El Salvador purchased eight Bitcoin over the past seven days, taking national holdings to roughly 7,787 BTC worth about $658 million, per TokenPost. In Argentina, Lemon Cash data cited by the Buenos Aires Herald puts digital asset usage at about 12% of the population. Ripple's Latin America regulatory director Isabel Sica argued in Exame that Brazil should follow Mexico's stablecoin approach, a regime for peso-backed tokens modeled on the US GENIUS Act with room for foreign issuers through regulatory equivalence.