{"id":584925,"date":"2026-04-17T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=806732"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:30:27","slug":"economist-proposes-national-usd-stablecoin-to-eliminate-currency-controls-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/economist-proposes-national-usd-stablecoin-to-eliminate-currency-controls-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist Proposes National USD Stablecoin to Eliminate Currency Controls in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mahalo-2026-04-16t184341-398-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Economist Proposes National Stablecoin to Eliminate Currency Controls in Venezuela\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Alejandro Grisanti, head of Ecoanalitica, proposed issuing a national USD stablecoin as part of a series of measures to lift currency controls in Venezuela. This system would complement the current auction system, allowing the excluded sector to receive dollars via blockchain rails. Key Takeaways: Ecoanalitica proposes a stablecoin to fix local dollar shortages, driving future [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Grisanti, head of Ecoanalitica, proposed issuing a national USD stablecoin as part of a series of measures to lift currency controls in Venezuela. This system would complement the current auction system, allowing the excluded sector to receive dollars via blockchain rails. Key Takeaways: Ecoanalitica proposes a stablecoin to fix local dollar shortages, driving future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}