Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Central Bank of Argentina prepares to allow banks to offer crypto services, Kraken implements local payments in Colombia, and YPF plans to accept crypto payments in Argentina.

Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood says the U.S. economy is inching toward a powerful liquidity wave as tax cuts, artificial intelligence (AI) investment, and falling rates set the stage for what she views as a new bull market.

Robert Kiyosaki escalates his alarm over the weakening U.S. dollar and widening wealth pressures, urging Americans to brace for inflation he believes will strain traditional savings and accelerate the shift toward alternative stores of value.

Bitcoin’s projected climb gained fresh momentum as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Binance CEO Richard Teng voiced bullish long-term expectations, reinforcing broad confidence that the asset could push higher amid strengthening market structure and growing institutional participation.

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) snapped back into positive territory with healthy inflows, while ether ETFs logged another day of red. Solana and XRP maintained momentum with steady entries, signaling that investor appetite is shifting more broadly across the crypto ETF landscape.

Blackrock’s chief executive explained a dramatic pivot toward bitcoin’s long-term potential, framing the asset as protection in an era of fiscal strain while championing tokenization as the next force set to reshape global markets.

Odds on Polymarket that President Trump will declassify UFO files in 2025 have rocketed upward, igniting a fresh wave of speculation about what might finally slip out of the classified vault.

After spending the morning flirting with the dungeon below $88,000, BTC clawed its way upward and blasted to an intraday high of $91,767. Bitcoin’s latest rebound didn’t just flip the script on weekend traders — it triggered a full-blown liquidation bonfire across the crypto market as deep-pocketed buyers muscled shorts into oblivion.

AI coins have been dealing with a brutal stretch, with performance charts dripping red across several timeframes. Even sector leaders were not spared, and traders looking for green candles instead got a crash course in disappointment. The downturn arrives even as AI continues to dominate global headlines, proving crypto markets have no intention of letting hype shield anyone.

According to metrics, the tally of ETH burned from fees has sailed past the 6 million mark, meaning that as of Dec. 7’s exchange rates, more than $18 billion in value has effectively gone up in smoke since the London hard fork on Aug. 5, 2021.

Bitcoin slid under $88,000 on Sunday morning, putting the market squarely in “so much for the Santa Rally” territory. With derivatives traders scrambling for footing and open interest wobbling across major venues, bitcoin is signaling that December may be more coal than candy canes.

Bitcoin price is rangebound today between $88,990 to $89,473 over the last hour, perched just below the psychological $90K marker as traders wrangle over its next move. With a market capitalization of $1.78 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of $21.62 billion, the coin remains the heavyweight champ of crypto—though its footing looks increasingly cautious. Intraday, bitcoin ranged between $88,976 and $90,130, proving once again that sideways isn’t always stable—sometimes it’s just lost.

Recent opinion pieces have drawn parallels between bitcoin and tulips because of the speculative frenzy surrounding the latter in the 1600s. I explain why those comparisons are unfair and why analyzing bitcoin solely as a store of value misses the point entirely.

According to local media, the central bank is examining the possibility of issuing a new ruleset to allow banks to enter the cryptocurrency business. Local analysts say this would open the door for more people to use crypto and stablecoins.

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) slipped slightly this month, with total distributed value falling 1.09% as $268 million quietly exited the sector since the first of November.