Capital B, a European bitcoin treasury company listed in Paris, raised €15.2 million on May 11, 2026, through a private placement backed by institutional investors, including Blockstream CEO Adam Back and French asset manager TOBAM.

Digital Asset Holdings, the New York-based company behind the Canton Network, is in advanced talks to raise roughly $300 million at a valuation of approximately $2 billion, with Andreessen Horowitz’s A16z crypto leading the round.

Digital asset investment funds recorded $857.9 million in weekly inflows last week, with bitcoin accounting for $706.1 million of those gains, as growing optimism over the U.S. Senate’s scheduled CLARITY Act markup on May 14 revived institutional appetite for crypto exposure.

The facility, provided by Neuberger Berman, will expand Ripple Prime’s ability to provide deeper margin availability to institutional investors across different financial sectors. Ripple Prime’s President, Noel Kimmel, highlighted the importance of using a single credit line across all major asset classes.

Circle reported higher first-quarter revenue and reserve income as USDC activity surged across its network. Total revenue and reserve income reached $694 million, up 20% year over year, while USDC onchain transaction volume rose 263% to $21.5 trillion.

Circle Internet Group raised $222 million in a private presale of its ARC token, tied to a new stablecoin-native layer-one (L1) blockchain called Arc, at a fully diluted valuation of $3 billion.

Strategy, the Virginia-based business intelligence firm led by Michael Saylor, acquired 535 bitcoin for approximately $43 million, paying roughly $80,340 per coin and bringing its total treasury to 818,869 BTC.

A wallet linked to Garrett Jin, founder of the now-defunct exchange Bitforex, has deposited all 577,896 ether into Binance over just four days, closing out a position he acquired by swapping bitcoin for ETH when ether was trading at $4,591.

The official allocation wallet tied to the TRUMP meme coin project transferred 7 million TRUMP tokens, worth approximately $17.22 million, to institutional custodian Bitgo on Sunday, raising fresh questions about insider token movements and potential sell pressure.

XRP climbed above $1.50 for the first time in nearly two months during a broader crypto market rally that also pushed bitcoin past $82,000.

Macro strategist Raoul Pal says the probability of a bitcoin supercycle has risen significantly, citing debt monetization pressures, a historic global capital expenditure boom, and structural shifts in how governments are managing sovereign debt.

This Mother’s Day, bitcoin was trading around $81,700, a figure that would have seemed impossible when it sat at $8 on the same holiday in 2011, making this the second-highest Mother’s Day price in bitcoin’s 15-year history.

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Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Venezuela upholds a crypto mining ban as power demand spikes, Tether sues Titan Holding in Brazil for $300 million, and stablecoins dominate Peru’s crypto market.