Share this article

WATCH: Inside the LatAm Crypto Market With the Founder of SatoshiTango

SatoshiTango founder Marias Bari is bullish on crypto in Latin America.

Updated Sep 13, 2021, 11:30 a.m. Published Sep 29, 2019, 7:37 p.m.
Screen Shot 2019-09-29 at 15.34.04

SatoshiTango was one of the first crypto exchanges in Latin America and is still a major player in the ecosystem. In this video CoinDesk's Diana Aguilar sat down with founder Marias Bari in Argentina about the future of crypto in the region.

We visited Argentina on the eve of its financial crisis last month and founders like Bari see great value in the growth of crypto in his country. The key, he and his fellow founders believe, is improvement in regulation and slow mass adoption.

STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Don't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newsletters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQmO3bAXHyI

More For You

Protocol Research: GoPlus Security

GP Basic Image

What to know:

  • As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
  • Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.

More For You

Proposed ‘AfterDark’ Bitcoin ETF Would Skip U.S. Trading Hours

Bitcoin and ether sink to multi-month lows (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

The fund would hold bitcoin only overnight, betting on data showing bitcon gains mostly occur outside regular market hours.

What to know:

  • Nicholas Financial has filed with the SEC to launch a bitcoin ETF that holds BTC only during overnight hours.
  • The “AfterDark” ETF buys bitcoin after U.S. stocks close for the day and then sells bitcoin and shifts into Treasuries during the American session.
  • Data shows bitcoin tending to perform better when traditional U.S. markets are closed.