El Dorado completes $9 million Series A funding, led by Coinbase Ventures and Verda Ventures.

This Latin American cross-border payment app is taking a different route: building on the Layer 1 blockchain Tempo, co-developed by Paradigm and Stripe, integrating stablecoins and fiat channels on the same payment layer.

What's most interesting is its real-world application—over 100 enterprise clients are already onboard, primarily for import settlements of Chinese electric vehicle exports to Latin America. Chinese manufacturing + stablecoin settlement + local fiat withdrawals in Latin America, this combo is quietly replacing traditional cross-border wire transfers.

As Stripe's infrastructure begins to support South-South trade, the narrative around crypto payments is no longer just about "dollarization" but rather a fast highway for funds between emerging markets.

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