- During the first day of the conference, Bitso unveiled its Stablecoin Landscape Report, revealing an explosive 81% growth in institutional stablecoin volumes.
- The report also showed that financial institutions represented over 60% of new clients onboarded at Bitso Business in 2026, signaling a structural shift where blockchain rails become the standard back-end for traditional finance.
Bitso, Latin America's leading digital financial services group, kicked off today the Stablecoin Conference 2026 in Mexico City, consolidating its position as the largest stablecoin and payments conference in Latin America. Welcoming over 2,000 international attendees, the conference opened with a powerful vision for a unified global financial system that bridges the best of traditional and decentralized markets.
On the first day of the conference, Bitso released the second edition of its Stablecoin Landscape Report, which analyzes stablecoin adoption and usage across a sample of more than 1,900 Bitso Business institutional clients during the first half of 2026. Main key findings included:
- Stablecoins are the #1 Crypto Asset in LatAm: As previously noted in Bitso's latest Crypto Landscape Report, stablecoins have officially become the most purchased digital asset class in Latin America, capturing a massive 40% of all digital asset acquisitions across the region and surpassing Bitcoin for the first time.
- Explosive Institutional Growth: The rapid growth in stablecoin adoption is not just a retail trend. In the first half of 2026, Bitso Business reported a staggering 81% Year-over-Year (YoY) increase in stablecoin Total Payment Volume (TPV) for its B2B clients.
- The Structural Convergence Between DeFi and TradFi and the Rise of a New Era of Hybrid Finance: In a clear sign of mainstream institutional adoption, 60% of all new corporate clients onboarded onto Bitso Business in 2026 were traditional banks and financial institutions, completely eclipsing crypto-native firms (7%) and traditional real-economy enterprises (33%).
This structural convergence marks the official transition to a new paradigm that Bitso defines as the 'Hybrid Finance' Era. This era is characterized by a powerful two-way convergence: on one side, global banking giants and fintech flagships are aggressively building digital asset capabilities; on the other, major digital asset firms are expanding into regulated financial services and infrastructure. Rather than operating as isolated systems, traditional financial trust and scale are merging with blockchain’s native programmability and speed to create a unified, modern financial architecture.
"We're entering this era of hybrid financial system where it's no longer the TradFi world and the digital assets world, but it is just really a set of companies, individuals, businesses that are trying to build solutions for the world in an integrated fashion," said Daniel Vogel, CEO and Co-founder of Bitso. "And the growing participation of all of these major financial institutions I think validates the direction of that hypothesis."
The Stablecoin Landscape Report 2026 can be fully accessed here.
