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GM. Every crypto development is another splash in our fruit punch bowl.

Let's see what flavors got stirred in today:

🍍 Crypto markets stall after Fed's interest rate decision;

🤝 Nexo buys Buenbit;

🍋 Australia eases stablecoin rules, a16z Crypto opens Seoul office + more

🍍 Market flavor today

🥝 Memecoin harvest

Today's pumps hotter than my GPU mining in 2021 🖥️

Data as of 09:34 AM EST.

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🤝 Nexo buys Buenbit

For most people, crypto still feels like something happening "somewhere else" - in big markets, on trading screens, in conversations that move too fast to follow.

But every so often, a story pops up that actually shows how this stuff is being used in real life, far away from the hype.

This week's example: Nexo, a major global crypto company, decided to buy Buenbit, a smaller platform in Argentina and Peru - and then chose Buenos Aires as its new headquarters for the entire region.

Before this deal, Buenbit wasn't a household name outside South America. Inside Argentina, though, it filled a very practical role.

The local currency loses value quickly, banks have strict limits, and people often need ways to hold money in something more stable.

Buenbit offered a simple way to do that - a place to store and move digital dollars when the traditional system wasn't giving people many options.

It wasn't flashy or global, but it was meeting a real need.

Nexo, on the other hand, already operates worldwide. They provide services that smaller platforms often can't: earning interest on assets, borrowing against crypto, and running on deeper, more secure infrastructure.

So when a company like that steps into a market, it's rarely a casual move.

They don't acquire a local platform and build a whole regional HQ around it unless they believe the region matters - not someday, but right now.

And that's what makes this deal interesting.

It tells you where crypto companies think their future users are going to come from: places where crypto isn't a speculative toy, but a workaround people actually rely on.

Argentina isn't adopting crypto because it's trendy - it's adopting it because everyday finances are hard, and digital money makes life easier.

Nexo saw that, and instead of trying to build something from scratch, they plugged themselves into a system that already works for local users.

There are obviously questions attached:

👉 When a global company takes over a local product, will it keep what made the product useful?

👉 Will decisions stay grounded in the reality of the people who depend on it?

Those concerns are valid. But there's also an upside: Buenbit, by itself, had limits.

With Nexo behind it, users might gain access to more features, stronger support, and infrastructure that can handle far more demand.

Another subtle but important part of this story: Buenbit is fully registered with Argentina's financial regulators. That means Nexo chose not just a foothold but a compliant one.

It's part of a bigger change in crypto where companies realize long-term growth requires playing by local rules, not avoiding them.

So the meaning of the acquisition isn't "big company buys small company."

It's that global crypto firms are reorganizing themselves around the places where crypto has real, daily utility - the places where people aren't waiting for the future of finance; they're already living in the middle of it.

Crypto's next chapter might not be shaped by markets where it's optional - it could be shaped by the regions where it's necessary.

And Nexo just made a very loud bet on that reality.

🍋 News drops you can't miss

🏦 Australia's ASIC made it easier for companies to work with stablecoins and wrapped assets. They want to kickstart more growth and cool ideas in digital payments.

🇰🇷 a16z Crypto, part of Andreessen Horowitz, opened its first Asia office in Seoul. Asia's got tons of blockchain users, so it makes sense for them to set up shop there.

👩‍💻 Stripe brought on the team behind the Valora wallet to help with their blockchain plans. Valora's app stays with cLabs, but the creators are joining Stripe's payment project.

🎯 Gemini got CFTC approval to launch prediction markets in the US. They've actually been working on this since March 2020.

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