Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from 
Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Paraguay strengthens its 
crypto reporting requirements, Argentina blocks operations for a peso 
stablecoin, and new revelations surge in the case against Libra in Argentina. 
Paraguay Strengthens Mandatory Reporting Requirements for VASPs and 
Individuals […]

Latam Insights: Paraguay Adds Stringent Crypto Reporting Rules, Argentina Blocks Peso Stablecoin

The legislation assumes that all crypto activity must pass through financial 
intermediaries licensed by the US government, warns Gnosis co-founder.

CLARITY Act risks handing crypto to centralized players: Gnosis exec

With two weeks left in the first quarter, 2026 has already handed the crypto 
economy a proper drubbing, and since Jan. 1, 2026, the sector has coughed up 
$540 billion. Moreover, the cryptocurrency market is still nursing a wide 
spread of pullbacks from its respective all-time highs (ATHs). Bitcoin Over 
40% Below Record as Crypto […]

Major Crypto Assets Remain Far From Peaks as Crypto Market Sheds $540 Billion in 2026

The artificial intelligence (AI) arms race just got another shot of rocket 
fuel after Nvidia dropped a cool $2 billion on AI cloud builder Nebius, 
signaling that the next frontier of computing won’t be fought with clever code 
alone—it’ll be fought with gigawatts of electricity and warehouses full of 
silicon. Nvidia’s AI Bet: $2B Investment […]

Nvidia Powers Nebius AI Factory Plans With Massive $2 Billion Investment

A prominent XRP holder is calling out what he says is a deliberate and recurring scheme to push the token&#8217;s price up before US markets open — then drive it back down once trading begins. Related Reading: Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Now $3.35 Billion In The Red As Saylor Tells Investors To Wait The claim has split the XRP community between those who see a coordinated attack and those who say the data points to something far more routine. A Chart, A Pattern, And A Name For It The community figure at the center of the debate goes by Arthur online. He posted a historical price chart showing XRP surging toward key resistance levels in the hours before US markets open, then quickly reversing after trading begins. He counted nine separate instances of this sequence playing out since February, and says the same pattern has continued into March. Arthur did not stop at simply flagging the moves. He attached a name to what he believes is behind them — calling it a possible &#8220;new Jane Street playbook,&#8221; a reference to the well-known quantitative trading firm. 🚨 XRP IS BEING SYSTEMATICALLY MANIPULATED RIGHT NOW Pumps straight to key resistance → US market opens → dumps 📉 Happens over and over. Is this the &#8220;NEW Jane Street playbook&#8221;? XRP down 44% from highs despite MASSIVE @Ripple news, ETF exposure, acquisitions, licenses…… pic.twitter.com/z6gqJwh6Eq — Arthur (@XrpArthur) March 13, 2026 He argued that the sheer number of occurrences, combined with the high volume of leveraged long positions open during each episode, makes coincidence an unlikely explanation. What adds weight to his frustration, at least from his perspective, is the broader backdrop. Ripple has made headlines recently with billion-dollar acquisitions and continued ETF inflows. Yet despite that activity, XRP remains roughly 40% below its recent highs. Every time the price tries to break out, sellers appear and push it back down. Arthur sees that as part of the same problem. Community Pushes Back On Manipulation Theory Not everyone in the XRP community bought the argument. A trader named Robert W entered the conversation and offered a different read. His position was that price moves of this kind tend to repeat across multiple assets when US market liquidity flows in at the open. Com’on Arthur. Not everything is manipulation. The same pattern appears across multiple assets when US liquidity enters the market. Looks more like normal liquidity shifts and profit-taking than a secret “Jane Street playbook”. — Robert W. | XRP Facts &amp; Figures (@RobertXRPFF) March 13, 2026 Profit-taking and liquidity shifts, he said, are the more natural explanation — not a coordinated institutional strategy. Arthur rejected that outright. He pointed to the precision of the pattern: nine occurrences, each following a period of accumulation with a large build-up of long positions. Related Reading: Bitcoin Climbs Back To $73,000 As Short Squeeze Wipes Out $246M In Futures Bets Level Of Consistency That level of consistency, he insisted, does not happen by accident. He called on several well-known voices in the XRP space — including Vincent Van Code, Crypto Eri, BankXRP, Digital Perspectives, and Chad Steingraber — to take a closer look at the chart themselves. The debate did not stay contained to price action for long. Another participant raised a broader critique of the crypto market, arguing that it runs largely on speculation. Featured image from ECS Payments, chart from TradingView

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