Edickson González🛡️

I've been denied a bank account just for being Venezuelan 🇻🇪 Not my credit, not my risk profile. My passport. I've lived that reality across multiple countries, watching my family back home depend on remittances that lose value the moment they arrive. Venezuela doesn't have a functioning banking system for most of its diaspora. You send dollars, they get converted at rates that rob your family of purchasing power, and the platforms that process those transfers treat your nationality like a red flag. Millions of Venezuelans abroad live this every month. LATAM generated $324 billion in stablecoin volume in 2025, up 89% YoY, with user growth outpacing the US by 3x. Venezuela to Colombia remittance corridor is one of the fastest growing in the region. People aren't waiting for banks to figure it out. They already chose dollar stability on their own. That's why @mannyornothing piece on @tryavvio hits so close to home. He writes about a system built on one assumption: your money and your life sit in one country. When that breaks, you pay the price. @tryavvio is building the consumer non custodial answer. At @blend_money, we built the institutional one. Same conviction. One API. Non-custodial. Compliance-first. So banks and fintechs across LATAM, Africa, and emerging markets can offer yield on those idle stablecoin balances their customers are already holding, without becoming DeFi shops, without custodial risk. And for every Venezuelan, Argentine, or Nigerian who was told their passport wasn't good enough: we're building the infrastructure so that the next generation of financial products works for you, not against you.

@Edicksonjga @levs57 Ok I’m done experimenting for now but if you have a Telegram account that you don’t want to have it taken over then I’d suggest you run a similar experiment yourself! (And report back so we can all learn.) 🔚

@Edicksonjga @levs57 Ok I’m done experimenting for now but if you have a Telegram account that you don’t want to have it taken over then I’d suggest you run a similar experiment yourself! (And report back so we can all learn.) 🔚