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§ Private Profile · Mexico City, Mexico
LATAM’s largest stablecoin FX and liquidity provider
Key people at Rio.
Rio was founded in 2022 by Javier Roberts (Co-Founder) and Eudelio Garza (Founder) and Ricardo Villarreal Chapa (Founder).
Rio is the premier stablecoin liquidity provider for the LATAM market. We enable access to stablecoins for financial innovators to scale their products.
Rio is LATAM’s largest stablecoin foreign exchange (FX) and liquidity provider, specializing in enabling seamless access to stablecoins for financial innovators across Latin America. The company builds robust liquidity provisioning, market making, and OTC trading services that allow fintechs, exchanges, and other digital finance platforms to convert between local currencies and stablecoins quickly, securely, and with tight spreads. Rio’s platform serves institutional clients and developers, solving the problem of limited on-and-off ramp infrastructure and liquidity in emerging LATAM markets, thereby accelerating the growth of stablecoin adoption and digital asset innovation in the region.
Founded in 2022 and based in Mexico City, Rio was created by a team of fintech and crypto veterans including CEO Eudelio Garza, CTO Javier Roberts, and COO Ricardo Villarreal Chapa. Garza’s prior experience managing developer platforms and engaging with web3 developers revealed a critical need for better stablecoin infrastructure in emerging markets. This insight led to Rio’s focus on building a compliant, developer-friendly, and liquidity-rich stablecoin FX platform tailored for LATAM’s unique financial landscape. Early traction came from onboarding institutional clients and exchanges, quickly establishing Rio as a key liquidity provider in the region.
Rio rides the wave of increasing stablecoin adoption and digital asset integration in Latin America, a region characterized by volatile local currencies and growing demand for efficient cross-border payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions. The timing is critical as LATAM fintech innovation accelerates, but infrastructure gaps remain in liquidity and FX conversion. Rio’s platform addresses these market forces by enabling faster, cheaper, and more reliable stablecoin transactions, thus fostering a more inclusive and efficient financial ecosystem. Their role as a liquidity backbone supports the broader crypto and fintech ecosystem’s growth, empowering startups and institutional players alike.
Looking ahead, Rio is poised to expand its stablecoin liquidity services across more LATAM countries and currencies, potentially integrating with emerging DeFi protocols and expanding OTC offerings. Trends such as increased regulatory clarity, growing institutional crypto adoption, and the rise of programmable money will shape Rio’s journey. As the leading stablecoin FX provider in LATAM, Rio’s influence is likely to deepen, driving further innovation and financial inclusion in the region’s digital economy. Their mission to eliminate friction in digital asset transactions positions them as a foundational player in LATAM’s evolving fintech landscape.
Rio was founded in 2022 by Javier Roberts (Co-Founder) and Eudelio Garza (Founder) and Ricardo Villarreal Chapa (Founder).
Key people at Rio.