Today, Coinbase has added support for USDC-BRL for our users based in Brazil. USDC-BRL will be available on Coinbase Exchange at launch and support will be rolled out gradually across Coinbase․com, the Coinbase app, and Coinbase Advanced.

We just made getting USDT easier for more places in LATAM: 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇲🇽🇨🇴 Transfer money → Wallet receives USDT instantly Our latest integration with @alfredpayio supports Latin America currencies via bank transfer, such as BRL, ARS, MXN, and COP, with more to come.

OranjeBTC Brings Bitcoin-Backed Equity to Brazil @OranjeBTC will launch its DIGY11 on Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange, making it the first ETF in the Bitcoin ecosystem to list preferred shares on an international exchange. The ETF will offer direct investment in the "Digital Credit" securities of $STRC and $SATA, with monthly returns in Brazilian reais and currency hedging to reduce volatility in the BRL/USD pair. This ETF will track the MarketVector $BTC Treasury Preferred Equity Index, generating annual returns of CDI + 3% to 5%. Currency hedging and daily liquidity will also be provided when the fund goes live in early September.

Circle’s Developer Grant program backs founders using USDC, Arc, and the Circle Developer Platform to solve real-world financial access problems. In the first 2026 cohort, 8 teams building on Arc are focused on challenges across Africa and the Global South, including payments, FX, remittances, merchant checkout, and stablecoin-native banking. Here’s who they are and what they’re building. @BlockradarHQ is the infrastructure layer many of these quietly depend on. One API that can handle wallets, AML screening, gasless transactions, and multichain liquidity so teams don't have to rebuild those components themselves. @kolan_xyz gives non-US individuals a real USD account backed by USDC. Freelancers and remote workers in 50+ countries across the Global South can receive, hold, and spend dollars. @myazahq is collapsing Africa's fragmented payment rails into one layer. Send money quickly across 21 African currencies, pay bills, hold a virtual USD card, and access business payouts. @ArrelTechnology built a plug-and-play USDC checkout for African merchants. Accept any CCTP-supported stablecoin via a payment link, auto-sweep to your treasury, and offramp to local currency. @payritHQ lets African users send and receive in their local currency while USDC handles settlement behind the scenes. No FX spread, no T+3 delays, just near-instant cross-border payments that work the way people expect them to. @ViFi_Labs is building the onchain FX exchange that emerging markets have been missing: a DEX designed specifically for stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps in NGN, BRL, and COP with near-zero slippage. @usesfxmoneyapp started with one corridor: African students in Turkey sending money home. It's now a full USDC neobank with dollar accounts, free international transfers, and a card product, built for the African diaspora. @flezpay tackles an important issue for the Global South. In volatile currency markets, static price tags go stale overnight. The team developed AI-powered QR codes that update prices in real time, with USDC and fiat accepted at the same counter. The full story of what these teams are building and what it tells us about where stablecoin adoption is actually happening is on the Arc blog: