
Opinion by: Timothy Chen, global head of strategy, Mantle
While crypto adoption accelerates across data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-latin-america-crypto-adoption/#:~:text=Latin%20America%20is%20the%20fifth,it%20slightly%20above%20Eastern%20Asia.” title=”null”>Southeast Asia and Latin America, a deeper structural problem persists: Payments remain slow, error-prone and exclusionary. The premise of financial sovereignty through blockchain remains tantalizingly incomplete.
Millions hold digital assets, yet they cannot seamlessly integrate them into daily life. This paradoxical disconnect — digital wealth without practical utility — represents a critical infrastructural gap where emerging markets suffer…

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