Crypto QR Payments Now Available in Latin America
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In much of Latin America, QR codes are how people pay for everything. Coffee, groceries, rent, lunch. The infrastructure is already there. What hasn't been there – until now – is a way to pay with the digital dollars that millions of people in the region already hold.
Bitget Wallet now supports
QR payments in Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia – joining Brazil, where we launched
Pix support earlier this year. Point your phone, pay in USDC or USDT straight from your self-custodial wallet, and the merchant gets settled through their existing local payment network. No currency exchange, off-ramp or extra steps needed.
Four countries, four QR systems – all connected
We've plugged directly into each country's national payment infrastructure:
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Brazil: Pix
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Argentina: Transferencias 3.0
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Colombia: Bre-B
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Bolivia: QR Simple
The experience is the same everywhere: scan, confirm, done. Your stablecoins stay in your wallet right up until the moment you pay. The merchant never needs to know or care that crypto was involved. Best part is that it works almost anywhere – restaurants, shops, markets, and even for person-to-person transfers.
Behind the scenes, this is all running through the
Onchain Payments Matrix – our payment infrastructure that connects blockchains, stablecoin issuers, wallets, banks, card networks, and regional payment partners. We work with local partners in each market to plug into domestic QR systems while keeping the experience fully self-custodial on your end. It's part of our broader push to make stablecoins usable across both online and offline commerce
Your stablecoins should work as hard as you do
Holding digital dollars is useful. Spending them is the point. Latin America is one of the clearest examples of what stablecoins can actually become when the infrastructure is right: not a trading asset, not a speculation play – just money that works, everywhere you need it to.
About Bitget Wallet
Bitget Wallet is an everyday finance app designed to make crypto simple, secure, and usable in daily life. Serving over 90 million users worldwide, it offers an all-in-one self-custodial platform to send, spend,
save and
invest crypto. The app is powered by Onchain Payments Matrix, a coordination infrastructure connecting global financial rails to enable stablecoin payments at scale and programmable settlement for AI-driven transactions. Users can access
crypto cards, QR payments, bank transfers, on- and off-ramps, and an in-app marketplace to spend digital assets across online and offline merchants. Backed by a $700 million
user protection fund, Bitget Wallet supports faster, borderless onchain finance while ensuring users retain full control of their assets and private keys.
2026-05-18
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