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The situation in Venezuela during 2025 demonstrated how necessity drives financial innovation. Faced with a shortage of traditional currencies, stablecoins, especially USDT, became an everyday mechanism for payments, savings, and remittances. Interestingly, this adoption wasn't a speculative boom, but rather a process of maturation: people stopped seeing cryptocurrencies as a get-rich-quick scheme and began using them as practical tools to overcome the limitations of the banking system. Local platforms like Crixto and Kontigo played a key role by offering regulated and accessible P2P trading. Analysts highlight that USDT allowed many Venezuelans to maintain stability in the face of inflation and conduct international transactions more efficiently. Ultimately, 2025 made Venezuela a global case study on how technology can become an economic lifeline in times of crisis.
