to secure a bitcoin wallet without relybitcoin.comCoinbase Exec ‘Relentlessly Optimistic’ on CLARITY Act Odds
Coinbase Head of Institutional Strategy John D’Agostino says he remains “relentlessly optimistic” the CLARITY Act passes, even as Wall Street odds-makers put the bill’s chances well below 50%. Key TakeawaysJohn D’Agobitcoin.comBlackrock, Fidelity Lead $265M Bitcoin ETF Outflows as Ether Gains
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted $265.4 million in net outflows on July 31, led by Blackrock’s IBIT, while spot ether ETFs pulled in roughly $9 million the same day. Key TakeawaysU.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $265.4bitcoin.comCZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $70 Million Wallet Exploit: 'Nothing is 100%'
Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is warning crypto owners not to place blind faith in hardware wallets, following an exploit that drained tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin from Coldcard devices. In a Saturday post on X, Zhao cautionDecryptSUI Faces Fresh Unlock as Bulls Target a Run to $20
SUI traded near $0.68 on August 1 as roughly 13.72 million tokens, worth about $9.9 million, unlocked on schedule, while a popular trader called the current price range a setup for a run toward $20. Key TakeawaysSUI trades near $0.68 as abobitcoin.comColdcard Exploit Fuels Market Fear as 2 Bitcoin Forks Loom Ahead
Bitcoin slipped below $63,000 this week as a major hardware wallet security incident rattled confidence just as traders are preparing for two separate August events that could influence sentiment across the network. Key TakeawaysBitcoin trabitcoin.comSilent Supply-Chain Attack Hits Adform Script, Exposing Crypto Users to Targeted Wallet-Swapping
A critical cybersecurity incident impacting major advertising technology provider Adform has revealed a browser-side attack vectCoinIdolWas AI Responsible for Finding the Coldcard Security Flaw?
A five-year-old Coldcard software flaw may have allowed an attacker to reconstruct private keys and sweep more than 1,100 bitcoin, prompting the wallet’s maker to blame the discovery partly on artificial intelligence (AI). Key TakeawaysColdbitcoin.comTrump Weighs Ethics Counteroffer as CLARITY Act Nears August Deadline
President Donald Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counteroffer for the CLARITY Act as Senate negotiators race to finalize crypto conflict-of-interest rules before the chamber’s August first week recess. Key TakeawaysSens. Thom Tibitcoin.com
