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SatoshiTango

Can SatoshiTango become the dominant crypto-native savings and payments platform for inflation-affected consumers across Latin America?

Founded2014
HQBuenos Aires, Argentina
FoundersMatías Bari, Mariano Craiem, Nicolás Loterspil
IndustryFintech / Crypto
The story

Founded in 2014 as one of Latin America's earliest Bitcoin brokers, SatoshiTango evolved from a simple BTC exchange into a multi-asset crypto platform covering 20+ digital assets including stablecoins (USDT, USDC, DAI). The company has leaned into the inflation-hedging narrative dominant in Argentina, positioning crypto-dollar products as a savings tool. It expanded geographically to Chile and Peru, added cross-border payment features (Brazil Pix, gift cards, international transfers), and obtained formal PSAV registration under Argentina's CNV — signaling a compliance-first posture in a rapidly tightening LatAm regulatory environment.

Last 12 months
2026-02
2025-01
Product timeline
2014
Founded by Matías Bari, Mariano Craiem, and Nicolás Loterspil as one of Latin America's first crypto brokers.· pivot
2020
Partnered as a Bitcoin/DAI payment provider for charity campaign LaChamplay with Paulo Dybala and Diego Schwartzman.· banking
2022
Integrated Pago Fácil Chile for Chilean users, enabling deposits via credit/debit cards, MultiCaja, Khipu, and Mach.· banking
2024
Registered as PSAV under CNV (Argentina's securities regulator) as provider number 4 in the virtual asset service provider registry.· banking
2025
Launched QR Pix payments for Brazilian merchants from within the app, expanding cross-border crypto-to-fiat utility.· banking
2026
Operates in 3 countries (Argentina, Chile, Peru) with 800,000+ users and 936,000+ quarterly operations, offering 20+ crypto assets.· pivot
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by SatoshiTango
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
1 layer disclosed in SatoshiTango’s embedded-finance stack
Money movement
Pix
Accounting gap: none