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El Salvador Launches Stablecoin App on Base
Five years after mandating Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is pivoting to stablecoins after BTC saw limited traction as a payment medium. The government is launching a digital dollar app built on Coinbase's Base network, targeting the remittance corridor where price stability matters more than the volatility Bitcoin carries. Remittances account for about 25% of El Salvador's GDP, making this a concrete test of whether stablecoin infrastructure can succeed where the BTC legal tender experiment stalled.
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